**Justin D. Johnson** is a contemporary multi-disciplinary American visual artist. His work extends from mixed-media, painting, and photography to film and sculpture; that explore topics ranging from African/African-American history, mythology, and spirituality. He utilizes the layering of imagery, texts, various materials such as paper, paint, metal, wood in forms of collages; to shine light on themes of ancestry, race, human resilience, and humanity. Justin utilizes people in his work as a personification of principles and ideas, the once psychology major consistently questions the ideas of multiple societies in the present and how they transcend from the past. His theological mythologies and ideologies are demonstrated through the body of work in forms of found materials, utilizing certain pieces from his past and traditional African works/sculptures. The self-taught artist was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia; he currently lives in Nashville, TN and works between New York City & Nashville. His past exhibitions include: “ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean” with NYU/Manifesta Biennale, “This is America” at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, PRIZM Art Fair for Art Basel ‘18, “Transfiguration” at The School of Visual Arts Flatiron Gallery, West Elm Nashville “Black Lives Matter” Exhibition and more