____Selected exhibitions

• Remembering The Color Blue, Pomerene Center for the Arts, Coshocton, Ohio, 2005
• A Patch of Blue, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, California, 2005
• Station to Station, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio, 2004
• Song Of A Landscape, William Cannon Art Center, Carlsbad, California, 2002
• Ghosts of Ohio, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California, 2002
• Rememory, Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, 2001
• Acquisitions To The Permanent Collection, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California, 2001
• On-site Ohio: Johnny Coleman, solo exhibition, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, 2001

Johnny Coleman, born in 1958 in Saugus, Massachusetts, received a BFA, 1989, from Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles and was named Outstanding Alumnus of the Year, 1997. He holds a MFA, 1992, from the University of California at San Diego. He is an associate professor of African American Studies and Art at Oberlin College. He has received numerous grants from the Ohio Arts Council and Oberlin College and a National Endowment for the Arts Projects Grant, 1994.