Bio:

Johannes Barfield is an American sample-based visual artist who works in installation, video, photography, XR (extended reality), collage, and sound. His work explores childhood memories, joy, appropriation as a means for survival, the repatriation of artifacts, objecthood, extinction, and the music played at family cookouts.

Johannes resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He received an MFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia. Also, he has received multiple awards, fellowships, and residencies, including the Mint Museum Atrium Health “Best in Show” award, Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship award, Black Public Media Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts residency, Merriweather District AIR residency, Fine Arts Work Center Visual Artist Fellowship, Lighthouse Works Fellowship, ACRE residency, MASS MoCA residency, VCU “10 Under 10” award, and 2022 Shortlist for Creative Capital award.

Research Interest:

Appropriation, Cinema, Black Studies, Photography, Black American Art, Restitution of Artifacts, Video Games, XR (extended reality), Hip Hop Culture, Semiotics, and Sound Design.