Forthcoming
2027 Brutus, PEER Solo Show, London (UK)
2027 Guest Lecturer, Kingston University (UK)
2026 Architectures Of Memory, Spike Island Associates, Divergent Practices: Non-Performance, Invisibility and Aliveness, Beverley Buchanan Weathering, Britsol (UK)
2026 Crawl, Deptford X, London (UK)
2026 Atlantic Cruises, Ebun Sodipo & Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Serpentine Gallery, London (UK)
Current
2025 - 2026 New Contemporaries Studio Programme at FormaHQ, London (UK)
Residencies
2024 High House Residency, Norfolk, (UK)
2020 Toynbee Studio’s, Arts Admin, London (UK)
2018 The Rising, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone (UK)
2018 The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (UK)
Group Exhibitions/Performances/ Screenings
2025 - 2026 A Caribbean Yet to Come, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto, Puerto Rico (PR)
2025 James Jordan Johnson & Ma Pak Yin, House of Anneta, London (UK)
2025 James Jordan Johnson & Ma Pak Yin, Duets, ICA, London (UK)
2024 Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica Vol.2, Ritzy Cinema, London (UK)
2023 Miles Greenberg, Water in a Heatwave, MIA Institute, Southbank Centre, London (UK)
2022 Crate Space, People Dem Collective, Margate (UK)
2022 Tiding, ]performance s p a c e[, Romney Marsh (UK)
2021 A Decade of Performance Art in the UK, Folkestone (UK)
2021 Working Encounters, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (AT)
2019 Collective Intimacy, The Showroom x 180 The Strand, Invitation by Larry Achiampong, London (UK)
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
2026 Bruno, Solo Exhibition, FormaHQ, London (UK)
2026 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Future Ritual, Iklectik, London (UK)
2025 Fish Bone in Thumb, Cabinet Closed, London Performance Studios, London (UK)
2024 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Diaspora Now, Humber St Gallery (UK)
2023 Late at Tate Britain: Desire, Culture and History (UK)
2023 In Response, Constellation of Multiple Wishes, Mosaic Rooms, London (UK)
2023 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Ugly Duck, London (UK)
2023 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow (UK)
2021 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Ark-T, Oxford (UK)
2021 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Arts Admin, London (UK)
2019 Heads Up, CLAY, Leeds (UK)
2019 My Brother’s Keeper, Tempting Failure, Croydon (UK)
Commissions
2022 Working Encounters, Create to Connect Create to Impact (SRB)
2021 In The Hour of Darkness, Estuary Festival, Essex (UK)
Media & Publications
2026 Oblique House, Performance Feels More Like an Itch Sometimes, Interview with Romane Courdacher
2026 New Contemporaries Q&A, James Jordan Johnson
2022 Joy Inside Our Tears, Harold Offeh and conversation with project contributors, Wellcome Collection (UK)
2021 Do You Remember The Floorboards? An online talk with Bri Williams (UK)
2020 James Jordan Johnson in conversation with Róise Goan, Arts Admin, London (UK)
2016 TEDx Talk, The Courtaud School of Art, London (UK)
Teaching, Talks & Workshops
2026 Larry Achiampong in Conversation with James Jordan Johnson, Bruno, FormaHQ, London (UK)
2026 Contemporary Art Practice Alumni Talk, Royal College of Art, Invitation by Harold Offeh, London (UK)
2026 Performance Lecture & Workshop for CSM Students, LADA, London (UK)
2025 Artist Talk, Westminster University, London (UK)
2024 Mapping Movements and Personal Cartographies Workshop, Bow Arts, London (UK)
2024 The Conch, South London Gallery, London (UK)
2022 Artist Talk, Margate Art School, Margate (UK)
2021 Theatre Arts, Middlesex University, London (UK)
Education
2024 - 2025 MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art (UK)
2021 - 2022 Open School East, Margate (UK)
Awards
2026 Arts Council, National Lottery Project Grants (UK)
2024 Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Royal College of Art, London (UK)
2023 Donna Lynas Residency, Wysing Arts Centre (Shortlisted) (UK)
2022 Venice Fellowship Programme, Venice Biennale (IT)
2022 Metroland Cohort: Peer-To-Peer, London (UK)
2021 Live Art Fund, Jerwood, London (shortlisted) (UK)
2020 Artist Bursary Scheme, Arts Admin, London (UK)
Collections
2018 The Courtauld School of Art, London (UK)