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Jenkins Johnson Gallery, founded in 1996, is a dealer of contemporary art, representing international artists working across disciplines. We are members of the Art Dealers Association of America, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers and the San Francisco Art Dealers Association. Gallerist Karen Jenkins-Johnson was featured in The New York Times Style Magazine as part of a small but influential group of black gallerists correcting history, and was interviewed on art world diversity by AIPADexposure. She is a Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco advisor, and in 2018, was named the MoADSF Patron of the Arts.

 

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  • STAFF:

     

    Karen Jenkins-Johnson, Principal

     

    Veronica rascona, Registrar

    registrar@JENKINSJOHNSONGALLERY.COM

     

    MICHAEL HOWARD, ARCHIVIST / GALLERY ASSOCIATE

    MICHAEL@JENKINSJOHNSONGALLERY.COM

     

    John Freeman, Assistant Registrar

    john@JENKINSJOHNSONGALLERY.COM

      

    Emma Sugarbaker, GALLERY ASSOCIATE

    emma@JENKINSJOHNSONGALLERY.COM

     

    ARIELLA HEISE, GALLERY ASSistant

    ariella@JENKINSJOHNSONGALLERY.COM

     

    Jessie Turner, GALLERY ASSISTANT

    Jessie@JENKINSJOHNSONGALLERY.COM

  • ABOUT:

    Jenkins Johnson Gallery, founded in 1996, is a dealer of contemporary art, representing international artists working across disciplines. We are members of the Art Dealers Association of America, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers and the San Francisco Art Dealers Association. Gallerist Karen Jenkins-Johnson was featured in The New York Times Style Magazine as part of a small but influential group of black gallerists correcting history, and was interviewed on art world diversity by AIPADexposure. She is a Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco advisor, and in 2018, was named the MoADSF Patron of the Arts. Karen Jenkins-Johnson is a 2020 Artnet Innovator, Observer Arts Power 50 and 2021 ARTNews Deciders.

     

    In 2017, the gallery opened Jenkins Johnson Projects in Brooklyn. Profiled in The New York Times, Jenkins Johnson Projects is a hub for critically acclaimed, emerging curators and artists of color. The mission of the project space, led by director Karyn Behnke, is to enhance the cultural environment of its community, encourage collaboration, and provide a space for active dialogues. The space welcomes a rotation of guest curators who present exhibitions of contemporary artists working across disciplines. Past curators include Derrick Adams, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Zanele Muholi, Antwaun Sargent, Hank Willis Thomas and Dexter Wimberly.

     

    Jenkins Johnson Galleries are committed to working with museums, private institutions, art collectors and other dealers to progress the careers of our artists. The galleries exhibit the work of established 20th century masters including Gordon Parks, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Ming Smith, and Aubrey Williams and worked on projects with the Roy DeCarava Archives. We also show the work of critically recognized, mid-career and emerging artists including Wesaam Al-Badry, Ben Aronson, Lalla Essaydi, Scott Fraser, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Hendrik Kerstens, Turiya Magadlela, Aida Muluneh, Lola Flash, Blessing Ngobeni, Nnenna Okore, Carlos Javier Ortiz, and Enrico Riley.

     

    Gallery artists have artworks in institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Our artists have participated in the Venice Biennale, Prospect, and other invitationals. Gallery artists’ works have been widely published as artist monographs, in art journals, and among critical theory texts. They have been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, ARTnet, The New Yorker, and The San Francisco Chronicle among others. Jenkins Johnson Gallery has participated in art fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, The Armory Show, Paris Photo, AIPAD, Expo Chicago, and Untitled Art.