Meredith Johnson has acted as the Curator and Director of Consulting at Creative Time since 2007, where she has curated such projects as Spencer Finch’s The River That Flows Both Ways, Pae White’s Self Roaming, Stephen Vitiello’s A Bell for Every Minute, and The Creative Time Art Basel Miami Beach Oceanfront Nights Program in 2010 in collaboration with the MOCAD in Detroit, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, 032c in Berlin, and Tramway in Glasgow. She spearheaded a series of artist chef collaborations in 2011 at Park Avenue, including seasonal interventions by Marina Abramović, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Janine Antoni, and Michael Rakowitz, and in 2012 co-curated a series of ten commissioned video works for MTV’s Art Breaks, presented by Creative Time, MoMA PS1 and MTV.
Johnson has also led Creative Time’s advising on arts programming nationally in such cities as Louisville, KY; Seattle, WA; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; and Chicago, IL. In addition to her work at Creative Time, Johnson was a curator at Artists Space in New York from 2007–2009, and was the Assistant Director at Minetta Brook from 2005 – 2007.
She regularly lectures on art in public space at universities in New York and throughout the United States, and is the Founder and Director of Harbor, a Brooklyn-based cultural incubator launching 2013. She received her BA in Art from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and her MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts.