Johan Barrett (1983) is a Stockholm based artist, with both American and Swedish roots.

For several years, Johan Barrett's motifs have been characterized by different approaches to the present. For a period, he embodied the inability to be in the present moment through the escape of thought to temporary ideal states in holiday resorts and exotic destinations. Barrett has continued with these frozen moments of happiness, somewhere else beyond the everyday, but he has also begun to approach the presence in the now, that can be achieved in any place, with still lifes and landscapes.

Represented by Ditte Lauridsen.

Solo exhibitions:

My Baby Skeletons – Riche Fenix, Stockholm, 2024
Dark Holes of Light – Humlegårdsgatan 13B, Curated by Ditte Lauridsen, Stockholm, 2024
All we have is now – Nordiska galleriet, Stockholm, 2022
Impressions by Johan Barrett – Häktet, Stockholm, 2019
When summer is over we all die – SAAB Art Gallery, Linköping, 2019 
They overstayed their welcome – Bar Brillo, Stockholm, 2019 
The resort was beautiful but we argued all the time – Taverna Brillo, Stockholm, 2017 

Duo exhibitions:

Nature on Speed – Together with Olle Halvars, Riche, Stockholm, 2020

Group exhibitions:

Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, 2023
The Relative Size of Things – Nitty Gritty, Curated by Saskia Neuman, Stockholm, 2022
Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, 2022
Grand Opening Party – The Champagne Bar at Södra Teatern, Stockholm, 2019
Artworks at Misshumasshu – Group show, Misshumasshu, Stockholm, 2019
G.I.F.C & Velvet Ropes, Galleri Golsa, Oslo (curated by 0-0 LA, Los Angeles), 2019
Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, 2019
Velvet Ropes, Stockholm, (curated by 0-0 LA, Los Angeles), 2018
Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, 2017
Crum Heaven, Stockholm, 2017
G.I.F.C, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm (curated by 0-0 LA, Los Angeles), 2017
Paper Cuts, London, curated by Kristian Day, 2017

Education:

Beckmans College of Design
Art History at Uppsala University
Grafikskolan in Stockholm
Art at Wiks Folkhögskola

Publications:

Nya Rum, 2022
Östgöta Correspondenten, 2019
Artworks, 2019
Upsala Nya Tidning, 2019
Upsala Nya Tidning, 2017
As.iZ magazine, 2017

Represented:

Stockholm Konst
Bonniers konstförening
SAAB konstförening
Grand Hôtel in Stockholm
Linköping Kommun
Private collections