KRISTINA JOHNSON (Instagram:@kristinamjohnson) is an artist, curator, and small business owner from Minnesota. She attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (‘17). In 2019, she took over as director of Waiting Room (Instagram: @waitingroomart) gallery and established an e-commerce platform, Backroom (Instagram: @backroom.sales). She has produced exhibitions that explore critical questions about the relationship of art to abstraction, the environment, social concerns, political issues and theories of identity, individuation and subjectivation. Her curatorial work has been featured in Artforum Critics Picks; as well as personally featured in local Twin Cities publications such as City Pages, MNDaily and Star Tribune. Today, Kristina works out of Minneapolis helping to support emerging and mid-career artists gain wider recognition for their work.