Wilma Johnson is an artist, writer and co-founder of the Neo Naturist performance art group. Her work spans painting, photography, film and storytelling, concentrating on autobiographical figurative imagery of women.
March 2024. Lecture ‘Nudes at the Tate’ at Sunday Social X Women in Revolt! Tate Britain.
2023. Women in Revolt! Tate Britain, 8 November 2023-7 April 2024.
April 2024. Women in Revolt! tours to National Galleries of Scotland
Paintings and photos by Wilma Johnson and performance documentation of Neo Naturists to be exhibited within an installation. Lecture to be given during the exhibition.
2023. Re/sisters at Barbican Art Gallery, London 5 October 2023 - 14 January 2024. Photographs from 1980s to be exhibited, Neo Naturist workshop during exhibition.
2023. Radical Landscapes, William Morris Gallery, London. 21 October 2023-18 February 2024.( previously at Tate Liverpool)
’Private View’ film to be shown as part of the exhibition.
2023 10th October - 24th November. Paintings exhibited in “Women’s Works at England and co. Gallery, Southern Building, Sackville street, Picadilly.
2022. October. Neo Naturist performance at Alternative Miss World, Globe Theatre, London. 2022. October. Films shown at Radical Landscapes Meads Gallery, Warwick October.
2022. June.‘Naked Selfie, My Life as a Neo Naturists’, Stash Gallery, London. Solo painting show
2022. May- September. Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Neo Naturist films shown as part of installation.
2022. May- December. ‘The Life Room’ photograph included in ‘Cruising the Collection’ Towner Gallery Eastbourne
2022. May- June. Project Gallery, Athens . Group show, paintings.
2022. January. TV appearance on ‘Art That Made Us’ BBC2 , tour of Charleston House and interview comparing The Bloomsbury Group and the new Naturists.
2020. December. Group painting show, The Shop gallery, Hastings.
2020-21 Towner Gallery. Eastbourne. Work included in ‘Art Life and Us”
2019/2021. Commissions for House of Voltaire, Risographs, hand painted Rubber Gloves, etc.
2019. December. Come Hell or High Water. Neo Naturist performance at Limehouse basin curated by Anne Bean.
2019. November- December. Christmas installation and performance at Studio Voltaire in Cork Street, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries.
2018. September. Performance at Globe Theatre at Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World. 2017. June. Work included in Royal Academy Summer exhibition.
2017. July. Neo Naturist performance and talk at Port Eliot Festival, St. Germans, Cornwall. 2017. Solo painting exhibition at Gallery 286, Earls Court, London.
2016. December. Painting show at Maison Marienia Arts foundation, Guéthary, France. 2016. Studio Voltaire June - September. Neo Naturist Retrospective.
2016. ICA London. August. “A Night with the Neo Naturists’.
2016. Providence Gallery, Biarritz. July. Solo exhibition.
2016. December. Group show Musée de Guéthary, Guéthary, France.
2015. Solo exhibition at Stash Gallery, London.
2014. Work included in ‘This is Now: film and video after punk.’ At BFI and touring, screenings including MOMA, New York.
2014. Surf Mama published in paperback by Summersdale.
2013. Paintings included in ‘Between Worlds; Rituals and Pagan Rites’, England &Co Gallery, London.
2012. 286 Gallery, Earls Court, London. Christine and Jennifer Binnie, Wilma Johnson and the Neo Naturist Archive.
2012. Hayward Gallery. Body Painting Master Class. Wide Open School,
2011. October. Camulodunum, First Site, Colchester. Photographs included in opening show of museum.
2011. Surf Mama, illustrated memoir published by Beautiful Books.
2009. Solo painting exhibition at Salle d’Attente, Palais Thermale, Biarritz.
2008. Films featured in ‘Derek Jarman, Films and Inspirations’ film festival in association with Serpentine Gallery.
2007. ‘The Neo Naturists’ at England & Co., London with Christine Binnie, Jennifer Binnie and Grayson Perry.
2007. Secret Public, Last Days of the British Underground ICA London.
2006. Secret Public, Last Days of the British Underground, Kuntsverein, Munich. Neo Naturist archive, photos, films, performance documentation.
2005. Solo painting show at Highgate Fine Art.
2004. Solo painting exhibition at Highgate Fine Art.
2001. Solo exhibition at Chateau de Sacy, Paris.
1996. Solo painting show at The Irish Club, Kensington, London.
1994. Solo show at Green Street Gallery, Mayfair.
1994. Solo Show at Susan Callery Fine Art, Dingle, Ireland.
1991. Spitalfields Heritage Centre, joint show with Nick Gammon and Adam McEwan. 1990. Solo painting show The Bridge Gallery, Battersea, London.
1987. Solo painting show at Danlann de Bairaed, Camden Town, London.
1986. Solo painting show at Jean Engel Gallery, Islington, London.
1985. First solo exhibition at James Birch Gallery.
1981-1986. Neo naturist performances and collaborations with artists including Michael Clark, Grayson Perry, Derek Jarman, Leigh Bowery, Andrew Logan and Cerith Wyn Evans. Venues including nightclubs such as Heaven and Taboo, Riverside Studios, Royal Opera House.
1982. July. Neo Naturist Live-in, B2 Gallery, Wapping.
1980 Wilma Johnson, Christine Binnie and Jennifer Binnie create the Neo Naturist performance art group.
1978-1982. Foundation and Fine Art Degree at St. Martins College of Art (First Class)