table near Chinese Room
Kyle Bellucci Johanson
Artist-in-Residence
March 19-26, 2022

From the Artist:

“Automata presents: table near Chinese Room” table went on the road for a weeklong residency at @automata_la! Thank you @timtsangtimtsang for sharing your courageous and earnest project with us. Thanks to Automata for supporting this work, and to everyone who joined us for a thoughtful, nourishing conversation.

Kyle Bellucci Johanson completed a B.A. in Reconciliation Studies and Art from Bethel University in 2009. In 2008 he studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and completed an M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 2016. Kyle was a 2015 fellow of at land’s edge, an artist-led, autonomous, and experimental platform focused on intergenerational mentorship and engaged programming in community-run spaces across east and south Los Angeles. In 2018 he opened table, a temporary project space dedicated to situating artist’s practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. Presently Kyle works as a visiting faculty member of the University of Illinois Chicago, and Lectures at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a 2020-2021 recipient of the BOLT artist residency of the Chicago Artists Coalition. Kyle’s work has recently been on view at The Chicago Architecture Biennial, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, Bill’s Auto (Chicago, Illinois), Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon (MOCAM), Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), ALTES FINANZAMT (Berlin, Germany), Centro Cultual Metropolitano – MET Quito (Quito, Ecuador), and Human Resources (Los Angeles, California).

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