About
Elyse Johnson is a Chicago-based performance and video artist working in experimental media and game development. Her practice investigates digital embodiment and fractured subjectivity through immersive storytelling and video. Johnson is a 2015 recipient of the Stephen H. Wilder Traveling Scholarship which supported her performance series The Silver Screen. Johnson has exhibited internationally and is featured in EMERGENCY INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Volume 8. (2019) and Volume 9. (2020). She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design.
Her recent video work, SR-22 (HD Video, 2025, 11:16), was presented in the International Competition of the 27th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, the SIMULTAN Festival 2025 (Re:MEDIATE, Timișoara, Romania), and Viewing Room 2025, International Forum of Performance Art, Greece.