Carla Rae Johnson

Carla Rae Johnson’s artworks include drawing, sculpture, conceptual, performance, and installation art. She is equally comfortable working solo, in collaboration, or in art collectives. Her work is directly connected to ideas and often addresses issues of social, political, and cultural import.  Carla Rae is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Drawing, a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture, and a 1990 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited in solo, invitational, and curated shows in museums and galleries nationally and in New York City. 

Carla Rae Johnson has a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Iowa.  After over 38 years an arts educator, Carla Rae recently retired from her position as a Full Professor of Art at Westchester Community College in Valhalla where she taught from 2003 to 2016.  She is now delighted to devote her energies to art, full time.