Paddy Johnson. Image credit: E brady robinson
biography
Paddy Johnson is the founder of VVrkshop, a company that helps artists get the shows, grants and residencies of their dreams. Netvvrk, the company’s flagship membership, connects artists across the United States and abroad to broaden their professional networks and opportunities. Over the course of the last two years, members have received over a million dollars in grants.
Johnson has a long history in the arts. In 2005, she founded the acclaimed contemporary art blog Art F City (2005-2018), and in 2018 she co-founded Queens-based community public art program PARADE (2018-2019). She is co-founder of the collaborative national publishing project Impractical Spaces (2017-present.) and the host of the Art Problems Podcast
Johnson was the first recipient of the Arts Writers Grant for blogging in 2008, and a two-time nominee for Best Critic at the Rob Pruitt Awards in 2009 and 2010. She won the Village Voice Web Award for best Art Blog in 2010 and in 2011. In 2014, she was the subject of a VICE profile.
Johnson has contributed to The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Economist, CNN, VICE, Gizmodo, Observer, Frieze Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. She was a columnist for Artnet, The L Magazine, and Art in America.
Lecturing across the country, Johnson’s talks take place at venues such as Yale, The Chicago Art Institute, Rutgers, Columbia University, The Museum of Fort Worth, the De La Cruz Foundation and the SXSW conference. Her zoom lectures regularly attract hundreds of viewers.
She lives in New York with her partner.
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I work one on one with artists to gather art resources and opportunities, craft project proposals and grants, and focus the writing on their website. Coaching designed to help artists speak confidentially and articulately about their work is also available.