Joel Peter Johnson

JOEL PETER JOHNSON, (from The Bronx, NY) is a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. He’s been a painter and illustrator since 1987. His illustrations have been published in Time magazine, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Boston Globe, and other publications; He’s received awards from and been featured in Graphis, American Illustration, Communication Arts, Print, AIGA, and, in 1998, received a silver medal from the The Society of Illustrators 40th Annual of American Illustration. Johnson’s paintings have been exhibited across the U.S. including the Museum of American Illustration, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, where his work is part of their M&T Bank Collection. And more recently in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). In 2024, Stanford University Libraries, acquired 40 years of Johnson’s sketchbooks, magazine illustrations, photos, awards, posters and articles as part of its Black Graphic Design History Collection.

As a designer, he has experience with brand identity and design work for some of the country’s leading cultural institutions, including Alley Theatre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges, The Morgan Library, The Frick Collection, the National Gallery of Art, and Hirshhorn Museum among many others.