Annie May Johnston is an artist and mother situated in the field of printmaking, often working towards the margins of the medium — employing new technologies alongside traditional processes. Through installation, objects, prints, and digital methods, she grapples with motherhood, mortality, and inherent failure. The combination of different print technologies, vocabularies, and spaces that she installs links to her interest in time, as she often tethers her work to moments of recent and ancient past, forging connections that she hopes will thread into the future. 

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Currently, Johnston is an Associate Professor of Practice at The University of Texas at Austin where she serves as the Studio Art Graduate Advisor and Print Faculty. She supports the Guest Artist in Print Program and is the faculty sponsor for the UT Riso Room. Johnston received her MFA in Print from The University of Texas at Austin and holds undergraduate degrees in Classics and Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has served as an assistant printmaker at Michael Woolworth Publications in Paris, specializing in traditional lithographic printmaking. Johnston's work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including solo shows at the Elisabet Ney Museum, Ivester Contemporary, and 621 Gallery. She has an upcoming solo show at Galveston Art Center in August. Her prints have been recognized in New American Paintings and shown at venues including the Basler Papiermühle Museum in Basel, Switzerland. Her practice has been shaped by residencies at Edition/Basel, Osteria Stamperia del Notaio in Sicily, Kala Art Institute, and Vermont Studio Center, alongside commissions for Facebook and the Mystic Hotel in San Francisco, with ongoing research planned with McDonald Observatory extending her investigation of cosmic time and human scale. Johnston's explorations — approached through mythology, material experimentation, and the spaces between documentation and imagination — have garnered critical attention in publications including Glasstire, The Austin Chronicle, and Sightlines. Photo by Kate Biel.