Kyle Bellucci Johanson works in performance-architecture, situating objects, language, and media to visualize and critique power structures and instigate imaginary futures. From 2018-2022 he founded and directed table, a project space in Chicago dedicated to situating artist’s practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. Recent exhibitions include council_st, Los Angeles; Feiertag, Kassel; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago; and Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, the City University of New York, the New York Academy of Art, and facilitated recruitment and admissions for the School of Art at The Cooper Union. Kyle is the 2025-26 Visiting Critic in Sculpture at Cornell University.

Kyle holds a BA in Art and Reconciliation Studies from Bethel University and studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts and was a founding fellow of at land’s edge, an artist-led, autonomous, free school focused on intergenerational mentorship and engaged programming in community-run spaces across east and south Los Angeles. Kyle was a 2022-23 participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Headshot: Adam Feldmeth

Image: untitled (open sky), Livestream video of open sky housed in a 1918 Kimball player piano’s cabinet window. 

(updated 2025)