Pamela Michelle Johnson attended California Polytechnic State University is San Luis Obispo, California, and graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an art minor with honors. After graduation, she continued to pursue ceramics, painting and figure drawing independently while working for four years as an engineer in the construction industry. In 2003, she was awarded an artist in residency at The Institute of Ceramic Studies at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shigaraki, Japan. This experience was influential in her development as an artist and decisions regarding her career path.

Shortly after her return from Japan, Johnson decided to seek new direction in her life and to focus on art as a career. She uprooted from her native California, left her career in engineering, and made a new home in Chicago. There she found a thriving emerging artist culture that provided her with opportunities to continue to develop her own work within a community of other working artists. She became a member at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art to work on her figure drawing in open workshops, and began exhibiting her work in galleries and art festivals. Her body of work continues to evolve through her more recent American Still-Life and Houses series.

- 2008 -
Reflections from the Artists' Eye / Frederick R. Weisman
   Museum of Art / Malibu CA
The Showroom / Nashville TN
Lyon & Lyon Fine Art / New Orleans LA
The Artist Project / Artropolis / Chicago IL

- 2007 -
3rd Annual National Self-Portrait Exhibition /
   33 Collective Gallery / Chicago IL
The New Breed / Blake Palmer Gallery / Chicago IL
Winter Arts Festival / Around the Coyote / Chicago IL
Annual Sculpture & Drawing Show /
   Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art / Chicago IL

- 2006 -
Fall Arts Festival / Around the Coyote / Chicago IL
Summer Suite / Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art / Chicago IL
Winter Arts Festival / Around the Coyote / Chicago IL

- 2005 -
Chicago Art Open / Chicago IL
Ravenswood Art Walk / Chicago IL
Fall Arts Festival / Around the Coyote / Chicago IL
Annual Sculpture & Drawing Show /
   Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art / Chicago IL
Nudes Now / Peter Jones Gallery / Chicago IL
Through Process and Concept / Caro D’Offay Gallery / Chicago IL
Visual Expressions / Casa de la Cultura Mestiarte / Chicago IL

- 2004 -
Todas Juntos en Natividad / Casa de la Cultura Mestiarte / Chicago IL
Fall Arts Festival / Around the Coyote / Chicago IL
Real People / The Old Court House / Woodstock IL