Johanna Hedva

Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches. They are the author of the essay collection How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom, published by Hillman Grad Books, as well as of the novels Your Love Is Not Good, On Hell, and Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, a collection of poems, performances, and essays. Their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon. Their work has been shown internationally, including in Berlin at Gropius Bau, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and Institute of Cultural Inquiry; The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; Performance Space New York; the 14th Shanghai Biennial; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich; and others. Their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, frieze, The White Review, Topical Cream, Spike, and is anthologized in Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art. Their essay ‘Sick Woman Theory’ has been translated into eleven languages.