Anna Johnson is a performer, composer, and visual artist who creates multisensory experiences. Her work joins personal with mythical and contemporary with ancient. Based in drone and hypnotic repetition, Anna’s devotional sonic landscapes layer textural explorations of voice and electroacoustic instrumentation into a music approaching experimental pop, ambient choral, and psychedelic neomedieval folk. Her performances regularly feature cinematic projections that incorporate manipulations of light and shadow to render surreal and fantastical environments. In creating for both stage and screen, she is guided by the emergent, alchemical conversations that open between sound and image when they are brought together. She relies on improvisation and works site-responsively, with a fluid sense of embodied time, in pursuit of newly vulnerable emotional, spiritual, and social realities.

Anna is currently based in Chicago, IL and holds an MFA from the Performance department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was raised with a practice of Celtic and Anglo folk and sacred early Christian music, and was trained in classical piano and voice as well as Eastern European choral traditions. Anna received a BA in Studio Art from Macalester College and has collaborated as a performer, composer, and art director with bands, devised theatre and puppetry companies, dance ensembles, and film productions for over ten years, in addition to performing and exhibiting her own work in music venues, theatres, galleries, and festivals throughout the Midwestern United States. She has toured as a solo performer in the United Kingdom, France, and North America. Unknowing, Anna’s debut EP under her own name, was released on cassette in Spring 2025 by UK label Industrial Coast.