Anna Johnson is a performer, composer, and visual artist. Based in drone and hypnotic repetition, her sound layers textural explorations of voice and electroacoustic instrumentation into a devotional music approaching avant pop, atmospheric choral, and psychedelic neomedieval folk. Her performances feature prismatic installations that integrate live video projection and manipulations of light and shadow. Anna works site-responsively and improvisationally, in pursuit of newly vulnerable emotional, spiritual, and social realities. She is drawn to the meeting points between personal and mythical, contemporary and ancient.

Anna is currently based in Chicago and originates from Minnesota. She was raised with practices of Celtic and Anglo folk and sacred early music, and was trained in Western classical as well as Eastern European polyphonic choral traditions. Anna holds an MFA from the Performance department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has toured solo in Europe and North America, and presented work in venues, theatres, galleries and festivals in the United States for over ten years, in addition to collaborations across music, theatre, puppetry, dance and film. Unknowing, Anna’s debut EP under her own name, was released on cassette in Spring 2025 by UK label Industrial Coast.