Johanna Hedva

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Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician from Los Angeles. Hedva is the author of the 2024 essay collection How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom. They are also the author of the novel Your Love Is Not Good, and the novel On Hell. Their artwork has been shown internationally, most recently in the Seoul Mediacity Biennial, at the HAU Berlin, and in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles at JOAN and London at TINA; and in group exhibitions at Gropius Bau, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Performance Space New York, Seoul Museum of Art, the 14th Shanghai Biennial, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Modern Art Oxford, and MASS MoCA. Their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House (2021) and The Sun and the Moon (2019). In 2024, they were a Disability Futures Fellow.