Cillian Johnson is a visual artist from Dublin, Ireland.

He graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BA in History of Art and Architecture, with an interest in semiotics, art ecology, and technical imagery. He recently completed a postgraduate certificate in Data Visualisation through the Creative Futures Academy in IADT.

His current work focuses on data visualisation, translating sensory data into a visual form in space. The process aims to reconstruct a visual interpretation based on the audio data from urban and natural landscapes, GPS data, topographical data and more. These take the form of animated maps, graphs, and 3D models for installation. 

This approach has been shaped by research in psychogeography and neuroarchitecture; attempting to understand the cognitive response to our natural and built environments paired with the more experimental and emotionally-reactive approaches of psychogeography.
 
Johnson previously had curating and exhibiting roles with De Liceiras 18 in Porto, Portugal. This included working on “Itta / To East” for Beast International Film Festival 2024, and “10 and Beyond,” a retrospective exhibition of De Liceiras 18 as part of Circuitos ’24, a government initiative that aimed to strengthen familiarity between the public and Porto's contemporary art world.

Most recently, he completed a residency with SODAS2123 in Vilnius, Lithuania to develop this process, where he presented a WIP example of this method in an artist talk at the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts.