Tonika Lewis Johnson

Biography

Tonika Lewis Johnson is an American photographer, social practice artist, and community organizer based in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Her work focuses on the historical and contemporary effects of racial segregation, housing discrimination, and disinvestment in Black communities, using photography, mapping, public art, and participatory projects. Johnson is best known for The Folded Map Project, a multi-year initiative that examines residential segregation in Chicago by documenting properties with identical street addresses located in racially and socioeconomically different neighborhoods on the city’s North and South sides.

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