Glenys Johnson was born in Ulnes Walton, Lancashire, in 1952. She completed her postgraduate degree in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art in 1976 and spent time working and exhibiting in New York in the 1980s. She now lives and works in South East London, where she held the Lewisham Borough Artist’s Residency and maintains a studio in Deptford. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group museum shows across Europe and the U.S., including at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and Artist’s Space New York. She is currently included in group exhibitions for the Art’s Council UK and the Rochdale Art Gallery.