12 Facts About Johanna Hedva

Johanna Hedva was born on 1984 and is an American contemporary artist, writer, and musician.

At age 22, Hedva began studying astrophysics at a city college before transferring two years later to UCLA to study design.

Lauren Fournier wrote, "Johanna Hedva articulates an ethos of agency for those living with chronic illness".

In [their] Sick Woman Theory, writer and performer Johanna Hedva suggests that the dominant discourse on political action, drawing largely as it does from Hannah Arendt's faith in the political effect of bodies in the street, is too narrow a definition of how we engage the political.

Johanna Hedva asks us to consider the politics of intimacy, of interdependence, of bodies that need, that engage in relationships and in so doing reshape the social fabrics around them.

In February 2018, Johanna Hedva published "Letter to A Young Doctor," in Triple Canopy's Risk Pool issue.

Johanna Hedva's characters show us the complexities of being human beings and push our faces into the mud, an antagonism inflicted unto ourselves as we bully, bruise, blur, and break our way into the waking world.

Johanna Hedva has published a new collection of non-fiction, How to Tell When We Will Die, on September 24,2024.

From 2012 to 2015, Johanna Hedva wrote and directed a series of plays and performances titled The Greek Cycle.

In October 2018, Johanna Hedva began performing Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House, a solo of guitar and voice, that became the album of the same name, released in 2021.

In 2019, Johanna Hedva released their album, The Sun and the Moon.

On January 1,2021, Johanna Hedva released the album, Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House.