Born 1959, Johannes studied at Dun Laogharie School of Art (IADT) in Dublin, Ireland. Since 1981, he participated in exhibitions and video/film festivals in Europe, Asia, Australia, America and Africa. In 2007, photography, installation, and printmaking became his main disciplines. In 2012, he created his first video installation, followed by his first films in 2014. In the same period, he became interested in performance arts. Since 2014 conducted several video and performance collaboration projects with artists from Taiwan, Russia, Netherlands and Germany. In 2017 devolped a performance workshop titled Unfolded & Unwrapped. In 2016-2017, he made a series of videos in collaboration with the theater group DFT Stage (St.Petersburg, Russia) related to the poems of the Russians poets Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmadova.

Jennifer Tonge's work has been supported by The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Ucross Foundation, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She lives in Salt Lake City.