Paul Johnson headed up the development and membership program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where he was instrumental in the success of many major initiatives, including the campaign to build the new Visitor and Education Center at Bayou Bend; the establishment of the Department of Arts of the Islamic World; the support for dozens of exhibitions, among them The Masterpieces of French Painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800-1920, the most successful exhibition in the history of the Houston Museum; multimillion-dollar funding of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas; double-digit growth of the Museum's membership and annual giving programs; and the establishment of the Museum's first planned giving society.
Following his tenure in Houston, Johnson was SVP Business Development and director of Sotheby's Los Angeles. He has also served as deputy director for External Affairs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and director of Development at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Most recently, Johnson has worked with the Getty Foundation and Research Institute as a consultant on fundraising for the enormously complex 2011 project Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 40 visual and performing arts institutions throughout Southern California.
Earlier in his career, Paul Johnson held positions in the development offices of the New York University School of Medicine and Columbia University, where he developed a strong knowledge of fundraising in New York City.
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