Chido Johnson is a Detroit artist, 2009 Kresge Fellow, and currently the section chair of Sculpture at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe and Zambia, then moved to the USA in his adulthood. Both his BFA degrees in Sculpture in 1996 and in Painting with a minor in Drawing in 1997 were from the University of Georgia, Athens. Chido obtained his MFA Sculpture degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. He is the founder of the Wire-car Auto Workers Association of Detroit and a co-founder of the Zimbabwe Cultural Centre of Detroit. He has worked, exhibited and taught both nationally as well as internationally. He can be seen on a nice summer day pushing his 1967 pink wire-car Cadillac in the neighborhoods of Detroit.