Amanda Hunter Johnson is the Conservator of Works on Paper at SFMOMA. Her tenure at the museum began in 2001 as the Fellow for Conservation of Contemporary Art. Working with living artists such as Claudy Jongstra, Richard Tuttle, Rosana Castrillo Díaz and Wangechi Mutu is a highlight and a cornerstone of her conservation activities at SFMOMA. As part of the Mellon funded Artist Initiative at SFMOMA, she was involved in preparatory research for the Vija Celmins retrospective co-organized by SFMOMA and the Met and traveled to Toronto to install the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Past projects include research on Robert Rauschenberg for the Getty sponsored Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative and installing and traveling permanent collection works in the Robert Rauschenberg Retrospective organized by TATE/MOMA.

She has presented to national and international colleagues at conferences and has worked at The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia. She received her Masters of Science Degree in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.