Artist CV
Karen Johanson
Portfolio: portfolio.karenjohanson.com
Instagram: @karenjohansonfineart
Education
- University of Oregon: BA, Fine Art/Photography, 1987
- Photographic Center Northwest: Various courses, 1988-1998
- Santa Fe Workshops: Portrait workshop with Lynn Goldsmith, 1996
- Santa Fe Workshops: Cutting Edge Lighting Techniques with Michael Clark, 2018
- Runaway Press: Cyanotype workshop with Frol Boundin, 2019
- Bullseye Portland, Sandblasting Images, Photosensitive and Alternative Processes with Karlye Golub, 2019
- Bullseye Portland, Graphic Swim with Jeffrey Sarmiento, 2019
- Bullseye Portland, Crash Course in Glass Cutting with Ally Burch, 2020
- Bullseye Portland, Fusing Forensics with Ted Sawyer, 2021
- Artips Academy, Experimental photographic printing on glass or ceramic with Silvia Levenson, 2021
- Pilchuck Glass School, Thinking in Glass with Silvia Levenson, 2022
Awards
Canon Emerging Professional Photographer Award, Santa Fe Workshops, 1996
Exhibitions
- Group exhibition, Spectrum Gestalt, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2024
- Group exhibition, Members' Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 2024
- Group exhibition, PhinneyWood Art Walk, Seattle, WA, 2023
- Group exhibition, Microsoft Employee Art Exhibition, Redmond, WA, 2023
- Group exhibition, Photo Los Angeles, Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
- Group exhibition, The Small Works Exhibit, The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR, 2023
- Group exhibition, The Former Tomatoes, The Anxious Tomato, Tacoma, WA, 2023
- Group exhibition, Undercurrents, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
- Group exhibition, Building Blocks of Community, Seattle Design Festival, Seattle, WA, 2022
- Group exhibition, 2022 Members' Show, CoCA, Seattle, WA, 2022
- Group exhibition, Microsoft Employee Art Exhibition, Redmond, WA, 2022
- Group exhibition, CoCA ShowWalls, Gary Manuel, Seattle, WA 2022
- Solo exhibition, Art in The Heights, Pine Street Bakery, Hood River, OR, 2021
- Group exhibition, Online Gallery, Tacoma Artists Collective, Tacoma, WA, 2020
- Solo exhibition, Cyanotypes at Art Up, Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery, Seattle, WA, 2020
- Group exhibition, 20/20 Vision Members' Show, CoCA, Seattle, WA, 2020
- Solo exhibition, Art on 6th Avenue, Mary Mart, Tacoma, WA, 2020
- Group exhibition, Honey at Alma Mater, Tacoma, WA, 2019–2020
- Group exhibition, Alternative Visions, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR, 2019 (curated by Christina Z. Anderson, [catalogue])
- Solo exhibition, New cyanotypes from Karen Johanson, Makeda & Mingus, Seattle, WA, 2019
- Solo exhibition, New work at Make.Shift Market, Bellingham, WA, 2019
- Solo exhibition, Art + beats at Studio A, Seattle, WA, 2009
- Solo exhibition, 619 Western Building, Seattle, WA, 2005