Artist CV

Karen Johanson
Portfolio: portfolio.karenjohanson.com
Instagram: @karenjohansonfineart

Education

University of Oregon: BA, Fine Art/Photography
Photographic Center Northwest: Various courses
Santa Fe Workshops: Portrait workshop with Lynn Goldsmith
Santa Fe Workshops: Cutting Edge Lighting Techniques with Michael Clark
Runaway Press: Cyanotype workshop with Frol Boundin
Bullseye Portland, Sandblasting Images, Photosensitive and Alternative Processes with Karlye Golub
Bullseye Portland, Graphic Swim with Jeffrey Sarmiento
Bullseye Portland, Crash Course in Glass Cutting with Ally Burch
Bullseye Portland, Fusing Forensics with Ted Sawyer
Artips Academy, Experimental photographic printing on glass or ceramic with Silvia Levenson
Pilchuck Glass School, Thinking in Glass with Silvia Levenson

Awards

Canon Emerging Professional Photographer Award, Santa Fe Workshops

Exhibitions

Solo exhibition, Calm, Portland,OR 2026
Solo exhibition, The Float Shoppe, Portland, OR 2025 – 2026
Group exhibition, Love is Love, Art at the Cave, Vancouver, WA 2025 – 2026
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, 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