Bethany Johnson
.jpg "Bethany Johnson<br /><em>Horizont II</em> 2011<br />ink on paper<br />9\" x 11 3/4\"<br />BJ 5")
_0.jpg "Bethany Johnson<br /><em>Horizont I</em> 2011<br />ink on paper<br />9\" x 11 3/4\"<br />BJ 4")
Bethany Johnson was born in La Porte, Indiana in 1985 and currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Kalamazoo College, Michigan in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from The University of Texas at Austin in 2011. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Texas at Texas State Galleries, San Marcos; The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas; Austin Museum of Art - Laguna Gloria, Austin; The Wright Gallery at Texas A&M University, College Station; UTSA Art Gallery at the University of Texas at San Antonio; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston; and the Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, among other venues. A solo exhibition at the Courtyard Gallery in Austin, Texas is forthcoming in the fall of 2019. Johnson has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; Wild Basin Creative Research Center, Austin, Texas; Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, Laceyville, Pennsylvania; and Denkmalschmiede Höfgen, Grimma, Germany, and has as a forthcoming residency at the Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin, Germany. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.