Biography
Johnson, the son of Cecil John Johnson Jr. and Nina Ruth Kimerer Johnson. He has an older brother Cecil "John" Johnson III, sister Elizabeth Biggerstaff, and an identical twin Dennis Johnson. Johnson grew up in the small East Texas town of Lone Star and graduated from Daingerfield High School in 1987. He attended Northeast Texas Community College and received an Associate of Arts degree and continued his education at the University of Texas at Tyler in Tyler, Texas; where he focused on intaglio, relief, and lithography and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He attended graduate school at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree; his graduate work included printmaking, book arts, painting, and drawing which culminated in his thesis exhibition, Surviving the Swamp.
After graduate school Johnson spent four years, 2000 to 2004, as the Gallery Director for the University of Texas at Tyler during this time he taught art appreciation and computer foundation courses at Northeast Texas Community College in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. From 2004 to 2006 he served as the Art Program Director for StoneMetal Press in San Antonio, Texas where he offered workshops and classes in printmaking and book arts.
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