Steph Johnsen is a painter and printmaker based in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Utah State University and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Montana, both on scholarship.
Growing up in northern Utah and spending years working as a whitewater river guide throughout the western United States, Steph’s work is deeply informed by landscape, movement, memory, and physical experience within natural environments. Her imagery often explores tension between structure and fluidity, presence and fragmentation.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and throughout the western United States. In addition to teaching workshops and university courses, she has taught at the University of Montana and currently teaches at BYU–Idaho.
Steph lives in Idaho with her husband and four children.