Stephanie Anne Johnson

Stephanie Anne Johnson (born 1952) is an American mixed media artist. Many of her works are site-specific, open-air art installation pieces.

Early life and education Stephanie Anne Johnson was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1952. Her mother, Virginia E. Johnson, was a teacher and social worker

Johnson attended Emerson College, completing her B.F.A in theatre in 1974. At Emerson she took a class in lighting design. After college, her first jobs were doing lighting design. This led to a 40-year career as a theatrical lighting designer and eventually inspired her work in the visual arts. In the early 1990s she decided to pursue higher education in the Fine Arts and in 1994 she received her M.A. from San Francisco State University.

Work Johnson has principally built her art reputation around public art installations and performance art. Johnson has had two one person art shows in San Francisco. Her work has been shown locally and nationally, most notably in the “Bearing Witness” exhibition at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Awards, fellowships and residencies

In 1982 Johnson was National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient. In 1995 she completed an 11-month studio residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Johnson has been awarded Lighting Artists in Dance grants. She has been nominated for Excellence in Lighting Design by Theatre Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area Critic’s Circle, and Broadway Theatre West.