Duane Johnson has lived in Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

, Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

, Louisiana

Louisiana

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

, and Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. He currently lives outside of Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

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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

East Texas

East Texas is a distinct geographic and ecological area in the U.S. state of Texas.According to the Handbook of Texas, the East Texas area "may be separated from the rest of Texas roughly by a line extending from the Red River in north central Lamar County southwestward to east central Limestone...

 town of Lone Star

Lone Star, Texas

Lone Star is a city in Morris County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,631 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lone Star is located at ....

 and graduated from Daingerfield High School

Daingerfield-Lone Star Independent School District

Daingerfield-Lone Star Independent School District is a public school district based in Daingerfield, Texas .Located in Morris County, a small portion of the district extends into Titus County....

 in 1987. He attended Northeast Texas Community College

Northeast Texas Community College

Northeast Texas Community College is a community college serving the Northeast Texas region. The campus is set on in rural Titus County near the community of Chapel Hill, approximately seven miles southeast of Mount Pleasant, the county seat....

 and received an Associate of Arts degree and continued his education at the University of Texas at Tyler

University of Texas at Tyler

The University of Texas at Tyler, also referred to as UT Tyler, is a coeducational public university located in Tyler, Texas. Founded in 1971, it is a component institution of the University of Texas System....

 in Tyler, Texas

Tyler, Texas

Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...

; where he focused on intaglio

Intaglio (printmaking)

Intaglio is a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface, known as the matrix or plate, and the incised line or area holds the ink. Normally, copper or zinc plates are used as a surface, and the incisions are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or...

, relief

Relief print

A relief print is an image created by a printmaking process where protruding surface faces of the matrix are inked; recessed areas are ink free. Printing the image is therefore a relatively simple matter of inking the face of the matrix and bringing it in firm contact with the paper...

, and lithography

Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

 and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 degree. He attended graduate school at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...

 receiving a Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 degree; his graduate work included printmaking

Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...

, book arts, painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, and drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

 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

San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

 where he offered workshops and classes in printmaking and book arts.

Art

Johnson has had several solo exhibitions including Unsocial: The Bully Series, at in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

, Paintings: Duane Johnson, at Joan Derryberry Gallery at Tennessee Technological University

Tennessee Technological University

Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is an accredited public university located in Cookeville, Tennessee, US, a city approximately seventy miles east of Nashville. It was formerly known as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute , and before that as Dixie College, the...

 in Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville is a city in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 23,923 at the 2000 census. of Cookeville's population was 30,435, and the combined total of those living in Cookeville's in 2010 was 65,014. It is the county seat of Putnam County and home to Tennessee...

; "Easy Target: Narrative Connections", at StoneMetal Press in San Antonio, Texas; The Visit, Fine Arts Gallery, Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center at Kilgore College

Kilgore College

Kilgore College is a community college located in Kilgore, Texas. It has an annual enrollment of more than 5000 students.The school was established in 1935 at the height of the East Texas oil boom...

 in Kilgore, Texas

Kilgore, Texas

Kilgore is a city in Gregg and Rusk Counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the home of Kilgore College, and was also the childhood home of famous classical pianist Van Cliburn...

. He has had two exhibitions with artist Amy Gerhauser; His & Hers x2: Duane Johnson & Amy Gerhauser, Ira M. Taylor Memorial Gallery in Frost Center for the Visual Arts at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas

Abilene, Texas

Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in west central Texas. The population was 117,063 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. It is the county seat of Taylor County...

 and His & Hers, recent work by Duane Johnson & Amy Gerhauser, at One9zero6 Gallery in San Antonio, Texas. His work has been included in numerous juried international and national exhibitions, including UMKC National Print Exhibition, UMKC Gallery of Art, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; 30th Bradley International Exhibition, Bradley University

Bradley University

Bradley University, founded in 1897, is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a small institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students and a full-time faculty of approximately 350....

, Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated...

; School Days: Cafeteria Plan, Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School

John Burroughs School

Founded in 1923, John Burroughs School is a private, non-sectarian preparatory school with nearly 600 students in grades 7-12. Its 47.5 acre campus is located in Ladue, Missouri , an affluent suburb of Saint Louis. It is named for U.S...

, St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

; Iowa Biennial 2004, Project Art Main Gallery, The University of Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

, Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, State of Iowa. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of about 67,862, making it the sixth-largest city in the state. Iowa City is the county seat of Johnson County and home to the University of Iowa...

; and Art & Social Activism, Olin Fine Arts Center Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College

Washington & Jefferson College

Washington & Jefferson College, also known as W & J College or W&J, is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States, which is south of Pittsburgh...

, Washington, Pennsylvania

Washington, Pennsylvania

Washington is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Pittsburgh Metro Area in the southwestern part of the state...

. He has also curated a few artist books exhibitions including Bound/Unbound with Amy Gerhauser shown at StoneMetal Press.

The Bully Series is a body of work reflecting on the relationship of bully-victim-onlooker incorporating photographs of various people that can be interpreted as any of those three bully-victim-onlooker. Johnson realized that bullying wasn't just limited to the schoolyard and that it can sometimes carry over into adult life. struggling to Johnson currently is working on a new series called the Sappy Series which is a more personal group of work reflecting on his relationships.

Select Public collections

The New Orleans Museum of Art

New Orleans Museum of Art

The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line...

, New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

; the Plains Art Museum

Plains Art Museum

The Plains Art Museum is a fine arts museum located in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, United States.- History :The history of the museum dates back to 1965 when the "Red River Art Center" opened in the former Moorhead, Minnesota, post office. The name of the museum was changed when it was...

, Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...

; Kennedy Museum, Ohio University

Ohio University

Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...

, Athens, Ohio

Athens, Ohio

Athens is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Athens County, Ohio, United States. It is located along the Hocking River in the southeastern part of Ohio. A historic college town, Athens is home to Ohio University and is the principal city of the Athens, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. ...

; LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; University of Mississippi Museum

University of Mississippi Museum

The University of Mississippi Museum is a museum owned and operated by the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. The museum is designed to appeal to both a popular and scholarly audience, with a collection that emphasizes objects of regional interest...

, University, Mississippi

University, Mississippi

University, Mississippi is not an official government based city or town but is the official designated name for the area encompassing the University of Mississippi campus, in Lafayette County, Mississippi within the city of Oxford....

; Center for the Book Arts, New York, New York; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia are among the public collections holding work by Duane Johnson.
Other public collections are:
Bradley University

Bradley University

Bradley University, founded in 1897, is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a small institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students and a full-time faculty of approximately 350....

, Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated...

; Oregon State University

Oregon State University

Oregon State University is a coeducational, public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees and a multitude of research opportunities. There are more than 200 academic degree programs offered through the...

, Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis is a city located in central western Oregon, United States. It is the county seat of Benton County and the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 54,462....

; University of Texas at San Antonio

University of Texas at San Antonio

The University of Texas at San Antonio, commonly referred to as UTSA, is a state university in San Antonio, Texas. With an enrollment of more than 30,000 students, it is the third-largest of nine universities and six health institutions in the University of Texas System and the eighth-largest in...

, San Antonio, Texas; University of Alaska at Anchorage

University of Alaska Anchorage

The University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest school of the University of Alaska System, with about 16,500 students, about 14,000 of whom attend classes at Goose Lake, its main campus in Anchorage....

, Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...

; Iowa State University

Iowa State University

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...

, University Print Society, Ames, Iowa

Ames, Iowa

Ames is a city located in the central part of the U.S. state of Iowa in Story County, and approximately north of Des Moines. The U.S. Census Bureau designates that Ames, Iowa metropolitan statistical area as encompassing all of Story County, and which, when combined with the Boone, Iowa...

; Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee.

Johnson Brothers

Since 2000 he has co-owned and operated Johnson Brothers Productions with his brother Dennis. Johnson Brothers productions was created as an imprint for their creative work such as films, comic books, photo books, and plays written by Dennis. In 2010 Johnson published a book of photographs titled "Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake is a lake and wetland located on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana. The lake is named after the Southeastern culture of Native Americans called Caddoans or Caddo, who lived in...

: water, light, and atmosphere and a second book "Bully Series: Artwork from 2002-2008." Also in 2010 he and Dennis published the first issue of "Little Joe and the Gang" a children' comic from characters Johnson created 10 years prior. In 2011 he co-founded Arts Talk with the Johnson Brothers, a 30 minute live weekly internet talk radio program hosted by Blogtalkradio

Blogtalkradio

BlogTalkRadio is a web-based platform that allows callers to host a live call-in Internet broadcast using a computer and a phone.BlogTalkRadio is entirely web-based and requires no client download.-Service:...

 again with his brother Dennis as they interview various artists, actors, writers and other creative individuals about their work and process. They have taken this another step with Arts Vu which will be video documentary podcasts of various artists or arts events.

Acting

Johnson started acting while in undergraduate school at the request of his brother Dennis who was studying drama and appeared in a couple college plays such as The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The play opened 25 October 1939 at the Booth Theatre in New York City...

and The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart is a 1949 British-American co-production film based on the play of the same name by John Patrick. It tells the story of a group of wounded Allied soldiers in a mobile surgery unit at the end of World War II who, after initial resentment and ostracism, rally around a loner, a...

and is a member of Delta Psi Omega, a national honorary dramatic fraternity in which membership is earned through production requirements as well as academic achievement. Johnson has recently been working in the Austin film industry as an extra as well as directing and producing short films.

• The Encounter (short film)" (2007) Actor/Producer
• Laura is Cool(short film)" (2007) Actor/Director/Producer
• Left Lane Closed(short film) (2008) Director/Producer
• Friday Night Lights
  Friday Night Lights (TV series)
  Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. The series details events surrounding a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team...
  
  (2008) Extra
• Strike Team Archangel (unreleased) Extra
• Ninja James and the Beast Boy (2008) Extra
• Serial Rabbit III: Splitting Hares (2009) Extra/Boom
• Goin' Guerrilla (scheduled) Himself