BIO

Tonia Johnsen

Born in Irving, Texas

Lives and works in Lindale, Texas and Colorado

Tonia Johnsen is an American abstract expressionist painter whose work engages the spiritual and metaphysical dimensions of human experience. Working primarily in oil, she develops layered compositions in which gesture, color, and movement function as a visual language for exploring consciousness, connection, and the deeper essence of being.

Her paintings evolve through an intuitive and physical engagement with the surface, combining expressive mark-making with recurring symbolic forms and geometric elements. Through the accumulation of gestures and shifts in density and material presence, structured forms emerge and dissolve within dynamic fields of color. These tensions between structure and spontaneity suggest underlying patterns that connect individual perception to a broader universal order.

Influenced by the expansive landscapes and atmospheric light of Texas and Colorado, Johnsen’s work balances immediacy with contemplative space. Her paintings invite viewers into a reflective encounter where abstraction becomes a means of sensing the unseen forces that shape both inner life and the shared human experience.

Johnsen was born in Irving, Texas, and lives and works in Lindale, Texas and Colorado.

CV

Tonia Johnsen

Born in 1973 Irving, Texas. United States

Resides and works in Lindale, Texas. United States

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2026 — "The Shape Of Love," Kush Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas

• 2024— "Empire’s of enchantment,” Gallery Main Street, Tyler, Texas

Selected Collections

• Tonia Johnsen is collected by various collectors in the United States.