Despite growing up near a major hub of the skateboard industry in Southern California, Mark Johnsen found and fell in love with skateboarding in a typically familiar way. His interests expanded through the pages of skate mags and catalogues, eventually landing him in at the California College of the Arts for a BFA and subsequently north of the border at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. There, Mark received his MFA and now works as an instructor in printmaking, in addition to pursuing his own work and a variety of other practices.