(she/hers)
email: info@beth-johnston.com
instagram: @beth_johnston_
Beth Johnston (she/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator making work around|about|amidst|from within the climate crisis. Beth’s work investigates and challenges inherited ways of knowing and is indebted to Latinx, Black, Indigenous, Queer and other voices aligned in acknowledging that the climate crisis is rooted in settler-colonial legacies.
Grounded in research on environmental justice, Beth’s work explores temporal chasms, climate data encounters, the decolonization of nature (and matter), entanglement, more-than-human worlds, and how to visualize the imperceptible. Her work blurs traditional boundaries between photography, sculpture, performance, video, and activism, often building conversations across mediums.
Beth has exhibited in Colorado, Rhode Island, New Mexico, and New York. She has been awarded several grants for her community-based work in Colorado including the Creative Industries Artist Grant (2020). Additionally, she has been the recipient of the Curator’s Choice at the Center for Fine Art Photography (2021) and was the finalist for RISD Museum’s Donor Prize for a public artwork installation (2022). She is currently a Colorado Art Science Environment (CASE) Fellow through the University of Colorado-Boulder and recipient of The Center for Fine Art Photography’s 2023 Denis Roussel Fellowship.
Beth received an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 2022 with a self-designed concentration in NatureCulture studies. She currently works between the high mountain desert of the Southwest and coastlands of New England.

-Current + Upcoming-
January 3rd-21st, 2023
January 19th, 2023
May-September, 2023
2023 Fellow
January 19th, 2023
May-September, 2023
2023 Fellow
2023 Fellow
“Fragments” Group Show at Strata Gallery
“Lost and Found, Red Dots” Performance at Site Sante Fe with support from Creative Sante Fe
“Coloradans and Our Shared Environment in Times of Challenge and Change“ at The Colorarado State Capital
Colorado Art Science Environtment (CASE) with CU Boulder + Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research + Boulder Art + Boulder County Arts Alliance
Denis Roussel Fellowship with The Center for Fine Art Photography
“Lost and Found, Red Dots” Performance at Site Sante Fe with support from Creative Sante Fe
“Coloradans and Our Shared Environment in Times of Challenge and Change“ at The Colorarado State Capital
Colorado Art Science Environtment (CASE) with CU Boulder + Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research + Boulder Art + Boulder County Arts Alliance
Denis Roussel Fellowship with The Center for Fine Art Photography
Sante Fe, New Mexico
Sante Fe, New Mexico
Denver, Colorado
Sante Fe, New Mexico
Denver, Colorado