Mark Dean Johnson

California Indian Artists’ Archives Project Advisor

Mark Dean Johnson is professor of art at California State University, San Francisco. He was educated at Yale University, where he was a personal assistant to Josef Albers, and received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. He served previously as a professor at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California and associate dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute. His publications include: Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (2008: Stanford University Press), and At Work: The Art of California Labor (2003: California Historical Society Press).