Gesine Janzen is Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, where she has lived since 2002. She studied art at Bethel College and at the University of Kansas. In 1998 she received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. She was a lecturer in printmaking at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as Assistant Printer at the Lawrence Lithography Workshop in Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri for three years.

Gesine Janzen’s artwork has been shown in numerous exhibitions across America, including solo shows at the Yellowstone Art Museum and the Missoula Art Museum in Montana, and the Oats Park Center in Fallon, Nevada. She has shown in group shows in New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles. Janzen’s artwork is included in multiple corporate and public collections, such as the Library of Congress, the Hallmark Collection in Kansas City, and the Artist/Printmaker Research Collection at the Museum of Texas Tech University.

Gesine Janzen’s gestural wood block prints and evocative collages, drawings and objects reference her attachment to landscape and memory. Influenced by her formative years in the open spaces of the Great Plains, her work evokes a quiet connection to the places and times that are important to her.