Travis Janssen

Travis Janssen is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Printmaking at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he has taught since 2008. Janssen’s creative practice spans printmaking, video, and installation, exploring perception, technology, and materiality, incorporating optical effects, repetition, layering, and blending traditional printmaking techniques with contemporary digital media. He has presented solo exhibitions at venues including MAP gallery3840 (St. Louis, MO), the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria (Peoria, IL), STNDRD at the Luminary (St. Louis, MO), DEMO Project (Springfield, IL), Seed Space (Nashville, TN), Arteles Creative Center (Finland), the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN), and Elsewhere Living Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), among others. Over the past twenty years, Janssen has participated in over 250 juried and invitational exhibitions across the United States and international locales including Australia, Belgium, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Kingdom, at venues such as the Print Center New York (NYC), the Janet Turner Print Museum (Chico, CA), the Bihar Museum (Patna, India), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Bradbury Art Museum (Jonesboro, AR), the Penang State Museum (Malaysia), Samek Art Museum (Lewisburg, PA), and the Kyoto Municipal Museum (Japan). His work has been discussed or reproduced in publications such as Art in Print, Nashville Scene, Mid America Print Journal, Phoenix New Times, and Graphic Impressions.