Benjamin Johnsen was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. In 2009, he graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Master of Fine Arts. Ben explores place as a material, particularly through place making. He is interested in how experience and place combine, via an internal/external interface, to inform identity. Gleaning from personal narrative, his own experiential vantage point is offered in simulation to create tangible emotive connection through physical objects and interactive sculpture.