John C. Goss (born October 21, 1958, in Landstuhl, Germany) is an American artist and Author and has lived most of his life in the Asia/Pacific region (Hawaii, Los Angeles, Bangkok). He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1984 and his BFA summa cum laude from Northern Illinois University in 1981. He also studied at the University of California, San Diego from 1981-1982. In 1989 he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and was nominated for the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in 1998.