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Chris Johanson 
Chris Johanson playing in Tina Age 13 at the Clarion Alley Block Party, San Francisco, 2007Born 1968
San Jose, CaliforniaNationality American Field Graffiti, murals, sculpture, installation art, anda painting Movement Mission School Awards Whitney Biennial exhibition, SFMOMA SECA Art Award Chris Johanson is an American painter and street artist. He is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement.
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Biography
Johanson was born in suburban San Jose, California in 1968. He has no formal training in art, learning some technique by painting skateboards and houses.[1] He moved to San Francisco, California's Mission District in 1989, where he became a member of the local art community, initially drawing cartoons on lampposts and bathroom walls using black Sharpies.[1] In 2004 he bought a home and moved to Portland, Oregon.."[2] with his wife, artist Jo Jackson.
Johanson achieved international fame after participating in 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibition. The next year he was one of winners of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's SECA Art Award."[3]
Works
Johanson's works, involving expressing urban themes through found and recycled materials and graffiti, are a response to his suburban childhood.[1] Johanson has made a number of site installations, and prefers to work in that medium.
References
- ^ a b c "Chris Johanson". KQED's Spark. April, 2003. http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=4297. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
- ^ Jamie Berger (Spring, 2004). Planet Magazine. http://www.jamiebergerwords.com/html/articles/articles/johansonplanet.htm.
- ^ Jamie Berger (2003-04-10). "Adobe proved fertile ground for 'Mission School' artist". San Francisco Chronicle. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/10/DD288840.DTL. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
External links
- "Official Website". http://www.chrisjohanson.com.
- "Making Sense of Modern Art:Chris Johansen". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. http://www.sfmoma.org/MSoMA/artists/johanson.html.
- Glen Helfand (2002-09-12). "The Mission school:San Francisco's street artists deliver their neighborhood to the art world.". San Francisco Bay Guardian. http://www.sfbg.com/36/28/art_mission_school.html.
- Jack Hanley Gallery - exhibit information and gallery for Chris Johanson
- Chris Johanson's Works in the Dikeou Collection
Categories:- 1968 births
- Living people
- American graffiti artists
- American sculptors
- Modern sculptors
- American painters
- Artists from California
- Artists from Oregon
- People from San Francisco, California
- Mission District, San Francisco, California
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