CHRIS JOHANSON - Represented by: Kavi Gupta

 

Born 1968, lives and works in Porland, Oregon

 

SOLO Exhibitions Selected:

 

2004: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego

2004: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2004: Solo Show/Solo Soul, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago

2004: The Modern Institute, Glasgow

 

 

GROUP Exhibitions Selected:

 

2005: Beautiful Losers, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA

2004: Between Art and Life, SFMOMA, SanFrancisco

2003: Site Sante Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY



Chris Johanson: Untitled Heads, 2004. Acrylic on paper. 27” x 38”

Chris Johanson is well known for his often political, always social paintings and installations where he comments on the state of the world from where he is standing. Johanson's honest depictions of business men, bums, hippies, drunkards and the general urban public coupled with his own colorful recurring abstract imagery are permeated with a poignant mix of internal turmoil, societal struggles and the happiness and good times that put everything into perspective.