| Chris Johanson | |
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Chris Johanson playing in Tina Age 13 at the Clarion Alley Block Party, San Francisco, 2007 |
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| Born | 1968 San Jose, California |
| Nationality | 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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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]
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.