Marcus Jansen, B. 1968, New York City, NY
Works from studios in Bronx, New York and Fort Myers, Florida.
Education
1985 – 1986 Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsfachschule, Gestaltung, Germany.
1986 - 1989 Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsschule fuer Maler u. Lackierer, Germany.
Upcoming
Art021 Shanghai
Art Basel Miami Beach
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Almine Rech, Marcus Jansen, Victims and Victors, London, UK
2021
The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Marcus Jansen. Two Decades of Relevance, Naples, Florida
Almine Rech, “Marcus Jansen / Power Structures,” Paris, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Almine Rech, Marcus Jansen, Paris, France
Future Fairs, Richard Beavers Gallery, The Aesthetics of Displacement, Brooklyn, New York
2020
Rollins Museum, Marcus Jansen, E Pluribus Unum, Winterpark
2019
Galerie DANYSZ, "Stop, Look and Listen," Paris, France
Galerie Amart, Marcus Jansen, Recon, Vienna, Austria
Burgess Modern & Contemporary, Merchants of Babylon, Fort Lauderdale, Fl
2018
Museum Zitadelle, Marcus Jansen/New Horizons, Spandau Berlin, Germany
Casterline Goodman Gallery, Aspen Art Museum, ArtCrush, Marcus Jansen, Now and then, Aspen, CO
Galerie Kellermann, Absolut Jansen, Dusseldorf, Germany
2017
Kallmann Museum, Ecce Creatura (four solo artists), Ismaning (Munich), Germany
Art Karlsruhe, Marcus Jansen, Karlsruhe, Germany
Weinstein Gallery, Marcus Jansen, Obscure Line Between Fact and Fiction, San Francisco
Galerie Kellermann, Post-True-Realities, Dusseldorf, Germany
Joerg Heitsch Galerie, Marcus Jansen, Aftermath, Munich, Germany
2016
Museum La Triennale di Milano, Marcus Jansen Decade, Milan, Italy
2014
Museum Pinacoteca Benedito Calixto, Marcus Jansen, São Paulo
Lazinc, Marcus Jansen - Whistleblower, London, UK
Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, Marcus Jansen - Future Ground, New York, NY
Roberta Britto Gallery, Marcus Jansen - Veni Vidi Succumbe, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012
Galleri Urbane, Marcus Jansen - Frontline Report, Dallas, TX
2011
Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center, A Painters Allegory, Fort Myers, FL
2010
101 Exhibit, Marcus Jansen Zeitgeist, Miami, FL
2009
Museum Works Galleries, Marcus Jansen, Aspen, CO
2008
Stolen Space Gallery, Marcus Jansen - Urban Expressionism, London, UK
Museum Works Galleries, Marcus Jansen, Aspen, CO
2007
Yeiser Art Center, Marcus Jansen, Paducah, Kentucky
Damien B. Contemporary Art Space, Urban Expressionism, Miami FL Lawrence Asher Gallery,Urban Expressionism, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Works Galleries, Marcus Antonius Jansen, Aspen, CO
2003
Charles H. Wright Museum, display of the Ford Motor Company Paintings, Dearborn, Michigan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Center of International Contemporary Art, Through our eyes – Resonance and Illusion in Contemporary Portraits, Vancouver, Canada
Christie's, Post War and Present Auction, New York
Frieze, LA, Almine Rech, Los Angeles
Art Basel Hong Kong, Almine Rech
Art Basel. Switzerland, Almine Rech
2021
Art 021,Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
Frieze, London, Almine Rech, UK
Almine Rech, Salon de Peinture, New York
Almine Rech, Un Hiver a Paris, Paris, France
Untitled Fair, Richard Beavers Gallery, Miami
Art Basel, Miami, Almine Rech, Miami
Richard Beavers Gallery, Wealth Surrounds Me: God, Gold, & Kinfolk
2020
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan
La Fiac, Almine Rech, Paris
Art Basel Miami Beach, Almine Rech, Miami
Richard Beavers Gallery, Wealth surrounds me, NY
Cobb Museum of Art, Metro Montage, Marietta, GA
Galerie Danysz, Venit Occursum, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Galerie Danysz, China
Galerie Kellermann, Deep Insights, Dusseldorf, Germany
Susan Eley Gallery, Americana II, New York, NT
2019
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, “Deconstructing Marcus Jansen,” MO
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan
Guild Hall, East Hampton TV Festival, East Hampton, NY
Art021, Galerie Danysz,, Shanghai, China
2018
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, “Deconstructing Marcus Jansen,” MO
Casterline Goodman Gallery, ArtCrush, Aspen, CO
2017
MOCADA Museum, “my collection”, Brooklyn, NY
Richard Beavers Gallery, Observation, Brooklyn, NY
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Kellermann, Germany
2016
Lazarides, Rathbone, Still Here - A Decade of Lazarides, London, UK
Berry Campbell Gallery, Something, New York, NY
2015
Cityleaks Urban Art Biennale, Cologne, Germany
2014
The Baker Museum, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL
U.S. Department of State, Art in Embassies, UNESCO, Paris France
West Harlem Art Fund, New York, NY
Lazinc., The Outsiders Newcastle, Recollection, London, UK
Art 14, London, Lazinc. Gallery, London, UK
2013
Boca Raton Museum of Art, All Florida, Boca Raton, FL
Housatonic Museum of Art, "Eye on the storm", Bridgeport, CT
Rush Arts Gallery, “Art with a purpose,” Chelsea, NY
Richard Beavers Gallery, Protest, Brookyn, NY
Romanian Institute for Arts and Culture and Research, Venice, Italy
Mirus Gallery, Dreamtime “New Surrealism,” San Francisco
2012
Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Anonymous, PERMM, Russia
The Baker Museum, Incognito, Naples, FL
NOVA Festival de Cultura Contemporanea, Absolut Blank Campaign, Brazil,
2011
The Baker Museum, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL
Absolut Vodka, New Generation of Artists, Sweden
NOVA Festival de Cultura Contemporanea, Absolut Blank, BrazilNaples Museum of Art, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL
Cinemateca Brasileira, Absolut Blank, São Paulo Brazil
2010
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, MO
2009
FIFA World Cup Fine Art Exhibition, International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
FDIM Museum, Warner Brothers, Los Angeles, California
2008
Warner Bros. Anniversary, FDIM Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), collection, Moscow, Russia
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 12th Intl Print & Drawing, Biennial, Taiwan
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, 12th Intl Print & Drawing, Biennial, Taiwan
Central Exhibition Hall Manege, 8th International Biennial, St. Petersburg, Russia
2006
Tampa Museum of Art, under/current/over/view 8 Biennial, Tampa, FL
49th Festival, Société des Beaux Arts de Garches, France
Angel Art Gallery, 12th International Print & Drawing Biennial,Taiwan
2005
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Arts for Act, Florida
2004
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Arts for Act, Fort Myers, FL
2002
Stricoff Fine Arts, Chelsea, NY
2000
Kunsthandlung Schonen, Subway u. Andere, Aachen, Germany
1999
Madison Square Garden, International Independent Film Festival, New York, NY
1974
The Lever House, PS: 156, Laurelton, Queens, NY, Art class selection, NY
Selected Museum and Institution Collections
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, (MMOMA)
New Britain Museum of American Art
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Rollins Museum of Art
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Foundation Calosa
Ulyanovsk Museum Fine Arts
PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
Housatonic Museum of Art
Smithsonian Institution
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Monographs / Books
2021
Almine Rech Editions, Newsletter #27 and #28, 2021
2017
Marcus Jansen AFTERMATH, published by Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany. Foreword by Art Historian, Prof Dr Dieter Ronte, Director Kunst Museum Bonn and Vienna
2016
Marcus Jansen DECADE, published by Skira Editore, Milan, Italy. Foreword by Steve Lazarides.
2011
New American Paintings No. 94
Cover artist selected by curator Dan Cameron.
2004
Modern Urban-Expressionism, the Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen, published by American Art Gallery, Paris, France. Foreword by Art Historian, Jerome A. Donson, Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions 1961, MOMA New York
Awards
2019
Art Olympia, Honorable Mention, (Curators include Hauser & Wirth, Yuko Hasehawa,
Curator for the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Vice President Of the Tokyo University Of the Arts,
Zheng Lin, Founder of Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing)
2013
Arte Laguna Art Prize, Venice,Italy, Juror Sabine Schaschl, (Director and Curator of Kunsthaus Basel, Switzerland)
2013
Fleuieu Art Prize
Australia, semifinalist, Juror UK Saatchi Gallery Director Nigel Hurst.
2012
Dave Bown Projects, 5th Semiannual Grand Prize Winner award, United States
Curated by Andrea Karnes (Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)
2008
8th. International Contemporary Art Biennale "Dialogues", St. Petersburg, Russia, (Honorable mention, Curator Larisa Golubeva.)
2007
12th International Print and Drawing Biennial, (Curators include: David Kiehl, Whitney Museum of Art, Honorable Mention), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
2006
Tampa Museum of Art, under/current/over/view 8 Biennial, winner, Juried by Dr. Jeffrey Grove, The Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary, Tampa, FL
Films/Documentary
2016
Marcus Jansen - Examine and Report
New York Premiere East Hampton TV Festival, (Awarded Best TV Art Documentary pilot)
World Premiere Fort Myers Film Festival, (Awarded Best local Film). A documentary film by Emmy Award winning filmmaker John Scoular featuring: Marcus Jansen, Steve Lazarides, Manfred Schneckenburger, WEST Rubinstein, Noah Becker, Brooke Lynn Mcgowan, Dieter Rampl, Hans Jansen, Richard Beavers, Liane Niedheidt and John Loscuito.
Selected Media
Architectural Digest, US
FAD Magazine, US
Transfuge, Magazine, France
Luxe, France
MutualArt, US
Art Review, UK
Project61, Video Interview, US
Juxtapoz, Magazine, US
New York Times, US
New York Times Style Magazine, US
The Epoch Times, US
Black Art in America, US
Versatille, Brazil
Boston Globe, US
The International Review of African American Art, US
The Independent, US
Artillery Magazine, US
Handelsblatt, Germany
Resident, Hampton, NY
Rheinische Post, Germany
Wall Street International
Suddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
Kunstzeitung, Lindinger + Schmid
Rolling Stone magazine, Italy
La Repubblica magazine, Italy
Arte, Italy
Skin Magazine, Dubai Media City
New American Paintings No. 94, US
Cambridge University Press, UK
Vanity Fair, Italy
Whitewall magazine, US
Widewalls magazine, CH
Works from studios in Bronx, New York and Fort Myers, Florida.
Education
1985 – 1986 Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsfachschule, Gestaltung, Germany.
1986 - 1989 Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsschule fuer Maler u. Lackierer, Germany.
Upcoming
Art021 Shanghai
Art Basel Miami Beach
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Almine Rech, Marcus Jansen, Victims and Victors, London, UK
2021
The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Marcus Jansen. Two Decades of Relevance, Naples, Florida
Almine Rech, “Marcus Jansen / Power Structures,” Paris, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Almine Rech, Marcus Jansen, Paris, France
Future Fairs, Richard Beavers Gallery, The Aesthetics of Displacement, Brooklyn, New York
2020
Rollins Museum, Marcus Jansen, E Pluribus Unum, Winterpark
2019
Galerie DANYSZ, "Stop, Look and Listen," Paris, France
Galerie Amart, Marcus Jansen, Recon, Vienna, Austria
Burgess Modern & Contemporary, Merchants of Babylon, Fort Lauderdale, Fl
2018
Museum Zitadelle, Marcus Jansen/New Horizons, Spandau Berlin, Germany
Casterline Goodman Gallery, Aspen Art Museum, ArtCrush, Marcus Jansen, Now and then, Aspen, CO
Galerie Kellermann, Absolut Jansen, Dusseldorf, Germany
2017
Kallmann Museum, Ecce Creatura (four solo artists), Ismaning (Munich), Germany
Art Karlsruhe, Marcus Jansen, Karlsruhe, Germany
Weinstein Gallery, Marcus Jansen, Obscure Line Between Fact and Fiction, San Francisco
Galerie Kellermann, Post-True-Realities, Dusseldorf, Germany
Joerg Heitsch Galerie, Marcus Jansen, Aftermath, Munich, Germany
2016
Museum La Triennale di Milano, Marcus Jansen Decade, Milan, Italy
2014
Museum Pinacoteca Benedito Calixto, Marcus Jansen, São Paulo
Lazinc, Marcus Jansen - Whistleblower, London, UK
Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, Marcus Jansen - Future Ground, New York, NY
Roberta Britto Gallery, Marcus Jansen - Veni Vidi Succumbe, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012
Galleri Urbane, Marcus Jansen - Frontline Report, Dallas, TX
2011
Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center, A Painters Allegory, Fort Myers, FL
2010
101 Exhibit, Marcus Jansen Zeitgeist, Miami, FL
2009
Museum Works Galleries, Marcus Jansen, Aspen, CO
2008
Stolen Space Gallery, Marcus Jansen - Urban Expressionism, London, UK
Museum Works Galleries, Marcus Jansen, Aspen, CO
2007
Yeiser Art Center, Marcus Jansen, Paducah, Kentucky
Damien B. Contemporary Art Space, Urban Expressionism, Miami FL Lawrence Asher Gallery,Urban Expressionism, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Works Galleries, Marcus Antonius Jansen, Aspen, CO
2003
Charles H. Wright Museum, display of the Ford Motor Company Paintings, Dearborn, Michigan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Center of International Contemporary Art, Through our eyes – Resonance and Illusion in Contemporary Portraits, Vancouver, Canada
Christie's, Post War and Present Auction, New York
Frieze, LA, Almine Rech, Los Angeles
Art Basel Hong Kong, Almine Rech
Art Basel. Switzerland, Almine Rech
2021
Art 021,Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
Frieze, London, Almine Rech, UK
Almine Rech, Salon de Peinture, New York
Almine Rech, Un Hiver a Paris, Paris, France
Untitled Fair, Richard Beavers Gallery, Miami
Art Basel, Miami, Almine Rech, Miami
Richard Beavers Gallery, Wealth Surrounds Me: God, Gold, & Kinfolk
2020
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan
La Fiac, Almine Rech, Paris
Art Basel Miami Beach, Almine Rech, Miami
Richard Beavers Gallery, Wealth surrounds me, NY
Cobb Museum of Art, Metro Montage, Marietta, GA
Galerie Danysz, Venit Occursum, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Galerie Danysz, China
Galerie Kellermann, Deep Insights, Dusseldorf, Germany
Susan Eley Gallery, Americana II, New York, NT
2019
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, “Deconstructing Marcus Jansen,” MO
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan
Guild Hall, East Hampton TV Festival, East Hampton, NY
Art021, Galerie Danysz,, Shanghai, China
2018
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, “Deconstructing Marcus Jansen,” MO
Casterline Goodman Gallery, ArtCrush, Aspen, CO
2017
MOCADA Museum, “my collection”, Brooklyn, NY
Richard Beavers Gallery, Observation, Brooklyn, NY
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Kellermann, Germany
2016
Lazarides, Rathbone, Still Here - A Decade of Lazarides, London, UK
Berry Campbell Gallery, Something, New York, NY
2015
Cityleaks Urban Art Biennale, Cologne, Germany
2014
The Baker Museum, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL
U.S. Department of State, Art in Embassies, UNESCO, Paris France
West Harlem Art Fund, New York, NY
Lazinc., The Outsiders Newcastle, Recollection, London, UK
Art 14, London, Lazinc. Gallery, London, UK
2013
Boca Raton Museum of Art, All Florida, Boca Raton, FL
Housatonic Museum of Art, "Eye on the storm", Bridgeport, CT
Rush Arts Gallery, “Art with a purpose,” Chelsea, NY
Richard Beavers Gallery, Protest, Brookyn, NY
Romanian Institute for Arts and Culture and Research, Venice, Italy
Mirus Gallery, Dreamtime “New Surrealism,” San Francisco
2012
Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Anonymous, PERMM, Russia
The Baker Museum, Incognito, Naples, FL
NOVA Festival de Cultura Contemporanea, Absolut Blank Campaign, Brazil,
2011
The Baker Museum, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL
Absolut Vodka, New Generation of Artists, Sweden
NOVA Festival de Cultura Contemporanea, Absolut Blank, BrazilNaples Museum of Art, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL
Cinemateca Brasileira, Absolut Blank, São Paulo Brazil
2010
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, MO
2009
FIFA World Cup Fine Art Exhibition, International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
FDIM Museum, Warner Brothers, Los Angeles, California
2008
Warner Bros. Anniversary, FDIM Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), collection, Moscow, Russia
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 12th Intl Print & Drawing, Biennial, Taiwan
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, 12th Intl Print & Drawing, Biennial, Taiwan
Central Exhibition Hall Manege, 8th International Biennial, St. Petersburg, Russia
2006
Tampa Museum of Art, under/current/over/view 8 Biennial, Tampa, FL
49th Festival, Société des Beaux Arts de Garches, France
Angel Art Gallery, 12th International Print & Drawing Biennial,Taiwan
2005
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Arts for Act, Florida
2004
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Arts for Act, Fort Myers, FL
2002
Stricoff Fine Arts, Chelsea, NY
2000
Kunsthandlung Schonen, Subway u. Andere, Aachen, Germany
1999
Madison Square Garden, International Independent Film Festival, New York, NY
1974
The Lever House, PS: 156, Laurelton, Queens, NY, Art class selection, NY
Selected Museum and Institution Collections
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, (MMOMA)
New Britain Museum of American Art
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Rollins Museum of Art
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Foundation Calosa
Ulyanovsk Museum Fine Arts
PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
Housatonic Museum of Art
Smithsonian Institution
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Monographs / Books
2021
Almine Rech Editions, Newsletter #27 and #28, 2021
2017
Marcus Jansen AFTERMATH, published by Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany. Foreword by Art Historian, Prof Dr Dieter Ronte, Director Kunst Museum Bonn and Vienna
2016
Marcus Jansen DECADE, published by Skira Editore, Milan, Italy. Foreword by Steve Lazarides.
2011
New American Paintings No. 94
Cover artist selected by curator Dan Cameron.
2004
Modern Urban-Expressionism, the Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen, published by American Art Gallery, Paris, France. Foreword by Art Historian, Jerome A. Donson, Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions 1961, MOMA New York
Awards
2019
Art Olympia, Honorable Mention, (Curators include Hauser & Wirth, Yuko Hasehawa,
Curator for the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Vice President Of the Tokyo University Of the Arts,
Zheng Lin, Founder of Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing)
2013
Arte Laguna Art Prize, Venice,Italy, Juror Sabine Schaschl, (Director and Curator of Kunsthaus Basel, Switzerland)
2013
Fleuieu Art Prize
Australia, semifinalist, Juror UK Saatchi Gallery Director Nigel Hurst.
2012
Dave Bown Projects, 5th Semiannual Grand Prize Winner award, United States
Curated by Andrea Karnes (Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)
2008
8th. International Contemporary Art Biennale "Dialogues", St. Petersburg, Russia, (Honorable mention, Curator Larisa Golubeva.)
2007
12th International Print and Drawing Biennial, (Curators include: David Kiehl, Whitney Museum of Art, Honorable Mention), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
2006
Tampa Museum of Art, under/current/over/view 8 Biennial, winner, Juried by Dr. Jeffrey Grove, The Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary, Tampa, FL
Films/Documentary
2016
Marcus Jansen - Examine and Report
New York Premiere East Hampton TV Festival, (Awarded Best TV Art Documentary pilot)
World Premiere Fort Myers Film Festival, (Awarded Best local Film). A documentary film by Emmy Award winning filmmaker John Scoular featuring: Marcus Jansen, Steve Lazarides, Manfred Schneckenburger, WEST Rubinstein, Noah Becker, Brooke Lynn Mcgowan, Dieter Rampl, Hans Jansen, Richard Beavers, Liane Niedheidt and John Loscuito.
Selected Media
Architectural Digest, US
FAD Magazine, US
Transfuge, Magazine, France
Luxe, France
MutualArt, US
Art Review, UK
Project61, Video Interview, US
Juxtapoz, Magazine, US
New York Times, US
New York Times Style Magazine, US
The Epoch Times, US
Black Art in America, US
Versatille, Brazil
Boston Globe, US
The International Review of African American Art, US
The Independent, US
Artillery Magazine, US
Handelsblatt, Germany
Resident, Hampton, NY
Rheinische Post, Germany
Wall Street International
Suddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
Kunstzeitung, Lindinger + Schmid
Rolling Stone magazine, Italy
La Repubblica magazine, Italy
Arte, Italy
Skin Magazine, Dubai Media City
New American Paintings No. 94, US
Cambridge University Press, UK
Vanity Fair, Italy
Whitewall magazine, US
Widewalls magazine, CH