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Chris Johanson

Chris Johanson (Born 1968) is active/lives in California, Oregon.  Chris Johanson is known for Cartoon style drawing, caricature, figures, painting, vehicles-sculpture, street art.

Chris Johanson is an American painter and street artist. He is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement.

Johanson was born in suburban San Jose, California in 1968. He grew up skateboarding, attending punk rock shows, drawing, and with a dry yet sharp sense of humor. He has no formal training in art, learning some technique by painting skateboards and houses.

He was a prominent 'zine' artist, and his publication Karmaboarder, a skateboarding and art zine he published in the early to late 1980's, helped shape what later became initial well-known works. ?

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. In 1994, Johanson did one of the initial board graphic runs for a new San Francisco-based skateboard brand, Anti-Hero, which brought his art to a wider audience.

Also, during this time, he played   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2488 characters.]  Artist bio

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