A fifth-generation artist on his mother’s side, Johan nonetheless began his first creative direction into rock and roll music from a young age.

What followed was a long and successful career as a keyboardist and singer, touring with Ian Hunter, Graham Parker, Mick Ronson and many Scandinavian artists. However, after 18 years, the rock and roll life began to wear on him and Johan decided to let go and move to a small village in France and dedicated himself to painting for the following seven years.

A portion of that time under the tutelage of Swedish artist, Lennart Nystrom, Johan began to find his voice. The dark narrative paintings of heads and torsos were inspired by cryptic, often ironic social critiques that he collected on scraps of paper in his studio.

Johan now lives and works in Jersey City, NJ, USA. Beginning in 1998, Johan’s works have been exhibited across Europe and the USA in solo and group shows with artists the likes of Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Santiago Sierra, Erwin Olaf, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Jake & Dinos Chapman, and David Salle.

Johan’s paintings are radical constructs that captivate our senses using nature’s tools, offering a liberating experience through their enchanting perceptual play of now light, now brilliant wavelengths measured before us in 2D.