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After graduating from Central St.Martins in 2008 Johan Andersson became the youngest ever person to be shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and named as The Independent’s top 20 Artists 2008. His selected work was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery and in the same year he was also selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters prize. In 2010 Andersson was selected by Sky Arts as the ‘one to watch’ young British Contemporary Artist to feature on a 6 week Documentary called ‘Art of Survival’ broadcasting July 2011. Since then Andersson has gone onto exhibit work along side artists including Anish Kapoor, Tracy Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and Howard Hodgkin, and in 2010 was selected to exhibit work in support of BreakThrough Breast Cancer at The V&A Museum. He has exhibited and sold on the international art market including The Scope Art Fair in Basel, Cutlog in Paris, and most recently was invited to host a solo show at the Curio Gallery in Venice Los Angeles. His work has also been displayed in major London Underground stations including Bond Street, Baker street and South Kensington.
Amy Winehouse Unveiling • Gallery II8, 118 Westbourne Grove Notting Hill, London 25th Aug 2011
Stolen Faces • The Future Gallery, Leicester Square, London April 2011
Stolen Faces • Curio Studio & Collective, Venice, Los Angeles May 2011
Breakthrough Breast Cancer • Victoria & Albert Museum, London Dec 2010
Faces of Venice Beach • Venice, Los Angeles 2010
Small is Beautiful • Flowers East Gallery 2009
Follow Your Art show & auction • Royal Institution of Great Britain, London 2009
ArtBarter • The Rag Factory, London 2009
Fiac Paris, Cutlog • Bourse du Commerce de Paris, Paris 2009
London Art Fair • James Freeman Gallery, London 2009
Art Basel Scope • Opus Art, Basel 2009
Next Art Fair • TheBunkerGallery, Chicago 2009
Bridge Art Fair • Opus Art, New York 2009
Galeria Miquel Alzueta • Barcelona 2009
Return to Reason • The Gallery 77, Noting Hill, London 2009
Five Years • James Freeman Gallery, London 2009
The Seduction of Paint • Rollo Contemporary Art, London 2009
Small is Beautiful XXVI • Flowers East Gallery, London 2008
Room For My Art • Biscayne Boulevard, Miami 2008
Saints and Sinners • Art Republic, Leicester Square, London 2008
Kounter Kulture • Opus, Truman Brewery, London 2008
Central Saint Martins Degree Show • London 2008
Jerwood Contemporary Painters • London 2008
BP Portrait Award Tour • Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2007
BP Portrait Award Tour • Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle 2007
BP Portrait Award • National Portrait Gallery, London 2007
“I paint ordinary people and 'awaken' their faces through paint to create a dream-like quality using words on the face, to describe myths, dreams and visions that I have had based on experience and faith."
After graduating from Central St.Martins in 2008 Johan Andersson became the youngest ever person to be shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and named as The Independent's top 20 Artists 2008. His selected work was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery and in the same year he was also selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters prize. In 2010 Andersson was selected by Sky Arts as the 'one to watch' young British Contemporary Artist to feature on a 6 week Documentary called 'Art of Survival' broadcast in July 2011. Since then Andersson has gone onto exhibit work along side artists including Anish Kapoor, Tracy Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and Howard Hodgkin.
