Johan Wahlström

Based in New Jersey, US.

Johan Wahlström born in Stockholm, Sweden is a 5th generation artist who is making a conscious effort to describe the social political landscape of our contemporary world. Wahlström moved to a small village in France where he did nothing but paint for seven years, part of that time under the tutelage of Swedish artist, Lennart Nystrom. Wahlström’s dark narrative paintings of heads and torsos are inspired by cryptic, often ironic social critiques that he collects on scraps of paper in his studio. His works have been exhibited since 1998 across Europe and the USA in solo shows and group shows with artists like Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Erwin Olaf, Picasso, Salvador Dali, and many more.