10 Facts About Chris Johanson

Chris Johanson is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement.

Chris Johanson grew up skateboarding, attending punk rock shows, drawing, and with a dry yet sharp sense of humor.

Chris Johanson has no formal training in art, learning some technique by painting skateboards and houses.

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

Chris Johanson 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.

From 1989 until 1992, Chris Johanson attended City College of San Francisco.

In 1994, Chris 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.

Chris Johanson achieved international fame after participating in 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibition.

Chris Johanson's works, involving expressing urban themes through found and recycled materials and graffiti, are a response to his suburban childhood.

Chris Johanson has made a number of site installations, and prefers to work in that medium.