Marcus Jansen

Marcus Antonius Jansen, (b. 1968, New York City), is a painter best known for his defaced “Faceless” portraits and gestural-provoking landscapes with studios based in Bronx, New York, and Fort Myers, Florida.​

Jansen participated in his first international Biennale in 2007, at the 12th International Print and Drawing Biennale, at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art in Taiwan. His first solo museum exhibition premiered at the La Triennale di Milano Museum, in Milan, Italy, as part of a European solo exhibition tour, organized by German Art Historian and curator, Prof Dr. Elmar Zorn.

Jansen's first U.S. solo museum followed, highlighting his work at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in 2018 and 2019, titled "Deconstructing Marcus Jansen," followed by his first U.S. solo Museum exhibitions, at the Rollins Museum of Art, in Winter Park, Florida, titled, "Marcus Jansen, E Pluribus Unum.," and The Baker Museum Artis-Naples, in Naples, Florida, titled "Marcus Jansen, Two Decades of Relevance."
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Public collections include The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Baker Museum, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, (MMOMA), The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rollins Museum of Art, The Universit...

1986
Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsfachschule, Gestal- tung,
Germany
1989
Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsschule fuer Maler u. Lackierer,
Germany
Mentor: Jerome A. Donson, Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions, 1961, MOMA, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2022
'Marcus Jansen, Two Decades of Relevance', The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida
2020
‘Marcus Jansen, E Pluribus Unum’, Rollins Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2018
‘Marcus Jansen/New Horizons’, Museum Zitadelle, Spandau Berlin, Germany
2017
‘Ecce Creatura’ (four solo artists), Kallmann Museum, Ismaning (Munich), Germany
2016
‘Marcus Jansen Decade’, Museum La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy