Soldier of the Avant Garde Painting

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." ​ 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 University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Foundation Calosa, The PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art and The Housatonic Museum of Art.​