New York based Neo-Pop artist Jan Larsen creates works in multiple media that reflect on the tenor of our contemporary moment. From his marketing-media reflections and abstract expressions to his Dada-esque conceptual sculptures, Jan’s work comments precisely, presciently, and powerfully on the times we live in.
Born in the ‘Summer of Love’ in the American Midwest and raised on the East Coast, Jan was educated in the US public school system and New York’s Columbia University prior to earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard and Oxford universities,respectively; he studied studio arts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Returning to New York in 1997 to complete what he calls “a 15-year inquiry into the character, history, and living, breathing, Beuys-style experiential-performance-sculpture professional practice of fine art,” Jan built a global fine art practice called Jan Larsen Art from 2000 to 2015, and brought it to trade globally.
During that period, Jan represented scores of artists, produced hundreds of exhibitions, and built and operated 4 brick-and-mortar galleries, all while developing his own production practice and reflections on art.
In September of 2015, Jan debuted his solo career with a show called Market Makers with HG Contemporary in New York, and now shows world-wide, working out of production facilities, gallery settings, hospitality spaces, and private settings in New York, London, and Singapore.
During the 15 years of his representative practice, and the 3 of his solo career since, Jan has bought, sold, and produced millions of dollars’ worth of modern and contemporary work on primary and secondary markets, auctioned work for charity, and lent it internationally in partnership with the US State Department.
