Marcus Jansen

Marcus Jansen, is an international acclaimed painter, a New York native and former U.S. soldier, with studios based in Bronx, New York and Fort Myers Florida. Over the last twenty years, Jansen has pioneered a raw concentrated reality in his often socially and politically charged landscape works.

As a veteran of the first Gulf War influenced by the things he experienced first hand, it’s no surprise that Jansen’s work depicts these apocalyptic like scenes, oftentimes being the main subject critiquing societal issues and anti- politics. Born, 1968, Jansen is a South Bronx native, who's family later moved to Laurelton, Queens and then Germany where he was educated and spent his teen years, before returning to New York, citing the cultural art movements seen in the city in the early 1980’s as being very influential on his style and work.

In 1989, Jansen enlisted in the United States Armed Forces where he was immediately deployed to Desert Storm in August 1990 and honorably discharged in 1997. He struggled to find work and acclimate to society and in 1999, he started selling his paintings on Prince Street and Broadway in lower Manhattan, as part of the “Prince Street Kings,’ to make a living. He later left New York for Florida and began painting large scale works in a post 9/11 era.