With undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard in the US and Oxford in the UK, and regarded as one of the most interesting, entertaining, exciting, and engaging new voices in contemporary art, American Neo-Pop artist Jan Larsen’s multi-media work reflects on the mores of our pasts and points to the promise of our future, commenting precisely on the tenors of our time, and presciently on our unique place in human history.

Says Jan: “each moment of human history is indeed the most interesting and exciting time to be alive.  Witnessing the leading lights of the Renaissance in Italy, the ensuing Enlightenment flashing its brilliance across Europe, the prescience of such poets as Wordsworth, Whitman, and countless artists of talent since, noting the observations of historian Alexis de Tocqueville and chroniclers of all persuasions throughout our histories, applying the valid post-modern reasoning and prescience in fine art of the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, we can indeed reasonably conclude that it just gets better and better, and ever-more-intricate, interesting, and challenging at that, as we go.”

Born in the American Midwest in the ‘Summer of Love’ of 1967, Jan began his schooling as part of a cultural-integration program at a predominantly African-American school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He then proceeded through the American public school system to earn his undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Master’s degree from Oxford University in England.

In 1997, Jan moved to New York City to complete what he calls “an inquiry into the character, history, and living, breathing, Beuys-style experiential-sculpture of the professional practice of fine art.”

Starting-up and building four galleries under his name in New York from 2000 to 2015, representing scores of artists, producing hundreds of exhibitions, and loaning works in partnership with the US State Department as part of its Art In Embassies programme, Larsen built Jan Larsen Art into a global fine art practice.  He educated himself in art history and learned the tools-of-the-trade of fine art, while refining his own approach.

Launching his solo career in 2015, Jan’s work speaks to his American experience, responds to world events, and reflects on the quality of our contemporary moments, world-wide.

In 2019, he began setting up his new home-base and production studios for-Asia-and-beyond in Singapore, and he is delighted to present and be joined in this work by collectors, artists, and for-profit, charitable, and governmental institutional partners in the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia.