Johan Kleinjan
Born in 1974 in Zuid-Beijerland, NL. Educated at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, NL. In 1999 he started drawing people and his surroundings while attending the Tokyo Zokei University as an exchange student, and joined the Tokyo based collective Obscure. Back in Rotterdam he founded the art collective Antistrot. After working with the collective for ten years he worked in art residencies in Kronstadt, Russia, Taipei, Beijing and Chongqing, China. This last couple of Covid years he works on drawings of memorized Asian buildings, mud trucks, animals, and criminals & reality stars he sees on tv.
