Marcus Jansen was born 1968 in Manhattan New York City. He later moved to Moenchengladbach Germany where he spent part of his teenage years traveling throughout Europe and attending the Berufsfachschule fuer Gestaltung/Design in 1985.

Jansen’s work has been published in media publications such as Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, The Kuwait Times, Art News and Art in America Magazine. Work has been included in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in International Art. Collections include, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, (MMOMA),The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art as well as The New Britain Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution.

Jansen is noted as a pioneer of urban landscape paintings, he started painting in the early 1980′s during the emerging graffiti art movement from New York. He didn’t become known until later for his “urban-socio political” landscape paintings around the late 1990′s shortly after his assignment to the first Gulf War during his Military service. Jansen discharged and returned back to art while experimenting by crossing street elements with abstract art techniques while showing largely in Europe. His works have since evolved into a unique language of important political and socially charged provoking and often critical imagery commenting on a transforming society and word events.

Jansen’s first book was published in Paris in 2006. The publication was introduced by noted Museum Director Jerome A. Donson. Donson was the Author of the American Vanguard Exhibitions in Europe 1961, while collaborating with many action painters like Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Oskar Kokoshka, Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning.