Chris Johanson: career timeline

American · b. 1968 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 30 of 32 lots (94% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Chris Johanson: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1990s	5	5	$3.1kSign up	Acrylic
2000s	22	21	$2.9kSign up	Acrylic
2010s	3	3	$508Sign up	Acrylic

Where does mine fit?

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1990s 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $3.1kSign up
Average: $2.8kSign up
Typical size: 15 × 20 in (38 × 51 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (3), Drawing (2)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

1996 Everything You See/All That Shit Fuels My Patterns$5kSign up
c. 1998 Floating Woman$3.1kSign up
c. 1998 Floating Homeless Man$3.1kSign up
1999 Untitled$1.2kSign up
1999 Untitled (Faces)$1.6kSign up

2000s 22 works

Sold: 21 of 22
Median: $2.9kSign up
Average: $4kSign up
Typical size: 18.5 × 25 in (47 × 64 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (16), Gouache (2), Watercolor (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

c. 2000 Untitled (This is a picture of anybodies energy...)$2.2kSign up
2000 Untitled (I don't know)$1.1kSign up
2000 Untitled (double-sided)$2.3kSign up
2000 Honey$2.8kSign up
2000 Lives Run on Self Hate$1.2kSign up
2001 Untitled (Please)$1.9kSign up
2001 Magic Right Now$9kSign up
c. 2001 Untitled (Car)$3.8kSign up
c. 2001 Untitled (Now is now)$2.8kSign up
2001 13 People$7kSign up
2001 Untitled (Perspective comes to us at different times)$1.9kSign up
2002 Energy Explosion$3.2kSign up

Show 10 more (2000s)

2002 Planets$7kSign up
2002 Untitled (This is a picture of the sunlight)$4.4kSign up
2002 This Isn't Fair$7.6kSign up
2002 Untitled (Row of People)$15.6kSign up
2004 Heads, Kill or be Killed$3.1kSign up
c. 2004 The Humans$2.9kSign up
2007 Perceptions (Perceptions #7)$344Sign up
c. 2007 UntitledUnsold
c. 2008 Contemporary$4.4kSign up
c. 2009 Artist's books, two and ephemera$126Sign up

2010s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $508Sign up
Average: $2.2kSign up
Typical size: 22 × 22 in (56 × 56 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (2), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: Birds (1)

2010 What made him strong what made him lazy what happened to him$6.1kSign up
2017 Chris and Michael$508Sign up
2018 Beautiful Bird in Flight$94Sign up

Creation date not recorded

2 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $3.9kSign up
Average: $3.9kSign up
Typical size: 26 × 24 in (66 × 61 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2013 Untitled$3.9kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 1 work

Sold: 0 of 1
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: 7 × 6 in (18 × 16 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2025 UntitledUnsold

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Chris Johanson auction results →