Johnny Romeo

Johnny Romeo is an Australian born painter. His work is critically acclaimed in its attempt to represent a visual poetic and rhythmic blending of word, symbol and image. Johnny Romeo is considered one of Australia’s most popular and exciting young artists. He is considered by many to be one of the ones to watch.

Johnny has had two sell-out exhibitions in Sydney (March 2010) and Perth (June 2010), selling well over 80 works in 2010 alone, with the price of his work nearly doubling under the national demand.

In Australia, he is represented by many of the country’s top galleries. He is also represented by galleries in New Zealand and the United States of America.

His latest exhibition on the Gold Coast (March 2011) was another sell-out, with the sale of his works reaching record selling prices.

There is currently a waiting list for potential clients for his July 2011 show in Perth.

Johnny Romeo’s work has appeared in countless magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Australian Art Review, Australian Art Collector, Art Monthly Australia, Time Out, Artist Profile, NZ Life & Leisure Magazine, GQ Style Australia, Australian Insite and the Sydney Morning Herald, the Melbourne Age and Perth Sunday Times.

Recently he was featured in SBS and Foxtel’s new Australian Arts channel STVDIO.

His work has also appeared on billboards and he currently working in Los Angeles where he hopes to become the first Non-US based artist commissioned to incorporate his work into transportation projects throughout Los Angeles County.

Referred to as a bombastic neo-expressionist pure pop painter with a lot to say about modern life, his work deals with the way we construct our identities from the vast array of images that pop culture immerses us in. His work is highly recognizable and featured in numerous national and international public and private collections.

Johnny Romeo's pop culture philosophy targets modern chaotic consumerism, a tour de force of 'can't cope culture'; it offers conceptual innovations that envelope society, from the confrontation of audacious pop icon images to juxtaposing a veritable slice of the reality we inhabit, asphyxiated by materialism, advertising, brand names and excess.

Romeo perpetuates the perception of society's "lingua franca" - the widespread cultural elements of vernacular language, exciting the audience of modern, pop iconic culture; rediscovering, identifying and provoking the colourful pulsating energy of commercialism.