Johan Wahlstrom,
born in Stockholm, Sweden in
1959,
is,
in his own words,
a "Visual Artist, Musician, Composer,
Traveler, Story Teller, Seeker, Believer and Dreamer with a Lust For
Life and Women."
His has not been an easy
life. Punctuated as it was during the
1973-1977
period by drug addiction, the battle was long and hard to bring to a
close, but Johan "fought the good fight" until, he thought he was
winning.
From
1978-1980 Johan completed Theology Studies, but the call of music
was strong and he obtained his first Record Deal in 1981. He
proceeded to tour and record from 1981-1996.
From
1983-1998 the monkey on his back nearly broke him once again with
Drug and Alcohol Addiction.
In 1997 he started exploring colors, papers and canvases,
which brought him to a choice and in 1998 he spent 6 months in Hell
to lose the drug and alcolol habit.
Finally free from drugs and alcohol in 1998, he presented his
first exhibition as a visual artist in France in 1999.
In 2002 he
falls in love with Maria, the dancer, the lyricist, and thanks
to her starts composing music once again in 2003.
In 2004 they
moved to Miami and married. In 2005, they moved to Spain where they
still reside.
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In 2006, he
started recordings with the new band, Stockholm Stoner and in 2007
Stockholm Stoner cuts their first record deal . Their first CD
is finished in 2008.
The year 2010 is memorable : it consists of one celebration after
another.
◊
11 years as a visual artist.
◊12 years without drugs and alcohol
◊ and the Release of the Stockholm
Stoner CD world wide.
Exhibitions in 2010:
Los Angeles, San Fransisco, New York, Bilbao/Spain, Malaga/ Spain,
Majorca/Spain, Marbella/ Spain, Stockholm/Sweden, Lyon/France,
Chianciano/Italy
and in 2011,
Johan exhibited in Neuchâtel/Switzerland a the Galerie
Quint-Essences among others.
Johan is a
Swede who is
also
highly involved in the use of art as a tool for social justice. He
is a member of the Whole 9, a group that has been fighting for world
peace for the past few years. A portion of each sale of one of their
members goes to the purchase of crutches or other prosthesis to help
the victims of war in Africa.
Œuvre
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