Photographer: Paul Alvarez Jr.
Johnny Romeo is an internationally acclaimed Australian painter. Considered Australia’s leading Pop artist, he is spearheading the global Neo-Expressionist Pop art movement with his exhilarating collision of rock’n’roll swagger, comic book aesthetics, Technicolour imagery and street art.
Over the last decade, Romeo has enjoyed successive critically acclaimed and sell-out exhibitions across Australia and New Zealand, and is represented by many top galleries both in Australia and overseas. Generating massive buzz internationally, Romeo has had celebrated knockout shows in New York, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania and Florida.
He has been featured in notable publications and programs, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, Australian Art Review, Artist Profile, No Cure Magazine and the ABC documentary ‘Conquest of Space: Science Fiction & Contemporary Art’, written and hosted by Dr Andrew Frost. A well-respected figure in the Pop art world, Romeo has participated in several high-profile group shows, alongside powerhouses such as Banksy, Blek le Rat and Robert Indiana.
Romeo has many made well-publicised appearances on US national television and Pennsylvanian universities as part of his acclaimed exhibition and book launch, TV Land, and in support of his Freedom snowboard series. Highly sought-after, Johnny Romeo has collaborated with the likes of Gilson Boards, Blink 182, and Lexus Australia, and has works held in prominent public and private collections in Australia and overseas.