Johan Falkman was born in Trelleborg/ Sweden October 22, 1967. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Highest Honors from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1994. Falkman is a sought after portrait-painter and is represented in many private and public collections. He is a figurative expressionist.
He lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, South Africa and in Mexico City where he has an atelier in Roma Norte.