BIOGRAPHY

Born in Melbourne, Australia | Lives and works globally

“I use the past not as a reference, but as a material. History isn’t behind us—it’s within us.”

Mr. Anjo is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the convergence of ancient symbology, personal mythology, and emotional cartography. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and conceptual design, his practice examines how cultural memory is not only preserved but reimagined—embodied through line, colour, and symbolic gesture.

His Style is Neo-Cubist Symbolic Expressionism, Mr. Anjo’s artistic practice stands at a unique intersection of Neo-Cubist architecture, symbolic expressionism, and sacred iconographic revival. His work is defined by fractured geometries, emotionally charged color fields, and recurring metaphysical symbols—most notably the Ankh, a powerful cipher for legacy, transcendence, and inner continuity.

Rooted in his Australian upbringing and shaped by a transnational journey through the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Mr. Anjo’s visual language is at once deeply autobiographical and globally resonant. His canvases are constructed through a deliberate tension between historical permanence and emotional immediacy—drawing from ancient Egyptian iconography, the ornamental tradition of Art Nouveau, and the expressive urgency of neo-expressionism and street art.

At the centre of his practice lies the Ankh, the Egyptian hieroglyph for life and spiritual continuity. For Mr. Anjo, the symbol functions less as an icon and more as a visual architecture of the soul. His palette—composed of 24 recurrent oil pastel colours—eschews academic colour theory in favour of emotive signification. These chromatic fields are traversed by thick, black linear ruptures, which operate as metaphysical fractures—marking psychic thresholds between light and shadow, clarity and chaos, survival and renewal.

In his own words:

“Art is a language older than words. I paint to remember. I paint to survive. I paint to make time visible.”

Mr. Anjo’s insatiable curiosity led him to the United States, where he immersed himself in the intellectual and material economies of contemporary art. His time in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and the American Midwest exposed him to a wide spectrum of movements and methodologies, from blue-chip galleries to underground studios. By the age of 25, he had transitioned into art dealing, engaging with seminal works by Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Roy Lichtenstein. These figures—while never directly imitated—profoundly shaped Mr. Anjo’s evolving aesthetic, reinforcing his commitment to both symbolic depth and radical visual experimentation.

His work has been situated within an expanded field of postmodernism, spiritual abstraction, and symbolic minimalism. While comparisons to Klimt, Warhol, and Basquiat persist, Mr. Anjo’s approach is uniquely his own—rooted in lived experience and guided by a desire to create “emotive archives” and “monuments of survival.”

Multidisciplinary Practice

Painting & Drawing — Oil pastel, acrylic, metallic pigment
Calligraphy & Sculpture — Infused with sacred geometry and historical symbolism
Conceptual Design — Including architectural elements and supercar art (Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren)
Fashion Design Legacy — Founder of Melbourne-based fashion label at 18, blending visual narrative and wearable art

Positioning

Mr. Anjo’s work operates at the intersection of memory and materiality. His practice reflects a rare ability to mine historical consciousness while maintaining a radical commitment to the present moment. In an era marked by aesthetic disposability and cultural amnesia, his visual propositions are acts of resistance—gestures of permanence, care, and emotional complexity.

His art is not decorative—it is declarative.
Not technical—but timeless.

Selected Institutional and Private Collections

Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum, Doha, Qatar
Permanent Collection | 6 Works Acquired, 2024
One of the world’s largest and most influential private museums
Private Collections
Held in prominent private and royal collections across:
Qatar · UAE · Saudi Arabia · Kuwait · Germany · Sweden
London · Paris · Monaco · Zurich · Berlin · New York · St. Moritz · Dubai · Seoul · Beverly Hills · Palm Beach · Mallorca · Montreal
Notable Patrons
Cultural figures including Salt Bae (Nusret), international fashion designers, art investors, and global philanthropists