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"With my phone in one hand and brushes in the other I go “live” on Instagram and begin “tattooing” the live feed comments into an oil-wet flesh glaze as quickly as I can. I tattoo the comments as they come in, it’s indiscriminate and creates a very permanent registration of things that are most ephemeral, these comments that otherwise have no permanent archive."

"Welsh Rats", is a play on words for a German word ‘Weltschmerz’ coming from John Steinbeck in East of Eden. In German this means "world pain". Van Minnen is expressing that Americans contort the meanings of older heavy European expressions. Several dark still lives were first presented at this exhibit such as Bad Vibes.

In 2017, while wandering Madrid Van Minnen picked up a watercolor kit and has been making a number of pieces when traveling and outside of the studio.

In 2017 he started working on a series with real-world issues and social political images. He does not want to go back to previous styles and continues to innovate.

His first solo show in Europe was at the Gallery Paulson in Copenhagen in May 2014. In November 2018, Aaron Johnson and Van Minnen had their first exhibit together in Hong Kong. Johnson and van Minnen have been long time friends.

He has lived in Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Carbondale, Colorado from 2007 to 2014. In 2011, he did a residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado. He lived and worked in Coyoacan Mexico City for 3 months in 2011. While there, he worked with Mexican artist Rodrigo Cifuentes. From 2014 until 2017, he lived in Brooklyn. He now lives in Santa Clara.

In 2006 he was a landscaper and completed a Masters in non-profit management while also working at a gallery. It was at time that he became frustrated and worked to use the internet to get around the traditional art scene.

He chose painting as a prime profession in 2005–2006. Early in his career he worked on a smaller scale of 18x24 inches. These were more personal pieces.

He always doodled in high school and was introduced to painting before going to university. He is not formally trained in art but in 2002 he graduated with a BA from Regis University.

Film directors such as David Lynch (especially his 1990s series Twin Peaks). Werner Herzog and David Cronenberg have influenced van Minnen. But the greatest cinematic influence was the film series Alien especially Alien 2. Van Minnen saw this when he was young and the character Ellen Ripley to him represents his mother trying to save the kids from the parasites of anger, addiction and the environment. Van Minnen likes the early two movies more than the ones that came after it. One of the influences is a book he read when he was young was a nature field guide with drawings of parasites.

Christian Rex van Minnen is an American contemporary artist. He was born in Providence, RI, in 1980 and received his BA from Regis University, Denver, in 2002.

Christian Rex van Minnen was born in 1980 in Providence, Rhode Island and grew up in Colorado. His father is a psychotherapist in Basalt, Colorado and was born in South Africa but did not have much direct contact.