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Stephen Powers (Stephen J. Powers) was born on 25 May, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an An american graffiti artist. Discover Stephen Powers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

Popular As Stephen J. Powers
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Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May 1968
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1949

Powers has exhibited internationally, including at Deitch Projects (New York, NY), the 49th Venice Biennale (with Barry McGee and Todd James) (Venice, Italy), Apex Art (New York), Brazilian Cultural Pavilion (São Paulo, Brazil), Art In The Streets curated by Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA (Los Angeles, CA), and as part of Beautiful Losers, (Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy; Le Tri Postal, Lille, France)

His work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum Of Art.

1968

Stephen J. Powers (born May 25, 1968) is an American contemporary artist and muralist.

He is also known by the name ESPO ("Exterior Surface Painting Outreach"), and Steve Powers.

He lives in New York City.

Powers is from Philadelphia and took classes at The Art Institute of Philadelphia, and the University of the Arts.

1990

Working under the name 'Espo', he painted throughout the city becoming known during the late 1990s for his thematic graffiti 'pieces', for On the Go magazine, and for his 1999 book The Art of Getting Over, which placed stories told by other graffiti writers alongside photos of their work.

His graffiti work often blurred the lines between illegal and legal, for example by creating pieces that appeared to be legitimate advertisements or by painting abandoned shop fronts in daylight.

1994

In 1994, Powers moved to New York City to expand On the Go magazine, a hip hop magazine founded by Powers.

1999

In December 1999 Powers was charged with six counts of criminal mischief.

Powers contends that the arrest was politically motivated.

The arrest in his home took place after he had participated in a protest, conceived by artist Joey Skaggs, against New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's attempt to shut down a controversial art show Sensation at the Brooklyn Museum.

During the protest, Powers and others threw fake elephant dung at a caricature of then Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Powers painted the caricature for the protest.

Powers pled guilty to one charge because he was "ready to grow on.”

A New York Times editorial criticized the Giuliani administration for its secrecy in the case, but also dismissed Powers as a self-promoter.

TheVillage Voice sympathized with Powers: "it's truly scary to think that if you invite people to throw artificial dung at a portrait of the mayor ... the police will raid your apartment."

The article was also critical of Power's graffiti status, describing him as an egotistical, careerist "celebrity offender".

Powers ultimately performed five days of community service.

2000

In 2000, Powers gave up graffiti to become a full-time studio artist.

He is now a mixed media artist, working in drawing, painting, printmaking, and installation art.

Power's work has been shown in the Venice and Liverpool biennials, as well as shows at New York City's Deitch Gallery.

2005

In 2005, he organised The Dreamland Artists Club, a project in which professional artists helped Coney Island merchants by repainting their signs.

2007

Powers first solo museum exhibition was in the fall of 2007, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts which showed the work from his Coney Island sign shop.

In 2007, Powers was awarded a Fulbright scholarship.

He used the grant to create murals in Dublin, Ireland and in Belfast's Shankhill area, with the assistance of local teenagers.

His work in Belfast was inspired by the area's political murals.

2009

In 2009, Powers produced a series of murals in Philadelphia about the complexities of personal relationships, titled A Love Letter for You.

He painted 50 murals along the elevated train in West Philadelphia.

The project was sponsored by a $260,000 grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and was produced by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

2010

The 'Love Letters' series continued in Syracuse on railroad overpasses (2010); A Love Letter to Brooklyn (2011), which consisted of painting an old Macy's building occupying an entire city block in Downtown Brooklyn; A Love Letter to Baltimore (2014);

2015

In November 2015 Powers exhibited "Stephen Powers: Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull)" at The Brooklyn Museum.

2019

In 2019, Powers created a site specific commission for SFMOMA's third-floor architecture and design gallery.