Photograph by Wilhelm Scholz

Stephen Pusey

Biography

Stephen Pusey was born in London in 1952 and graduated from St. Martins School of Art in 1975. While his formative work had affinities to Abstraction and Surrealism he later created monumental public murals in a Photo-Realist style between 1977 and 1981. In 1982 he returned to studio work and was invited by PS1 to exhibit in New York in 1986. New York City then became his domicile and in the following years, Pusey experimented with various forms, including digital and networked media. In 1994 he founded the online art and discussion hub, Plexus (plexus.org), with curator Yu Yeon Kim and was a founding member of the Foundation for Digital Culture (1996). He was a contributing artist to Arsdoom (with Peter Weibel, et al) for Ars Electronica, 1995. In 1997 he co-curated OMNIZONE, Perspectives in Mapping Digital Culture, which is featured on the Guggenheim Museum's Cyberatlas website. Concurrent with these various experimentations the artist continued to paint. Between 2003 - 2004 he installed a 20 x 9 foot graphite mural at the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. In 2005 his paintings and graphite installations were shown at Hermes, New York. Michael Steinberg Fine Art presented a solo exhibition of the artist's work in 2007. His work has also featured in various exhibitions and art fairs and will be on view at the Dallas Art Fair in February, 2009.