Blade

Blade

Blade

  • Biography

    Steven Ogburn, was born in New York in 1957, grew up in the Bronx, where the signature BLADE 70s began making graffiti, participating in the birth of a cultural movement, the Writing, which in time would become a fundamental piece of history contemporary art.

    BLADE between 1972 and 1984 he painted more than 5,000 trains, which cross with his name and his style throughout New York City, earning it the title of King of Graff among his friends and peers. Its crew of belonging is the TC5, stands for The Crazy 5, present mainly on lines 2 and 5 of the metro, which pass in neighborhoods like: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Central Park. In 1981 he took part in the show BLADE New York / New Wave to the PS1 Gallery in New York, which at the time was not the contemporary museum today, but a space occupied self-managed. The event went down in history for the participation of key artists of contemporary art, names like JM Basquiat, Keith Haring, Dondi, Seen, Lee Quinones and many others. Subsequently BLADE also exposes the Fun Gallery in Manhattan.
    In 1984, BLADE is among the protagonists of Subway Art, famous catalog that boasts as the two authors photojournalist Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, who undertook a genuine exploration, faithful and thorough about these new heroes of the road, precursors of a cultural movement completely revolutionary in its mode of expression, now world famous cult text about the origins of Writing.

    Since the late 90s, BLADE with his work crosses the threshold of the museum circuit from New York via Australia, California, France, Denmark, Holland. BLADE has exhibited in the exhibition Art In The Streets, held in the spaces of the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) in 2011.

    Source: Galleria Varsi

  • Exhibitions

    2015 Blade, Foggia & Manfredonia, Italy
    2015 Fuck the King, Long Live the Kings, Blade, Inkie and Shoe, Vroom & Varossieau, Amsterdam
    2015 Blade, Gothenburg, Sweden
    2014 Blade, Museum of the City of New York, New York
    2014 Group Show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York
    2014 Blade, Galleria Varsi, Rome, Italy
    2013 Viborg Billboard Festival N B Gallerie, Denmark
    2013 Blade, Articks Gallery, Amsterdam
    2012 Group Show, Gallery Speerstra, Switzerland
    2012 Blade, Helenbeck Gallery Nice, France
    2012 Blade, Art Basel via Adjust Gallery, Miami, Florida
    2011 Museum Show, MoCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    2011 Group Show, Articks gallery, Amsterdam
    2011 Group Show, Gallerie Helenbeck
    2011 Group Show, Gallery Vlasblom, Bergen, Amsterdam
    2011 Group Show, Gallery Speerstra, Switzerland
    2011 Martha Cooper & Blade, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles
    2010 Blade, Gismondi Galerie, Paris
    2009 Blade, Pinjenburg Gallery, Amsterdam
    2008 Blade, Galerie Gismondi and Helenbeck Galerie, Paris
    2008 Blade, Helenbeck Galerie, Nice
    2005 Group Show, Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, NY
    2005 Old School Legends,The Outside Institute, London
    2004 Down Under Tour, Auckland, New Zealand
    2004 Blade, Cope II, Pistol, Aurora Gallery, New York, NY
    2004 Group Show, Marco Art Galerie, New York, NY
    2004 Down Under Tour, Brisbane, Melbourne, Australia
    2004 Blade, Marco Art Galerie, New York, NY
    2003 Blade with Seen, Revolt, Chino and Pistol, Marco Art Galerie, New York, NY
    2002 Blade, Marco Art Galerie, New York, NY
    2000 Blade, Whitney Museum, New York
    2000 Blade, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
    1999 Group Show, Bronx Museum, New York
    1998 Stockholm Festival Stockholm, Sweden
    1998 Group Show, Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany
    1998 Blade – Case, Martinez Gallery, New York
    1997 Symposium, Museum of the City of New York, New York
    1997 Wiesbaden Festival Wiesbaden, Germany
    1996 Group Show, Gallerie City, Paris, France
    1996 Drawings Show, South of France
    1996 Group Show, The Stedelijk Museum Roemond, Roemond, The Netherlands
    1995 Group Show, Museum Dortmund, Germany
    1995 Group Show, Gallerie Heidelberg, Germany
    1995 Group Show, Boyemans Museum, Germany
    1995 Dusseldorf Festival Dusseldorf, Germany
    1994 Group Show, Castle Helmond, The Nederlands
    1993 Museum Show, Rotterdam Museum, Rotterdam
    1993 Group Show, City Gallerie, Brussels, Belgium
    1993 Group Show, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam
    1992 Quik – Blade, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
    1992 Quik – Blade, The Stedelijk Museum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands
    1992 Group Show, City Gallery, Milan, Italy
    1992 Museum Show, Groninger Museum, Groningen
    1992 Group Show, The Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannhein, Germany
    1992 Coming from the Subway – New York graffiti Art Groninger Museum, Groningen
    1991 Graffiti Art, Musee National des Monuments Francois, Paris, France
    1989 The Art Foundation Academicals Hospital Leiden, The Netherlands
    1989 Group Show, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
    1989 Group Show, Nassauisher Kunstverein Weisbaden, Germany
    1989 Blade, Galerie Yaki Kornblit, Amsterdam
    1988 De Horizon Voorbij Gemeente Museum, The Netherlands
    1987 Art Forum, Thomas Foundation, Munich, Germany
    1986 New York Graffiti, Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Duren
    1986 Group Show, Galerie Yaki Kornblit, Amsterdam
    1986 Group Show, The Stedelijk Museum Helmond, The Netherlands
    1985 New York Graffiti, Gemeente Museum, Nederlands
    1985 Blade, Galerie Yaki Kornblit, Amsterdam
    1985 Blade, Stellweg - Seguy Gallery, New York
    1985 Blade, The Stedelijk Museum Helmond, The Netherlands
    1984 Graffiti, Groninger Museum, Groningen
    1984 New York Graffiti, Louisiana, Humleboek
    1984 Zeitgenossische Kunst, Galerie Thomase, Munich
    1984 Blade, Galerie Yaki Kornblit, Amsterdam
    1983 Post-Graffiti, Galerie Sydney Janis, New York
    1983 Graffiti, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
    1983 Blade, Galerie Yaki Kornblit, Amsterdam
    1981 New York - New Wave, PS1 Long Island City, New York







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