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Vanessa Powers is a figurative oil painter working in the new surrealist style. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, and the juried exhibition Surreal Salon at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana. Her work was recently installed in large scale ad space in a Queens subway station in partnership with the NYC based art nonprofit Chashama and the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Vanessa was recently awarded the Caumsett Foundation Artist Residency at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve in Lloyd Harbor, New York which will take place in late summer through early fall 2024.

Previous projects include her work printed as a billboard in Brooklyn with the nonprofit SaveArtSpace in 2019 and the inclusion of her mural in “Anthropocene” a curated mural cycle at First Street Green Art Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2018. Vanessa received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and is currently based in and from New York.