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Vanessa Powers is a figurative surrealist oil painter. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally with exhibitions at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, the juried exhibition Surreal Salon at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana, WAR Gallery in London, and with Jonathan Levine Projects at Ki Smith Gallery in New York City amongst others.

In 2024 her work was installed in large scale ad space in a Queens subway station (63rd Dr-Rego Park) with the art non-profit ChaShaMa as a part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Vacant Unit Activation Program. Vanessa was awarded the Caumsett Foundation Artist Residency at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve in Lloyd Harbor, New York which took place in August and September 2024.

Previous projects include her work printed as a billboard in Brooklyn with the non-profit 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. 

Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Visual Arts Press, and The New York Times. Vanessa received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and is currently based in and from New York.