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Solo Exhibitions


2004    “Anti Graff’, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2002    "Fame City" Tour, Prosper Gallery, New York, NY
            "Fame City" Tour, Evisu Headquarters, Hong Kong
            "Fame City" Tour, The Factory Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


2001    "Family Tree" at Bob Gallery, New York, NY


Group Exhibitions


2008    “Come Correct”, Toy Tokyo Gallery,  New York, NY

            “Brave Art”, Whistler,  Canada


2007    “Game Over”, Gallerie Magda Danyz,  Paris, France

            “Deft” Workspace, Vancouver, Canada

            “The Walls Belong to Us” Power House Arena, Brooklyn, NY


2004    “Subway Series” Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

            “Motion Paintings”, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

            “Barnstormers Selected Films” AIGA Move Conference, New York, NY

            “Bearbrick World Tour”, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan

               “Letter to the President”, Res Fest, International Film Festival, New York, NY

               “Unseen Messages”, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

               “Experimental Surf Shop” Dyezu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


2003    "Miami Vices" The Living Room, Basel Art Fair, Miami, FL
            "Hive Mind Sound System" Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
            "The Bake Sale" Agnes B. Hommes Gallery, New York, NY
            "Billboards" @ H& M store Soho, New York, NY
            "The Magnificent 7", McCaig Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2002    "If Not Now", NYC Urban Experience Museum, New York, NY


2000    “Graffiti Art”, Guernsey’s Auction, Puck Building , New York, NY
 
1999    "Metallurgy, The Lost Science", Free Space, New York, NY

1993    "Coming out of the Can", Space, Time, Light Gallery, New York, NY

1992    "The Roots of Graff", Stony Brook University Gallery, Long Island, NY

1985    "Graffiti and East Village Artists", Librizzi Gallery, New York, NY



Recent Public Work

2003

        “Free Culture” Mural at Rikers Island Prison, NY

        “Curiously Strong Wall of Fame” Altoids Mural Project with Pierogi

        Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2001

  

        Commissioned Mural for the Tenement Museum, New York, NY

        Barnstormers project 'No Condition is Permanent’, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
        B-Boy Park Festival, Live Mural, Tokyo Japan

        Sesame Street Episode 'The Number 9' , Public Broadcasting Service, New York, NY
        

2000  

       

        Barn Painting, Cameron, NC



Selected Books


Mascots & Mugs, Todd James and Chino Villorente, Testify Books 2007

The Book of Tags, DropDrop Agency, Kitchen 93 2006

Bombshell, Claw Money, Power House Books 2006

Burning New York, James and Karla Murray, Ginko Press 2006

Disruptive Pattern Material, Maharishi Press, 2004

Broken Windows, James and Karla Murray, Ginko Press 2002
Aerosol Kingdom, Ivor Miller, University of Mississippi press, 2002

R.I.P. Memorial Wall Art, Martha Cooper and Joseph Sciorra, Henry Holt, 1994

The Art of Getting Over, Stephen Powers, St. Martin’s Press, 1999
New York Graffiti 1970-1995, Markus Weise, Aragon Press, 1999
Spray Can Art, Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, Thames & Hudson, 1987
         

Selected Publications


“L’energie gratifiante du graffiti”, Liberation, Paris France, 2007

The Re-Mix; WEST – SPRAYED IN JAPAN”, New York Times Magazine, 2005

"Neo-Abstract Expressionism", AM New York, 2004

"The Saga Continues: West One", Masterpiece Quarterly, Japan, 2003
"West meets Porter", Relax magazine #75, Japan, 2002
"Smoke", Mass Appeal, New York, NY, 2002
"Live from NY" Cover story, Beikoku Ongaku, Japan, 2001


Film


“Bomb It” John Reiss, 2007

“Infamy”, Roger Gastman, 2006