Born in London, Stephen Pusey graduated from St. Martins School of Art in 1975. From 1977 to 1982, he painted monumental public murals around London commissioned by local authorities. In 1986, he exhibited at MoMA PS1, after which New York became his domicile. In the following years, Pusey experimented with various forms including digital and networked media. In 1996, he co-founded the online art and discussion hub Plexus (plexus.org) with curator Yu Yeon Kim. He was a founding member of the Foundation for Digital Culture (1996) and a contributing artist to ArsDoom (Peter Weibel, et al.) for Ars Electronica (1995). In 1997, he co-curated OMNIZONE: Perspectives in Mapping Digital Culture, which featured on the Guggenheim Museum’s Cyberatlas website (curated by Jon Ippolito). Concurrent with his empirical digital and net art, his painting followed a personal trajectory, which, while abstract, was informed by an interest in physical, neurological and biological resonance. Pusey has had various solo and group exhibitions in New York City and internationally; and his work is in international public, corporate, and private collections, including Neuberger Berman.
