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Stephen Price

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About

Stephen Price (b. 1995, Palermo, Italy) is an Italian / Ghanaian artist based in Birmingham, UK.

Stephen is a figurative mixed media artist who works with charcoal, oil, acrylic, and soft pastel to explore Black identity, histories, and lived experience through the lens of memory and the human condition, presenting the Black body within imagined, dreamlike landscapes. Emerging from both imagination and sourced photographic imagery, his compositions are further informed by art history, literature, film, and music. These influences help shape the emotional atmosphere of each work. Rooted in psychological reflection and close observation, Stephen constructs environments that exist between interior and exterior worlds. These spaces are emotional terrains, suspended between reality and memory, where restorative solitude, tenderness, and vulnerability can unfold. He builds layered surfaces where materials interact and collide. Thick, gestural brushstrokes merge with soft, velvety passages of darkness, shaping fictional Black figures who appear both grounded and surreal. The physicality of paint becomes a language in itself, carrying weight, fragility, and presence.

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EDUCATION

2020 – BA Fine Art Painting & Drawing
The University of Northampton 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 – “Here, Times Pauses”, Galerie Revel, Bordeaux, France

2024 – “I Wish I Could Be the Moonlight”, Bwo Art Gallery, Douala, Cameroon

2023 – “Reverie”, Chilli Art Projects, London,

2021 – “Luminous Portraits”, Gallery At Home, Usk (Wales)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 – “Black Figuration Is Alive And Well”, O’DA Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria

2024 – “Secret Gardens: A Contemporary View”, Galerie Revel, Bordeaux, France.

2024 – The Ingram Prize Exhibition, London

2024 – “Amalgam”, Chilli Art Projects, London

2023 – “(Sur)face Pt. 2 “, Chilli Art Projects, London

2023 – “Lean On Me” , Kó, Lagos, Nigeria

2022 – “In Situ Encounters of Place”, Kó, Lagos, Nigeria

2022 – ”Handwritten”, Chilli Art Projects, London

2022 – “4×4+1”, Chilli Art Projects, London

2021 – Royal Society of British Artists Annual, London

2020 – Virtual Exhibition, Wells Art Contemporary, Wells 

2019 – Graduate Art Fair, Yardley Hastings (Northamptonshire) 

2019 – “Immersion”, Northampton, UK

ART FAIRS

2024 –  1-54 Art Fair New-York , Galerie Revel

2023 – Art Fair – Art x Lagos – Kó, Lagos, Nigeria

COLLECTIONS

The Gutierrez Collection

AWARDS

Winner of Wells Art Contemporary 2020: Student prize award

Winner of The Patron’s Prize at the RBA Annual Exhibition 2021

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