KEO

KEO XMEN is a prolific artist, graffiti writer, graphic designer and creative director. His artistic work is focused on preserving traditional New York City subway graffiti styles, sampling elements from pop culture, comics, and classic animation characters. KEO currently exhibits all over the world, most recently at SCOPE art fair in Miami, Woodbury House Gallery in London and is part of the permanent collection at STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam. He works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Selected Exhibitions:

2025 Parallel Play, group exhibition, Benton Museum of Art, Pomona, USA

2023 KEO XMEN solo exhibition, Woodbury House, London, UK

2023 Keeping the Faith group exhibition, The Trops Gallery, New York, USA

2023 Made in NY group exhibition, Sutton Studios, New York, USA

2019 History of Graffiti Culture group exhibition, Museum of Graffiti, Miami, USA

1983 Graffiti, Thanks a Lot!, group exhibition, FUN Gallery, New York, USA

 

Selected Collections:

STRAAT Museum permanent collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands

KEO XMEN features in various national and international private collections.

 

Workshops, teaching & speaking engagements:

2022 Featured instructor, Annual Craft in Focus Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2021 Spray enamel instructor, Creatively Wild Studio, Brooklyn, USA

2019 Featured instructor, Annual Craft in Focus Festival, Brooklyn, USA

2016 Guest lecturer, Rutger’s University, Camden, USA

2016 Guest lecturer, New York University, New York, USA

2013 Art therapy instructor, Rikers Island RNDC adolescent facility, New York, USA

2013 Guest lecturer, Write of Passage Workshop Series, Mass Appeal, New York, USA

Selected press & bibliography:

Lethem, Jonathan, Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture, ZE Books, Austin, 2024

Multi-authored anthology, The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 2021

Gastman, Roger; Neelon, Caleb, The History of American Graffiti. New York: Harper Design, 2011

James, Todd "Reas" ; Villorente, David "Chino", Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti. New York, Testify Books, 2007