Bleu Pablo

Ya boy won the artist Grant for the @artists.of.today September Exhibit. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Thank you to everyone who supported yesterday and bought a ticket. It really means the world to me as well as the our community for your continued appreciation for what we do: Much thanks for @artists.of.today for putting together an amazing opportunity for us creatives yesterday As well as all the artist in participation I really left exhibit feeling inspired and ready to create. 🙏🏽 #artexhibitionnyc #nycartist #bronxartists #bleupablo #artistoftoday

Shot at @scottbleustudios . Dive in as we learn more about the inner workings of Gallery Owner, Art Curator., And Abstract Artist @bleupablo and his purpose for the art community. Special thanks the creative beauty @bluu.beauty for the amazing shoot , Our dear friend\mega talented videographer @_iiritu_ for putting this short film together, @gmoneynyc for styling, as well as our @somewhat.charming for assisting! Photography: @bluu.beauty Videographer: @_iiritu_ P.A.: @somewhat.charming Stylist: @gmoneynyc Music by: @sum.beats

Thankful 🙏🏽 Huge shoutout to @_iiritu_ for putting the Visual together for the billboard 📸🎥🎥 #nyc #bleupablo #bronxartist ##nycartist #abstractartist

Through the years. Same ol’ G 🙏🏽 📸: @damanycampbell , @bluu.beauty , @kellz.mov

MR. BLEU @bleupablo X @mr.moda ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ THIS IS NOT A COLLABORATION. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING. TWO WORLDS. ONE MEETING OF THE MINDS. THE CULTURE IS SHIFTING. AGAIN. SOME WILL SEE ART. OTHERS WILL SEE WHATS COMING NEXT. ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ #MRBLEU #MRMODA #BLEUPABLO #HOWTOBEANARTIST NEONEXPRESSIONISM

Come. Take a seat. Let me talk to you, young. 🪑 @younitystudios @bleucalf @quietlunch There comes a moment in every artist’s life where the “seat at the table” stops being about validation and starts becoming about rest. This @bleupablo X Mr. Moda collaboration reflects my climb through Neo-Expressionism and through spaces that were never truly built for artists like us. Every crossed-out word, every layer, every interruption inside this piece mirrors the tension of trying to remain free while constantly being labeled, categorized, and explained before you even get the chance to define yourself. The chair became symbolic to me. Not just as a seat in the art industry… but as permission to finally sit down. To breathe. To exist without constantly proving why I belong in the room. For a long time, creating felt tied to survival. Pressure. Movement. Noise. Even success can feel unstable when you’ve spent your entire journey fighting to be seen fully... We asks the real question: Can Black artists ever truly rest inside industries that often consume us before they understand us? Our show Why Don’t We Just curated by @akeemkduncan is rooted in those conversations. Neo-Expressionism has allowed me to speak through fragmentation, raw emotion, texture, contradiction, and refusal because truth rarely arrives polished. Sometimes freedom looks chaotic before it becomes clarity. And honestly, learning balance through all of this has changed me. @drinkvitamoss @all_natural_hydration has introduced me to deeper ideas around wellness, inner peace, and protecting my spirit while building myself as an artist. That balance matters because creativity without peace can slowly destroy you. For me, having a seat at the table finally means more than access. It means being able to sit there honestly. To create honestly. To rest honestly. What does “rest” mean to you? Have you ever felt like you had to constantly prove yourself just to belong somewhere? Sit with me, I want to hear your thoughts. #MrBleu #MrModa #BleuPablo #QuietLunch #WhyDontWeJust

“Expand” @bleupablo 16 IN X 20 IN 2026 Created at @momas_highsociety

This collab by @bleupablo and @mr.moda reads like a visual argument, layered, interrupted, and intentionally unresolved, performing the tension between Black artists and Neo-Expressionism through erasure and refusal. At the top, “How they place labels on us” is overwritten by “How to be free,” setting the tone that freedom isn’t given but written over imposed identity. The chair marked “rest” feels unstable, pointing to both the need for pause and the fragility of our seat at the table, while the adjacent “X” suggests being simultaneously chosen and denied. Words like “NEO,” “Supreme,” “Cage,” “Label,” and “Reserved” are crossed out, exposing systems that attempt to categorize and contain, where inclusion can quietly become limitation. The pink and gold “Cage” seduces while trapping, the downward arrow pulls everything back into definition, and “Sound” with distorted notes reflects how Black expression is often filtered or misunderstood. With “to be continued” crossed out and labels scattered then rejected across the surface, the work embraces contradiction, using the language of Neo-Expressionism while denying its authority, ultimately arguing that the real danger isn’t exclusion but being included on limiting terms, and that true freedom exists beyond the need for any label at all. Join us THURSDAY, MAY 7th 6:00pm for an Artist Talk with @mr.moda and @bleupablo ! Moderated by our curator and chief @akeemkduncan The Yard: Gowanus 157 13TH STREET, BROOKLYN, 11215! Powered by @drinkvitamoss Link in bio

WIP Footage at paint night with @mr.moda hosted at @scottbleustudios “How BLEU and MODA crossed the LINE!” @bleupablo X @mr.moda 5FT X 6FT 2026 Check us TOMORROW, THURSDAY, MAY 7th 6:00pm for an Artist Talk with @mr.moda and @bleupablo ! Moderated by our curator and chief @akeemkduncan The Yard: Gowanus 157 13TH STREET, BROOKLYN, 11215! Powered by @drinkvitamoss

(SOLD) 🔴 Big congrats to newest collector for securing the winning bid on this piece 💯🙌🏽. “Blind Currency: Gilded Eyes, Silent Truths” 16x20 Acrylic, Spray Paint on Canvas This work is really me thinking out loud about what we learn to value and why. The gold pulls you in first—it looks like success, like arrival, like everything is figured out. But then you sit with it and you realize it’s also covering something up. The blindness in the piece isn’t just loss of sight, it’s about not always being able to tell what’s real value anymore. When I think about Black communities, I think about how often we’ve had to learn value in systems that weren’t built for us. So a lot of what gets labeled as “success” ends up being things we were taught to chase, not necessarily things that actually sustain us. Meanwhile, the real wealth has always been in culture, in relationships, in health, in clarity, in being able to see ourselves clearly without distortion. The piece is also asking what shapes us without us even noticing. The environments we grow in, what we’re pushed toward, what we survive, what we start to believe we need in order to be “enough.” And still… there’s that uncomfortable thought in the background that even when we start questioning all of that, those questions can get packaged up too. Turned into something polished, something desirable, something that fits right back into the system it’s pointing at. Either way, I’m grateful this work found a home. That means it keeps living, keeps talking, beyond just me. Thank you @joywalsh.mov for putting this together. 🙌🏽

Excited to share I was selected for @johnnydepp ’s @officialpeoplesartist Award Winner takes $25K and a chance to show at The Art of Elysium’s Salon… real opportunity. If you’ve been tapped into the journey and rocking with the work, I’d appreciate the love—hit the link in bio and vote for me 💙

Late nights, low lights, just me and the process 🎧 but this is where it starts…. 🎨 BTS at @scottbleustudios 🎥: @domosxcrazy 🎼: @__bigsas