Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.
Thomas C. Chung is a Chinese-Australian contemporary artist based in Helsinki & Sydney. His latest project, the exhibition The Sea That Stands Before Me…, contemplates the notion of one's devotion to living as a form of armament. Chung's conceptual practice continues its inquiries into psychology, folklore, mythology, and philosophy, binding them as a cohesive tale.
Jewan Goo is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the fading history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities.
Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.
Andrés Mario de Varona was born in 1996 and grew up in Miami as a first-generation Cuban-American with two Cuban families. Art is a tool for Andrés to measure cycles of indignation and healing, our growth as human beings, and as a way to record victories. What he aims to create is an attempt to enter the collective human experience, as well as an access point into himself.
Jia Hao (b. 1990, China) is a visual artist based in the Yunnan province of China, with a BA in Fine Art from the State University of New York in Albany. Jia Hao works predominantly in photography and collage, building surreal narratives within her work. Her main focus is on the human body and the environment, and through her work, she creates a dialogue about the expression and concealment of human identity.
Massimiliano Cambuli is a photographer who lives and works between Brussels (Belgium) and Cagliari (Italy). His recent body of work focuses on nudity, which is not the core of his works but rather a phase: “just a narrative ploy,” he says. In a mix of exploration, experimentation, and research, he pushed these works to the extreme borders of graphisms to transfigure reality and drive the viewer beyond aestheticisms.
SuJung Jo is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, woodworking, and sculpture. Jo uses organza to veil her images, both as a psychological strategy but also an innovative growth in her approach to photography. In doing so, she stretches the boundaries of the two-dimensional photography and integrates it with the three-dimensional possibilities of sculpture.
Nae Zerka is an Austrian artist, based in Salzburg, Austria. In the age of frequent digital disruption, visual artist Nae Zerka showcases in his work the promising possibilities of painting with technology. His artistic practice infuses visual elements borrowed from these disciplines with a painterly touch. Together with the use of contrasts and line work, they form new transformed worlds made possible by the digital realm.
Sri Aditya is a Chennai-based Indian artist who aims to explore the narrative of regions and personalities of people through digital media. Whether it be film photography, graphics, or presentation, the artist manages to seep through intricate places and markets as one who is adept at traveling. His art centres around the dynamic play of light and darkness, a blend of neutral colour schemes and geometric patterns.
Iwo Zaniewski is a painter, photographer, and creative director. works with traditional oil painting, drawing upon the history of figurative art and portraying subjects from everyday contemporary life. While his artworks depict narrated scenes, they are predominantly focused on formal internal relations and striving for equilibrium. The visual dialogues between forms, light, and layers of colour ultimately highlight the mood rather than the action of portrayed events.
Mariana Arrieta Ibarra is 29 years old and Mexican photographer. Her project Central de Abastos was shot in Querétaro, a city in the center of México. It documents the market called “Mercado de Abastos”. This market is responsible for all the products that the rest of the markets in the city sell, making it the most important. It is a bustling place, without a single minute of silence between its busy streets.
Jhuliana Cueva, alias Jhuly, is a self-taught Ecuadorian photographer. She expresses with digital and conceptual photography her vision of her own existence to how she observes and interprets the world. Likewise, her works are based on everyday life and social criticism with the aim of conveying succinctly, thoughts of contemporary life.
Linda Lin likes both the texture of sand and stone and the mottled feeling of watermarks, so she has been researching how to simultaneously present the simplicity of texture and the fluidity of watermarks in her pictures. She tries to find a strange harmony in this contradiction and finds a space of balance between Western classical sculpture and Eastern traditional artistic conception.
Lena Silva is a contemporary, figurative, classical artist, of Portuguese origin, and she has resided most of her life in the United Kingdom. She enjoys working with a variety of mediums, from pencil graphite to pastels and watercolours. However, her favourite medium to work with is oils because of their texture, vibrant colours, and flexibility of shading and blending.
Jiaqi Pan is a Chinese photographer, currently living and working in New York. Her series Drive-thru focuses on the working class, specifically women in the service sector. These photographs celebrate female African-Americans as individuals, working in the low-wage, fast food industry. This body of work reveals spaces and environments we encounter but sometimes overlook in our everyday lives.
Song Rao is a Chinese visual artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He works in different art forms, including photography, installations, illustrations, and short videos. He uses composition and graphics to clone multiple selves, captured humorous scenes that also express profound meaning, social injustice, racism, queerness, and more from his life in NYC. His photos each show a different pose and meticulous expression.
The subject of Yannie Gu’s artworks concentrates on exploring women’s self-identities as well as human psychological activities while facing collective and personal traumas. Lying between realistic and representational artistic styles, Yannie’s paintings capture vibrant figures in a variety of actions that further reflect women’s deeper insecurities and uneasiness through a voyeuristic lens.
Qiyue Zhang is an illustrator currently living in New York. As an Asian woman, Qiyue always feels anxious and unstable. Drawing is the only way Qiyue has ever felt that she can make her voice heard and influence others. She likes to draw female subjects, including creating some drawings about herself. Way back home depicts her in New York City, living alone in a foreign country.
Brett Ashby's practise spans painting, sculpture, film, theatre, sound, and installation. The multi-disciplinary artist, known for adopting unorthodox methodologies of practice, has explored multimedia forms of art creation since starting his practise in 2006 in London. Ashby presents new work that pushes against the binary that trauma is equally from the land as in people.
Man Zhu is a fine art photographer originally from China, and currently based in New York. Her latest series, UnFrame: Relationship, is a body of photo-based works through which she explores her subconscious behavior by showing her relationships with people around her. The creative process draws on the principles of semiotics, appropriating and retaining each subject’s past, and integrating them into self-portraiture.
Kohlben Vodden is an Australian-born self-taught artist living and working in London, UK. His obsession with psychological concepts such as identity and aesthetics is central to his practice.Focusing on abstracted figurative works in oil paint, he employs insights from psychology and uses a bold geometric style with intense colour palettes to command the viewers’ attention and communicate stories of identity.
Mike Goldberg is a contemporary artist living in San Francisco, originally from NYC. He has long found inspiration and beauty in the nooks and crannies of ordinary life, painting the untold stories of people he's encountered throughout the years. Mike explores how memories universally define and shape the human experience through his interactive installation.
Matityahu Neriya is a portrait and wildlife photographer based in Judean Desert, Israel. He constantly searches for emotions, textures, and colors to tell an interesting story. He likes to shoot environmental portraits in difficult-to-reach locations. His captured experiences are the result of remaining open to his surroundings allowing for the subject to evoke the scene and reveal its true essence.
