Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
Yang Liu (Lizzy Liu) is a director, producer, and writer based in Los Angeles, California. Liu has written and directed several award-winning films in the past, including A Matter of Time, World Without End, and Tessellation. Her work always includes the elements of critical analysis and radical opinions towards the environment where she lives, and her films create a strong contrast and irony between the content and format.
Lucy Papadopoulos is a sound artist and researcher thinking through waveforms to investigate how meaning is created at the outer limits of what is knowable. She uses animist, new materialist, and quantum physics philosophy as a gateway for perception into the performativity or "alive-ness" of matter. Her practice extends across film, electronics, interaction, sound, sculpture, creative coding, and performance.
Marichka Lukianchuk is an artist and a filmmaker from Ukraine, born in 1997. Marichka believes that ideas are not something you come up with, but the intentions searched for and uncovered within and outside oneself. These intentions come from the image on her mind, and she sees her mission in uncovering the stories hidden behind them.
Tris Bucaro is a visual artist whose practice confronts self-image, intimacy, and gesture through photography, film, sculpture, and performance. His research considers the location of the self within an image and the oscillation between totality and impermanence, utilizing the self-portrait as a means of examining the regenerative nature of a photograph.
Camila Rodríguez Triana (Cali, 1985) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Rodríguez Triana's work reflects on identity. She is interested in the inherited ancestral culture and how we re-appropriate that culture to make it our own. She is interested in the words “re-appropriation” and “re-elaboration” that imply recognizing something past to transform it into the present.
Carla Piacenza’s work addresses issues that are related to nature and human behavior. Thus, she reflects on gender, identity, migrations, and the environment and climate changes. Taking resources from science and psychology, and transforming them into visual poetics, the works are presented as hypothetical and experiential ideas seeking to decode a personal argument.
Karen V Kanas is a Los Angeles-based artist who was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Karen was fortunate enough to work with such theatre companies as Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Theatre, and Phoenix Theatre, to name a few. Her background in theatre and architecture has influenced her immensely as an artist. Many pieces of her artwork have been on exhibit in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Jose.
