Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Ari Mei-Dan is a Boston-based multidisciplinary photographer and filmmaker. Whether through portraiture, concert photography, or documenting the things around her, she strives to capture moments of high emotion and true human-ness. Her work draws inspiration from artists like Annie Leibovitz, Spike Jonze, Nick Ut, as well as the very people around her.
Esra Sakar (b. 1992, Istanbul) is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose work blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary conceptual approaches. She draws on mythology, psychology, and archetypes to create visual narratives exploring memory, the subconscious, and identity. Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Milan, Glasgow, Lancaster, and Istanbul.
R. Scott MacLeay is a photographer and videographer based in Brazil. He views all lens-based art as documentary, regardless of the subject. His new media art deals with existential themes, often employing the first person in performance-based work. He explores situations rather than moments and as such, his work is focused on notions of evolution, transformation and repetition.
Xi Liu is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist. She creates oil paintings, prints, and evolving ecosystem-based installations using handmade paper and pigments derived from plants. Rooted in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy and Jungian psychology, Liu's work explores impermanence, origin, and spiritual transformation.
