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.
Steit Slings is an artist with a passion for art, music, food, travel, and life. Born in an era when computers and digital media were still experimental, Steit explored the connection between art and technology at the Art Academy. Today, he continues to experiment with digital media, image processing, paint, 3D printing, clay, wood, and metal.
Tamara Novikova is a visual artist and packaging accessories designer based in New York City. Her signature use of red and blue ballpoint pens reflects both personal history and her ongoing interest in memory, form, and repetition. Her illustrations move fluidly between fine art and everyday utility, transforming simple materials into expressive, textured surfaces.
Francesca Busca is an eco-artivist by philosophy and mission, a rubbish artist by identity, and a waste mosaicist by technique. Her practice emerges from the undefined intersection of art, activism, and environmental urgency, where aesthetics meet ethics, and discarded materials become catalysts for change. Her eco-artivism is Gesamtkunstwerk, an all-encompassing life practice.
