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.
Jiaming You is a painter and installation artist based in Chicago. You utilizes found imagery and photos taken by themselves to construct scenes of bodies in non-existent scenarios as an attempt to critique the limiting nature of social norms in depicting individuality and uses their experience and positionality as a non-binary immigrant as a source of knowledge and site of exploration to the confines of social norms and the distribution of power.
Shiqing Chen uses multiple visual languages and elements to communicate through print, website, and digital media. Her works focus on cross-medium storytelling and visual communication. During the pandemic, she became interested in the organic errors and uncertainties of data. By leveraging available technologies, she aims to present data through sounds, games, performances, and other means.
Connor Daly is a British fine art photographer from Jersey (Channel Islands), currently based in the UK. His work explores varying levels of colour and compositional effects that provoke spatial ambiguity, using a painterly and abstract style that is evocative of nostalgia, memory, and the passing of time. Furthermore, his work is predominantly concerned with the depiction of a space, exploring broad visual styles.
Mary Badalian’s artistic practice is marked by interweaving: of thread, materials, but also driving forces of nostalgia and compulsion. Her process is persistent and repetitive and each piece shelters a story and intense emotions, abstracted and expressed through texture and colour. These works and their process are the artist’s self-expression and self-exploration.
My Linh Mac is a multi-media artist, her works portray beauty in humble places with her signature style of deep and vibrant accent colors. Her work mixes traditional media, mostly acrylic painting, with digital painting and design. While Mac’s paintings have varied genres, from conceptual, abstract, and figurative to contemporary, her digital and visual design works are commercial.
