Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.
Yulin Peng is the curator and director of Galerie de Nuage, a contemporary art gallery and cultural platform operating between New York and Hong Kong. A licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, her practice spans curation, design, and economic research. Her work bridges the creative and the quantitative, contributing to broader questions of how culture is shaped.
Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
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.
Huichao Dong is an architectural designer focused on adaptive reuse, public-serving infrastructure, and socially responsive environments. Her latest project, CORA Community: Adaptive Reuse of a Grain Terminal reimagines a historic grain silo on the Brooklyn waterfront as affordable housing and cultural infrastructure for dancers, to support new forms of community, movement, and urban life.
Ayumi Kajiwara is a Japanese sculptor based in London/ Tokyo, working across textile, installation, and found materials. Her practice explores the sculptural potential of textiles, creating forms that exist between body, creature, and landscape. Working with both reclaimed materials and handcrafted textiles, she investigates material memory, vulnerability, and transformation.
Rebecca Weisman is a conceptually driven maker and thinker who makes deconstructed films of sculptures that are then re-embedded into the sculptures creating dreamy installations with layers upon layers of visual narrative and meaning. Her project Skin Ego centers on an immense, eight by twenty foot sculptural reconstruction of a section of a Finback whale, modeled after a photograph found on the internet of a real-life stranded whale.
Ruthorn Rujianurak is a self-taught painter from Thailand, whose works are collaged with a variety of surfaces, including cotton canvas, bristol paper, blotting paper, tissue paper, and wood panel. After living and working in New York City for two years. Ruthorn moved back to his hometown and currently based in Bangkok. His works have been featured in multiple shows in several counties such as Thailand, USA, China, and Korea.
Thomas C. Chung’s artistic practice is about seeing the world through a child's eyes, having dealt with their dreams and anxieties in previous years - food, toys, paintings, drawings, and art installations being the mediums that he has used. At its deepest level, he is researching the childlike psyche as a way of understanding the world as an empath.
Naomi Even-Aberle is a multi-disciplinary artist living in South Dakota (USA) who uses performance art, digital technology, and martial arts practices to explore female roles in contemporary society. Her art practice involve performative elements, interdisciplinary media processes embedded within her martial arts philosophy of understanding and establishing learning strategies for the body, mind, and spirit.
Rita Hisar Canadian abstract painter based in Toronto Canada. Rita Hisar is also inspired by the bold colors of the Caribbean, the raw honesty of graffiti art, and the passion of Pop Culture Icons in music, film, fashion, and sports. Inspired by Henri Matisse, Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
