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.
Bee Jones (Motionmoth) is a queer photographer and visual artist based in Manchester, but hailing from West Yorkshire. Drawing on important sociopolitical themes such as sexuality and class, Jones consistently endeavours to push their own life's narrative and the stories of those around them into their work.
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.
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.
Zhuoyu Zhang is a new media artist from Beijing, currently based in New York. Working across video installation, interactive storytelling, and algorithmic systems, Zhang draws from internet subcultures, personal archives, and speculative fiction to construct intimate yet dissonant environments that reflect on surveillance, disembodiment, and affective labour within visual regimes shaped by data.
Blanca de la Cruz is an artistic photographer and author of the book Reinventing Oneself in the Face of Adversity. Her work is born from stillness, driven by the need to transform pain into beauty. She explores themes such as vulnerability, resilience, identity, and the creativity woven into everyday life. Her images speak of transformation and the beauty that resides within human vulnerability.
Zhuyang Liu is a trans-media artist whose practice spans sound, performance, film, moving images, writing, and installation. Their work interrogates identity, labour, technocracy, and the body through immersive, often surreal narratives. Zhuyang’s hybrid works challenge perception, collapsing reality and fiction into multisensory experiences that question how we live, relate, and imagine.
Halim Madi is a programmer, poet, and modern-day storyteller born in Beirut, Lebanon, who now lives and works across San Francisco, Beirut, and Paris. Halim explores migrant, queer, and cyborg consciousnesses, weaving new understandings from the collisions of disparate worldscapes. Their work collects and performs stories of border-crossing bodies that unlock the imagination of new futures.
Lili Xie engages with the realms of photography, video, performance, and ceramics in her artistic practice. The evolution of her work is an ongoing journey of self-exploration, inquiry, and the deconstruction of her own identity. Through these diverse mediums, she navigates the complex landscape of personal introspection and transformation.
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.
Rose Ansari is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and computational media researcher. Her research-based art practice explores cyborg and post-human theories, sensory distortion, and telecommunication through laboratory-driven processes. She creates immersive environments that blend technology, cognitive science, and poetic expression.
Ollie Hongji Li is a fiber artist and textile designer based in New York City. Drawing inspiration from nature and religion, Ollie creates textile sculpture using knotting, knitting, crocheting, spinning, and natural dye. Ollie's art reinterprets the traditional yin-yang dichotomy and offers a new perspective on gender roles.
Yicheng Zhu is a freelance multidisciplinary visual artist. She frequently draws inspiration from real-world references and, influenced by her Chinese heritage, often incorporates elements of Chinese culture into her work. Whether it's a futuristic cityscape, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an ancient sacred ruin, Yicheng brings each world to life with fresh and compelling visual storytelling.
Kimin Kim is a Korean-born painter currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His practice centres around the intersection of botanical symbolism, historical memory, and the ritualized navigation of grief. He engages flora as both symbolic vessels and ritualized objects, drawing on their presence in Korean shamanic ceremonies, funerary traditions, and ancient tombs.
Tianxi Wang is a freelance artist based in London. Her practice grows from the fertile soil of familial memory, tracing invisible currents of tension and emotional residue within intimate bonds. Experimenting with oil paint, acrylic, oil sticks, and collages, Tianxi experiments with textures and techniques to bring artistic visions to life, trying to expand the possibilities of material.
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.
Yiqi Zhao (Edie) is a visual artist and illustrator whose surrealist practice interrogates themes of identity, societal constraints, and resilience through a fusion of meticulous craftsmanship and symbolic storytelling. She continues to expand her practice, blending traditional techniques with digital innovation to amplify underrepresented narratives.
Maxim Frumkin is an award-winning visual artist based in Canada, working across experimental video, art photography, and mixed media. His practice investigates the fluidity of identity, how we perform, reshape, or resist ourselves to be seen, to belong, or to disappear. He creates flexible, unstable narratives where meaning loops, blurring the lines between memory, persona, and authenticity.
Yuyang (Lily) Wei is a Chinese-New Zealander artist currently living and working in London. Drawing on her own experiences growing up between New Zealand and China, a topic that concerns Yuyang's artworks is the identity crisis of Third-Culture Kids. Paintings in this section depict Yuyang's personal feelings of being part of a diaspora.
Anastasia Egonyan is a visual artist of Ukrainian and Armenian descent based in Berlin. With over a decade of experience in photography, she has expanded her practice to incorporate textiles and found objects, creating a dynamic interdisciplinary approach. Her art reflects a journey of reconciling fragmented ancestry and nomadic experiences in the search for "home" and identity.
