Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
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.
Qiurui Du is a Chinese artist and curator. He is committed to giving voice to young Asian artists and curating exhibitions to showcase their work. In his work, he observes people's lives from his unique perspective and brings the hustle and bustle of unique experiences around him into his works. Qiurui Du constructs a virtual world through his childhood fantasies and memories.
Maria Petroff is a self-taught figurative artist living between two countries: Russia and Canada. Maria defines her artistic style as critical realism. She likes to paint people who marked our history, whether they are politicians, scientists, artists, philosophers, or fictional characters. The artist gets inspired by today’s world events, trying to thoroughly study the other non-official side of the story.
Sean Alistair is a queer, self-taught, Canadian-born artist currently residing in the Bavarian countryside of Germany. His art is a visual journal where he discusses the intense impact of seemingly mundane or innocuous experiences. Each of Sean’s mixed media works is completely sewn and created by hand over hundreds of hours and focuses on material exploration, found objects, recycling, and reworking old paintings.
Polin Huang is a mixed-media painter based in New York City. Huang's paintings are a critique of female stereotypes, racism, and the influence of advertising media, language, and local culture. Her work considers the youth of today, who are often depressed about life or overly pursuing vague philosophies. These analyses are all told through cartoonish characters with bright colors, glittery accents, and a humorous gaze.
Wowser Ng is a China-born, London-based visual artist. His work functions by appropriating fashion products and commodities. These sleek and gorgeous images depict Generation Z and the dangers of continuing to support materialism. He develops the painting practice of combining abstract and Pop with a visual narrative to reveal the pop culture under the influence of the current society.
Ernest Kankam, aka "BigCedi," is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ghana. His work is heavily influenced by Ghana's rich culture and history, as well as its socio-politics, and frequently incorporates memories, fantasies, and experiences. His works include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos. He experiments with various materials and uses vibrant and colourful images to convey his message.
Born and raised in Changsha, China, Broly Su is an Atlanta-based illustrator and graphic designer. Broly creates most of his work digitally, taking inspiration from hip-hop music, graffiti, sneakers, toys, and street culture. Heavily influenced by artists like Kenny Scharf, Steven Harrington, and Gang Box, Broly creates in a consistent style working with ink, acrylic, posca markers, and ballpoint pens to achieve his bold-lined and graffiti drawing style.
Rio Chen communicates through objects, graphics, and casual conversation. He focuses on social-political contents that address ethical concerns, SpicyPop culture in contemporary art, and design practice. He advocates the use of local and regional political language in design via organizing the workshop series Satellite Project and the social media platform randr.
