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.
Yuhan Gu is a New York–based industrial designer whose work explores the intersection of function, emotion, and sculptural form. TACTO reflects Gu’s interest in the emotional relationship between people and the objects they keep close in their daily workspace. Designed as a cactus-shaped memo holder, the project transforms a familiar natural form into a playful and functional desktop object.
YoonJi Yang is a multidisciplinary designer based in New York City. She is a designer with experience across digital platforms, product design, and print. YoonJi's life journey has taken her through an incredible adventure, living in Iran, Korea, Belgium, Italy, and the United States, and each place has profoundly shaped her perspective on the important role of communication design in connecting people worldwide.
Johnny Jiasheng Chen, born in Taichung, Taiwan, is a Chicago-based creative industrial/graphic/UX designer/artist. He is recognized for his innovative design skills and cross-disciplinary practices in design and art. His practice includes digital fabrication, product design, graphic design, and crafts, reflecting on the purpose of design, and seeking new perspectives. He is the founder of the Forenext Design studio.
