Ruoyu Gong is a New York-based painter. His work delves into the complexity of the human psyche in the theme of personal symbolism. Ruoyu sees painting as a way to uncover the veiled tensions within his psyche. Through this distillation process, he navigates the labyrinth of his psychological landscape that often lies dormant beneath the surface of daily life.
INTERVIEW | Mahta Salehi
Mahta Salehi is an Iranian artist currently living in the US. In her recent paintings investigate psychological transformation and the tension between confinement and freedom by combining abstraction and figuration and using symbolic imagery. In her work, she uses experimental techniques and layered compositions to encourage viewers to interact with the shifting nature of psychological landscapes.
INTERVIEW | Bessy Huang
Bessy Huang is a visionary creator who breathes life into the realms of mass media. Her artistic voice dances on the edge of the absurd, the fantastical, and the profoundly dramatic. Fascinated by the surreal nuances of everyday life, she weaves compelling narratives through experimental films and intricately crafted set designs.
INTERVIEW | Sofia Malemina
Sofia Malemina is a multimedia artist working with timed-based mediums such as video, sound, light, and immersive installations. She established her artistic career in London by blending digital technologies with traditional techniques to explore themes such as identity, perception, and the interplay between physical and virtual spaces. Sofia Malemina
INTERVIEW | Boris Osipau
Boris is a self-taught photographer originally from Minsk, Belarus, now based in Philadelphia. He combines his technical knowledge and creative vision to produce compelling images that resonate emotionally. His project, Fierce, examines the paradox of cuteness aggression, a psychological phenomenon where overwhelming feelings of adoration for something provoke an intense response.
INTERVIEW | Charles Chao Wang
Charles Chao Wang is a London-based photographer and artist. His work draws from his own experiences and memories and is influenced by a variety of fields, including sociology, philosophy, and psychology. He offers a powerful social commentary, as well as an opportunity for spiritual healing, enabling both the viewer and the artist to reflect on and respond to societal challenges.
INTERVIEW | Zihan Zhou
Zihan Zhou is an artist who creates visual art and explores a variety of media while also writing, educating, and working in the media. Zhou draws deeply from historical iconography, searching for their connection to contemporary contexts. Shifting from traditional painting to collaged images to installations and performances, Zhou’s art strives to produce a more open resonance.
INTERVIEW | Alina R.J
Alina R.J. is a London-based multidisciplinary artist with a Central Asian background, currently pursuing her Master's degree at the Royal College of Art. Alina's recent research focuses on Eastern philosophies, Jungian psychology – specifically Individuation and The Self – as well as tools to reconnect with this part of our psyche, including meditation.
INTERVIEW | Han Yang
Han Yang is a distinguished visual artist and photographer. Her work masterfully combines abstract and surreal elements to evoke profound emotions and explore the complexities of human psychology. Central to Han's artistic vision are themes of femininity, the human body, gender, and technology, which she vividly represents through oriental metaphors.
INTERVIEW | Qian Sun
Qian Sun is a Chinese artist and fashion designer based in the UK. She specializes in researching various materials suitable for art therapy, with her proudest design achievement being the incorporation of pet dog hair into jewelry accessories. By dyeing the hair and combining it with silk and metal materials, she creates pieces that resonate with emotional depth and personal significance.
INTERVIEW | Joanna Hoge
Joanna Hoge (she/they) is a queer artist and designer based in Denver, Colorado. They apply their background in psychology and interest in medicine to create works that explore the dynamic between subjective identity and objectifiable body. Hoge's work is largely inspired by the division of somatic and psychological experiences in Western culture.
INTERVIEW | Ziyao Lin
Ziyao Lin is an artist whose work delves into themes of humanity, nature, the ethics of technology, women's rights, and individual psychology. Through a diverse array of creative forms, including digital media art, experimental video, illustrations, and installations, Ziyao captivates audiences with her distinctive visual style and storytelling. She is currently based in London, UK.
INTERVIEW | SuJung Jo
SuJung Jo is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, woodworking, and sculpture. Jo uses organza to veil her images, both as a psychological strategy but also an innovative growth in her approach to photography. In doing so, she stretches the boundaries of the two-dimensional photography and integrates it with the three-dimensional possibilities of sculpture.
INTERVIEW | Shiyu (Icy) Qiao
Shiyu (Icy) Qiao is a London-based animation director, 2D & stop-motion animator, and illustration artist from China. Her themes are often drawn from personal experience, social psychology, and philosophy. Her works are not limited to a single medium and she sees her creation as a healing process, creating a conversation with the viewers through the dissection of memory and self.
INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma
Alisa Scetinina is a performer and musician, born in Latvia and currently based in Berlin, Germany. For Alisa, performance is the way one carries oneself and connects to the inner voice, whether it is through music, dance, film, or any other source of expression. She explores the fluidity and smoothness of our psyche and body, not scared to break the walls that we and our society have built for us.
INTERVIEW | Rodrigo de Toledo
Rodrigo de Toledo is a Brazilian-American multidisciplinary visual artist, graphic designer, and a tenured animation professor at Northern Arizona University. Inspired by ancient mythological archetypes, de Toledo’s work is a fictional mythology with its visual iconography. Employing a primitive pop-surreal graphic style, he investigates questions of identity and spirituality, as well as the media’s effect on personal memory and fantasy.
INTERVIEW | Yuko Kyutoku
Yuko Kyutoku is a Japanese artist currently living and working in New York City. Her artmaking process is transformative and she makes art based on her rich life experiences. She feels that life experiences open up many opportunities and make her artworks richer and unique. She currently works as a therapist at the children's hospital in the city, where she offers art therapy to support children with mental issues and severe disabilities.
INTERVIEW | Yihan Wang
Yihan Wang is an illustration student at the School of Visual Arts, focusing on children’s books and book illustrations.
Yihan mainly discusses psychological problems in our society and uses wild animals and insects as symbols to concrete human mood. In his series of watercolor, he uses animals and kids to analyze the psychological burdens of kids in today’s society.
INTERVIEW | Pavlina Vagioni
Pavlina Vagioni’s art is all about alchemy, re-enchanting the contemporary world through the timelessness of the myths and legends of her Hellenic heritage. She renders the symbols and archetypes behind them to reveal their relevance and aliveness and bridge the chasm between Cartesian rationalism and the spirituality of human beings, nature, and the cosmos.
INTERVIEW | Otilia Iliescu
Otilia Iliescu is a Romanian artist from Iași, Moldova region. Her artworks revolve around political or social issues, and she usually works together with psychologists, therapists, and people from the law and politics fields to complete her projects. Otilia started as a painter and redirected herself towards performances, sound design, and installations.