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.
Jiaming You is a painter and installation artist based in Chicago. You utilizes found imagery and photos taken by themselves to construct scenes of bodies in non-existent scenarios as an attempt to critique the limiting nature of social norms in depicting individuality and uses their experience and positionality as a non-binary immigrant as a source of knowledge and site of exploration to the confines of social norms and the distribution of power.
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.
Carolina Amaya is a Colombian artist, based in Berlin. She explores the concept of eroticism through the lenses of pleasure, consent, self-love, fears, and sensuality. Her work aims to provoke introspection and evoke emotions through a range of media, a variety of hairy objects, solid colors and extremely black lines - with her own body as the main object of the image.
Shou-An Chiang currently lives and works in London. She works across photography, video, performance, and installation, in which she explores the ambiguity of relationships and identities, and portrays alienation in a pluralistic society from her own experience. Her recent project, QUEERASIAN, portrays queer Asian people in Western society, and aims to show the faces and stories of these communities from an insider's perspective.
Oleg Tsyba is a Russian artist and doctor. He started creating his artworks four years ago, and since then, painting has become his main passion. In his artworks, Oleg explores the form in its primary manifestation. Most often, the subject of his work is ancient mythology. These themes are always relevant to Humanity - they tell us about love, sex, passion, and death. And they inspire Oleg to create.
Natalie Lambert (b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist as well as the Curator and Founder of Toula Gallery. Natalie approaches her work from feminist theory. Her work is exploratory to herself and the environment she is in or has experienced. Through language and eroticism, Lambert provokes thoughts of objectification and challenges the stereotypes about gender politics, sex, and the body.
Ruocong Ma examines the contradiction and correlation of spiritual strength, human body, sexual representation, and feminism in our society, working on oil painting, performance, and sculpture. Her erotic portrait painting often employs domineering poses, vivid colors, creative lighting, and tight costume as symbolism for implying audiences about complex class power.
