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.
Allegra Bick-Maurischat is an American artist, currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Allegra is fascinated by America’s historical amnesia, its role in shaping Western ideologies, and its influence on cultural memory and the concept of “nationhood.” Her interdisciplinary practice is grounded in historical research and explores many forms of making, including oil painting, silverpoint drawing, cyanotype and more.
Suly Bornstein-Wolff creates objects, installations as well as paintings. Usually creating large-scale paintings, her subject varies from landscape to architecture, from figurative to abstract. Esthetics is a major focus in both her paintings and objects. By using readymade material, she emphasizes the quality and the beauty of the object, as if it was a jewel.
Jongbum Kim is a New York-based designer, artist, and illustrator who explores the ideas of gender and multicultural communities through the medium of cloth. With a strong belief in seeing and experiencing the world firsthand, Jongbum’s designs are filled with color and symbolism, both literal and figurative, engaging the viewer and provoking them to respond.
Yan Yang is a painter, installation artist, fashion art designer, and textile pattern designer. She is based in Chicago, IL. Yan believes that art and design are connected, and she often combines painting and fashion to create large-scale installations. Her work reflects the psychological healing effect of fashion art on people. Her art series "Standard Smile" hopes to give people the confidence and courage to face trauma and be able to heal.
Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, he uses a lot of childhood memories and symbolic figures such as teddy bears, antique toys, intuitive graffiti drawings, costume characters, and so on. With a background in literature, his painting started as diary recordings, which tend to be in a written form. In order to seek more opportunities for exchange with artists and new projects, he currently lives and works in Tokyo.
Taweechob Pinthong is an artist and illustrator based in Bangkok. His illustration translates the unwavering love you feel for all living things without question, that you extend knowingly without expectations for anything in return. His style and technique are very dynamic because he is still in the process of experimenting. His body of work based on philosophy seeks to understand fundamental truths.
Aomi Kikuchi’s work is based on Japanese aesthetic principles and the teachings of the Buddha, such as “Wabi-sabi” and “Mono-no-aware”. It addresses infinity as the succession of fleeting and brittle activities. With freedom and flexibility, she combines acquired knowledge and experiment and creates art to inspire dialogue and reflection on these concepts through materials and aesthetic philosophies.
Cynthia Grow's work is informed by literature, poetry, philosophy, and film. She explores the interstices between art and language, engaging themes of memory, desire, and complex interpersonal relationships, playing on the idea of ambiguity, the liminal, and the spaces in between. Her latest series, Love Letters, is a collection of love letters by famous lovers throughout the ages.
Jiaqi Pan is a Chinese photographer, currently living and working in New York. Her series Drive-thru focuses on the working class, specifically women in the service sector. These photographs celebrate female African-Americans as individuals, working in the low-wage, fast food industry. This body of work reveals spaces and environments we encounter but sometimes overlook in our everyday lives.
Shuai Xu’s current works focus on the invisible world, and much of his inspiration comes from his dreams. He is interested in humanity's relationship to the cosmos, particularly as it plays out here on Earth, in the relationship between individuals and nature. He hopes to explore his interior world more deeply while expanding outward, to engage society and beyond.
Tianlan Deng is a New York-based Artist and Interior Architect. Tianlan Deng's work involves interdisciplinary practices, including site-specific installation, projected media, sculptural, architectural design, and traditional Asian painting. Deng’s installation is a commentary on the de-individualization found in educational systems present in China.
Ukrainian-born Annet Katan is a photographer and designer currently based in San Francisco, United States. Annet believes that there is always room for improvement and growth. She is pursuing her dreams and looking forward to learning to explore and inspire others on their journeys. Her series Abstract Colorscapes was conceived during the Covid-19 lockdown as a depiction of landscapes she had previously seen.
Pavel Korbička is a Czech artist, currently living and working in Brno. Korbička exploits each creative impulse down to the minutest detail and is able to bring his message across with the use of the most economical devices, his idiom conveying an experience of great intensity. He works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies.
Song Rao is a Chinese visual artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He works in different art forms, including photography, installations, illustrations, and short videos. He uses composition and graphics to clone multiple selves, captured humorous scenes that also express profound meaning, social injustice, racism, queerness, and more from his life in NYC. His photos each show a different pose and meticulous expression.
Galla is the artistic pseudonym of Alessandro Marcus Ferreira, a crypto artist, enthusiast of the decentralized world, and the "head" behind CryptoArtCulture. Galla's creative process is triggered by the availability and alignment of a human, a computer, the internet, blockchain, and electricity. The result is a digital art that finds the decentralized platforms the perfect setting for its diffusion and a disruptive business angle in NFTs.
The subject of Yannie Gu’s artworks concentrates on exploring women’s self-identities as well as human psychological activities while facing collective and personal traumas. Lying between realistic and representational artistic styles, Yannie’s paintings capture vibrant figures in a variety of actions that further reflect women’s deeper insecurities and uneasiness through a voyeuristic lens.
Shan Xu is a Multi-Media artist based in San Francisco and Beijing. Shan is an experimental, future-oriented new media artist whose passion lies in challenging cultural stereotypes and social preconceptions through building experiences of future-present intersections. Her works expand technologies' possibilities to address "digital and natural" challenges and inspire conversation through a digital and natural conflict lens.
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.
Liu Gongjie is a designer and visual artist based in London. His latest project, Emotionally Harmonious Cyborg Future, is a speculative design work. It explores a possible future in the form of a dance drama, where human beings take the initiative to transform themselves into a cyborg that combines the physical and mechanical and can perceive the emotions of others directly.
A Young Lee is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in language, communication, and emotions. Her works use a typography and new language she created. Through the concept of concealment, Lee opens a conversation and suggests that viewers discuss and think about her works in their own ways. She doesn't want her viewers to have certain answers for her works.
