Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Dijun Sha (Shine Sha) is a London-based multimedia artist, jewellery designer, and curator whose work bridges the gap between traditional craftsmanship, digital innovation, and curatorial storytelling. Dijun’s practice is deeply rooted in narrative-driven creation, transforming jewellery from a wearable object into an interactive, conceptual medium.
Ruihong Liu, a Chinese-born artist now based in New York, delves into the fragility and significance of memories in her art. Acknowledging that memories are transient and susceptible to the tumultuous currents of life, Liu creates garments and installations characterized by their soft and intimate qualities, aiming to safeguard and reveal these precious fragments.
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.
Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.
Ithra Art Prize is an annual leading art initiative launched in 2017 by the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra). This 5th edition continues to extend its geographical reach to include established contemporary artists from or residing in the 22 Arab countries. For the 5th edition of the prize, Iraqi-Finnish artist Adel Abidin was awarded with his work ON.
Alexandra Tiligadi embodies a life dedicated to the convergence of architecture, poetry, and design. In 2022, she founded "11 Modern Muses", a dynamic, ever-evolving place of interweaving art, poetry, and architecture. Here, her creations inspire mindful living, speaking to art enthusiasts' souls. Alexandra Tiligadi continues to weave her vibrant creativity into the fabric of life, leaving an indelible mark on the artistic landscape.
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.
Aleksandra Vizin is a creative director and photographer living in Sarajevo. Aleksandra has a direct, somewhat raw approach to photography with limited use of postproduction techniques. She prefers shaping imagination with reality, choosing contrast as a main tool. Using costumes, creating stories, and developing characters, Aleksandra tries to keep elements of surprise, freedom, and uniqueness.
Norino Shi is an award-winning digital artist, illustrator, director, and visual narrative artist. Born in China and currently based in New York, her works mainly focus on females, Asian immigrants, and uncertainty about the universe & life and death. Considering herself as a Global Citizen, she aims to create a free spiritual world by stepping out of the shackles of space and time.
Hyunse Kim is a designer and artist, born and raised in Korea. As a designer and artist, he approaches fashion from a perspective that revolves around the intricate world of details. At the core of his design approach lies a resolute focus on tailoring. His exploration of this craft kindled a fervor within him as he delved into various techniques and intricacies.
Tong Li is a multidisciplinary graphic designer based in the Bay Area with a background in journalism and experience in the magazine industry. Tong's curiosity and drive lead her to explore and experiment with different approaches to design. Tong Li continues to push the boundaries of graphic design, seeking new challenges and opportunities to make a lasting impact through her creativity and design expertise.
Se Young Yim is a New York-based painter and sculptor, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Her artistic practice is centered around the exploration of the vulnerable physicality of the body and the representation of intimate moments or places imbued with an eerie quality. Through her art, she seeks to capture the fragile nature of humans. Her work oscillates between concealing and revealing, always with a subtle sense.
Rymma Vinogradova is a Ukrainian contemporary artist working in the style of figurative art based in Basel, Switzerland. In her artistic practice, Rymma explores how the cultural heritage is being transformed by current trends of human development, how it changes into new forms and reveals itself in new ways of contemporary conditions. Art, for her, is a path and a way to be heard.
Xinyi Shao is a visual designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in brand identity, editorial design, generative design, and research. Her research- and process-driven design approach provides unique perspectives for problem-solving and creation. She works with contradictions to create tension and navigates between opposing forces to bring sophistication.
Danzhu Hu is an award-winning Chinese visual storyteller, currently specializing in illustration and fine art painting. Through her practice, Hu wishes to create a world where the most cryptic, subtle, and complicated emotions can be captured, translated, and cherished. Hu's visual language also plays into the sense of emotiveness. Her work is filled with aesthetic cues reminiscent of nature's organic forms, where she hides subtle metaphors.
Rana Huwais is a mixed-media artist specializing in printmaking and soft sculpture. In her work, Rana explores ideas of nostalgia, childhood, memory, and the complexity of being a second-generation immigrant from a nation currently undergoing the trauma of war. Formally, she engages with these themes with the use of bright colors, expressionistic and childlike mark-making, cultural motifs like the evil eye and Arabic script.
Qi Zhuang (1999, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and animator based in London, United Kingdom. Her project 未知晓 Unknown is a semi-improvised live performance created with costumes as a starting point, combining visual art, dance, music, installation and performing art. The concept of the work comes from a conversation with a monk.
Nanxi Jin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with clay. As a Chinese artist living in the United States for the past decade, Nanxi Jin has grappled with the tension between her early years in China and her art education in the US. This juxtaposition has greatly influenced her artistic journey, as she now combines her appreciation for harmony with the vibrant colors, conceptual leanings, and Eastern gestures and Western aesthetics.
Hee Jung Han is a visual artist living and working in South Korea. Her newest series, “Landscape of Pli,” is a process of exploring the ‘multiplicity’ inherent in humans living in the hyper-connected era where truth and lies, real and fake, are mixed. This this ever-changing landscape reminds her that the truth she knows or understands can be meaningless.
Chun Han is a photographer and creative director based in New York. Chun has been creating works focus on Asian women's social dilemmas, photographing Asian women and women's bodies, especially her self-portraits. Her other studio and video work were largely impacted by her theatre background by staging contrasting colors and theatrical effects in the images.
Ben Quesnel is a multimedia artist and educator producing work in Stamford, Connecticut. He deconstructs and distorts objects from his everyday experience, apprehending the meanings that have been attached to the items and evaluating them with a new understanding. Through the deliberate placement of these objects in unexpected ways, Quesnel creates a sense of bewilderment, a disruption to challenge certainties and confront preconceptions.
Kaiqi Wang, born and raised in China, is an established fashion and accessory designer based in the Bay Area. Her recent collection ‘Metamorphosis’ is inspired by the post-COVID burnout and the emotional struggles that the public is experiencing but with a message of hope and transformation. While it has been a challenging time, she believes that it has also been a time of growth and metamorphosis.
Jiawei Fu is an Interior Designer and Painter, born in Guangzhou, China, and now living in Los Angeles, USA. Jiawei's practice depicts mundanity and emptiness through a surrealized reality to wake up subconsciousness and create new conversations between people. In her latest series, Deceitful Lovers, she uses a delicate palette to expose the sugar-coated modern ignorance and relentlessness in all beings.
Milena Jovicevic is a multidisciplinary artist from Montenegro. Her work is inspired by everyday life situations and paradoxes of contemporary society and the world we live in, that strange place saturated with the media, exaggerated production, and consumption. She works as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro.
