Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
INTERVIEW | Ollie Hongji Li
Ollie Hongji Li is a fiber artist and textile designer based in New York City. Drawing inspiration from nature and religion, Ollie creates textile sculpture using knotting, knitting, crocheting, spinning, and natural dye. Ollie's art reinterprets the traditional yin-yang dichotomy and offers a new perspective on gender roles.
INTERVIEW | Chen Yiting
Chen Yiting is a visual artist, illustrator, and ecological narrative researcher, who currently lives and works in Beijing. Chen Yiting's visual language is known for its gentle, restrained, yet powerful style. Skillfully blending watercolour and digital media, her work emphasizes quiet, poetic contemplation rather than dazzling visual effects, guiding viewers to reconnect with nature's rhytm.
INTERVIEW | Yicheng Zhu
Yicheng Zhu is a freelance multidisciplinary visual artist. She frequently draws inspiration from real-world references and, influenced by her Chinese heritage, often incorporates elements of Chinese culture into her work. Whether it's a futuristic cityscape, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an ancient sacred ruin, Yicheng brings each world to life with fresh and compelling visual storytelling.
INTERVIEW | Zj Pan
Zj Pan lives and works in Chicago, US. Pan works with sculpture, performance, and new media, meditating and investigating the uncanniness of our modern human condition. Working to resist the shocks and simulations in everyday life, he uses animation and humour to transform and demystify objects. Pan animates objects' forms and functions in a DIY approach with sculptural sensibilities.
INTERVIEW | Kimin Kim
Kimin Kim is a Korean-born painter currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His practice centres around the intersection of botanical symbolism, historical memory, and the ritualized navigation of grief. He engages flora as both symbolic vessels and ritualized objects, drawing on their presence in Korean shamanic ceremonies, funerary traditions, and ancient tombs.
INTERVIEW | Sharon Yaoxi He
Sharon Yaoxi He is a renowned Chinese-Canadian painter based in New York City and New Jersey. Informed by philosophical inquiry and classical artistic traditions, Sharon Yaoxi He’s paintings offer a compelling reimagination of space. Rather than treating space as a fixed, measurable entity, she approaches it as a dynamic, psychological experience shaped by perception.
INTERVIEW | Zoya Taseva
Zoya Taseva is a multimedia artist with a background in spatial design. Originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, she is currently based in Groningen. Her practice explores innovative ways of connecting with the public by transforming spectators into active participants. Working at the intersection of interactive media, spatial design, and technology, she creates immersive environments.
INTERVIEW | Tianxi Wang
Tianxi Wang is a freelance artist based in London. Her practice grows from the fertile soil of familial memory, tracing invisible currents of tension and emotional residue within intimate bonds. Experimenting with oil paint, acrylic, oil sticks, and collages, Tianxi experiments with textures and techniques to bring artistic visions to life, trying to expand the possibilities of material.
INTERVIEW | Raizel Pauline Albano
Raizel Pauline Albano is an applied anthropologist from the Philippines, currently serving as the founder-director of Anthro on Foot Audio Walking Tours and a writing consultant for UNICEF Philippines. Her practice is rooted in breaking social barriers and democratizing access to quality educational and cultural heritage materials.
INTERVIEW | Lexiong Ying
Lexiong Ying is an interdisciplinary artist working across multiple visual media. Her practice is driven by a critical engagement with contemporary society, drawing upon personal experiences and an acute awareness of the evolving social landscape. Her work explores themes such as the fragility of human relationships, the illusions of consumerism, ecological consciousness, and animal welfare.
INTERVIEW | Huiya Zhang
Huiya Zhang is an independent fashion designer based in China, and the founder and planner of the fashion creative platform H.Y FASHION STUDIO. Her clothing design language integrates emotional narrative and material experimentation, dedicated to breaking the shackles of perfectionism and constructing a genuine and powerful visual expression between softness and imbalance.
INTERVIEW | Can Cui
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.
INTERVIEW | Yezi Lou
Yezi Lou is a Chinese artist, who challenges classical oil painting through subtle shifts in palette and bold subject choices. Her practice revolves around objects as entry points into explorations of belonging, nostalgia, and alienation. Her paintings feature mundane objects stripped of original economic value, reflecting shifting identities and interactions beyond traditional social frameworks.
INTERVIEW | Tianjiao Wang
Tianjiao Wang works with film, photography, and installation. She was born in Beijing and is currently based in Chicago. She considers her films to be experimental documentaries. She anticipates that this medium can reveal subtle shifts and new perspectives in even the most ordinary things. She works both digitally and on celluloid. Her subjects and inspirations largely stem from her mother.
INTERVIEW | Hsin Hwang
Hsin Hwang is a Taiwanese visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, and installation art. Deeply influenced by fairy tales, mysticism, and Jungian psychology, her work draws from dream imagery, faith, and personal experiences to depict inner spiritual landscapes. Her work serves as a process of self-inquiry and as a healing force.
INTERVIEW | Yicong Li
Yicong Li is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Beijing, China, currently based in Chicago. Li's artistic vision merges influences from her diverse cultural background. She pushes the boundaries of fashion through masquerades and sculptural forms that interact with the body. She collaborates with local artists and designers and showcases her work in numerous exhibitions globally.
INTERVIEW | Qianqian Jia
Qianqian Jia is a Fashion designer based in London. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. Fashion doesn't just exist in the closet but in lifestyle and beliefs. Because of her experience in graphic design, her designs are always very linear and balanced. The clothes establish a sensory connection with the wearer through balance.
INTERVIEW | Pasquale Loiudice
INTERVIEW | Yiqi Zhao
Yiqi Zhao (Edie) is a visual artist and illustrator whose surrealist practice interrogates themes of identity, societal constraints, and resilience through a fusion of meticulous craftsmanship and symbolic storytelling. She continues to expand her practice, blending traditional techniques with digital innovation to amplify underrepresented narratives.