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.
Hee Sook Kim is an accomplished visual artist who has gained recognition for her work across the world. Kim has been the recipient of several prizes and she also had a site-specific installation at the Philadelphia International Airport. She participated in several solo and group exhibitions internationally and currently, she is a Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
Yuqing Liu, an esteemed olfactory interaction artist and immersive experience designer, is celebrated for her groundbreaking work in human olfaction and memory. Utilizing advanced multisensory technologies, Liu explores how scents influence memory preservation and formation. Her art is not just interactive; it's a mission to tap into the deepest recesses of memory and emotion through scent.
Yu Mao has established herself as a Multi-Disciplinary Artist based in Los Angeles. Driven by a profound fascination with the intricate dynamics between people of various cultures, genders, and social backgrounds, she skillfully weaves her narratives using symbols, metaphors, and dreams. Her chosen mediums of expression encompass films, installations, sculptures, and photography, each serving as a canvas for her storytelling.
Michail Parlamas is a Greek painter, based in Athens. He studied in London at Central Martins College of Art before returning to Greece. Michail’s portraits are trapped between the physical and the digital world. He obsessively devotes himself to depictions of asymmetrical patterns with the aim of exposing and eventually familiarizing the public with diversity and non-conventional beauty.
Deborah Kruger’s latest artwork focuses on the tragic losses of the 21st century, specifically the impacts of human-induced climate change and habitat fragmentation on bird extinction. Kruger hopes that her environmental artwork invites dialogue about the importance of preserving wild spaces, animals, especially vulnerable birds, and protecting habitat for all species, including humans.
Erika Thomas is a Brazilian artist, currently based in France since the 1980s. As an artist, Erika Thomas sees artistic creation as a profound connection to oneself, others, and the world. In her current presentation, she incorporates dance, exploring the body's relationship to space, poems that delve into language and its connection to meaning, and video, a crucial contemporary medium interwoven with music.
Eunju Park is a Korean multidisciplinary designer and artist who specializes in 3D, motion graphics and speculative design, currently based in the Netherlands. In her artistic practices, she attempts to reflect the current phenomena that are caused by and deeply related to humans, such as the environmental crisis. Her works serve to captivate by storytelling through mesmerizing graphic images, questioning the present, and imagining the future.
Shuwan (b.1994) is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. She is the co-founder of the :iidrr Gallery, located in New York. Her work explores the bridge between physical and digital spaces, objects, and experiences. She uses digital data from an archive of glitched images to make new photographs and sculptures with modeling software and machine learning to explore the vision of the future.
Daiqing Zhang (b. 1998, Beijing, China) now lives and works in Providence, RI, and Los Angeles, CA, USA. Her practice is informed by phenomena in everyday life and their transcendental and celestial significance. Zhang’s work often takes form in highly crafted experimental instruments underscored by phenomenology, recreating and staging serendipitous moments with hot glass.
Yuxuan Gong is a young artist based in New York and London. With an innate quirkiness, she transforms garments into tangible expressions of identity. Gong's artistic journey is an intimate dance with patternmaking, prints, and textiles, where each stitch and brushstroke captures the essence of her imaginative perspective. Through her creations, she invites the wearer to embrace a wearable narrative, seamlessly fusing art and identity.
Yilin Du is a London-based digital artist and character designer with a diverse background in creating multimedia content. Her creations aim to provide insight into how digital technologies, new materials, and aesthetics could change our approach to design and thinking. Du's artistic endeavors culminate in a thought-provoking video, a poignant testament to the profound impact technology wields on our perceptions of selfhood.
Weiyun Chen, a graphic designer hailing from Brooklyn, New York, specializes in the dynamic realms of branding, exhibition, print, and editorial design. Currently serving as the creative director at Lucky Risograph, she has also co-founded Midnight Project Design Studio alongside Supatida Sutiratana. Together, they channel their collective focus towards branding, packaging, print, and typography design at Midnight Project.
Jingyi Gao, a multimedia artist based in New York, specializes in photography, video, and sculpture. Formerly a dancer, Jingyi's journey began with capturing the fleeting beauty of bodily movement on stage. In her interdisciplinary practice, she aims to evoke contemplation on the complexity of the human form, inviting viewers to engage with its diverse perceptions.
Saman, also known as The Samaniist, is a talented photojournalist and artist with a rich cultural background. Based in the Bay Area, California, Saman's work is influenced by both her Pakistani roots and American surroundings, resulting in a unique perspective that captures the essence of diverse cultures and stories. With a passion for storytelling through the lens, Saman uses her photography to shed light on the untold narratives of people and places.
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.
Yu Pan is a visual communicator and multidisciplinary artist who works with a range of design instruments and media. Buddhist culture is where it all began for Yu Pan, who grew up in a Buddhist household. In his work, he employs methods including, but not limited to, graphic design, sound design, moving images, and performance art to influence the viewer and immerse them in scenarios they may have never been exposed to before.
Chicago-based visual artist and hybrid designer Xiaodong Ma was born in Nanjing, China, in 1991. In the interplay between dimensions, Xiaodong Ma found his canvas for exploration. The art practice of translation between 2D and 3D is fertile ground for experimenting with unknown outcomes, challenging viewers to see and experience familiar forms in unexpected ways.
Rubén González Escudero was born in Madrid in 1979, and based in Berlin since 2007. His work revolves around the concept of environment from a very broad approach, which would include not only the physical aspect but also the cultural and even technological aspects. It examines the complexity of urban spaces, social and cultural structures, and how they interact with each other.
Raine Storey is a Canadian visual artist based in London, England. Storey’s work combines her Fine Art and Art History degree with her ‘higher education’ at the ‘school of hard knocks’. It is the latter that led her examination into why she creates. Storey aims to contribute to the renewed identity of raw materials. The artwork recycles and preserves historic waste, including London’s House of Parliament restoration, to place back on the walls.
Via Li, a painter based in Cupertino, CA, is passionately dedicated to capturing the intricate emotions of women and addressing the daily challenges and injustices they grapple with. The artist employs women as conduits for exploring emotions as a tangible form of energy. Via's paintings possess a dual nature—simultaneously tenderly beautiful and poignantly compelling.
