Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
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.
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.
Xi Liu is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist. She creates oil paintings, prints, and evolving ecosystem-based installations using handmade paper and pigments derived from plants. Rooted in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy and Jungian psychology, Liu's work explores impermanence, origin, and spiritual transformation.
Zhuoyu Zhang is a new media artist from Beijing, currently based in New York. Working across video installation, interactive storytelling, and algorithmic systems, Zhang draws from internet subcultures, personal archives, and speculative fiction to construct intimate yet dissonant environments that reflect on surveillance, disembodiment, and affective labour within visual regimes shaped by data.
Ziggy Yang is a Chinese installation and new media artist based in New York. His practice explores the complex dialogue between human emotions, cultural conditioning, and technology, positioning technology as both an interactive medium and a conceptual framework. Yang employs mechanical systems, programmable physical computing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic materials.
Cizzoe Yi Wang (b. 2000, China) is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the UK. She is working across installation, performance, sculpture, and documentary filmmaking. Conceptually driven and informed by her background in social anthropology, her practice explores human interaction as a structured game governed by societal rules.
Joana Pereira da Costa is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of body, memory, and resistance. Drawing upon lived experience, feminist philosophy, and poetic inquiry, her practice engages performance as both method and metaphor, a space where the self is simultaneously deconstructed and reassembled.
Blanca de la Cruz is an artistic photographer and author of the book Reinventing Oneself in the Face of Adversity. Her work is born from stillness, driven by the need to transform pain into beauty. She explores themes such as vulnerability, resilience, identity, and the creativity woven into everyday life. Her images speak of transformation and the beauty that resides within human vulnerability.
Lili Shen is a London-based artist working at the intersection of interaction design, data visualisation, and embodied experience. Her practice centres on the body, both physical and emotional, as shaped by technology. Exploring themes of sleep, digital tracking, and exercise in immersive environments, Shen transforms physiological data into visual and sonic narratives.
Zhiqiang Li (b. 1993) is a multimedia artist and educator. Li’s practice-based research focuses on employing digital technologies, such as facial recognition and the Internet of Things, to create digital artworks that reanimate and reinterpret cultural heritage. He investigates the dynamic relationship between digital art and cultural heritage, seeking to dissolve the boundaries between them.
Ailyn Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Working with hand-sculpted stone clay, found objects, and drawings on canvas, she creates dreamlike scenes that explore memory, femininity, and transformation. Her creative process often begins with automatic drawings or fragments of dreams, allowing subconscious imagery to surface organically.
Zhuyang Liu is a trans-media artist whose practice spans sound, performance, film, moving images, writing, and installation. Their work interrogates identity, labour, technocracy, and the body through immersive, often surreal narratives. Zhuyang’s hybrid works challenge perception, collapsing reality and fiction into multisensory experiences that question how we live, relate, and imagine.
Jiashun Zhou is a fibre artist whose work intricately explores the intersection of memory, space, and emotion through weaving. His artistic practice transforms personal experiences and fleeting moments into tangible, three-dimensional forms. Jiashun Zhou’s work is deeply influenced by his desire to decelerate the rapid pace of modern life and draw attention to the often-overlooked details.
Halim Madi is a programmer, poet, and modern-day storyteller born in Beirut, Lebanon, who now lives and works across San Francisco, Beirut, and Paris. Halim explores migrant, queer, and cyborg consciousnesses, weaving new understandings from the collisions of disparate worldscapes. Their work collects and performs stories of border-crossing bodies that unlock the imagination of new futures.
Yasuaki Matsuura is a Tokyo-based contemporary artist whose practice centres on the theme of “new memory.” He uses the camera, its form, function, and cultural role, not just as a tool, but as both subject and medium. His works invite users to slow down, to look, and to feel the presence of time and others. Each camera is not just a device, but a proposition.
Kewei Zhao is a designer and founder of Studio ZKW in New York. Her work is defined by a poetic approach to form, a commitment to craftsmanship, and a deep interest in material exploration. Blurring the boundaries between furniture, sculpture, and textile, she creates objects that are both functionally grounded and conceptually unique.
Yanhua Feng is a Chinese-born artist based in San Francisco, with studios in Vancouver and Beijing. Working in acrylic on canvas, she constructs layered surfaces that hold contradiction. While abstract, her work is rooted in the emotional architecture of contemporary life, its intimacy and instability. Female bodies, domestic space, and unspoken gestures are all recurring themes.
Elizabeth Glazko is a Los Angeles–based photographer and visual artist specialising in cinematic portraiture and stylised visual storytelling. With over a decade of experience, she has built a practice that bridges the worlds of film, fashion, and fine art. Wolfilm, her ongoing body of work, s a personal archive of moments suspended between memory and fiction, shaped more by feeling than fact.
Yiqing Lei is a nomadic artist currently landed in Shenzhen. Intention, labour and wandering are important to their practice. Yiqing’s practice involves the eradication and reimagining of past roots and being. They articulate words, sculptures, photos, and actions to create a symbiotic total, which is often obsessed with the ephemera, fragmented, atmospheric landscape.
Lili Xie engages with the realms of photography, video, performance, and ceramics in her artistic practice. The evolution of her work is an ongoing journey of self-exploration, inquiry, and the deconstruction of her own identity. Through these diverse mediums, she navigates the complex landscape of personal introspection and transformation.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
