Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.
Yulin Peng is the curator and director of Galerie de Nuage, a contemporary art gallery and cultural platform operating between New York and Hong Kong. A licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, her practice spans curation, design, and economic research. Her work bridges the creative and the quantitative, contributing to broader questions of how culture is shaped.
Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
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.
Zengjie Chai is an interdisciplinary artist from Hangzhou, China, currently based in Los Angeles. Working autobiographically through queer autotheory, he explores elements of his lived experience from multiple perspectives. Through engaging with different media, his work addresses and examines the intersection between his personal narrative and the sociological context as a queer diasporic body.
Yuhan Gu is a New York–based industrial designer whose work explores the intersection of function, emotion, and sculptural form. TACTO reflects Gu’s interest in the emotional relationship between people and the objects they keep close in their daily workspace. Designed as a cactus-shaped memo holder, the project transforms a familiar natural form into a playful and functional desktop object.
Boris Popoff is a textile artist and designer based in Barcelona. His work merges traditional weaving with sustainable material research. He is the creator of PETEXTILE, a project that transforms post-consumer PET plastic into woven textiles. His practice bridges craft and experimentation, positioning weaving as a cultural heritage and a contemporary investigation. He has exhibited and collaborated across art, design, and material research.
Katya Shkolnik (b. USSR; lives and works in Milan) is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, sound, and installation. Her work explores perception, time, and the unseen structures that shape reality. A background in nuclear physics informs her interest in the relationship between the known and the unknown, and in how invisible forces can become sensory experience.
Shingo Ohta is a Japanese photographic artist based in Toyooka, Hyogo, near the Sea of Japan. After a long career in business and regional revitalization, he turned to photography as a primary artistic practice, developing an ongoing body of work centered on the sea as a living, volatile, and almost sacred force. His images transform waves, spray, light, and weather into abstract forms.
João Prosperi is a Brazilian editor and visual artist based in Los Angeles. His work is driven by an interest in images and the technologies used to create them. Drawing from a background in editing, photography, and post-production, he often works across different tools and formats, combining digital and analogue processes in search of unexpected visual results.
Samuel Perry is a self-taught abstract artist based in San Diego, California. Known for his large-scale works on unprimed canvas, his practice explores the tensions between structure and spontaneity, control and disorder. His work is held in luxury hotels and private collections throughout the United States and represented by galleries across California.
Wallace Woo is a Paris-based contemporary artist and the founder of Stalactite Aesthetics. His work established the movement of Geological Abstractionism, a philosophical inquiry into the dimension of time and material sedimentation. His work explores the intersection of gravity, time, and the silent breath of the earth. The act of painting is not decorative for him, it is an act of deposition.
Kinga Owczennikow is a visual artist working with photography who navigates the space between documentary observation and conceptual inquiry. Her work is often concerned with the conceptual role of internal frames within her photographs, and their profound impact on human perception and understanding. She also presents imagery of natural and urban scenes in seeming harmonious coexistence.
Chieh-Lin Wu is a London-based image maker working primarily with still life and the human body. With a background in fashion photography, her practice focuses on quiet observation and the subtle details of everyday forms. The series Tender Tension explores the visual and tactile relationship between the human body and natural forms, focusing on moments where their boundaries begin to blur.
Harshil Upadhyay is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose practice explores the delicate space between presence and absence. Influenced by both documentary realism and poetic abstraction, his work captures fleeting moments of solitary figures, transient encounters, and landscapes suspended in time, through the use of motion blur, muted tones, and selective colours.
Graphic designer and educator Lucy Zou specialises in branding, typography, and visual storytelling. She is invested in projects that work with cultural institutions, public systems and histories, and cross-cultural contexts. Some recurring themes in her work include notions of interpretation, navigation, and understanding, and how visual language around things can impact how we experience them.
Bin Fang is a multimedia artist working across language, video, installation, image, sound, and drawings. The work engages with labour, fragmented memory, and performance, often tracing ideas and materials that resist or are misread in translation in daily life. Through a poetic approach to space, Bin explores how body, identity, culture, and perception are deferred, reframed, or misunderstood.
Achieving feelings of nostalgia of the Y2K era and creating powerful compositions with red, black, and white, William Morris III creates dialogue surrounding tools of capitalism as they affect identity, relationships, and politics. His designs on matte print present bodies in distorted shapes, stark contrast and text serving as dialogue.
Zihua Mo is an architectural designer and visual artist based in Philadelphia. Working across architecture, urban speculation, and digital imagery, Mo operates at a scale that resists easy categorisation. At the core of his work is the concept of synthetic nature: the condition in which the designed and the evolved become genuinely indistinguishable.
Sona Lee is a Korean artist currently living and working in New York City. She primarily works in painting and drawing, reconstructing surreal spaces where fragments of memories, dreams and reality intertwine to create multi-layered visual narratives. Her layered imagery reflects a deep interest in psychological space, often blurring the boundary between the real and unreal.
Carla Rump is a visual artist working across installation and sculpture. Her practice explores transformation, materiality, and the cyclical relationship between creation and dissolution. Drawing from natural processes and organic forms, she develops immersive, site-responsive environments that engage spatial and bodily perception.
Leah Larisa Bunshaft is a multidisciplinary artist who works in mixed media. Trauma received in childhood, changes of countries influenced the choice of themes of the artist. A key theme in Leah's artworks is the vulnerability of the fragile human being in this insecure world, issues of femininity, women's lives, feminism and self-identity.
Mengqi Liu (刘孟琦) is a multidisciplinary artist based in California, working across painting, printmaking, collage, and sculptural accumulation. Her practice investigates the invisible structures that shape human experience, the boundaries between self and society, the transformation of memory, and the shifting authority of symbols across contexts.
Ziwen Li is an artist based between London and China, working across painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. She is deeply interested in fluid energies that circulate between the subconscious and nature. Her work reflects on memory, authenticity, transience, psychological vulnerability, kindness, and the human search for meaning.
