Vierdamme is the artistic duo of Marleen Vandamme and Dennis Vieren, a portmanteau that embodies the fusion of their distinct creative voices, exploring the depths of identity, emotion, and connection. Their work is deeply personal, reflecting an ongoing artistic conversation between two distinct yet harmonized perspectives.
Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Simon Gama is a self-taught painter based in New York. He works with industrial materials, factory paint, filler, surfaces people call cheap, because he spent years inside that world, and its cheapness is part of the work's truth. Strong color, irregular forms, and worn, weathered surfaces define his paintings: diaries of the day he lived, each one hiding names, phrases, and private materials.
Lu Ren is an MFA student majoring in Experimental Animation at CalArts. In her recent film, "Why is Climate Changing?", she interviewed 22 people about their views on climate change and created an animated documentary. Lu has created some animations with a theme of expressing certain emotions in her works. Lu is exploring a more experimental narrative approach in her future animation practice.
Moozhan Gholinataj is an Iranian contemporary painter based in Istanbul, Türkiye. Her practice centers on expressive abstraction and psychological portraiture, using acrylic on canvas to investigate identity as an evolving emotional landscape rather than a fixed likeness. Her nine-part collection Little Humans develops a community of distinct psychological presences.
Helena Bunina is a Ukrainian contemporary artist and muralist based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, mixed media, and large-scale murals, exploring vulnerability, identity, emotional resilience, memory, and transformation through neo-pop aesthetics and emotional symbolism. She creates vibrant works that balance playful imagery with psychological depth.
Anita Horvath is a Hungarian-born artist based in Baden, Austria. Working primarily with acrylic and mixed media on canvas, she develops abstract compositions that explore the relationship between structure, emotion, and contemporary human experience. Rather than presenting fixed narratives, her work invites open interpretation and encourages viewers to engage with their own experiences.
Franchesca Art is a Colombian-American visual artist whose practice operates under the concept of Neo-Virtualism, a framework that examines the tension between human presence and hyper-digital culture. Born in Bogotá and shaped by a screen-free childhood grounded in nature and sensory experience, she has developed a visual language that questions how technology reshapes perception and emotion.
Ali Esmaeillou is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Dubai. Since 2003, he has developed a studio-based practice centered around painting and ceramics. His visual language draws from mythology, memory, and social narratives, blending symbolic figuration with textural depth and sculptural form.
Giulia Aim is an Italian multimedia artist whose work is defined by a saturated visual language, instinctive use of colour, and visually magnetic compositions that balance intensity, irony, beauty, and perceptual disorientation. Slices of Life - The Time of Nature is an ongoing series of circular acrylic paintings depicting enlarged cross-sections of fruits and vegetables.
Olivia Hicolaou is an American dancer, filmmaker, ephemeral sculptor, and friend to the wind and the sea. Her practice is less the work of an artist as an individual, and more a collaboration between the conscious being and the ecological world. Utilizing what can possibly be described as "sculpting fabrics," a dancer sets foot in an ecological landscape and enters into communion with the wind.
Petros Thanos, MD, PhD, is a Greek visual artist and Urologic Surgeon based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Thanos is the founder of Emotional Realist Expressionism (ERE), a movement defined by his manifesto “The Indivisible Triad”: every work must simultaneously hold real human presence, authentic emotional charge, and expressionist freedom, with none of the three ever dominating.
Flavia Lovatelli is a sustainable paper manipulation artist whose elaborate, immersive works transform recycled paper into intricate, dimensional environments. Guided by a deep commitment to material integrity and sustainability, she elevates reclaimed paper into complex compositions that explore texture, structure, light, and shadow. Flavia Lovatelli
Ricky MacH (b. 1996) is a self-taught expressionist painter born and based in The Bahamas. Each of his paintings interprets a particular phase of consciousness, whether it be derived from reality, a dream or anything of that sort. The objective was for him to extract those interpretations and present them accordingly, utilising his brush, finger and knife (BFK) technique.
Maisa Mreiwed is a Syrian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator based in London, Canada. Deeply passionate about the arts in all its forms, Maisa creates intricate artworks that incorporate signs and symbols to explore thought-provoking themes from both historical and contemporary contexts.
Coraline Zhou's work uses drawing and writing as tools for excavation. Through asemic writing, abstraction, and drawings that map emotion and consciousness, she traces the pre-verbal: marks that behave like thoughts before they acquire words. These forms become archaeological evidence of the nervous system's search for coherence, suspended between comprehension and dissolution.
Saman Zahawi is an Iraqi-Canadian artist and architect born in Baghdad in 1967. His practice is rooted in Arab culture, philosophy, and identity - expressed through ‘Silent Art’, his signature form of contemporary Arabic calligraphy that transforms words into a visual and spiritual experience. Zahawi's minimalist work is shaped by the contrasts of the human experience.
Olga Niekrasova is an internationally recognized Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. Her interdisciplinary practice navigates the fragile terrain of memory, trauma, displacement, and the invisible threads that bind us to one another. Blurring the boundaries between cinema, visual art, and poetic inquiry, her work unfolds through immersive, emotionally resonant forms.
Charlotte Sapene is a Venezuelan artist living and working between Mexico and Nicaragua. Her work grows from a lived experience of displacement and the ongoing attempt to feel at home. She paints narrative landscapes where human figures move through emotional and psychological terrains shaped by memory, distance, and uncertainty.
Yiming Zhai is an illustrator, mural artist, and children’s picture book creator based in Dallas, Texas. His creative practice focuses on narrative, space, and the relationship between people and their environments. Influenced by children’s picture books, travel experiences, and observations of everyday life, Zhai constructs open and approachable narrative spaces.
Irene is an emerging abstract artist based in Sydney, Australia. Working primarily in textured abstract painting, her work explores themes of emotion, resilience, identity, and transformation through layered surfaces and expressive mark-making. Through a process that embraces spontaneity and experimentation, Irene creates works that reflect the complexity of human experience.
