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.
River is a visual artist and graphic designer specializing in digital design and large abstract canvas work. While her work is visually striking with intense color, her work is also known for her deep narratives on Māori culture, in particular, her recent canvas works look into museum repatriation. She wants people to understand colonisation and the devastating impact it had not only in Māori but all indigenous cultures.
Jiahan Fan is a visual and illustrative artist whose work reflects the every day possibilities of the imagination. Operating in a variety of materials and media, Jiahan specializes in combining visual art with the function of creating valuable and beautiful artworks. She draws inspiration from Popism, Generation Z, and Chinese culture to create work that employs the strategies of these disciplines while providing a visual experience for the viewer and participant.
Zhenyuan Shi is an artist and designer originally from Shanghai, China, and currently lives and creates in New York. Having lived through environments where the direct expression of self could bring danger to the marginalized as a queer immigrant of color, they became intrigued by capturing the nuanced, complex, and intense emotional experiences through poetic imagery.
Margarita Howis is a creative rebel and an artist by heart with a background in architecture. Her work is influenced by observing cultural differences and perspectives on authenticity, women's rights, and societal expectations. Through her experiences, she has come to understand the ways in which culture shapes our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
Hwang Sung Mi is a Korean visual artist. She received a B.F.A in Printmaking from the Hong-Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea. In her career, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Italy, and Greece, starting in 2008. Her work has been published internationally, in the press, and in artists' books. She works with plastic bags and laces to create flowers.
Yanming Chen is a UI/UX designer, originally from China. She devotes herself to the path of design for its features in avant-garde concepts, visual presentation, and commercial performance. Her inspiration comes from all details she captures in everyday life. She translates what she observes and how she feels into illustrations in her special tone. Her design is often the illustration of her effort in research and observation through vibrant colors in a minimalistic style.
Aylal Heydarova is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span various artistic styles and creative techniques, including pointillism, modernism, and abstract. With her distinct individualistic approach, Aylal's paintings are highly appreciated by her viewers, who are usually overwhelmed by the brightness and combination of colour, clear composition, and beautiful artificiality.
Aline Cavalcante (Brazil, 1980) is a visual artist and photographer, base in São Paulo. Her work is focused on emotions, and she seeks to represent through memories the relationship between people and space. Analogic and digital collages, interferences, and photo assemblies with repetitive effects are the basis of the works that have already participated in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, besides having received recognition in international awards.
Acquaetta Williams utilizes the feelings, thoughts, and memories inspired by African images to express their relevance to contemporary African American women. She has worked in a variety of mediums, including acrylic paint, glass, paper, canvas, and wood. The materials are diverse, addressing the surface and the depths of each form and connecting them to the stories that emerge from these environments.
Negentrop is a transnational collective of artists started by three sisters in Cornwall, UK, in 2022.Their aim is to visually respond to Cybernetic and Eschatological themes emerging in Science, Philosophy, and Art and, through this, develop new unknown ways of working visually & collectively. Negentrop believes individual creation is an 'obsolete' and 'manipulated' ideal and that we have entered a creative era that is unknown, unbound, and unhuman.
Guillermo Pacheco is an artist from Maryland currently residing in New York City. Throughout his architectural education, Pacheco became obsessed with the connection between art and architecture. Pacheco's explorations of spatial representation allow his visual works to move away from literal depictions of natural scenes and towards conceptual representations and experiences.
Zemfira Alaskarzade is an artist and jewelry designer from Azerbaijan. Zemfira paints in her own style, which was born thanks to impressionism and expressionism. She is inspired by the ideas of impressionism in the transmission of the first emotions, impressions, and expressionism - a vivid demonstration of feelings. However, the main genre of her work is portraiture.
Laura Mirarchi is an Italian artist currently based in Florence. Her works are based on experimentation with different mediums with an emphasis on the visual and narrative aspects. In her current participatory practice, she examines through photography and video the feeling of struggle to find a real connection and the contrast between what is visible and what is not.
Karim Abed was born in El-Kelâa (Tigzirt), a small village in North Africa. He moved to Ontario, Canada, in 2004, where he has lived ever since. His work explores the dynamics of human relations both at the individual and societal levels. Through his photos, he examines the impact of modernity on ancient cultures that are fighting for survival. The idea of power and how it is used in our day and age is at the center of his current work.
water-ish is a Japanese artist. She graduated in Jewelry Design and Gemology, and worked as a designer and Jewelry adviser, before turning to art. She lived in the US and currently resides in Japan, where she practice her art. She works with watercolor on paper, and realizes portraits. Every day she makes a different portrait, which she later shares on Instagram. Currently, she has approximately 7000 works.
Ksenia Tsyganyuk is a Russian artist living in Ukraine. Ksenia reveals the ideas of the inner growth of the personality, and the struggle for freedom through work with images of nature. her latest artworks reflect the theme of memory and identity, as well as the hope of a return to a peaceful life. She seeks points of support to rise and move forward, to help others rebuild their lives.
Max Cavitch is a landscape, nature, and macro photographer who lives in Philadelphia, where he is also a teacher and a writer. Since 2019, he has been a contributing photographer for the public-science project iNaturalist, with over 2000 observations of flora and fauna to date. A budding amateur geologist, his studio portraits of various geological specimens are collected on his Instagram page.
As an artist, Tsuki D Sureiya has always been drawn to the world of the unseen. From the spiritual to the financial, they explore themes of artificial intelligence and peer-to-peer digital cash in their bold yet soft, and technical yet natural style. After studying business, they found a passion for creating pixel art animations on an app, which sparked a lifelong interest in experimenting with images.
Stanko Gagrčin is a multimedia artist from Serbia. Although the process of creation is primarily intuitive for Stanko, the theoretical grounding through formal education allows him to always reflexively return to his works and has influenced the diversity of media and artistic genres through which he has expressed himself, positioning his work in a great plurality of aesthetics, sensibilities, and styles in the contemporary moment.
Born in 1980, Hana Šmidrkalová is a Czech artist living and creating mostly in Prague. After her spiritual awakening, Hana began to paint full-time. She became an artist with strong expressionist tendencies and a passionate lover of painting. Hanaś work focuses mainly on exploring the sacredness of all that is and the transfer of this sacred essence onto the canvas.
