WORLD OF CO ARTISTS

Ada Wu

Interdisciplinary / China

Ada Wu is an interdisciplinary artist working in sound, installation, and performance. She creates happenings that interrogate the production of silence and truth within systems of control. In the past, Wu’s research investigated the history of totalitarian architectures and their manipulation of body movements. Her current works aim to examine sensations and physicalities of sounds through interferences, vibrations, bodies and spaces. She completed her BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Computation, Technology and Culture at Rhode Island School of Design, where she is currently pursuing her MFA in Digital + Media. Her works have been exhibited at spaces such as the RISD Museum, Granoff Center at Brown University and Luohu Art Museum in China.

www.adawu.org

Izzati Faisal

Photography - Digital Art  / Singapore

Izzati Faisal is an emerging artist based in Singapore. She recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Imaging at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She also graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore majoring in Fine Art Photography in 2018. Intrigued by the cultural aspects and beliefs of her born race, she investigates keenly on the voices of a community and analyses existing social issues by twisting perspectives and showing satirical approaches in her works. Izzati's photographs often portray narratives and symbolism. Her works has been exhibited at The 2nd Quanzhou (Huaguang) International Image Biennial & Fujian Huaguang Photographic Art Museum, Quanzhou, China, 15th Jeonju Photo Festival, Jeonju, Korea, 'The Future is Now: Bandung Photography Triennale 2022', Bandung, Indonesia and National Gallery Singapore.

www.iztfphoto.com

Yulin Yuan

interdisciplinary artist / China

Yulin Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Virginia, Chinese-born and South Africa-raised. She concentrates in collage, video, and photography, exploring identity, and mythology through family history and community. Yulin's work deconstructs intimate spaces through performance and image-making based on her immigrant experiences. She obtained her BFA at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and is now an MFA candidate at James Madison University in the United States.

www.yulinyuanart.com

EmilyMc Lennan

Visual artist / UK

''Thriving community networks realised taking less from the planet brought so many more benefits; loneliness was rare." I am inspired by the way nature is interconnected, the complex systems in place that support balance, the way mycelium communicates through the roots of trees providing a network of intergenerational support. Through my artwork I want to inspire people to see degrowth as a positive philosophy that can support people and the planet to thrive in the future and to connect with the beauty of nature. My paintings are displayed with a series of short statements from the future. By creating these fictional future statements alongside bright and positive paintings I hope to inspire people to ask what they can do now to make connections. To start small, build their community, improve resilience, create tangible improvements that can inspire politicians of the future. Culture is often cited as upstream of politics, I hope that my work is one step in the journey of shifting the Overton window towards a just and equitable future living within planetary boundaries.

www.emilymclennan.com

Hannah Bianchini

Digital artist  / USA

Recording my own uncensored thoughts and images from the unconscious mind, I use digital art tools to render dreamscapes that immerse the viewer in a super-reality. My work explores what makes a place familiar, and how we perceive existence in liminal spaces. My artwork serves as an investigation into the nuances that make up the relationship between the environment and the inhabitant.

www.hbianchini.myportfolio.com

Dimelza Broche

Visual artist / Cuba - USA

As a disabled female artist, my work is focused on the relationship between my disabled body and the standards for beauty and normalcy. With my paintings, I am opening the door to much-needed dialogue about this issue, inviting the viewer to step into my world to join me in the journey of appreciating what differs from the norm. I use my body as the starting point to display the disabled experience, however, my intention is not to simply represent my physical disability but to place the viewer in my perspective and show them how I perceive my body and that of others from my wheelchair, and vice versa. By doing this, I present the viewers with the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the disabled figure, challenging them to reconsider not just beauty standards but the functionality of the body as a whole. Through my paintings, I am taking on the challenge of inspiring people through dignity and not pity. It is about showing the disabled body as a body that though it can look different and be perceived as dysfunctional still can perform plenty of normal activities just as anybody else.

www.dimelzabroche.com

Jennifer Reynolds

Visual artist  / Irleand

Jennifer Reynolds (b.2001)is a visual artist currently based in Dublin, Ireland. With a background in Art Film, she is currently completing a BA in photography in the Institute of Art Design and Technology in Dublin. Heavily centered on existential wondering, her work centers around nature. She captures the natural beauty of the world around her with a meditative and non-invasive approach. She explores human connection (or nowadays, more so disconnection ) with nature and questions our place in the world. She hopes through her photographs, she will re-ignite people's love and connection to nature and help us realize that we are all a part of it, instead of a separate entity.

www.jenniferreynolds.myportfolio.com

Mollie-Rose Chislett

Visual artist  / Australia

Mollie-Rose Chislett is an emerging artist living and working in the city of Melbourne (Naarm), Victoria, Australia. She received her BFA from RMIT University in 2022. The artworks Mollie-Rose creates consider the relationship between animals and humans within an Australian context. Emphasis is placed on understanding the animal experience within themes of urbanization, species adaptation, biophilia, and the Anthropocene. Her works utilise the animal body to unpack and explore narrative connections between the relationships of animals and humans. Both together and with the landscape. The works contemplate the contexts of Aestheticization and Natural History. Within the works, Mollie-Rose creates there is a fluid transition between the subject matter and how it comes to be represented through different mediums, such as paintings, drawings, and altered objects. These works push the representation of the animal body, transforming it into a vessel for communication and awareness.

www.mollieroseartist.my.canva.site

Gordon Lewis

Visual artist & music / USA

Gordon Lewis's approach to art is to use the materials at his disposal to create artwork that depicts images from deep within his psyche. He visualizes his own stylistic crafting to create artwork that is unusual, interesting, psychedelic, and original. Within the realm of his creative life, he hopes to use his designs to convey imagery that evokes a new way of thinking and understanding.

Dribbble.com/GordieDean

Niamh-Erin

Visual Artist / Berlin

Originating from her interest in astronomy and astrophysics, as well as her passion to create, Berlin based artist Niamh-Erin Cusack explores our solar system through astronomical research, abstract visuals and contemporary design. With an urge to experiment and explore, Niamh-Erin displays her thought process through paint, photography, sculpture and public installation. She questions her surroundings, therefore using the medium that fits best to project her contextual and scientific research. Born in West Ireland, Niamh-Erin Cusack comes from a rural agricultural background, therefore using the empty space in her paintings to represent her lack of knowledge growing up when trying to identify our planet through scientific forms. Niamh-Erin has exhibited her work in Ireland, Germany and Spain and graduated from Dublin's National College of Art and Design in 2019.

www.niamherincusack.com

 Frances Allen

Sound artist / USA

"Music should allow for experiences that are spatial, almost spiritual in nature." Sound is a healing modality and a commodifiable phenomenon. Inspired by the ancient Temples of Sleep, Panpsychism, and ritual music, Yew Haiku crafts meditative pieces in addition to dabbling in pop in the spirit of exploring sound as an interactive and powerful tool for healing and dreaming. Her ambient work integrates a frequency layer, binaural patterns, and environmental samples with sine wave dreamscapes that are made for meditation or daily rituals. This is music that presupposes an audience of the lone individual in vigil or healing spaces. This is sound for sacred wells and ephemeral grail castles, where the wounded can transcend a virtual reality through virtual listening, embracing, and transforming human centers. Pairing visuals with sound is a creative imperative for Yew Haiku's Fuschia Smith, who creates visuals for each piece released to a public forum.

hyperlink.myportfolio.com

Vicki Ying Shi

Visual artist / China

''I am a Toronto-based freelance artist, fearlessly venturing into the depths of large-scale mixed-media paintings to explore feminist themes. My artistic practice is an adventure of textures, as I am constantly pushing the boundaries of different materials and relishing in the collision of their unique characteristics. With fervent passion, I use my art as a platform to address issues related to gender equality and my cultural roots, often weaving themes of Chinese culture, language, and identity into my work.''

www.yuzusuheo.wixsite.com/vickis

Inga Frick

photography & multimedia / USA

'I graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz and then went on for an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania I later earned a second MFA from the University of Maryland in digital media. My paintings were included in the Corcoran Museum's biannual survey of American painting in 1993. Around that time I began to explore video installation together with Gillian Brown. In 1999 we were awarded a fellowship from Harvard University, where we worked for a year on a technically and conceptually complex interactive video installation, Turnaround Time. My formal art career ended in 2008 when my husband was severely brain-damaged. The next 13+ years were given to caregiving, first for my husband and then my mother. I never stopped working on my art but I did stop showing. Now I'm back. Working full time and ready to boogie.''

www.ingafrick.com

Siddharth Pathak

Multidisciplinary artist / USA

Siddharth Pathak, a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist from India has expanded his practice from Painting to adaptable and transformative Installations, Experimental Audio, Film & Video, Participatory Art as well as Performance Art and Writing the last 8 years. He works in a variety of mediums, bound only by exposure to specialized techniques, which he consciously learns and puts into application on a continuous basis through his projects. With his work, he explores themes of Recovery from Trauma in an attempt to document Unconscious Conflict. Through investigations into the ways of the human mind, heart, and the method of life he attempts to capture the passage of time taken for inner change and transformation; his raw material constituting the moments between cycles of “being” and “otherness”. This last year has noticed marked gravitation in his approach towards Sound and Audio driven artistic exploration and has added Sound Art, Musique Concrète as well as a study of Compositional Music to his wide-ranging practice.

www.siddharthpathak.art

Laura Corallo-Titus

Painter / USA

These paintings address changing perceptions toward landscape, the environment and our place in the world. Initially I was struck by the sense of permanence, vastness and grandeur of traditional landscape painting. In contrast, our contemporary vision is usually momentary; ( a view from a car, plane, train, film), fragmentary and distracted. Traditional depictions of the land and sea display a sense of power, stability, strength…a place to be conquered or conquer. Our dialogue around the environment now is of fragility and impermanence, destruction and loss. Our views of the passing world are frequently distorted from the glare of a window, a flash of artificial light, the editing of a photograph, political divisiveness. In these paintings the physical space begins to recede in importance. In its place nature acts as a conduit to an increasingly disordered and disorienting world view. Place and perspective continue to disassociate from a given image. Natural colors lie uncomfortably next to neon. The shape of the canvases may begin to take on the effects of the environment in which they come from. My intent in all of this is to mirror the discord in our current realities.

www.lauracorallotitus.com

Henry Detweiler

Interdisciplinary / USA

'My work, in various ways, is critically positioned within systems and flows of information. With it, I ask the questions: what happens when atomized personal data is made tangible? Is there inherent aesthetic potential in the technologies of mass surveillance? What happens to interpersonal trust when all that was private is public? What is our responsibility to each other when history is negotiable and revisable? What might it be like to have a pain-free past? What would it look like to cry? Maybe this time I'll use an AI to find out. Or maybe a paintbrush. Recent projects have used personal and public archives to arrive at possible solutions." Currently living in Berlin, Detweiler has exhibited work extensively in the US and internationally. He holds a BFA in Drawing Painting and Printmaking from Georgia State University (2012) and an MFA in Photomedia from the University of Washington (2021). He has work held in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

www.henrydetweiler.com

Jingyao Shao

New media / China

Jingyao Shao is a Chinese new media artist based in Brooklyn, who speculates different dimensions of self-perception through installations, performances, sound, and research. With individual and collective narratives, her works aim to evoke present conversations about the architecture of interpersonal relationships, across the spectrum from isolation to connection. She is a memory archiver, conscientiously examining in retrieval and morphosis of what has been left in the past, and planting it in new mediums through her practices. She is curious about what memory resonates among people and seeks to build invisible ties to people and space with her cultivation. Her work is also influenced by her reflections and questions on culture and gender structures, both looking back on cultural nostalgia and forward to future bodies.

www.jingyaoshao.com

Ryan Zogheb

Painter / USA

''By attempting to reach absolute perfection in myself and in my works, my paintings primarily focus on symbols of beauty in a means to either dispel beauty standards or bring viewers, and myself, into an eerie space of self-reflection. The process of creating my works holds unconscious truths about reflection and comparison, making the appreciation of the process a vital step in my artistic practice. With the strive for perfection, feelings of inadequacy and fragmentation shine through and dominate most outcomes. In discovering that perfection cannot be reached, I refute the image and embrace the unconscious.''

www.ryanzogheb.com

Sara Khalid

Designer / Saudi Arabia

''I imagine the world through the sixteen seas of poetry; the voice in me is eternal echoes of oral history. Sara Khalid is a Multidisciplinary Designer; who uses her Arabic-spirited and research-driven processes to develop her set of works Hyperlink. In her practice, she aims to find the composing thread between her roots and the links she clicks to navigate the digital narrative. As she carries her poetic mind through design, she's plotting analogies of Arabic Language and Computer Languages in Digital Rhetorics. To me, to communicate eloquently is the human intrinsic attribute; it is the voice of his consciousness, the reflection of his mind, and the shape of his soul. In the Holy Quran, Allah (SWT) said: "Created man, [and] taught him eloquence" that a human is a word embodied, a manifestation of deep-seated culture. Today, our voices are buried in information inflation and the passive demand to share; cross-culture communication is also "lost in translation". This being said, how can we redesign digital platforms to provide the means and techniques to creating contextual knowledge?"

hyperlink.myportfolio.com

Kayoko Nakamura

Multidisciplinary Art / Japan

 ''Data consists of "facts and statistics gathered for reference or analysis".Data gives us information and knowledge through qualitative or quantitative variables. Data tells us many stories.
I transform data into images and sounds, representing a different aspect of data as art. Invisible images buried in the numbers in the data are transformed into abstract images,
animated with movement, and visualized, and likewise, inaudible sounds become music. I embark on an unknown artistic journey with the data.

www.kayokonakamurany.com/

Anastasia Scala

Visual Artist / Austrelia

''I’m a fine artist and painter with a background in illustration, living and working in Perth, Western Australia. Previously I have studied and practiced in New York and London, before returning home to Australia to complete my Master’s degree in Fine Art. My goal in recent years has been to evoke both empathy and a sense of stories being passed on through generations in my paintings. To do this, I often incorporate history and mythology into my works, to create connections between myself and historical artists. Research outside of painting is therefore an important aspect of my practice. I engage in a lot of reading and writing to broaden my understanding. I pair this with an expressionistic application of colour and texture. It is possible to trace the artist’s process through brush strokes and imperfections, forming a connection between artist and audience. I want my choices to be obvious in my paintings, from the application of thick paint to vibrant colours selected to assault the viewer’s senses. This process lets the audience feel connected to audiences of the past and makes distant figures from history and mythology feel relevant to contemporary life. ''

www.anastasiascala.com

Rodjiana Munoz

Photography / USA

Rodjiana Munoz is a Los Angeles based commercial photographer who specializes in branded content and live music photography. Her participant-observer approach to the medium elicits wonder and awe, always inviting the viewer in for a closer look. This body of work focuses on themes of the American road trip, minimalism, the modern nomad, and the unrelenting beauty of nature and human connection. Each photograph depicts a lifestyle punctuated by the in-between moments of discovery and provides a lens into what it's like to live life unplugged. Travel was always a way for her to be fully immersed in the pursuit of artistic freedom – to create storytelling photographs that feel alive. To capture the extraordinary in the ordinary. With this collection, Munoz's primary aim is to help people aspire to collect moments and experiences rather than things.

www.rodji.com

Jia Jia

Interdisciplinary art / China

My artistic practice has been influenced by my experience of living, studying and working between China and America. I am curious both about personal emotion and about the larger factors at work in social and cultural contexts which influence individuals deeply. I am interested in how technological developments bring about synchronization and globalization in communication. Topics I explore and challenge the audience to experience in my work include: What do we receive from the image world? How do different media interact? How can we understand that truism that “seeing is believing” in a contemporary context, and how is that belief made real at the level of our bodies and senses?

www.jiajiajj.com

Autumn Nicole

Visual Artist / USA

Autumn Nicole is an emerging artist based out of Southern California and received her BFA from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 2020. Nicole's works aim to help others engage audiences in vulnerable conversations. She uses her work as a way to bridge intimacy gaps and foster thoughtful conversation. Her portrayals include visual puzzles that encourage an audience to solve and unravel hidden narratives. The ideas portrayed expand on intimacy and relationships. These themes often convey abstracted or distorted versions of memories. Her paintings are primarily composed of dark cool colors, and highly contrasted scenes. These depictions create a sense of alienation and rigid withholding of the subjects that they depict. Using paintings and works in felt, Nicole calls attention to areas of society that are glossed over. These glimpses often feature experiences of adversity or encounters with the subjects she depicts. Leaning into memory as an idea itself, the way it constantly shifts and moves like sand through the fingertips, becoming a continuous and intangible enigma.

www.autumnnicole.com

Lydia Tyburski

Visual Artist / USA

''I am a visual and digital artist primarily working with narrative psychological themes. I enjoy working with a variety of mediums and hope to explore more depth of topics during the residency. I graduated from school with a degree in painting in 2010. Since then I have focused on developing a variety of skills in the professional world which I hope to incorporate into my work as I dive back into working with my favorite mediums. I also enjoy the humorous side of life and hope to make more work that speaks to our inner divine fool.''

www.lydiatyburski.com

Xiaoyi Gao

Visual artist / China

Influenced by the rapid urban transitions in China she has experienced since her childhood, Xiaoyi Gao (@xiaoyigao_) is drawn by the intimacy brought by different subjects that coexist in public and private spaces. Her work is greatly inspired by everyday life and urban public infrastructure. Gao's visual language introduces the viewers to her observation of both private and collective experiences hidden in changes brought by social media and technology. Physical motions, carried through her own and others' bodies, appear in several of her pieces, displaying her inspection of intimacy between people. Usually captured in films, performances and installations, narrations of personal memory are also a recurring theme in Gao's work. She collects photos, audio recordings, films, text messages or letters to use as her materials.

www.xiaoyigao.com

Lisa Hennig-Olsen

Interdisciplinary artist / Norway

'“My interdisciplinary practice moves between the ephemeral and temporal, consisting of academic research amalgamated with a material and bodily investigation taking form as performance art, moving image, painting, and sculpture. Probing ethical discourses, I create activist and feminist statements and edutainment through task creation, physical and spatial scores, and experiments.” Lisa holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, London, and has studied Fine Arts and Design at Parsons School of Design, New York. In June, Lisa has a solo exhibition at 4Bid Gallery in Amsterdam presenting her ongoing performance for the moving image project Body of Evidence: “As we are flesh, so we are transient and ephemeral. Or are we? The lines of our synchronous existence in the physical and digital realms are becoming gradually indistinguishable, our transition from human to cyborg has begun. By shedding our corporeal bodies, we start to shed pre-existing conceptions of identity. Ethical discourses are of the utmost importance for our generation as we have the possibility of creating a new world and new humanity, in a way that is drastically different from our predecessors. Could we consider ourselves human without a tangible body? What would it mean to gain new senses through artificial sense design? How might our developments enable synergy between humanity and nature?”

lisahennigolsen.com

Suzi Garner

Мulti-media artist / USA

Suzi Garner is a multi-media artist focusing on social practice and video installation. She received a BFA in Photography from UH Manoa in 2002. From 2002-to 2013 she lived in Vietnam working with ethnic minority populations on photo-documentary and heritage preservation projects. She received an MA in Heritage and Sustainable Development in 2008 and moved to the Bay Area in 2013. Using recycled materials, light and shadow, and found or natural objects she collaborates with individuals, communities, and the environment to create situations that are documented with photography, text, audio, and video to create installations and performances. She sees her work as a vehicle for evolving her relationship to the community and the environment. Current themes include amplifying the voices of unhoused community members, reflecting on the power of the land around the I-580 freeway, and exploring the challenges of motherhood.

www.suzigarner.com/

Emily Moores

Visual artist / USA

''My art work investigates the playful movement of a body as essential to understanding and experiencing spaces or objects. I transform a space into a whimsical and immersive environment using colorful patterns, textures, and ornamentation. Play increases energy and releases positive endorphins. My goal is to use the movement of an individual's body to empower their imagination. Simply looking and observing abstract art is play.''

www.emilymoores.com

Lisa Moriarty

Mixed-media artist

/ USA

''I work primarily with encaustic medium and bees wax on both cradled wood panels and salvaged wood pieces. The unique properties of encaustic medium; warmth, movement, texture, and scent of the wax all captivate me. A repetitive meditative process has been central to my creative practice. My process primarily combines the free flow formation of encaustic monotypes along with the carefully planned repetitive assembly of paper relief. Recurring themes reference water in all forms and is a central source of inspiration and imagery in my works. I utilize color, texture, light, and many built up layers to represent and communicate my love and fascination with California coastal beach elements. Waves, sunlight, sea smoke, sea foam, tide pools and fog are all sources of inspiration. Layers of flowing encaustic medium, beeswax, and pigments communicate what is seen, what is veiled, the unseen, and that which lies beneath and imagined. The deconstruction of monotype paper swatches assembled into paper relief works communicate fragmented and imprecise memories. My desire is not to overwhelm the viewer with my perspective but to offer a gentle suggestion and an opportunity for them to connect on their own terms.''

www.lisamoriartystudio.com

Jennifer Bean

Mixed - media artist / Spain

I am a mixed-media abstract painter with a love of color, mark, and form. I have no singular way of starting a painting. Instead, the image evolves thru subconscious choices based on years of experimentation in mark-making. I generally start with a loose fluid drawing on the canvas, which I build with paint. As a child, I would find patterns and shapes in clouds or cracks on the ground, an obsession I have carried into my art-making practice. Through my process, I intend to convey that I am the organizer of the naturally occurring chaos resulting from automatic mark-making. When I work on a painting, I find patterns in the randomness; some I chose to eliminate while others I decided to enhance. My work is a balance between automatism and consciously directed mark-making. In my work, you will notice many organic oblongs and circular shapes in an assortment of intuitively mixed that create abstract worlds on my canvas. I believe they evoke feelings and emotions within the viewer.

www.jenniferkaybean.com

Nuria González Alcaide

Visual artist / Spain

Nuria González Alcaide is a self-taught visual abstract artist based in Barcelona, Spain. She works from painting to screen printing and installation. She has carried out a Contemporary Art workshop at the Metàfora Academy in Barcelona and is currently taking online courses taught by MoMa (USA). Now, Nuria is exploring the use of color and how it behaves when seeing its transformation on the canvas with a daily work of observation. The painting is made up of very expressive gestures and a lot of layers, resulting in textured strokes that evoke the emotions that she has hidden for years. She finds a lot of inspiration from contemporary New York artists like Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers.

www.nuriartt.com

Kim Karpanty

Movement artist, choreographer / USA

Kim Karpanty is an accomplished movement artist, filmmaker and educator who is based in the USA. Her interdisciplinary and collaborative projects investigate and bring to the fore social, cultural, and deeply personal issues based on real-life stories. She challenges her viewers with intellectual, visual and visceral experiences that are life-affirming and life-changing to unite diverse peoples and communities. For the last several years Kim has opened her training, teaching and creative processes to improvisational and contemporary European practices that have expanded her concept of live performance. She continues to perform globally as a soloist, creates/restages work as a commissioned guest artist, and advocates for longevity, justice and women in dance. Her current passion project is a dance film portrait about the life and legacy of jazz dance master teacher and teacher trainer Lynn Simonson. The film is in post-production and is temporarily titled "Lynn Simonson: Dancing Soul."

Jojin Van Winkle

Multidisciplinary artist / USA

Jojin Van Winkle is a multimedia artist, writer, cinematographer, producer, educator, and activist. Her film, video, photography, and audio research centers around the practice of listening, focused on resilience, environmental stewardship, and the human condition. Her recent and ongoing work, The Destruction Project, was the subject of a solo exhibition at MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art) October 2020–April 2021. This ongoing, multimedia, documentary-based project examines the roles of destruction and its counterpoints of resilience in rural areas. Through theatrical imagery, she investigates ways destruction and growth intersect with choice, change, and violence (natural and human-made), impacting everyday existence. The core of her practice is the process of documenting individuals, places, and objects revealing their stories and uncovering social implications.

www.jojinprojects.com

A Young Lee

Visual artist / Korea

A Young Lee is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in language, communication, and emotions. Her works use typography and a new language she created. Lee's works do not suggest certain ways to read nor meaning behind her paintings because she respects and welcomes all the experiences and feelings people had, just like verbal communication does. The title of her works becomes the subject of the conversations, and colors, texture, and shapes tell her stories. Viewers read or feel her works through their imagination, experiences, and so on. This circumstance is the ideal communication- no boundaries and no limits- that she desires. Lee received BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in 2016 and an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Art in 2021.

www.angela-rt.com

Vilma Leino

Photographer / Finnish

Vilma Leino is a Finnish-born, Berlin-based photographer. She was born in 1999 and has been using photography as a medium since 2015. Her work focuses on self-portraiture, which she uses to reflect inner emotions, solitude, memories, and personal experiences. In her work, she creates female characters with untold stories and experiments with strong color schemes, composition, and the human body. The photographs often balance between beauty and horror, and she uses humor as an aspect to lighten up darker subjects. Her photographs are a one-woman show, where being in control and the fear of losing it are in constant dialogue, forming a story about personal growth, where fears are forming into strength.

www.vilmaleino.com

Bryan Robertson

Visual artist / USA

Robertson is a visual artist based in Arizona, USA. He holds an MFA in painting and drawing with distinction from the University of Washington, Seattle. Robertson has received several university and non-profit grants to support his research and held solo exhibitions in commercial and non-profit spaces. He has presented at national conferences, including the College Art Association, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education, SECAC, and the New Media Caucus. His recent exhibitions include digital paintings at the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea, and experimental sound and video work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island. Direct yet conceptual. Provocative and engaging. Bryan Robertson's paintings and digital art are poetic visual language. The rhythmic quality of his palette and mark-making beat on the aesthetics humming below the surface of human experience. Concerning today's digital experience, Robertson seeks content that explores the relationship between information and authority.

www.bryan-robertson.com

Kiki Klimt

Painter / Slovenia

Kiki Klimt has researched and created in a visual language for more than 30 years. She graduated from painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1997. Three years later, she finished her master degree in sculpture, and in 2009 got a doctorate in art. For years she lectured at the Faculty of Design, and she is still lecturing at Arthouse Ljubljana. She has also lectured abroad; in Istanbul, Lisbon, Sofija, etc., and attended many conferences and symposiums. Since 1994 she has participated in several joint exhibitions at home and abroad. Her works were present in galleries in New York, Berlin, Zagreb, Ljubljana, etc. She experimented on conceptual art, photography, performance, installation, illustration and design. In the last years, she has been returning to the tradition of painting. For the last seven years, she has been developing a unique way of painting based on ancient knowledge, contemporary science and her study and experience. Painting with light combines the physical, emotional and rational aspects of painting. She paints in the opposite direction than most painters do. Instead of applying lighter or darker shades generated by an external source of light, she uses colours in their internal irradiation, their inner light. She just removes material and replaces it with the light that lies within the atom.

www.klimt.si

Fatima Al Romaithi

Visual artist / UAE

Fatima Al Romaithi is a visual artist based in the United Arab Emirates. She has obtained a B.A. in Art and Art History in 2020 from the University of New York Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Al Romaithi is currently exploring themes of vulnerability, shame, and authenticity through emotionally charged portraits. Her larger-than-life portraits aim to confront the viewer and create dialogue amongst the audience. In her practice, she uses a variety of mediums including, but not limited to, graphite, acrylic paint, and mixed media. In the future, she plans to pursue an MFA degree to be able to teach college-level art. 

www.sites.google.com/nyu.edu/fatima-alr/home

Maya Czeneszew

Interdisciplinary artist / USA

Maya Czeneszew is an interdisciplinary artist and student based in Minneapolis, MN. She explores themes such as history, music, and remembrance through her artworks, and is inspired by the interplay between these elements. She is also greatly inspired by the interplay between history and the natural world and seeks to represent this connection through painting, photography, and writing. She is currently working on projects exploring the intersection between nostalgia, history, obscurity, and change within the context of historical developments in Eastern Europe

www.mayaczeneszew.com/art

Taline Balian

Multidisciplinary artist / UAE

Taline Balian is a multidisciplinary visual artist who experiments around Social Media Faces. Through Portraits, she attempts to offer an alternative engaging experience, in the midst of the simulated happiness offered by the virtual platforms, eager to fulfill the viewer’s emotional and immersive needs. Affected by this collective numbness, she was led to hooking even more with the need to do as much as it could possibly be done with her own hands. With the emergence of both organic and synthetic materials, she attempts to fight back against the overflow of the heavy illusion of that polished reality. Since 2016, Taline has joined PACE, a platform for artistic collaboration and experimentation, taking part in the Artist CoLab and Experimental Art in Context. Her work was on display since 1998 in Lebanon, Cairo, Milano, London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and New York. In 2019, she took part in the Biennale of Contemporary Art 2019: Universal Data - An exploration of our digital presence at MACAM Modern And Contemporary Art Museum – Lebanon. In 2020, she presented her installation piece This Is Not Immersiveness, on Social Media Addicts who lost their abilities to be immersed at Aisha Alabbar Art Gallery Dubai. Her latest work Social Media Faces (2021) is an interactive video installation commissioned by World Art Dubai 2021.

www.talinebalian.com

Miriam Sagan

Writer - poet / USA

”I am a poet and writer.  My themes are often site specific, and address ecosystems and the Anthropocene.  I work in a creative duo, Maternal Mitochodtoa, with my daughter Isabel Winton-Sagan, a multimedia artist.
The images are of a work in progress. The piece is: Desiccation: Dormancy: Deluge
Made out of recycled materials, this site-specific land art sculpture will be the inaugural piece at a new open-air gallery in Santa Fe called "The Poetry Yard," a place to celebrate poetry, sculpture, and performance.
It is three tree trunks, covered in the bottle caps of baby formula. The poetry text is (there was a triangle) between me, G-d, and the water. Isabel dropped off the first bit and essentially just created the triangle. The words will appear on small metal signs.”

www.miriamswell.wordpress.com

Geneva Hutchinson

Interdisciplinary artist / USA

Geneva is a visual artist working in a variety of mediums, such as photography and installation. She received her BFA from Clemson University in South Carolina in 2019 and is currently working towards her MFA at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Her work is based around purity culture and sexual assault - and how women cope and deal with this abuse. Her work aims to “RECLAIM”, to reclaim her own mind, body, and power, as well as hopefully provide this empowerment to other survivors.

www.genevalark.com

Kikuko Sakota

Painter / USA

Kikuko Sakota uses acrylic paints because they are water soluble environment-friendly, dry fast, flexible, and produce great colors. They are similar to water color but they do not melt and mix on the surface so it is possible to apply layers over and over again. She developed abstract style using layers of paints and in some cases using adsorbent. Her attempt is to create transparency and depth by applying thin acrylic layers like pouring and staining and to add subtle nuance by manipulating brush strokes. She is trying to express the landscape in her mind, in other words, the sense of multiple time space passing by.  The moments depicted are music, feelings in the heart and mind, and the particular moment in the past and future. She wants viewers to feel something in common with her work so that they can become absorbed and lost in a moment.

www.kikukosakota.com

Adrianna Kinal

Mixed media artist / USA

Adrianna Kinal is a professional mixed media portrait artist based in Los Angeles. She earned her Fashion Design degree from FIDM and worked for 15 years in the apparel industry before switching to an art career. Her fashion experience influences her portraits, where she employs processes unique to the apparel industry. These include hand embroideries, screen printing, appliqués, and beading. Kinal is currently working on a body of work exploring beauty notions inspired by the famed Hollywood makeup artist Max Factor's story. She is experimenting with makeup as a painting medium and collaging photos, painting and embellishing silver screen movie stars with modern-day makeup techniques. These textures captivate the viewer's attention while the subject's gaze confronts. Her use of multiple-layered collage questions whether the person portrayed is hiding or enhancing their appearance with makeup. Integrating past beauty icons with the present leads to her titling the series "From the Silver Screen to the Digital Screen". Kinal works with individual clients on custom commissions. Her artworks are in private collections in the United States, Canada, the UK, and the United Emirates. To date, she has created over 300 portraits. Her artwork continues to be published and featured in galleries and museums globally.

www.adriannakinal.com

Liz Moore

Fiber artist / USA

Dragged through the hallway of her memories, Liz Moore's felt paintings, sculptures and installations depict abstract landscapes of her southern upbringing. Through the diffusion of form, color, and decorative objects, the works indulge in a constant state of becoming. Through material instability and bewildered color palettes, Moore creates conflicting chaos. Through scale, both large and small, the work invites the viewer to be entranced in their fluffy narratives, jeweled wall molds and cotton candy-like tapestries. In 2018 Moore received her BFA from the University of Kentucky and earned her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis in the midst of the 2020 panic. Moore has been a part of numerous group exhibitions including Intersect Chicago represented by re. riddle gallery, The Kemper Museum in St. Louis, Miami University Hiestand Gallery, The Textile Fiber Biennial in St. Louis, as well as Site: Brooklyn gallery in New York. She currently lives in Atlanta, GA, and has a solo show in August 2021 with re. riddle gallery.

@mizzlizmoore

Emily Docheff

Visual artist / USA

Emily Docheff is a Boston based visual artist focusing her work on imagined family history. Using inviting and playful imagery, her work descends into a more accessible and dream-like experience of what could be trauma or loss. Often, her work will hint to the personal experience of femininity with a watchful presence taking the form of a masculine shadow, a familial ghost, or versions of herself and other women. Emily is utilizing her time with World of Co researching her family's history in Bulgaria and incorporating imagery sourced from a collection of family photos dating back to 1919; ultimately aiming to create a body of work dedicated to her grandfather and building a world for memory to exist.

www.emilydocheff.com

Billy Dietz

Visual artist / USA

Billy Dietz's paintings and drawings depict the guilt-ridden psyche of a fictional priest. Father Mark feels plagued with lustful thoughts for a parishioner, then abstracts these musings and tries to transcend his earthly longings. In this way Dietz explorers spiritual aesthetics, the Catholic imagination, and abstraction as a psychological and ideological lens. In 2016 Dietz received his BFA in visual arts from the University of North Dakota and earned his MFA in studio arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Rerick has been part of various group exhibitions: the North Dakota Museum of Art, Sugar Gallery in Arkansas, Bascom Center for the Arts in North Carolina, Foley Gallery in New York,  ZG Gallery in Chicago, ShockBoxx Gallery in Hermosa Beach California, and Studio Montclair Gallery in New Jersey. Currently, he lives and works in San Antonio Texas, and is a semi-finalist for an art Fulbright to Bulgaria.

www.billydietz.com/

Camillia Elci

Multidisciplinary artist / USA

Camillia Elci identifies as a multidisciplinary artist, leaning towards sculpture. She is currently focusing her work on herself as the subject through performance art and digital photo/video. Her practice has become a big factor in how she works through the struggle of dealing with mental illness. Currently an MFA candidate at James Madison University in Virginia. Receiving her BFA from George Mason University in 2017

www.camillia-elci.squarespace.com

Andrea Cardenal

Painter / USA

Andrea Cardenal is a third-generation Latin American artist, based in Miami, the USA. Her paintings have been exhibited in various international art shows. She cites spontaneity as being at the center of her works, as they express personal emotions, contemporary societal issues, and explore her thought processes. Cardenal's artistic process is both fluid and organic, she allows concepts to emerge from her subconscious while also searching for harmony within the elements of her creations. Her works were represented by multiple international galleries including Galería Gaudí, Van Gogh Gallery, Florence Contemporary Gallery, and White’s Art Gallery.

www.singulart.com/en/artist/andrea-cardenal-18847

Chun Wang

Multimedia Artist / USA

Chun Wang is a Chinese-born, New York-based artist, technologist, and independent curator. For Chun, each artwork is rooted in an observation about contemporary life. Drawing inspiration from personal experience, current news and sociology research, her multimedia work develops narrative about how people feel, think and live in the 21st century and provides critical insight to the underlying systems that shape the societal and individual psyche. At once conceptual and emotional, poignant and poetic, controlled and spontaneous, realistic and surreal, her work creates tension among familiarity and estrangement which aims to create awareness and provoke dialogue.

www.chunwang.art

Elaine T. Nguyen

Artist & curator/ USA

Elaine T. Nguyen is an artist, curator and community organizer working in San Francisco, CA. Her work explores the intersection between love and mental health. Capturing and commemorating different moments in her life, she uses art as a means of evaluation and expression of the self. Her work is confessional, exposing, and vulnerable, ultimately created with the intent to connect, share and begin conversations with her audience on personal memories and struggles.

www.elainetnguyen.com

Crystal Marshall

Visual artist / USA

''My work explores the use of narrative to evoke emotional connections that reference all aspects of life. Through symbolism and allegory, I refer to what lies beneath the surface. Through the use of varying imagery of my choosing, it allows me to explore imaginative realms that defy logic but are directly influenced by life's experiences. I also investigate different themes that affect people from all walks of life, concerning life's trials and tribulations, which include hostility, victimization, exclusion, oppression, and withdrawal, all of which I believe ties into spirituality.

www.crystalamarshall.com

Joanna Pottle

Visual Artist / USA

Joanna Pottle is a visual artist, researcher, educator, and curator. Her studio practice combines abstract mixed media techniques of painting, printmaking, drawing, and installations with investigations of vulnerability, memory and remembrance, courage, empathy, (re)negotiate previously untold or unheard narratives, bridging the tangible and intangible, cultural heritage, cross-cultural understanding, healing and peacebuilding, and philology and semantics. She is a recent US Fulbright Student Researcher alumane to Poland (2019-2020) and currently resides in Krakow, Poland, earning a MA in European Studies Programme, Central and Eastern European Studies: Research Track to focus on topics of cultural heritage and art & culture at the Jagiellonian University. She is also conducting a grant project through the US Embassy in Poland, "Solidarity Project/Projekt Solidarność as a virtual exchange between American and Polish artists to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis (@solidarityartproject)

www.joannapottle.com

Niamh-Erin

Visual Artist / Berlin

Originating from her interest in astronomy and astrophysics, as well as her passion to create, Berlin based artist Niamh-Erin Cusack explores our solar system through astronomical research, abstract visuals and contemporary design. With an urge to experiment and explore, Niamh-Erin displays her thought process through paint, photography, sculpture and public installation. She questions her surroundings, therefore using the medium that fits best to project her contextual and scientific research. Born in West Ireland, Niamh-Erin Cusack comes from a rural agricultural background, therefore using the empty space in her paintings to represent her lack of knowledge growing up when trying to identify our planet through scientific forms. Niamh-Erin has exhibited her work in Ireland, Germany and Spain and graduated from Dublin's National College of Art and Design in 2019.

www.niamherincusack.com

Rachel Henriksen

Visual Artist / USA

Rachel Henriksen is an artist currently based out of Utah, where she received her BFA in Studio Art from Brigham Young University in 2020. Henriksen's interests as an artist lay in the porousness of culture, perception, and identity. Her current body of work, primarily painting and drawing though expanding into the realm of sculpture and immersive installation builds visual narratives that grow from an engagement with pattern and shape. The work provides a way to explore and process her experience, in relation to those of differing backgrounds, by establishing systems and hierarchies which are ruptured and interrupted to generate new forms for navigating visual experience. Henriksen aims to challenge the notion that identities and cultures, and our individual perceptions of the two, are unalterable, fixed. As she confronts, breaks down, and builds upon her ideals, she feels the freedom to construct hybridized and evolving forms. This process, and the corresponding forms that emerge, relate to the way her awareness evolves as she seeks for greater empathic connection and navigates the world visually, emotionally, and culturally.

www.rachelhenriksen.com

Osmeli Delgado

Visual Artist / USA

Osmeli Delgado is a Venezuelan artist and architect who has lived in New Jersey for the past 10 years. She obtained a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 2008 and a Certificate in Visual Arts from the National Academy School of New York in 2015. Her work has been shown at the renowned Villalon Gallery and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo del Zulia in Venezuela, Tatiana Pages Gallery in NYC, Woodward Gallery in NYC, Union City Museum in NJ, and at The National Academy Museum of NY. Her artworks have also been part of the Bailey House auction for three consecutive years, selected winner in the 2014 and 2015 ArtSlant Showcase of New York, and have been featured on popular design and art blogs like Trend Hunter.com, Sculpsite.com, Art-NerdNY.com, Widewalls.com, Artefuse.com, and Wall Street International.

www.osmelidelgado.com

Sue Roh

New Media Artist / USA

Sue Roh is an Asian American new media artist working in the IRL and URL. She creates saturated computer-generated worlds and simulated realities in the boundary between virtual and physical space. Her work begins with obsession and research, investigating the invisible womxn and people of color behind our built environment and uncovering their intentionally obscured stories. She is interested in underrepresented bodies and how they are presented in physical and digital spaces as a means of subjugation. As an educator, Sue focuses on teaching programming in an easily accessible way beyond the traditional computer science approach.

www.sueroh.com

Riley Arthur

Photography / USA

Riley Arthur is a documentary photographer and art director. Her work explores cultural nostalgia, gentrification, and communities on the margins. She has traveled the world photographing stateless people, folklore traditions, and cultural commodification. She is interested in exploring nontraditional methods of printing and exhibiting art for a more tactile experience. She is a National Geographic Explorer and Fulbright Fellow. Her work is in the permanent collections of seven museums and has been exhibited in juried shows in six countries. Arthur's work has been published in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, The Guardian, National Geographic, and L'Oeil de la Photographie. Her forthcoming book: Photo Photography for Everybody, iPhone Photojournalism Techniques will be published in the Spring 2021 by Amherst Media Publishing.

www.rileyarthur.com

Thérèse Lynch

Multimedia Artist / Scotland

Making is, for Thérèse, a form of physical thinking, a way to engage with life, outside the boundaries of verbal language. Using a range of media, her work is the result of continuous experimentation followed by careful curation. The objects that result are usually produced and displayed in multiples, evidence of the exploration of a theme. The audience are free to consider each thing as an individual piece or as part of a group. While the work is finished, many objects are unresolved, caught in a tense stasis. This references their starting point, the potential for further evolution and, most importantly, by not offering the observer a clear position, it asks them to participate in interpretation.

www.ThereseLynch.com

Gail Winbury

Painter / USA

Gail Winbury is an artist and psychologist with a studio in urban New Jersey. The materials and processes that she uses emphasize the layers that make us all human. Her work considers gender, mortality, childhood and the inherent power of emotion. Winbury’s oil paintings and collage have been in museums and galleries in the States, Italy, and Germany and she has had over eight solo exhibitions. She participated in artist residencies in the School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, NY , the Bau Foundation, Otranto, Italy and more. Winbury received a grant for an artist exchange in Arad, Israel. Her work is in collections in the States, Germany, Italy, London, and Greece. She studied for 15 years with artist Dorothy Yung and at the School of Visual Arts.

www.gwinburypainting.com

Leo Bisquera

Painter / Philippines

Leo Angelo Bisquera is an emerging geometric abstract painter currently based in the Philippines. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting) from the University of Santo Tomas in 2017 Integrating geometric structures and impulsive abstraction, I explore the feelings of control and letting go. Inclined to forms and spaces, I use their elements to play with precision. I value the
color sensitivity and my attention to detail. Sometimes, I use these systems and forms as my language to represent or oppose a term or statement. My process is approached in a variety of
ways, which comprises the exploration of materials and shifting methods of working.

www.leobisquera.art

Siddharth Pathak

Multi-disciplinary artist / India

Currently exploring ambient & atmospheric music creation, Siddharth Pathak, a multi-disciplinary artist from India has expanded his practice from painting to adaptable and transformative installations, experimental audio, film & video, as well as performance art and writing over the last 8 years. With his work he explores themes of Recovery from Trauma in an attempt to document Unconscious Conflict. Through exercises in learning the ways of the human mind and heart, he attempts to capture the passage of time taken for inner change and transformation; his raw material constituting the moments between cycles of being and otherness.

www.siddharthpathak.art

Margaret R. Thompson

Multimedia creator / New Mexico

Margaret R. Thompson is a multimedia creator ritualizing the human condition—both conscious and unconscious—in her work. She calls this Life Force. Her art is her worldview, her constant project. It strengthens her connection with the world. In recent work, Margaret invents archetypes to form a universal visual language that she rearranges into metaphysical storylines. There is always an element of chance and mystery. The New Mexico based artist explores concepts of ancestral memory, objects of immortality, and metamorphosis, weaving them into contemporary lore. She explores many mediums: painting, animation, digital photographic collage, virtual and tactile sculpting, and site specific installation.

www.margaret-thompson.com

Amalia Galdona Broche

Fiber artist / USA 

''I am a fiber artist working with textiles and mixed media to materialize a psychological landscape of nostalgia and remembrance in order to weave alternative histories and mythologies. Originally from Santa Clara, Cuba, my family moved to the US in my adolescence. I earned a BFA and a BA in Sculpture and Art History from Jacksonville University, and have participated in residencies at the New York Academy of Fine Arts and the Studios at MASS MoCA. My work has been exhibited at The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, the Parachute Factory, and most recently at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, amongst others. I currently live in Lexington, Kentucky, where I am pursuing an MFA in Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.''

www.amaliagaldonabroche.com

Anikó Sáfrán

Visual artist / USA

The unifying theme of Anikó Sáfrán’s work is an exploration of the space between perception and reality, especially in terms of the active engagement with social, political, and natural worlds. She often uses distortion to explore these relationships. Her most recent work focuses on the perceptions and realities of motherhood. Her practice includes photography, video, sound, installation, performance, painting, and writing. Her work has won multiple awards and has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Anikó holds a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Film and New Media Arts from the University of Utah. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Interdisciplinary Studio Arts program at James Madison University. She is a recipient of a 2020-21 VMFA Visual Arts Fellowship. Born in New Jersey, USA to Hungarian immigrants, Anikó’s work is influenced by her bi-cultural identity.

www.anikosafran.com

Lizzie Essi

Textile artist / USA

''My background in painting and sculpture coalesce within my weaving. I create a warp on my loom using an array of thick and thin colorful fibre threads, and then trap unruly linear materials between them to create a compact interlocking matrix, a fabric. This slow and laborious analog process confronts the fast and frenetic pace embedded in consumerism with all its associated waste. As the warmth of natural fibres converge with cool, synthetic materials, a visual language emerges from the interlocking grid. The richly colored and densely textured fields of material I create often take the form of contained and composed structures, but emit active and cacophonous visual experiences. In light of the increasingly dehumanized mechanisms of mass production and consumption, handmade textiles remain a medium of great humanity. Through my process of collection and revaluation of common materials I rejuvenate the discarded or overlooked. I strive to extend the potentials of materials and find new strategies for intervention, as my work is an investigation of the material world which surrounds and shapes us.''

www.lizzieessi.com

Chelsea Stewart

Painter / USA 

Chelsea Stewart explores themes of mass and scale, geological subjects, and mental health. Through the relation of grounding, heaviness and weight and how they affect the human form and mind, bringing oneself back to reality. The catalyst of erosion in rocks, caves, craters and other natural formations, the texture and the scale of all of these are focal points of my research. Connecting shapes, fusing them together to create abstracted forms, highlighting small moments within large bodies of rock. Stewart delves into the boundaries of geological heaviness combined with themes of anxiety and mental wellbeing, using unconventional everyday materials to represent the themes of feeling grounded to one's body. The mix of intentional decisions and accidental moments- the charcoal drowning in the canvas, the pencil marks being suffocated by the layers of paint- all build to eventually become a cohesive whole.Stewart currently resides and works in her home studio near San Francisco, California. She received her BFA in Art and Design from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with a concentration in Studio Art. Stewart was recently featured in Content Magazine of San Jose, California

www.chelseaannestewart.com

Janine-Annette Littmann

Visual artist / Canada

Janine-Annette Littmann uses photography, textiles, and drawings to investigate how our interactions with the natural environment reflect our internal thoughts and social values. Her artworks purposefully re-enact everyday activities including gardening, sewing, documenting, tracing, and mapping in an attempt to understand how these activities symbolise profound philosophical questions and psychological needs. Janine-Annette Littmann is a Canadian artist who has lived in Vancouver, Montréal, Iqaluit and currently resides in Winnipeg. She has most recently exhibited at La Maison des Artistes Visuels Francophones and the C2 Centre for Craft.

 www.janineannettelittmann.com

Alex Braidwood

Sound artist & media designer / USA

Alex Braidwood is a sound artist, media designer, and educator who maintains a practice of exploring issues of sustainability at the intersection of art and science. He has been an artist in residence in a remote Australian mountain village, on an Iowa farm, at a mid-western biological field research station, and most recently on Isle Royale National Park. He has exhibited sound art, led workshops, lectured on his work, and performed live at a variety of events and venues throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Alex is currently Director of the Artist-in-Residence program at the Iowa Lakeside Lab biological field research station and Associate Professor at Iowa State University. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

www.listeninginstruments.com/
www.instagram.com/listeninginstruments/
www.twitter.com/alexbraidwood

Juan Pablo Medina

Multidisciplinary artist / Mexico

Juan Pablo Medina - a Mexican multidisciplinary artist. Juan is working in the filed of photography, video art and new media, most recently producing AR art.
He develops his work by exploring both the possibilities of remote observation and the inappropriate nature of smartphone cameras. In addition, he collects, reinterprets and reorganizes a seemingly arbitrary selection of visual material that circulates uninterruptedly through the internet to underline the state of constant surveillance in which we find ourselves.

www.juanpablomedina.com
@the_black_image

Joshua Unikel

Graphic design & writing / USA

Joshua Unikel works at the intersection of design and creative writing, focusing on the overlap between graphic design and the literary essay. He is the co-editor of No Quo: Attempts (DesignInquiry Press, 2017) and Beyond Category (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press, 2015). He also serves as a contributing editor of Seneca Review. Unikel has shown at DesignPhiladelphia; Griffith University Art Gallery (Australia); The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Lawndale Art Center; and will be showing at the CICA Museum (South Korea) and the Institute of Contemporary Art: Portland (US).

www.joshuaunikel.com

Megan James Goodman

Multidisciplinary artist / USA - England

Megan James Goodman is a British-American multidisciplinary artist working in photography, collage and painting, most recently producing collage-like and assemblage-like photographs. Her work addresses our 21st century collective, disconnected relationship to land and weather, spotlighting man-made disasters, the manufactured material world, and ultimately climate-altering human activity, which is and will continue to initiate climate and environmental migration. Inspired by her background in archaeological illustration, she explores the ideology of land as a cultural artifact, provoking distinction of patriotism versus heritage. The pieces expose the spectrum of disturbed visuality versus aesthetic equilibrium. With an investigatory attitude, assembled fragments unite to attempt a drawn connection.

www.megancjames.com

Yolanda Santa Cruz

Multidisciplinary artist / Cuba

Yolanda Santa Cruz is a multidisciplinary artist from Cuba. Her visual works explore gender dynamics, question society constructs, and promote female empowerment. She is also linked to the literary world, with many of her writings tapping into relationships, sexuality, and memories. Santa Cruz has participated in festivals such as The Ephemeral Sculpture Festival (2013) and attended residencies such as Hypatia in the Woods (2016). Her work has been shown at the National Art Museum, Cuba; Confluence Gallery, Washington; Art Scene West Gallery, Los Angeles; Light Space Online Gallery, among others. She received her BFA from San Alejandro's National Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 and continued her education at the University of the Arts of Cuba up until 2015, when she decided to migrate to the United States.

www.yolandasantacruz.com

Ré Phillips

Multidisciplinary Artist/ USA

Ré Phillips is a multidisciplinary artist from the American South. As an Atlanta, Georgia native, she grew up amidst the legacy of the American Civil Rights Movement, and as a result her art is grounded in her desire to promote peace and increase mutual understanding. In addition to being influenced by Dr. Martin Luther King's ideas of non-violence, her work is also deeply informed by her experiences as a cultural envoy working with national theater companies, galleries, and universities across the world.  Ré's art explores the intersectionality of art and social change, and she is inspired by material culture, migration, language and identity. Her work has been exhibited in Lebanon, India, Spain, England, Turkey, China, the United States, and the Netherlands. She holds a BA from Stanford University, an MPhil from the University of Oxford, and is a native of Atlanta, Georgia.

www.rephillipsart.com

Jevi

Interdisciplinary Artist / Canada

Jevi is a researcher, developer and emerging experimental interdisciplinary artist. Her research-creation practice explores our individual and societal relationships with technology, privacy, governance, immersion and speculative fiction. Jevi works in a variety of media from video and photography to digital graphic design, interactive installations and computer-generated art. Jevi is a Honours Business Informatics B.ASc. McMaster University graduate, and studied Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (PCert) at MIT. She has worked in the IT industry over the years as an Analyst, an Ethical Hacker, a Software Programmer, and as a Research Assistant at OCAD University and University of Toronto. She has participated as an artist in the Contingencies of Care, and is a member of the New Media Caucus. Hailed from a family of scribophiles, she also practises photography, poetry and prose, and completed a study of Art & Design at the GBC School of Design graduating with honours, and also studied Digital Media at OCAD University. Jevi is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Futures at OCAD University.

www.jevi.me

Sarah Nguyen

Multi media artist / USA

Sarah Nguyen is a multi media artist, working primarily with paper. Storytelling is central to her hand cutfiber panels and paintings. The intricate compositions found in her work, are mostly landscape based and feature symbolic motifs—flora, fauna, and an ever-changing moon—to elicit childhood memories of myths, fables, and folklore. Nguyen uses a balance of abstract and representational forms in order to sever the connection between shape and meaning, connecting the viewer instead to the gesture of the brush or cut of the knife, so that s/he becomes complicit in the art. Myths, reverence and refinement of nature, and observance of daily life, are the concepts behind her work. Nguyen’s work has appeared in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions and publications. Her work has been part of nationally recognized exhibitions in museums and festivals. She received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, USA with her husband, the writer Phong Nguyen, and their three sons.

www.sanguyen.com

Anna Rose

Visual artist / USA

''My work spans video, installation, photography and sculpture with a sensibility towards the relationship between body, space and ritual, entering into conversation with cultural mythologies of place. Through the familiar materials of our daily actions related to play, to nourishment and consumption, or to the conventions of beauty, for example, my work often addresses the concept of the vanitas and the passage of time. Often starting from a single familiar object, such as an egg, a braid, a piece of fruit or a ball, I reassign or reframe its common use to call into question the cultural mythologies embedded within them. Employing the repetition of a gesture, the tropes of consumer culture, or the heightened tactile or sensorial quality of a material, my work destabilizes the familiar, directing our attention to the embedded and often problematic cultural weight it carries. ''

www.annamrose.com

Huiquan Jiang

Multidisciplinary Artist  / USA

Huiquan Jiang's multidisciplinary art is grounded in reverence for nature and the adoration of the occult—the artwork without self-conscious intervening functions as a vehicle of spiritual expression and orientation to visualize the invisible by creating a totemic and intuitive association. Her works are the expression of intuition and the spiritual pursuit closest to purity and sanctity. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Chinese traditional painting from the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China, and an MFA in 2D painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. She currently lives and works in Boston.

www.huiquanjiang.com

Danielle Leventhal

Visual artist / USA

Danielle’s work raises the question: How does the artist depict the human being, in all their mystery and depth, in a single frame? Exploring color theory through the application of paint, layers of printmaking and mark-making, she captures the essence of her live sitters. Sometimes working from MRIs, x-rays and other medical scans, Danielle’s portraits aim to reveal the physical and psychological state of her subjects. Danielle lives and works in New York. She received a BFA in Painting with a second major in Art History, from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Danielle is the recipient of the Jeffrey Frank Wacks Scholarship for Fine Arts, the Mary Cowan Harford Award in Watercolor, and the Scholastic National Silver Medal for Painting.

www.danielleleventhal.com

Jenn Cacciola

Visual Art  / USA

Jenn Cacciola is a U.S.-based artist originally hailing from Port Chester, NY. She received a B.S.V.A. from SUNY Purchase School of Art + Design. Through its documentary and research-based process, Jenn's work allows pain to have a comfortable place to be around people, with a focus on relationships and how factors like isolation, aging, and vulnerability affect our ability to know one another. Her work flips between using portraiture explicitly and using anthropomorphism to ask the question, "What are the criteria of a portrait?" Her pieces generally take form in tapestry, drawing, painting, printmaking and installation—sometimes involving audio components.

www.jenncacciolastudio.com

Rebecca Tucker

Sculpture / Scotland

Rebecca’s practice revolves heavily around finding ways to represent internal processes and paradoxical contemplations of character, body, object, indulgence and guilt primarily through ceramic sculpture and moving image. Her work often blurs the line between animate characters and inanimate objects. Rebecca creates forms and installations that are a coupling of imagery from historic and contemporary texts and artefacts, resulting in work that could inhabit a past, present, future, parallel or imagined reality.

www.rebeccahannahtucker.com

Mariana Guerrero

Painter / Argentina

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1970. She now resides and works in Buenos Aires. She studied music at the Conservatorio Manuel de Falla, Interior Design at the Biblioteca de Mujeres ABM and received a diploma in Fine Art from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Guerrero’s interdisciplinary practice spans lithography, photography, photogravure, calligraphy, drawing and painting.  Her universe of compositions shifts between representation, fantasy and abstraction, with images of plant and human life. A fascination with color and its infinite range of possibilities stands out in her work. Each brushstroke partially occludes a previous mark; their physically sensuous surfaces give way to topologies of finely calibrated hues. In Guerrero´s working process, the materials provide the script; they constitute the plot for a new development.

www.marianaguerrero.art

Sandra Marinescu

Multidisciplinary / Argentin

Sandra Marinescu, is a multidisciplinary Argentine artist that began developing her visual work in the mid-90s after obtaining her degree as a Doctor Specialist in Ophthalmology (University of Buenos Aires, 1993). She also has a Higher Degree in Fine Arts (Instituto Superior Nueva Escuela de Diseño y Comunicación, 2011). She began her artistic training by becoming interested in scientific photography where she creates imaginary worlds that
move away from science to approach art, obtaining numerous awards. Currently, she is developing a project called "Geometry of the Uncertain" and “ Dyschromatopsia”. She focuses on altering the sense of learned perception trying to make another reality visible, not necessarily in the expected sense, but in a way that invites us to question ourselves. This new way of perception, that she captures through vision, allows her to build a world of multiple realities, of diversity, of unique ways of seeing and reflecting. She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

www.sandramarinescu.com

Jessica Mowery

Mixed Media / USA

''My 15 year career as an interior designer distinctly influences my artistry. I continuously think about rearranging physical spaces by creating two-dimensional plan views, and my artwork often has an aerial perspective. Although influenced by landscapes and topography, I see my work as a raw examination of emotional complexities. We all cope with conflicting emotions and external demands, and that forces us to compartmentalize. Sometimes organized and sometimes chaotic, the art that I create reflects the spatial organization of my mind. As someone who has spent over a decade on construction sites, I’m sadly aware of the waste involved in the building process. I utilize that waste in my work by using the materials that are the byproducts or leftovers from construction sites.
This includes plywood remnants leveling sand, concrete clumps, and plaster board. The result is an abstract multidimensional space for the viewer to navigate.

www,jessicamowery.com

Sam MacInnes

Visual Art / Scotland

"Many young men, myself included, appear to lead funny, carefree and crazy lives. I have been inspired to transform this personal element of reality into artworks based on specific animal motifs. Combining this concept with satire and fantastical elements, I aim to take this carousel of masculine absurdity and make it the focal point of my work. I have entitled the world these young men find themselves within "The Dude Zone". This is a world driven by escapism, full of outsiders in a structured domain of order and rules; rules to which these dudes have no regard for. These men are stuck in a state of limbo between their teens and adulthood, where hedonic pleasures such as drink, drugs and crazy behaviour are used in attempts to quench their escapist fantasies. Young, confused and fuelled by the absurd, these young men are hell-bent on pursuing pleasure above all else; much to the dismay of the rest of society. I felt urban animals like the fox and the stray cat seemed like fitting characters for my artworks. These animals are usually deemed to be beautiful and graceful creatures. However, once corrupted by their urban environment they are seen in a completely different light; engulfed by the crude and dirty aspects of this life. Nonetheless, it is a messy and crude world. So, the best way to show this is to be just as messy and just as crude."

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Maryam Khaleghiyazd

Multimedia artist / USA 

Maryam is an Iranian multimedia artist and teacher based in Minnesota. The area of her work and teaching covers different realms like digital art, illustration, augmented reality, animation, and graphic design. Currently, Maryam is exploring her identity as a person who has migrated from Iran to the United States. Indeed, she is applying illustration as a vehicle to expose her state as a person who lives between two different cultures.
Maryam has exposed her art and design work to different national and international exhibitions in various countries like Iran, U.S.A., Germany, South Korea, Japan, Italy, U.K., Switzerland, Mexico, etc. She has won several prizes like the Silver prize of A’Design Award in Italy, the merit
award of HOW International Design Awards in the U.S.A., the first prize of International Triennial of Ecological Posters in Ukraine and the second award of International Poster Design Competition Post-it Awards in Russia. Maryam received her B.A. and M.F.A. in Visual Communication from the University of Tehran, Iran, and her second M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Ohio University, U.S.A. Currently, she is the assistant professor of Graphic design in the Art and Design department at the University of Minnesota.

www.maryamkhaleghiyazdi.com

Philippe Halaburda

Visual Art / France-USA

''In addition to the psychological effects of the environment on our behavior, my art process delves into the complex undercurrents of our intimate and collective interactions. It calls upon an emotional framework as a construct to bring the viewer as a participant in this experience. The blurry boundary between perception and experience always inspired me: I am interested in the randomness crossovers in the senses (Synaesthesia) through art by imaging abstract visuals - similar to data maps - based on the subconscious and a drifting creative process.
My work recently engages also with human nature and any type of environment or element: it includes objects, plants, trees, or animals. We totally ignore and even hide the impact of their inwardness, their mind, and their subjective capacity on the planet we are sharing. Through paintings, photos, or digital works, I build imaginary coded and abstract algorithms taking up mental, geographic, and collective data based on the various missing links with the nonhuman world and revealing these invisible interconnections. Exploring forms and lines in my compositions, I imagine disaggregated cartographies that reveal our social tensions and the invisible connections with the nonhuman world instead of addresses and landmarks. I am seeking to constantly perfect this technique and renew my process. Artworks address broader mental architecture within me, in an attempt to examine contradiction and harmony inside these new interconnections. The titles are the final result of this tracking by creating a new language, a universal language with objects, animals, or elements around us. Abstract keeps me focused on a quest for unlimited and unknown psychological territories as a springboard for the imagination.''

www.halaburda.com

Sejin Moon

VisualArt  / Scotland

Sejin is a visual artist from Scotland and graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2010 with an MFA in photography. Sejin's body of work sets out a personal narrative and depicts her journey as a female in the modern world. Her art practice involves exploring and questioning herself regarding gender equality and cultural identity. Sejin's work depicts a critical view of social and cultural agendas this includes memories of childhood to an ongoing struggle with the awareness and emotions of growing old. Having the perspective of living in two distinctively different but yet similar cultures, South Korea and the UK, allows Sejin to produce a collection of unique and refreshing images. Her works are mainly created using the medium and large format film photography but also incorporates alternative photographic processes and media.

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Louise Omer

Writer / Australia

Louise Omer is an Australian writer born on Kaurna Country and now based in Dublin. Her journalism, criticism, stories and poems have been published in Ireland, Australia and the UK. She is working on a memoir, Holy Woman, which combines travel writing, feminist theology, and psychogeography to interrogate modern religion and give a personal exploration of spiritual life under patriarchy. She writes to discover what she really thinks, what she really feels, experimenting with poetry, erotica, public art and visual text. Obsessed with intimacy, desire, and transcendence, she is compelled by the body as the encounter between the interior and the exterior, and seeks to express an embodied spirituality.

www.louiseomer.com

Nishmi

Video Art / Brazil

Nishmi is a video artist based in São Paulo. Her research has unfolded from poetic experimentations of film-essay and the usage of found footage material often connecting text interventions, personal archives, and performance. Moved by bending structures and disclosing affections, she creates narratives that explore the relationships between communication, body, gender, and science. Recently, she has developed an interest in video mapping and installations as a way to explore moving images in the physical space.

www.nishmi.com

Jingbo Zou

Visual art /China

Jingbo Zou, graduated from London College of Communication, currently finishing a Fine Art master degree in Chelsea College of arts. His work presents a fusion of traditional Chinese philosophy and Western contemporary art often through photography, moving image and installation, exploring the balance between ancient and modern, tradition and contemporary, complexity and pureness.

www.Jingbozou.com

Elaine T. Nguyen

Artist & curator/ USA

Elaine T. Nguyen is an artist, curator and community organizer working in San Francisco, CA. Her work explores the intersection between love and mental health. Capturing and commemorating different moments in her life, she uses art as a means of evaluation and expression of the self. Her work is confessional, exposing, and vulnerable, ultimately created with the intent to connect, share and begin conversations with her audience on personal memories and struggles.

www.elainetnguyen.com

Pauline Shongov

Multidisciplinary/film / Bulgaria- USA

Pauline Shongov is an artist whose work engages environmental and architectural sites as screen surfaces to bring film into an expanded practice that addresses questions on visuality and visibility, ruination and nostalgia, and embodied practices of lack and excess within the banal. Her research includes an effective approach to Eastern European landscapes through archival studies, oral history, and cultural techniques. Her work is largely informed by experimental film, global cinema, ethnography, media archeology, urban studies, and minimalism.

www.paulineshongov.com

Ruta Matuleviciute

Multidisciplinary artist / Lithuania

Ruta Matuleviciute is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania, focusing on painting, also creating the following media: performance, installation art, photography, and curating as well.
Ruta Matuleviciute has a MFA degree in Fine Arts, VIlnius Academy of Arts, is a member of Lithuanian Artists' Association and co-founder of Tapytoju Studijos (eng. Painters' Studios) 6 women artists' contemporary art project space in Lukiskiu 9, Vilnius, Lithuania. Artist curated exhibitions and participated in them.
In her artistic practice and research, Ruta Matuleviciute reflects the fascinating beauty of Life, Nature and their emergence from consciousness. This makes her focus on holistic worldview, comparative culture studies.

www.rutavm.com

Bimbi Larraburu

Visual Art / Argentina

‘’ I’m visual artist. I born, I live and I work in Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. My work explores repetition, order and chaos. I use the architectural language working on abstract forms in different techniques such as drawing, painting, printmaking and mixed-media. These forms and productions owe as much to the urban environment that surrounds me as they do to the influence of the deconstructive architects of the 90s. I search for new forms of expression where architecture, painting, sculpture and installation alter the perception of surfaces and spaces, inviting the viewer to a new phase of reading the space.’’

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Reenie Charrière

Installation Art, Drawing/ France - USA

Everyday situations stir Reenie Charrière’s investigations of what lingers in the environment. Her practice involves collecting and transforming everyday materials, especially throwaways. As a mixed media artist Reenie playfully pushes materials in unexpected arrangements bringing a beauty to what may be discarded. Her artwork also reveals and questions the abundance of waste in our consumer dependent society. Motivated by architecture, movement, and space, Reenie’s sculptural installations play upon the unpredictable juxtapositions of nat ural and synthetic matter.

www.reeniecharriere.com

Boryana Rusenova Ina

Visual artist / Bulgaria - USA

Boryana Rusenova Ina is a visual artist from Bulgaria and her work focuses on ideas on nationhood and belonging. Boryana earned an M.A. in Art, Design and Architecture Education from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 2009 and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University in 2016. While living in Scotland she was a visiting artist through the GOALS Project, a nationwide initiative, which focused on bringing artists into Scottish classrooms. Her work has been exhibited in her native Bulgaria at City Gallery Plovdiv as well as in the USA including the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University (FL), the Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Baltimore (MD) and the Zanesville Museum of Art (OH). In addition, Boryana has served as the Vice President of Roy G Biv Gallery For Emerging Artists and was a founding member of the Couchfire Art Collective. Most recently, her current project Against the Constable Skies was exhibited at Tennessee Technological University (TN) and sponsored by the Center Stage Series and an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council (OH). Currently, Boryana lives in Lubbock, Texas and teaches at Texas Tech University as an Assistant Professor in Painting.

www.boryanarusenova.com

Carol E Moses

Visual artist / USA

Carol E Moses, a visual artist in Massachusetts, works in watercolor and oil painting, and portrait photography. Influences include mathematics, science and nature, and a drive to communicate, describe, record. Her work in WOC will respond to the pandemic, as well as connecting with Bulgaria. Moses plans to do an Image and Interview series, online, with people in Bulgaria. The portrait concept was partially inspired by the work of Felix Nadar. The interview questions were created by Moses and are the same for all. Together, they generate a rich sense of the person at that time, and in that context with the artist. Moses has previously created the series in the US, Iceland, Scotland, and Germany. In painting, she sets aside her 'logical' thinking tendency. Her themes are connection, relation, isolation, distance. The colors and forms resolve or enact forces, and balance. Moses also creates word-paintings, with text and paint, in response to confusion, grief, or other thoughts, and makes small black and white drawings when away from the studio.

Javier Zamora Valdés

Visual Art / Cuba

Javier graduated from the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro (Cuba) in 2012, specialising in printmaking. He has shown work in Cuba and El Salvador, where he lived for several years, participating in national, collective, and personal exhibitions. He has made sculptures and murals in Spain, working in funded and collaborative projects in Andalucia and Catalonia, where he now lives. Interested in intuition and philosophy, as much as science, religion and politics, one of his principal objectives is to disturb the fixed borders of opposing concepts and ideas. He conceives of art as constant transformation that leaves a footprint beyond the physical expression of its representation; therein lies its ability to change people. He is interested in revealing the patterns that interconnect this community, this ecosystem, of human species.

www.javierzamoravaldes.com