Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Zhuoyu Zhang is a new media artist from Beijing, currently based in New York. Working across video installation, interactive storytelling, and algorithmic systems, Zhang draws from internet subcultures, personal archives, and speculative fiction to construct intimate yet dissonant environments that reflect on surveillance, disembodiment, and affective labour within visual regimes shaped by data.
Ziggy Yang is a Chinese installation and new media artist based in New York. His practice explores the complex dialogue between human emotions, cultural conditioning, and technology, positioning technology as both an interactive medium and a conceptual framework. Yang employs mechanical systems, programmable physical computing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic materials.
Cizzoe Yi Wang (b. 2000, China) is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the UK. She is working across installation, performance, sculpture, and documentary filmmaking. Conceptually driven and informed by her background in social anthropology, her practice explores human interaction as a structured game governed by societal rules.
Zhiqiang Li (b. 1993) is a multimedia artist and educator. Li’s practice-based research focuses on employing digital technologies, such as facial recognition and the Internet of Things, to create digital artworks that reanimate and reinterpret cultural heritage. He investigates the dynamic relationship between digital art and cultural heritage, seeking to dissolve the boundaries between them.
Jiashun Zhou is a fibre artist whose work intricately explores the intersection of memory, space, and emotion through weaving. His artistic practice transforms personal experiences and fleeting moments into tangible, three-dimensional forms. Jiashun Zhou’s work is deeply influenced by his desire to decelerate the rapid pace of modern life and draw attention to the often-overlooked details.
Yiqing Lei is a nomadic artist currently landed in Shenzhen. Intention, labour and wandering are important to their practice. Yiqing’s practice involves the eradication and reimagining of past roots and being. They articulate words, sculptures, photos, and actions to create a symbiotic total, which is often obsessed with the ephemera, fragmented, atmospheric landscape.
Lili Xie engages with the realms of photography, video, performance, and ceramics in her artistic practice. The evolution of her work is an ongoing journey of self-exploration, inquiry, and the deconstruction of her own identity. Through these diverse mediums, she navigates the complex landscape of personal introspection and transformation.
Rose Ansari is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and computational media researcher. Her research-based art practice explores cyborg and post-human theories, sensory distortion, and telecommunication through laboratory-driven processes. She creates immersive environments that blend technology, cognitive science, and poetic expression.
Zoya Taseva is a multimedia artist with a background in spatial design. Originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, she is currently based in Groningen. Her practice explores innovative ways of connecting with the public by transforming spectators into active participants. Working at the intersection of interactive media, spatial design, and technology, she creates immersive environments.
Erica Zhan is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in the southeastern hills of China and currently based in Chicago, US. They employ performance, moving images, installation, and writing to explore games, sports, competitions, and playfulness in the context of consumerism. By using low-tech language and parodic methods, Zhan wants to scrutinize the zones of freedom in human society.
Sofia Malemina is a multimedia artist working with timed-based mediums such as video, sound, light, and immersive installations. She established her artistic career in London by blending digital technologies with traditional techniques to explore themes such as identity, perception, and the interplay between physical and virtual spaces. Sofia Malemina
Yeejae Kim is an artist whose interdisciplinary work spans performance, sculpture, video, and installation, using vulnerability to challenge the expectations and ideals imposed by beauty standards. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, she draws from her cultural background and personal experiences to engage with societal norms. She is currently based in Long Island City, NY.
Aylal Heydarova is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span a variety of artistic styles and creative techniques, including pointillism, modernism, and abstract. Launched in April 2024, the #SAVINGBUTTERFLIES project celebrates transformation and resilience, reflecting the journeys of both butterflies and migrants.
Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.
Yuwen Huang is a Chinese media artist based in San Francisco, USA. Yuwen works across video, internet, installation, GAN-generated images and videos, blockchain, and creative writing. Through the lens of technology, her art investigates the human relationship with society, the environment, and culture, exploring how these connections have been shaped by technology over time.
Haidar Ali Tipu Zinan is a Colombian artist. His work focuses on exploring and producing pieces that revolve around the archetypes present in art history and the concept of time. Each of his creations responds to a unique quest and his research often leads him to large-scale projects where the bodily experience with the piece becomes significant within a spatial, material, and symbolic context.
Xingyu Huang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, known for her innovative work in sculpture, installation, and video. Her practice explores spatial dynamics and sensory perception, using these elements to delve into themes of human connection, isolation, and environmental impact. Huang creates immersive environments that reflect on the relationships between humans and non-humans.
Thomas C. Chung is a Chinese-Australian contemporary artist based in Helsinki & Sydney. His latest project, the exhibition The Sea That Stands Before Me…, contemplates the notion of one's devotion to living as a form of armament. Chung's conceptual practice continues its inquiries into psychology, folklore, mythology, and philosophy, binding them as a cohesive tale.
