Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.
Zihao Zhou is a Chinese fashion designer based in London. His art explores the connections between the macro and the micro, revealing the hidden wonders of the world. In 2024, he took a leap of faith and launched his own eponymous brand, Illogic, in London. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics, Zihao aims to carve his unique mark in the fashion industry.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
Yu Yan is a visual artist based in New York, United States. Primarily working with researched-based projects and site-specific installations, she follows intuitive research pursuits across a variety of disciplines and disparate systems of knowledge. She is interested in the connectedness between personal memory and collective urban scenes, addressing issues around immigration and the diaspora community.
Known for her immersive and evocative media installations, Jiayu Liu is a media artist based in Beijing. Jiayu's artwork often recreates and augments the natural world and focuses on relationships between humans, nature, and the lived environment, exploring human behavior and response. Her latest project, Streaming Stillness, has been presented at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 for the China Pavilion.
Claire-louise Pitman is an eco-conscious, disabled, cameraless artist. This is done by using sustainable photographic light processes such as chlorophyll printing, cyanotype printing, and scanography, meaning no harm has been done to the environment. Through her research on visual impairment and Anomia Claire-louise expands her knowledge but still faces accessible barriers along the way.
Kang Ma is a human being born and raised and currently based on the planet Earth. He could also be referred to as a visual artist, currently living in New Haven, CT, and occasionally goes to New York City to teach. Kang believes that artists shouldn't limit themselves to only a few topics and media. However, there are two topics that he has been interested in and explored more than others, translations and connections.
The objective of Yongqi Tang’s works is to reinterpret the categories into which we are born to rearticulate the discourse around them. Her studio practices involve a variety of materials such as oil, watercolor, acrylic, and charcoal. Using the dining experience as an entry point, Yongqi’s current works examine the ambivalence to be in the liminal state between the alienation from her country of origin and the displacement at the current settlement.
Shou-An Chiang currently lives and works in London. She works across photography, video, performance, and installation, in which she explores the ambiguity of relationships and identities, and portrays alienation in a pluralistic society from her own experience. Her recent project, QUEERASIAN, portrays queer Asian people in Western society, and aims to show the faces and stories of these communities from an insider's perspective.
Kexin Liu is a Chinese multi-disciplinary artist and design researcher based in the UK. Kexin has a fascination with everything queer & peculiar. As a generalist, she particularly enjoys developing simple, yet unexpected art narratives/design solutions based on extensive research and collaboration with people from various disciplines. Her latest projects are 2065 and Lost in Translation.
Andi Zhang is an architectural designer and a visual artist in the architecture field. Andi focuses on using unconventional methods to dive into architecture. Instead of designing conventional independent buildings, she is trying to use other components to build up architecture. Her project Vision is designed as a narrative museum about Movies in Los Angeles.
Yihan Wang is an illustration student at the School of Visual Arts, focusing on children’s books and book illustrations.
Yihan mainly discusses psychological problems in our society and uses wild animals and insects as symbols to concrete human mood. In his series of watercolor, he uses animals and kids to analyze the psychological burdens of kids in today’s society.
Wenxu Zhao is an illustration artist, born in China and currently living in New York. Her work focuses primarily on invention and fantasy. Her artwork and paintings are inspired by her daydreams, her discovery of beauty in life, her self-reflection, and her views on certain aspects of life. Her purpose is to express her emotions and thoughts while also bringing beauty and warmth to the rush and chaos of modern life.
Nouli Omer is a multidisciplinary artist, actress, writer, and comedian. ver the years and up to this day, as an autodidact visual artist, her work ranges from drawing to embroidery, assemblages, lighting fixtures, video, and drawing on plates. Alongside her activities as an artist, she continues to act in theater, television series, and cinema, as well as writing and publishing books, personal columns, poems, short stories in magazines, and more.
Mariana Arrieta Ibarra is 29 years old and Mexican photographer. Her project Central de Abastos was shot in Querétaro, a city in the center of México. It documents the market called “Mercado de Abastos”. This market is responsible for all the products that the rest of the markets in the city sell, making it the most important. It is a bustling place, without a single minute of silence between its busy streets.
Aleš Jungmann is a photographer from Czech Republic. After a long artistic abstinence, which he interrupted only sporadically, he is now intensively returning to landscape photography. With new energy and passion, influenced by his work as an architectural photographer and using the same medium format digital camera technique, he understand landscape photography as an exploration.
Zijun Zhao (Mosa) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work is based on the recognition and pride of her Asian identity and also the conflict between real life and the illusional world. Every drawing is a process of quarreling with herself that she is creating a world without logic but with order, where she has an opportunity to feel safe.
Audrey Messas is a French-Israeli mixed media artist of Moroccan descent. She lives in Tel Aviv and works at an intersection of visual art and embodiment practices. Her creations include photography, acrylic and oil paint, collages, and calligraphy. Her evolving work addresses more urgent collective issues, such as culture wars and ecological collapse.
Aiman (1984) is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Singapore. His current practice explores philosophical questions, theories, and ideas observed within the context of contemporary discourse. Aiman views his practice as an attempt to inspire others to look inward—a journey of returning to one’s true self—and to reconnect to the ways in which individuals intrinsically relate to one another.
Xuemeng Zhang is a visual artist whose practice is driven by exploring connections between the mind and the eye. Her work navigates between identity and culture, belonging and alienation, and apprehension and mindfulness. Zhang was born in Beijing, and currently lives and works in New York City. Her latest project, Other Rooms, is a photographic project on the reconstruction of imaginary spaces.
David Moješčík, aka MojDa, belongs to the middle generation of Czech sculptors. In his work, he deals with figurative sculpture. He uses all the advantages of sculpture in terms of material, allowing him to vary his sculptures in many positions, poses, and postures. He uses his own approach and handwriting in these subjects, but he often likes to work with hidden symbols or a greater or lesser degree of irony and exaggeration.
Asmae Mouayn, alias ‘Asmyn’, is a Moroccan fractal artist based in Marrakesh. Her artwork attempts to demonstrate that science and art go hand in hand and that equations can be set up to an artistic visualization. By using mathematical formulas, she creates unique fractal art pieces. She wants to arouse the public’s curiosity and push people to imagine the narratives and stories behind every fractal.
Mihail Vuchkov is a Bulgarian artist. His latest project, The Other Bulgarian Women premiered in Sofia, Bulgaria, on International Women's Day, and it sparked a national controversy. The project show trans women in traditional Bulgarian dress and wreathed in Bulgarian flowers as a statement of national identity. It is a statement being hotly contested by nationalist groups and parties in the country.
