Born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1992. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design, 2018. Graduated from the master’s program in New Media at the Tokyo University of The Arts graduate school of Film and New Media,2020. The production of okada Naoki is performed with reference to nausea as classical aesthetics and absurd literature such as Kafka and Camus. Behind the expression is the overwhelming reality of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, and he is interested in how to deal with events beyond human understanding. Those are returned to themes with absurdity such as disasters, accidents, and coexistence with others. His work traverses various media such as images, CG animation, technology, sculpture, dolls, etc., which are constructed to expose the absurdities of the human world as installations and confront viewers as absolute others. To do.
Ray Ewing | Photography
Ray Ewing is a photographer and artist from the island of Martha's Vineyard. Ray received a BFA in photography from Maine College of Art in Portland in 2012 and an MFA in studio art at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 2016. Ray has worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an exhibiting artist. Ray is currently teaching photography at The College of The Desert in Palm Desert, CA as well as Miracosta College in Oceanside, CA.
Daknys | Digital Art
Povilas Daknys (1989) is a conceptual artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He gets his best ideas while running. Since running his first marathon in 2013 he explored a variety of mediums and styles, but for the last few has been focusing solely on conceptual art. With the background as an advertising creative, Povilas is always on the look for the next big idea.
Braun & Braunschweig | Installation
The artist duo “Braun und Braunschweig” consists of the photographer Steve Braun and the painter Federico Braunschweig. Their collaboration started around 2017 in Nuremberg where they both studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. In their work they shift the meaning of ideologic and religious symbols to reimagine the aesthetics of the sacral. Using a kaleidoscope of media ranging from traditional crafts such as pottery to VHS video tape, religious forms get altered to a point where their original intentions become unclear. From this state of uncertainty the possibilities of Religion and Transcendence can be explored newly. Steve Braun an Federico Braunschweig mainly exhibit their work as solo artist but exhibited as a duo twice to date. Their collaboration is ongoing.
TinWai Wong | Sound Art
Tin Wai Wong is a Hong Kong, Chinese artist working and living in Brooklyn, NY, USA. She is a Graduate student at Bard College and received her BFA in the School of Visual Arts. Wong works with conceptual moving images on the subject to linguistic and phenomenology, her work was exhibited across the US and was the youngest artist in her recent group show 30 under 30 curated by Kelly Kivland of the Dia Art Foundation. Wong's online group exhibition responding to the COVID-19 "Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America,” was mentioned by artsy in early May.
Raki Nikahetiya | Photography
Born in Sri Lanka in 1983, my parents and I left the country during times of civil war. We moved to Austria, and reality ruptured between two cultural poles. I studied Economics in Vienna and during a university exchange in the Netherlands, the binary was broken and a delicious new reality prevailed. I visited a flea market and got my first camera – this was the beginning of my life-long passion with this medium. Back in Vienna, I started off as a photojournalist. After a five year posting at the United Nations, with a cache of experience in international development work, I moved to London in 2013. There I continued working for trade development and environmental conservation in Asia and Africa before I fully focussed on my art practice in 2019. I now live in New Delhi, India, and split my work into traditional documentary and experimental interdisciplinary photography.
Ronald Gonzalez | Sculpture
Ronald Gonzalez is a contemporary figurative artist based in upstate New York. Since the mid seventies the artist has worked from his garage studio creating elegiac sculptures and installations that are embodiments of death and loss infused with grotesque narrative, and pathos. Gonzalez works primarily in a series with steel armatures and macabre collections of time worn objects, and detritus from his surroundings. The work is then further eroded with metal filings, burned wax, glue, wire, and black soot creating a dramatic tonal range that both obscures and reveals anthropomorphic heads, torsos and figures that appear as charred fetishistic mementos possessing a visceral quality imbued with a sense of primal energy and distress that permeates his work. His obsessive production of angst-ridden sculptures explore the emotive, social, and psychological associations of decaying found objects that function as autobiographical metaphors charged with potent and recurring symbols with childhood and nostalgic references. Gonzalez’s sculpture is mournful, confrontational, and estranged, standing on the border between human personage and doomed phantom. His restless investigation of animating materials has produced an art of dissolution with archaic, apocalyptic, and quasi-alien elements that convey an animistic mode of thought and intensely evocative expression of the human condition.
Joram Bolmkwist | Photography
Joram Blomkwist (1979) grew up in Hilversum. After his study for art director at the junior academy in Amsterdam, he assisted national and international photographers. For 10 years he works as a commercial photographer but the love for his own art-work started to grow. In 2016 he started his own projects.
His first own project was Crushed Cars and marked the start of his independent art-photography which now finds its intensification in his Talking Trash and Anger Management. All projects revolve around the relation between human and used products.
At the moment he works with the Amsterdam Water management to create an artwork with all the bikes that are taken out of the canals.
Taeyang Hong | Photography
Hong taeyang was born in 1986 and influenced with art at early stage of his life by his family. He has graduated from Dong-ah institute of media and arts. Upon graduation, Hong taeyang participated in performing art , and studied photography and went on to study in Mainz academy of Arts (JGU),germany and finished his diploma in BLOO école de photographie et d'image contemporaine, Lyon, France. He currently works as a full time artist in europe and Korea.
Gianni Lucchesi | Sculpture
Gianni Lucchesi was born in Pisa in 1965 where he lives and works. He is a painter, sculptor and designer. He has made important public works by installing large iron sculptures, a material that he prefers for his symbolic value. For paintings he frequently uses materials according to the concept of the work, often putting in relation chemical solutions that are incompatible with each other. He has designed and produced museum, theater and cinema sets. In 2002 he created the "Opus" installation at the Roncerey abbey in Angers in France. In 2006 he received the Cisdac international prize for contemporary art. In 2012 he exhibited at the international biennial of contemporary art in Casablanca.From 2016 to 2019 he exhibited at the Museo della Follia curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. This year he created the "Markandeya" installation for Andrea Bocelli's theater of silence curated by Alberto Bartalini and Carlo Alberto Arzela.
Kaoru Shibuta | Painting
Yvonne Lin | Photography
Chinese-Canadian specializing in womenswear, Yvonne Lin holds a MA in design from the Royal College of Art and a Graduate Diploma from Central Saint Martins in London. Theatre, performance, body-art constantly inspired and nourish Lin’s design and artwork. She sees design and artwork as a form of expression and seeks to translate visuals into the whole gamut of emotions. Her practice is one of visual language, which transcends disciplinary boundaries, and encompasses accessories, footwear, installation, potteries, stills and film towards the ultimate visual objective.
Alexandra Freitas | Music
Alexandra Freitas was born in Funchal in Madeira Island, Portugal in 1995. Having grown up both next to the sea and in close proximity to nature. Throughout her life, Alexandra has always been fascinated by dance rituals and ambient music like William Basinski. Naturally, she was drawn on how to figure out a way to make people more aware of their spiritual behavior through music, video, drawing, and design. The interest was cultivated during her teenage years and further developed when she opted to take her graduation in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto. After completing her degree, Alexandra delved even more into design practice by completing the Master in Interactive Media Design at the University of Madeira.
Jieyuan Huang | Digital Art
Vasya Dmytryk | Sculpture
Vasya Dmytryk was born in 1991 and graduated from the Grekov Art School in Odesa, Ukraine. Vasya works in the fields of public art, sculptures, and installations.
In his artistic practice, he uses recycled and discarded materials, wood, metal, stone, styrofoam, and composites. In his sculptures, Vasya blurs boundaries between flatness
and dimensionality, formalism and conceptualism. Dmytryk's pieces thread figuration and abstraction, they nevertheless recall classical figurative traditions across a range of cultures and historical periods.
Joseph Karlovec | Photography
Joe Karlovec (b. 1986, Columbus, OH) is an artist living and working in West Palm Beach, FL. His work been exhibited by galleries in South Korea, Italy, Canada, and is represented by galleries in Nashville & Miami. Publications featuring his work include Studio Visit Magazine, CreativPaper Magazine, Art Reveal Magazine, and the International Drawing Annual. He has a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA from Kent State University. Professionally, he has worked in galleries & museums throughout Ohio & Florida, and also design exhibitions for museums in Iowa and New York. He currently works as Production Manager at Farano Fine Art in West Palm Beach, FL.
Sarah Tompkins | Painting
Born and based out of Ottawa, Canada, Sarah Tompkins received her BFAH (2013) from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Queen's University. After a string of solo exhibitions of her Veiled and Spectral Flora collections in Toronto, Canada, she has moved her focus to developing her most recent series of out of a live-in studio. She has further been featured in a multitude of group exhibitions, most recently with the By Other Means collective in London, UK, CONTEMPORARY VENICE at Palazzo Ca'Zanardi in Italy, and SKETCH at SAW Gallery in Ottawa. She has recently been interviewed for and featured on the cover of The Artist Catalogue (Brooklyn, NY) and featured in Art Reveal Magazine (Finland). Her work is held in private collections in Montreal, Toronto, New York, and London.
Val Wecerka | Painting
My journey in the world of art started at the National Art College in Sliven, Bulgaria, where I studied Textile. After 3 years of attending a Collage for fashion and design in Vienna I turned back to painting and graduated with praise -summa cum laude. This was followed by studies of Textiles in which I did continue to practice as a designer. At the same time (parallel to the abstract) countless figurative pictures were painted and tapestries, which I had woven, or knotted all by myself. Since 2013, I had completely dedicated my whole work to abstract painting. The theme my images are strongly influenced is the distance from family and friends. In the beginning, there were a series of abstract images my, so-called unwritten letters, which slowly dissolved into geometric shapes.
Conceição Abreu | Performance
Conceição Abreu, (Sintra, 1961). Visual artist and researcher. Lives and works in Lisbon. PhD in Plastic Arts from FBAUP (2018), Porto, Portugal. Master in Multimedia Art - Photography, from FBAUL (2012). Lisbon, Portugal. Graduated in 2010 (after completing her Bachelor's Degree in 1989) in Dance at the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal. Individual Painting Project (2000) from Escola Ar.Co. Complete Painting Studies (1998) at Escola Ar.Co. Lisbon, Portugal. Exhibits regularly since 1999, being represented in several collections in Portugal and abroad.