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Orphée Kashala

Orphée Kashala is a London based curator and writer. His research interests span migration ethics and politics, representation, visuality, semiotics, and postcolonial critical theory. His recent curatorial projects include; The measure of all things (and those that are not) (2026) at Broncko Bianchi, Dynamics of Extremely High Entropy (2026) at Nguyen Wahed Gallery, BOHBOH: A Familiar Stranger (2025) at Copland Gallery, and Epiphany (temporaire) first held at Block 336 (2023) and toured to IKON Gallery in (2024). Kashala holds a BA in Arts Management from Goldsmiths University of London and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Arts. He is also part of the curatorial trio COMEDY OF MENACE based at Broncko Bianchi, an exhibition space they co-run at Apiary Studio.

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Djibril N'Doye

Self-taught, Senegalese artist drawing with simple yet unforgiving tools: woodburner or ballpoint pen. Djibril considers his work to be universal art, and his personalized style of drawing creates the effect of transparency in his images. His drawings portray a variety of scenes from daily life based in his culturally rich native West Africa. With images of family, farming, fishing, music & dance, all pulling together the threads of his life experience, Djibril draws people living and working with dignity in rural, communal life. His drawings are often filled with a layer of societal expectation and personal obligation. There is an underlying sense of urgency about current society.

Terra Goolsby

Terra Goolsby is an Austin, Texas-based artist and professor at UT Austin. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, where she was a Presidential Scholar. She also conducted independent research at Brown University with Gail Cohee, Department Head of Gender and Sexuality Studies, where she identified her obsession with the deconstruction of Mesoamerican and contemporary mythologies. Multiple residencies have shaped her career, including West Dean College of Sussex University in Chichester, England: Vermont Studio Center: and I-Park Foundation in New Hampshire. In addition to her status as a Presidential Scholar at RISD, Terra has received the Thantopolis Honorarium, Edward James Fellowship and Scholarship, Dimension Gallery Fellowship, and multiple grants. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions such as Dallas Contemporary, Umlauf Sculpture Museum and Garden, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Ivester Contemporary and Anya Tish Gallery. She is one of the founders of Icosa Gallery.

Caitlin Slegr Ross

Caitlin Slegr Ross (b. Slegr/ b. 1981, Los Angeles, CA) is a Czech / American living in Los Angeles. Caiti received her MFA in sculpture from Milton Avery School of Art, Bard College (2017), where she also received an MFA fellowship (2014 – 2016) and a teaching fellowship from Bard College in 2015. In addition, she received a teaching fellowship from Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA 2017 – 2018 and she received her BFA from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2003-2006). Select solo and group exhibitions include Des-Artists, Los Angeles, CA (2026); Scope, Tri-Cluster in Berlin, DE (2024); Ruth Gallery, Pasadena, CA (2023); Hermitage, Los Angeles, (2022); Incident Report, Hudson, New York, (2016), Ono, Los Angeles, CA (2016); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (2015); Waterfront, Kingston, NY (2015); Autonomie, Los Angeles CA (2012); Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2008); Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA (2006); Washington Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2005); ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2005). Caitlin (Caiti Slegr) Ross is Art Department Chairperson and faculty at Immaculate Heart High School in Loz Feliz and lives in Los Angeles.

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Elisa Turner

Elisa Turner is an award-winning art critic and art journalist in Miami. The University Press of Florida published her book Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence in October 2025. It provides a curated series of her Miami Herald writing on Miami artists and the Miami art community. It spans pivotal years from 1987 to 2007, with new essays updating this historical material. For Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, she spoke about her book during “Conversations|Miami and the Making of a Global Art Hub.” In 2026 this book received a Gold Medal Award in visual arts from the 2025 Florida Book Awards. Her awards include a 2024 MIA Artist Award from Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and 2023 Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts. Others include Rabkin Prize for art writing, First Place Awards for Arts Commentary & Criticism from Florida’s Sunshine State Society of Professional Journalists, and Leadership Award from Florida Chapter of ArtTable. A contributor to Artburst Miami, she has also written for ARTnews, Biscayne Times, Burnaway, Fine Art Globe, Hyperallergic, and Miami Rail. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and ArtTable. Website: https://www.elisaturner.com/

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Nasim G. Pachi

Nasim G. Pachi is an Iranian-German contemporary painter whose work confronts culture, tradition, and the restrictions they place on individuals, particularly women. Her monumental canvases are richly detailed, contrasting the female form with intricate patterns of fabric or mosaics. Their enticing aesthetic draws in the viewer until we are forced to reflect on the importance of choice and individuality amid the complex rules of society. Born in Iran, Pachi studied in Germany and has lived and worked in various countries across Europe, West Africa, and Asia. Her experiences have revealed that people and their actions can be just as complex beyond Iran’s borders as within them. Her paintings investigate this, encouraging both artist and viewer to reframe their own identity in a global context. Pachi’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally. She holds Masters of Arts in Illustration from HAW Hamburg, Germany. She currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

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Christine Minas

Since starting Christine Minas Art Advisory (CMAA) in 2014, Christine has established a reputation for merging an innate aesthetic sensitivity with the highest of professional standards. Based in New York and Paris, Christine works with art collectors and family offices as well as interior designers, architects and property developers. Whether advising new clients on acquiring art for the first time or overseeing the care of a world-class collection, Christine brings a warm and collaborative style to every project. At the heart of her process is a deep interest in understanding her clients’ goals—often helping them discover new interests along the way—as well as a commitment to the experience of living with art. Prior to starting CMAA, Christine spent over 15 years working for some of the finest international museums and commercial galleries, including the Frick Collection and James Cohan Gallery in New York, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. A Los Angeles native, Christine is a classically trained art historian. She holds a bachelor’s degree in the History of Art from University College London and a master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Today, she is a regular guest lecturer for the Sotheby’s Institute of Art course Collection Building & Art Advisory and enjoys mentoring, and learning from, a new generation of art world professionals.

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Océane Sailly

Océane Sailly is the Founder and Director of Hunna Art, a contemporary gallery dedicated to women artists from the Arabian Peninsula and its diasporas, and Director of FIKAR, a Kuwait-based nonprofit supporting artistic research and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Previously, she co-founded Hors-Cadre in France and worked with the Emirati-French Cultural Programme at the French Ministry of Culture and the Institut français. Her work focuses on expanding opportunities for women artists, fostering sustainable artistic practices, and advancing research on contemporary art. In 2023, she received the MIA Art Collection Award for her contributions to the visibility and representation of women artists.

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Terra Goolsby

Terra Goolsby is an Austin, Texas-based artist and professor at UT Austin. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, where she was a Presidential Scholar. She also conducted independent research at Brown University with Gail Cohee, Department Head of Gender and Sexuality Studies, where she identified her obsession with the deconstruction of Mesoamerican and contemporary mythologies. Multiple residencies have shaped her career, including West Dean College of Sussex University in Chichester, England: Vermont Studio Center: and I-Park Foundation in New Hampshire. In addition to her status as a Presidential Scholar at RISD, Terra has received the Thantopolis Honorarium, Edward James Fellowship and Scholarship, Dimension Gallery Fellowship, and multiple grants. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions such as Dallas Contemporary, Umlauf Sculpture Museum and Garden, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Ivester Contemporary and Anya Tish Gallery. She is one of the founders of Icosa Gallery.

Ianthe Jackson

Ianthe Jackson is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her bachelors degree from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and received a fellowship for her masters in sculpture from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work explores ideas of place, perception and our relationship to the natural world. She is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in drawing and sculpture / Installation. Jackson’s work has been shown Nationally and Internationally. Most recently has shown in various galleries in NYS. She had a solo show at the Delapleine Art Center in Maryland, and participated in MaLonNY in Mariampoli, Lithuania. She has attended residencies at Art Omi, Sculpture Space and Homeland Gallery. She has been awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp and was nominated twice for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She collaborates with artists Mike Estabrooke and Vandana Jain to create and develop their studio space, Cloud of BATs, through collaboration, regular screenings and open studio events.

Alice Pixley Young

Alice Pixley Young (b. Washington, DC) makes multimedia installations and works on paper that merge built and natural environments, exploring deep time, contamination, and the aesthetics of industrial landscape. Her installations have been presented at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Taft Museum of Art, and Sarasota Art Museum, and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Print Studio London, Poliglota Gallery at Proyecto’ace, Buenos Aires, and solo exhibitions at the University of Kentucky and the University of Rochester. Her work is held in public and private collections including 21c Museum and the University of Cincinnati. In 2024 she completed a 40-foot public sculpture for the Roger Glass Fine Art Center at the University of Dayton. Young is the recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Puffin Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council, and was named an Ohio Women to Watch by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, Art Spiel, and New American Painting. Recent residencies include Kala Art Institute in Berkeley and Two Coats of Paint in Long Island City. She had a solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in 2026 and a solo exhibition opening at the Akron Art Museum in late summer 2026-27. Young's studio sits on Ordovician fossil beds, Myaamia homelands, and the edge of a nuclear Superfund site in southwestern Ohio.

Ian Laughlin

Ian Laughlin is a multimedia eco-political artist living in New York’s Hudson Valley. Born in Christchurch New Zealand, he graduated from Ilam University with a Fine Arts Degree with Honors in Painting specializing in mono-printing techniques in small to large scale works. After graduation he was commissioned for 3 large public murals and continued exhibiting in numerous galleries and museums throughout New Zealand as well as Sydney, Australia. In 1982 he moved to NYC. There his work as a multimedia eco-artist evolved, achieving notoriety in New York City’s Lower East Side by producing large scale works from neighborhood detritus combined with lights and sound. With exposure to video through Film Video Arts, he collaborated with Susan Peehl producing videos, including Agnostic Front at CBGB’s. After becoming a resident of the Hudson Valley in 1990 Laughlin’s work has been exhibited both locally, in NYC, and throughout the US. His continued exploration of injustices and finding solutions to the many challenges facing the planet, has been a driver for an ever-expanding multi-media approach as an eco-political artist. He has worked both in ice casting and metal with his current sculptural opus making extensive use of transformation of objects utilizing their sonic properties. On these works he’s had percussionist/composer David Van Tieghem perform. The numerous videos produced of these performances have received international film festival awards.

Jamie Zimchek

Jamie Zimchek is a multi-disciplinary artist heavily influenced by her fundamentalist youth and world wandering. Years spent internationally as a freelance writer, photographer, and academic lecturing on topics such as U.S. Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Conspiracy have further shaped her focus. Much of Zimchek’s recent work has revolved around an exploration of the storylines used by controlling power systems as a means of manipulation. Often absurd, these false narratives and imagined truths enforce the separation between us and Other and are sometimes so deeply entrenched that they’ve been all but forgotten. Underlying her studio practice is a visual consideration of these storylines as they’re used to maintain control across cultures and contexts in intimate, domestic settings but also in more public, political ones. Recently, Zimchek exhibited at Juniper Sculpture Park in Plattsburg, New York, Understory Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and was featured for the Cultural Art Alliance Billboard Project. She has shown work as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the Seaside Prize, and other assorted shows in the U.S. and U.K. Zimchek has an MA in Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently based in Northwest Florida and an instructor in the art department at Gulf Coast State College

Christine Pfister

Christine Pfister is a gallerist, curator, and artist advocate with over two decades of experience navigating the global art world. Her work centers on curating and collaborating with museums, institutions, and private collectors, fostering meaningful connections between artists and audiences. Pfister has taught and lectured at leading institutions, including the Barnes Foundation, the American Association of Museums, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her insights and work have been featured in international publications such as Art & Object, The Art Whale Series, Bold Journey, among others. As director of Pentimenti, Pfister drives its international presence through participation in major art fairs including Independent, The Armory Show, NADA, Untitled, and more. Under her leadership, the gallery maintains active membership in the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), reinforcing its role within a global network of contemporary art spaces.

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Pavol Zelina

Pavol Zelina (b. 1978, Slovakia) is a contemporary artist based in Utrecht, Netherlands, best known for his complex multilayered abstract paintings. At the center of Zelina’s practice is the creative process itself in relation to human cognition. Complex and radiant tableaus emerge from a culmination of layers, combining various techniques and methods, from oil and acrylic paint, markers and spray paint to codes suggesting language and écriture automatique. Pavol Zelina’s practice focuses on exploring the cognitive forces that drive artistic creation. By doing so, his work critically investigates what constitutes meaningful artistic choices and which elements may be considered extraneous. Pavol Zelina has exhibited widely, including at Gallery Art&Miss (2019 - 25) in Paris, France; Gallery Art Keller 24 (2018) in Utrecht, the Netherlands; and Gallery Maison de la Lithographie Les Amis De Frédéric Charmat (2015) in Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, France, among others. His work is part of the permanent collection of Gallery Maison de la Lithographie Les Amis De Frédéric Charmat and is held by private collectors across the United States of America, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Zelina’s early recognition at age 21 includes an honorary mention at the 1999 National Exhibition of Non-Professional Visual Art in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Jean Corby

Jean Corby is an accomplished NYC interior designer whose work took her around the world planning stores and restaurants for international and domestic clients. She grew up in rural Connecticut where her childhood days were surrounded by nature then headed to Syracuse University where she received a BFA in design. Ms Corby’s early passion for sewing and drawing is the inspiration for her art process that uses embroidery machines to “paint” on canvas. Her work is in private collections in NYC, WestChester, Bedford, Santa Cruz, Brooklyn, and Florida. She currently resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. where she raised her family.

Kirstin Ilse

Kirstin Ilse is a Boston based artist concentrating on mixed silk media. She makes artwork exploring contemporary life, turning allegories into imagery with natural and abstract forms. Kirstin takes the autodidact path through many of the great learning institutions of Greater Boston and beyond, striving for lifelong learning and an expanding family across the world.

Virginia Sharkey

My interest in deep space started as a child looking at the stars in the Midwest. It has developed through many decades with the practice of mediation with its experience of an inner space, and with my long participation as a violinist in symphony orchestras, constantly enveloped within the “space” in a symphonic composition. The confined perimeters of a traditional two dimensional canvas present to me a challenge that I embrace; how to use these limitations to make something mysterious, ambiguous, and new which aims towards a singular point of beauty and serenity among a dynamic play between the intimate and the infinite. Though I have been enlightened by many “spiritual” traditions, my work celebrates the quotidian: essence, the elemental particles as in the physicists’ universe, and the apprehension of presence or fullness, as exemplified in certain zen paintings. I aim to create an experience in the viewer that is celebratory: the puzzle and amazement of how it is just to be alive. It is for this underlying goal that I often use the diving board of the structures of time. A scholarship to Vassar College , the mentorship of the mythopoetic painter Alton Pickens, the conversation of fellow artists, galleries and museums of New York, the beauty of South Tirol and the oasis of the Mendocino Coast of Northern California have contributed to over 100 exhibitions in New York, California and Europe.

PREETHA KANNAN

Preetha Kannan is a Mumbai-based painter and mixed-media artist whose practice spans four decades. Trained in fine arts at the University of Madras (BFA, DFA, PGDFA 1976–1985), she began her career immersed in both realism and abstraction before stepping away from the studio to pursue more than a decade of grassroots social activism, first among the slum women of Chennai, then alongside Magsaysay Award winner Baba Amte and Medha Patkar in the in the internationally known Narmada Bachao Andolan. Preetha has exhibited extensively in India and internationally, including solo shows at Jehangir Art Gallery and Gallery Beyond in Mumbai; Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi and group exhibitions at the Busan International Art Biennale (2017), India Art Fair (2017, Delhi), Affordable Art Fair (2014, New York), the India Pavilion at Busan International Art Fair (2025) and Chennai Biennale, India, (2026). Preetha’s work can be viewed on her website www.preethakannan.com.

Catalina Bergues

Curator, researcher, and psychologist. Holds degrees in Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado and in Psychology from the University of São Paulo. Works as a curator at Instituto Tomie Ohtake and as a clinical psychologist. Recipient of the 6th OMA Curatorial Open Call and a Getty Foundation Travel Grant to attend CIMAM 2025. Has curated exhibitions such as There's A Whole Life You Don't Know About – Allan Weber (2026, Instituto Tomie Ohtake), Ruy Ohtake – Paths of Dwelling (2026, Casa-ateliê Tomie Ohtake), Eaux Souterraines: récits en confluence (2025, Frac Poitou-Charentes, France), and In Every Corner (2025, Instituto Tomie Ohtake and Casa Fiat de Cultura, Belo Horizonte). Has contributed to publications such as Popular Art: Uses and Practices (2025), Chen Kong Fang (2025), and Towards the Museum of Origins (2023).

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Katharina Huemer

Katharina Huemer (b. 1989, Linz) lives and works in Vienna and Upper Austria. She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Vienna (2016) and further developed her artistic practice at the University of Art and Design Linz, where she studied until 2020. In parallel, she completed painting and drawing courses at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg. Huemer works primarily with painting and drawing. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Austria, including wasserwasser 3 (solo, Vienna), Galerie Ruberl (group, Vienna), and Micro Space for Art (solo, Mariazell), as well as group exhibitions in Linz, Salzburg, and Pörtschach. Internationally, her work has been shown at Le Consortium Museum in Dijon (group). In 2022, Huemer was a fellow of the soart artist residency at Lake Millstatt.

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Ana Briz

Ana Briz is Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the AD&A Museum in UC Santa Barbara. Her research is situated in the field of performance, art, and visual culture in the United States, and focuses on queer, feminist, and anti-racist work by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in California. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity and an M.A. in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Art History from Florida International University.

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claire b cotts

claire b cotts bio Artist Claire B Cotts has been exhibiting her distinctive, richly layered figurative and abstract canvases for over thirty years years. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the De Young Art Museum in San Francisco, and is represented in numerous private and corporate collections.  She has done several residencies, including a year in Turkey on Fulbright Fellowship Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Ms. Cotts lives and works in Berkeley, California.

Paula Menchen

Paula Menchen’s work incorporates memory, textures, and surfaces, deconstructing and reconstructing the pictorial space. Born in East London, Paula immigrated to the US at age 2, growing up in Los Angeles. She earned her BFA from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles and studied at Parsons in New York. Immigrating for a second time to the USA in 2022 led her to question home, belonging, what is familiar and what is foreign, preservation and destruction. Paula’s work can be found in collections in America, England, Belgium, Spain and Portugal and has also been exhibited in Japan, Holland and Italy.

Jamie Zimchek

Jamie Zimchek is a multi-disciplinary artist heavily influenced by her fundamentalist youth and world wandering. Years spent internationally as a freelance writer, photographer, and academic lecturing on topics such as U.S. Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Conspiracy have further shaped her focus. Much of Zimchek’s recent work has revolved around an exploration of the storylines used by controlling power systems as a means of manipulation. Often absurd, these false narratives and imagined truths enforce the separation between us and Other and are sometimes so deeply entrenched that they’ve been all but forgotten. Underlying her studio practice is a visual consideration of these storylines as they’re used to maintain control across cultures and contexts in intimate, domestic settings but also in more public, political ones. Recently, Zimchek exhibited at Juniper Sculpture Park in Plattsburg, New York, Understory Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and was featured for the Cultural Art Alliance Billboard Project. She has shown work as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the Seaside Prize, and other assorted shows in the U.S. and U.K. Zimchek has an MA in Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently based in Northwest Florida and an instructor in the art department at Gulf Coast State College

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Arthur Ollman

Arthur Ollman has exhibited his work in more than 50 group and one-person exhibitions including at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and galleries in the US, Europe and Asia. He is the founding director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and served there for 23 years. Ollman has curated more than 100 exhibitions, many traveling world-wide. Emeritus Professor and former director of the School of Art and Design at San Diego State University, he has written all or parts of 25 books and catalogues in photography. Ollman is the Board President, for 10 years of the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, based in Paris and Lausanne, a non-profit, traveling exhibitions to museums around the world. He lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

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Ken Koski Tenzo Hajime Shinyu

Ken Koski, pen name Tenzo Hajime Shinyu- a Zen practitioner of no exceptional merit and just as surprised as anyone. Born someplace between the Known and the Uncontrolled.

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Francesca Du Brock

Francesca Du Brock is the Chief Curator at the Anchorage Museum. Her curatorial practice is informed by her background as an artist and educator and is grounded in social engagement, place-based storytelling, environmental justice, and experimental museum practice. Recent projects including Dog Show (2025), How to Survive (2023), Black Lives in Alaska: Journey, Justice Joy (2021), Extra Tough: Women of the North (2020), and What, Why How We Eat (2018), focus on topics of care and climate, representation, Northern feminisms, local culture, and immigration. In 2020, she established the Museum's Virtual Artist Residency program, which continues to provide unrestricted support to artists, sharing process and behind-the-scenes insights into their lives and practices. Born and raised in Alaska on Dena'ina Ełnena, she holds a BA in Art History from Bowdoin College, an MFA from the San Francisco Arts Institute, and an M.Ed from Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She has been a fellow with the Association for Art Museum Curators (2023) and the Center for Curatorial Leadership (2025). In 2025, she received the Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History from the Vilcek Foundation. She is the editor of How to Survive: Practicing Care in a Changing Climate (Hirmer, 2025).

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Maria-Agni .

Multidisciplinary creator, printmaker/master etcher experimenting with photography, digital imagining, analog mark making and visceral performance, exploring the subject of the alchemical nature of process and what is consciousness. Since early childhood, she has questioned her mission here, both awed and bewildered by humanity’s peculiar ways. As a small girl, she devised her own quiet rituals, drawing a heart shape on the ground, standing on it, and sending healing energy to others—including the monsters, who needed it even more than the people she saw on TV, seemingly on the receiving end of the monsters' bad behaviour. To this day, she believes in the power of the mind, in the artist as creator, and in the act of making as a form of reality-weaving. An obsessive observer, Maria-Agni records relentlessly through the photographic lens. She finds beauty in the ordinary and celebrates its role in the whole. Her images function as spells, mantras, and meditations—projections that shift and recalibrate the universal balance. Central to all her work is the concept of energy exchange, with the horizon line symbolising the limitation or expansion of understanding and the circular form mirroring the cyclical nature of dualistic experiences. M-A consciously explores the nature of contrast, the very tension that allows us to perceive our three-dimensional reality. She writes poetry.

Larry Eisenstein

Larry Eisenstein is a Canadian artist whose drawing practice spans more than fifty years. Working primarily with ink on paper, he creates densely accumulated fields of hand-made marks that investigate emergence, self-organisation and the relationships that develop through sustained acts of attention. Originally trained and established as an illustrator before devoting himself fully to contemporary drawing, Eisenstein has spent decades pursuing an independent studio practice that resists predetermined imagery in favour of generative processes. His drawings evolve through prolonged reciprocal engagement, allowing complex structures to arise from the interaction of countless individual decisions rather than from a fixed plan. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada and in New York, including exhibitions at Pierogi Gallery, Loop Gallery, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Humber College Art Commons and other public and private venues. His drawings are included in the Pierogi Flat Files in Brooklyn and have recently been presented through the Pierogi Traveling Flat Files at Mana Contemporary. Based in New Brunswick and originally from Toronto, Eisenstein continues to develop large-scale drawing projects while researching the intersections of observation, perception, complexity and the living behavior of marks in the field of the page.

Jordan Wong

As a Chinese American whose childhood was filled with anime, manga, and video games, Jordan Wong (WONGFACE) creates drawings, characters, and icons to contemplate the hero’s journey, the game theory of leveling up throughout one’s life, and the Ultimate Self. He has produced large-scale installations and public artwork for the city of Cleveland as well as exhibited at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (2024 and 2020), Massillon Museum (2023), and the Akron Art Museum (2021 – 2022). From 2020 to 2022 Jordan served as the president of the Cleveland chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design. His work has been featured by Graphic Design USA (”People to Watch 2021”), The Great Discontent (issue no. 5), Cleveland Magazine (”Most Interesting People 2021”), Ideastream, Destination Cleveland, and other local publications. Jordan has artwork in the collections of Meta (the parent company of Facebook), Cleveland Public Library, Akron Art Museum, University Hospitals, Laura and Fred Bidwell (founder and executive director of FRONT Triennial), and other private collectors.

Lisa Noble

Lisa Armstrong Noble (b. 1973, Canada) is a Virginia-based artist whose work delves into themes of identity, memory, and personal history. She began her formal artistic training at the Alberta College of Art & Design in 1997, and completed her BFA at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, D.C., graduating magna cum laude in 2001. Throughout her studies, she received both the Corcoran Scholarship and the Dean’s Merit Scholarship. Her work has been featured in exhibitions across the U.S., including The Painting Center and Katonah Museum of Art in New York, and the Taubman Museum of Art in Virginia. Noble is an Affiliate Member of the First Street Gallery in New York and is included in the White Columns Curated Artist Online Registry. In 2020, she received the Wherewithal Recovery Grant from the Washington Project for The Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Doreen Connors

Doreen is creating an ongoing installation reflecting her journey of rising out of the ashes of organized extreme abuse (OEA) and chronic illness. It is her mission to reveal the systematic traumatization and mind control of children that she and millions of others have experienced in this world. She has been blessed in healing her physical, emotional, and spiritual traumas, thanks to the Medical Medium information and protocols, and listening to the testimonies of survivors around the globe. Williamstown, Massachusetts was her birthplace, in 1956. It is no accident that Fumée d'Ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris) by John Singer Sargent resides in the collection of The Clark Art Institute. Her soul has been constantly rehearted, by either exquisite or horrifying encounters, that she is always on the ‘right path’. “A path is not what you are on, a path is what you are; you can never be ‘off’ yourself.” ~ Darryl Anka The core of her heart has always remained unscathed. The glowing ember, within, has been reignited through her art making. Her body of work, Lifetime Art Project: the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Woman is eternally unfolding. She holds space for all survivors, around the globe, in the truth of who we are.

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Milja Liimatainen

Milja Liimatainen is a curator from Finland currently working at HAM Helsinki Art Museum on changing exhibitions. Prior to this, she worked as a curator at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, as a supporting curator at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Program, and as a curator of collections at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Milja has also produced touring exhibitions at the Ateneum Art Museum, worked as an assisting curator at HAM (Helsinki Art Museum), and served as a gallery coordinator at Galerie Anhava. She possesses extensive expertise in curatorial practice and a comprehensive understanding of exhibition production methodologies across diverse museum contexts. Milja’s approach to curatorial practice(s) is grounded in the principles of fellowship, dialogue, and facilitation. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Helsinki.

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Eliana Carvidón

Eliana Carvidón is a multidisciplinary visual artist born and based in Uruguay. She began her artistic studies at the National Dance School and in ballet and contemporary dance academies, later joining the Montevideo Chamber Ballet. In addition to studying at the Faculty of Arts (Uruguay), Carvidon attended ceramics courses, painting and digital painting with Rodrigo Fló and painting with Carlos Musso. Carvidón was selected for “New Visionary Magazine” by Erin Schuppert (art curator and director of Affordable Art Fair) (New York, 2025). She was one of eight women artists honored and selected for the #8M open-air exhibition (Montevideo, 2024). Her project “Intrinsic Nature” was selected for the “Mentorship for Visual Artists and Researchers” contest by the National Institute of Visual Arts, Ministery of Education and Culture (Uruguay, 2022). She received a Special Mention for Stagnari wine labels (2021) and was a finalist in the Colonia International Festival Biennials (2018, 2020) and Green Foundation solo show contest (2019). Solo shows in Uruguay include “Intrinsic Nature” (Torres García Museum, 2024), “Creatures” (Green Foundation, 2019), “Split” (National Library, 2016) and more. She has participated in group exhibitions: Artifact (New York, 2022), Rossocinabro (Rome, 2022), Torres García Museum (2014) and more.

Niels Tofahrn

Since 1991, he has been represented in numerous exhibitions in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Belgium, and in 2016 at Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe, Australia. In 1993, he received an award for his design of a Jewish memorial for the Buchenwald Memorial, and in 2013, he received the Markgräfler Art Prize. His work focuses on sculpture, installation, photography, and drawing. Niels’ current works sit at the intersection of digital, mechanical, and manual design. He lives and works in Weil am Rhein, Germany and is represented by the Galerie Stahlberger.

Skuja Braden

Skuja Braden is the collaborative identity formed in 1999 by artists Ingūna Skuja from Latvia and Melissa Braden from California. They share a passion for porcelain and an interest in decorative arts, literature, and art history. Their work blends tradition with contemporary innovation, challenging conventional notions of individual authorship and fixed identity. By transforming porcelain—a material associated with refinement—they create expressive pieces that explore the intersections of painting and sculpture, order and chaos, and personal versus collective narratives. Their breakthrough came with the Samsara exhibition at the Design and Decorative Art Museum in Rīga, Latvia, in 2020, which garnered national recognition, including the Kilogram of Kulture Award for Best Visual Artists and a nomination for the Purviša Balva. In 2022, they represented Latvia at the 59th Venice Biennale with Selling Water by the River, an installation featuring over 300 porcelain pieces, reflecting the chaotic beauty of a storm-blown home interior, earning critical acclaim worldwide. With over 180 national and international group shows and more than 50 solo exhibitions in cities such as New York City, Milan, Istanbul, and Zagreb, Skuja Braden’s creations continue to captivate audiences around the globe, finding a home in both prestigious public institutions and discerning private collections, while challenging viewers to reconsider the boundaries of art, identity, and creative expression.

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Monika Fabijanska

Patrizia Dander is Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at Gropius Bau, Berlin. Jointly with art historian Gürsoy Doğtaş, she is currently preparing an exhibition on Kreuzberg, the district in which Gropius Bau is located. The research for this project centers on an art history of labor migration (opening September 2026). Until March 2024 she was Head of Curatorial Department at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, where she is organized Yoko Ono. Music of the Mind (2024–25, travelled to Gropius Bau in spring 2025). Prior to this appointment, she was Chief Curator at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, where she put together exhibitions including, most recently, Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s (2022–23), a group exhibition featuring work by sixty artists addressing the impact on sculpture of technological developments and changing discourses on the body. Earlier projects in her curatorial roles at Museum Brandhorst (2015–22) and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2007–15), include solo exhibitions with Kerstin Brätsch (2017), Mark Leckey (2015), Adele Röder (2015), and Ivan Kožarić (2013), as well as group exhibitions such as IMAGE COUNTER IMAGE (2012), Sculptural Acts (2011–12), and Golden Times (2010).

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Ianthe Jackson

Ianthe Jackson is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her bachelors degree from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and received a fellowship for her masters in sculpture from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work explores ideas of place, perception and our relationship to the natural world. She is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in drawing and sculpture / Installation. Jackson’s work has been shown Nationally and Internationally. Most recently has shown in various galleries in NYS. She had a solo show at the Delapleine Art Center in Maryland, and participated in MaLonNY in Mariampoli, Lithuania. She has attended residencies at Art Omi, Sculpture Space and Homeland Gallery. She has been awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp and was nominated twice for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She collaborates with artists Mike Estabrooke and Vandana Jain to create and develop their studio space, Cloud of BATs, through collaboration, regular screenings and open studio events.

Barbara Danzi

Barbara Danzi is an artist who makes large-scale improvisational abstract quilts. Her approach of freehand cutting each line or shape individually while composing the design on her design wall and her complex use of color creates quilts with a painterly aesthetic where the seams look hand drawn. Barbara merges her engineering degree and design study with her outdoor adventures to create compelling designs based on organic shapes in the natural world. Besides exhibiting her award-winning quilts around the world, Barbara lectures to quilt and fiber art groups and serves as a curator, juror and judge for exhibits. Barbara is a Juried Artist Member of SAQA, the Studio Art Quilt Associates, and a member of Textile Arts Los Angeles, and the Textile Study Group of New York

Kelly Mathews

Who I am I am Kelly Mathews, a visual artist from St Joseph, MI, working primarily in encaustic and photography. What I do I create art reflecting my lived experiences with Bipolar Disorder, addiction, rehab, and recovery. Why I do it To promote a better understanding of Bipolar Disorder among people with no experience with the illness, and to give hope to those living with Bipolar from someone who has made it through the worst and come out the other side. Why it matters This is a very lonely, confusing, and isolating illness. The stigma alone will cause many to reject a diagnosis and refuse treatment. Those who accept it are often made to feel broken or damaged. Just showing them that someone else has gone through what they’re feeling and survived can be the first step in giving them hope.

Carolyn McDonald

Carolyn McDonald is a photographer, writer and filmmaker, who produced and directed the short film ��P.N.O.K.”, the documentary DESIGN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, several music videos & short films. In addition to being the photographer of “Nouns in the Road”, TIME + TIDE: AS REVEALED BY LIGHT, and “Imaginary Bands & their Fake Ass Songs”, Carolyn is the award-winning producer of HBO’s AMERICA’S DREAM, TNT’s FREEDOM SONG and BUFFALO SOLDIERS, and NatGeo”s documentary, BEARING LIGHT. Carolyn has exhibited her photographs at the Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, Scarritt Bennett Center’s Gallery F in Nashville, TN, where she was an artist-in-residence; and group shows in Los Angeles, CA. During the pandemic, Carolyn began designing mixed media frames for her photographs. A passionate youth arts advocate, Carolyn ran the Nashville Film Festival’s At-Risk Teen Film Project, was a teaching artist at the Cinema High School, Bronx, NY, and the Gathering of Native American Youth Arts Camp in Sonoma County, CA. She presently teaches screenwriting at New York Film Academy. Carolyn studied photography at SUNY Purchase; film, dramatic writing & art history at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and Art & Design at Watkins College, Nashville. She resides in Long Beach, CA.

Kathryn Allen Hurni

Kathryn Allen Hurni discovered her passion for photography at age 13, a path that led her to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she earned a B.F.A. in Photography in 2006. Her practice began with traditional film photography, working in both color and black and white. While she has photographed in formats such as 35mm and 4x5, she favors medium format. Now using both film and digital mediums, Kathryn approaches each project with meticulous care, especially in her printing process, to preserve the detail and depth in her work. Her photography has been exhibited at institutions like Aperture Gallery, Manifest Gallery, and The Center for Fine Art Photography. In 2015, Kathryn held her first solo show at Penn State University, followed by a second solo exhibition at EPSY Gallery in Wales, UK, in 2018. Most recently, she attended the NES Artist Residency in Iceland, where she developed a series of abstracted, painterly landscapes inspired by the dramatic Icelandic scenery. Additionally, Kathryn’s work has appeared in publications including T Magazine, DETAILS, WSJ, and W Magazine. She currently divides her time between her fine art practice and commercial work as a freelance documentary photographer, continually exploring the boundaries between artistic and documentary storytelling.

Arlene Salomon

Arlene Salomon is a Hawai‘i-based artist, designer, and regenerative practitioner whose work explores impermanence, transformation, and collaboration with natural and man-made elements. Her current practice centers on painting and printmaking with natural pigments and light-sensitive materials that remain chemically active, creating works that shift in color, texture, and form over time. This approach continues a long history of experimentation across media, including fiber art, sculpture, alternative photography, and encaustic. Originally from New York, Arlene holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Interior Architecture and Design. Since relocating to Maui nearly four decades ago, she has worked at the intersection of art and ecology, as a landscape designer, consulting arborist, and conservation advocate, allowing the rhythms of the natural world to shape her aesthetic and values. Her multidisciplinary practice now extends into residential and commercial interior design, where she brings the same sensitivity to materials, place, and environmental stewardship.

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Cory John Scozzari

Cory John Scozzari (b. 1988, Florida) is a curator and artist. He is the founding director of Cordova, a not-for-profit multidisciplinary arts space initiated in 2016 in Vienna, currently located in Barcelona. He was also a founding member and co-director of Jupiter Woods, London/Vienna between 2014 and 2016. He held curatorial positions at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) in Vienna and Madrid between 2015 and 2019. He received his MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths in 2015, and BFA in Photography and Art History from SCAD in 2010. His writing and criticism has appeared in online and print publications such as Rhizome, Mousse, and Spike. He has edited / co-edited publications: Tyler Coburn: Richard Roe, Allan Sekula: OKEANOS and Mario García Torres: An Arrival Tale, all published by TBA21 and Sternberg Press. Recent curatorial residencies include HIAP in Helsinki and SOMA in Mexico City. Some of his recent projects include Arca: Angels at Cordova in Barcelona and BEEP! at Sophie Tappeiner in Vienna.

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Doreen Connors

Doreen is creating an ongoing installation reflecting her journey of rising out of the ashes of organized extreme abuse (OEA) and chronic illness. It is her mission to reveal the systematic traumatization and mind control of children that she and millions of others have experienced in this world. She has been blessed in healing her physical, emotional, and spiritual traumas, thanks to the Medical Medium information and protocols, and listening to the testimonies of survivors around the globe. Williamstown, Massachusetts was her birthplace, in 1956. It is no accident that Fumée d'Ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris) by John Singer Sargent resides in the collection of The Clark Art Institute. Her soul has been constantly rehearted, by either exquisite or horrifying encounters, that she is always on the ‘right path’. “A path is not what you are on, a path is what you are; you can never be ‘off’ yourself.” ~ Darryl Anka The core of her heart has always remained unscathed. The glowing ember, within, has been reignited through her art making. Her body of work, Lifetime Art Project: the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Woman is eternally unfolding. She holds space for all survivors, around the globe, in the truth of who we are.

Sabra Morman

Sabra Skutt-Morman (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan, whose work explores themes of resilience, memory, and transformation. Navigating life with a physical disability, Sabra’s perspective was shaped early on by determination and adaptability, qualities instilled by her mother, a nurse. Her love for movement and expression began with ballet at the Detroit Windsor Dance Academy, and art became a source of solace after personal hardships, including the loss of her father to a brain tumor and major hip surgery. Sabra studied fine art and psychology at the University of Dayton, and the loss of her mother in 2004 and stepfather in 2017 deepened her commitment to art as a means of personal narrative and community engagement. Her work, known for its intricate details and mixed-media embellishments, has been exhibited in various galleries and public spaces. After establishing herself in Detroit, Sabra expanded to Washington, D.C. area, where she earned a residency and a full-time role with the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County in Maryland. Now, Sabra focuses on art with social impact, using her experiences to connect with others and inspire resilience. Her evolving body of work invites viewers to witness life’s iridescence through her unique perspective.

Billy Patrick

WG Patrick is a Detroit-based artist who sculpts with time, sound, and light. His work compresses four measures of music into a 1.6-second burst, transforming vibration into form and perception into an act of synesthesia. When a flash of light strikes each sculpture, sound and reflection coincide—producing an event that exists only for an instant. The forms that remain, seen here as still images, are the architecture that holds that moment. Rooted in Bergson’s Duration and Vattimo’s “weak thought,” Patrick’s practice treats perception as interpretation, not certainty. Each sculpture is both instrument and fossil—a trace of listening waiting to be re-activated by attention. The viewer’s awareness becomes the final medium, completing the circuit between sound, sight, and thought. Patrick lives and works in Detroit, developing installations where art functions less as object than as experiment—an open space where synesthetic experience becomes a model for empathy and understanding.

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Alyssa Brubaker

Alyssa Brubaker is a Chicago-based independent curator, writer and DJ with a practice rooted in experimentation across visual and sonic forms. Linking visual art, sound, and social exchange, Brubaker's projects emphasize a sensitivity to process, sound, and systems-thinking, championing artists who probe perception, materiality, and the poetics of technology. Professional positions and residencies include Director, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL; Exhibition Management at Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago, IL; Director of Design, Evanston Art Center, IL; Visual Arts Curator, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL, Program Manager, Sculpture Magazine, Trenton, NJ. Brubaker obtained her B.F.A. in sculpture at Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA and completed coursework in art history and museum studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

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Clara Nartey

Clara Nartey (b. Accra, Ghana) lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. Nartey spent the first part of her career working with large corporations as a management consultant. Then, she went on to develop a rigorous self-taught art practice. Her unique artistic style meshes drawing using threads, with digital painting, machine embroidery, and quilting on the artist’s own designed and printed textiles. Her practice reimagines painting and drawing through textiles, using colored fabrics as paint and stitching and thread work for drawing. Nartey’s bold, colorful, and textured figurative works have been exhibited widely. Her exhibitions include The Joy of Living II, Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT; Fabric of Identity, Anderson Gallery - Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA. Her work is held in both private and institutional collections. Notable educational institutions like Yale School of Management, which owns multiple pieces, and Dana Hall School, not only have permanent installations of Nartey’s work but have also incorporated her work into their curricula as educational tools for raising the next generation of leaders.

Jamie Zimchek

Jamie Zimchek is a multi-disciplinary artist heavily influenced by her fundamentalist youth and world wandering. Years spent internationally as a freelance writer, photographer, and academic lecturing on topics such as U.S. Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Conspiracy have further shaped her focus. Much of Zimchek’s recent work has revolved around an exploration of the storylines used by controlling power systems as a means of manipulation. Often absurd, these false narratives and imagined truths enforce the separation between us and Other and are sometimes so deeply entrenched that they’ve been all but forgotten. Underlying her studio practice is a visual consideration of these storylines as they’re used to maintain control across cultures and contexts in intimate, domestic settings but also in more public, political ones. Recently, Zimchek exhibited at Juniper Sculpture Park in Plattsburg, New York, Understory Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and was featured for the Cultural Art Alliance Billboard Project. She has shown work as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the Seaside Prize, and other assorted shows in the U.S. and U.K. Zimchek has an MA in Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently based in Northwest Florida and an instructor in the art department at Gulf Coast State College

Jeff Stauder

Jeff Stauder was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Eastern Connecticut. Stauder received his BA in Art from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he won the 1996 Dana Pond Painting Award. Stauder moved to New York City where he painted, bartended, and created the Artists Theoretical Racing Circuit, a collaborative conceptual art project. He moved to Western Massachusetts in 2008, where he finally indulged his true nature by reveling in an imagistic historicism inspired by his favorite old and modern masters. That work has been exhibited widely in New England, including a solo exhibition at the University of Massachusetts. In 2022 he was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant in Painting. A joyful misanthrope who loves rock & roll, art history, and cats, Stauder is trying to create one great painting before he dies.

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Bade Turgut

Bade Turgut is the Director of Weinstein Hammons Gallery. Since 1996, the gallery has showcased internationally recognized artists across various media, with a particular emphasis on modern and contemporary photography. The gallery represents a distinguished roster of artists, including Alec Soth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vera Lutter, Nancy Rexroth, Gordon Parks, Edward Burtynsky, and Matthew Brandt, among others. Weinstein Hammons Gallery has successfully placed works by its artists in prominent private collections and major museums nationwide. Bade Turgut holds a degree in Studio Arts, with a concentration in photography, from Macalester College.

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Arlene Salomon

Arlene Salomon is a Hawai‘i-based artist, designer, and regenerative practitioner whose work explores impermanence, transformation, and collaboration with natural and man-made elements. Her current practice centers on painting and printmaking with natural pigments and light-sensitive materials that remain chemically active, creating works that shift in color, texture, and form over time. This approach continues a long history of experimentation across media, including fiber art, sculpture, alternative photography, and encaustic. Originally from New York, Arlene holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Interior Architecture and Design. Since relocating to Maui nearly four decades ago, she has worked at the intersection of art and ecology, as a landscape designer, consulting arborist, and conservation advocate, allowing the rhythms of the natural world to shape her aesthetic and values. Her multidisciplinary practice now extends into residential and commercial interior design, where she brings the same sensitivity to materials, place, and environmental stewardship.

Jane McNichol

Jane McNichol is an artist living and working in the East Village of New York City. She works in oil on canvas as a figurative artist. Her inspiration is rooted in the post-impressionist artists. She is drawn to the strong colors and expressive compositions of artists like Cezanne and Bonnard. Jane is a native of Philadelphia where she studied studio arts at Temple University and spent a summer in Rome at Tyler School of art. Following the path of French artists, she was drawn to working directly from nature in places like Bucks County, PA and the New Jersey coastal wetlands. Upon moving to New York City in the late 1980’s she moved her art practice indoors to a shared studio with her artist husband in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This studio environment allowed her to create larger canvases, inspired by the deep open spaces of the mid-western United States. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Pollack Krasner recipient. She is drawn to the natural light in Down East Maine, working from nature and investigating artists like Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Fairfield Porter. Currently she is working in an East Village studio on East 10th Street, where her inspiration includes the streets of New York – the people, places and things that surround her daily. She continues to exhibit her work nationally.

Amy Kupferberg

Amy Kupferberg was raised in Westchester, New York. She earned her BA in 1988 from Bard College and her MFA in 2003 from Pratt Institute. In 1998, Kupferberg began studying at the Art Student’s League. Bruce Dorfman has continued to be a significant influence, always encouraging her to take artmaking seriously. She has worked as an electrician in the film industry for the last 32 years. Her artwork can be seen in Dr. Melfi’s office on the Sopranos and other film projects. Kuperberg’s work has been reviewed in multiple publications, notably The Miami Lead, Times Herald-Record, and featured on ArtCritical.com. She has participated in a Residency at The Henry Street Settlement. Her Solo exhibitions include The Stuban Gallery, Pratt Institute, The Livingroom Gallery, Saint Peter’s Church, NYC, and Gallery In The Square, Wimberly, TX. She has participated in numerous group shows throughout the US, including Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint Denise Bibro, NY, Multi[Ply], Middlesex County College NJ, Miami ArtBasel Wynwood Lofts Art Complex/Project Space, Interplay: The Evolution of Artistic Process, Henry Street Settlement, NYC. Kupferberg lives and works in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

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Sonia Jakimczyk

Sonia Jakimczyk is a co-founder and co-owner of IMPORT EXPORT – a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Warsaw and London, established in 2021. Prior to setting up IMPORT EXPORT, Jakimczyk worked as director at Société and ARNDT Fine Art (now defunct) galleries. She was also part of the founding team of Muzeum Susch – a private museum in the Swiss Alps with a programme focus on rediscovering forgotten female avantgarde artists. Jakimczyk holds a Master's in History of Art from University College London and Bachelor in History of Art with Sociology from University of Warsaw.

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Matthew Klein

Matthew Klein (b: 1942) studied art and architecture at Cooper Union, and graduated from Parsons School of Design with a degree in visual communication. He taught photography at Parsons and com-munication technology at Pratt Institute. He currently teaches photography at Shenandoah University. During a storied career spanning five decades in advertising, editorial and corporate photography, he continued his personal photographic investigations which had several points of originality. Among them: In the early 1970’s he worked with a panoramic circuit camera which incorporated relativistic effects into street photography. His long collaboration with Milton Glaser brought, as part of the Triennale di Milano, XVII, 1988, an exhibition of 3,244 photographs surveying Graphics in the City (perhaps the largest solo show of pho-to-graphic imagery). Abstract imagery of 1998-2008 combined advanced color theory and quantum phenomena. He developed at this time ‘Virtual Installations’ which showed the works as if at scale in various settings. He retired from his commercial practice in 2018, and has been photographing abstracted vignettes of plant lives in northern Virginia, where he lives.

Jeffrey Sass

Jeffrey Sass began a life in film photography with a cheap plastic toy Diana camera purchased by his grandmother at the Ben Franklin for $2.98 when he was about 6 years old. It got used until it broke. He then inherited his parent's Argus 75. This began a lifelong fascination with photography. Sass has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work has also been published in prominent art magazines and books. An award-winning, retired public school art educator, Sass holds a Master's degree in Art Education from Lindenwood University. Until its closing, Sass was the artist in residence at the Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, Illinois, teaching experimental photography and darkroom skills. Currently Sass is starting his own non-profit arts organization called Brick City Photography Center. He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with 60 cameras, a wife, two dogs, and a growing backlog of film that he keeps telling himself he has to develop.

Hermes Torres

Hermes Torres, a native of New York City, has been immersed in artistic endeavors since his early years. He holds a BFA in Advertising/Graphic Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MFA in Painting from City College. His artwork has been showcased nationally and internationally, with pieces exhibited in the USA and Europe. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Hermes dedicated over three decades to the Fashion Institute of Technology community. He served as an educator in studio classes in the Textile Surface Design department and held various roles in the Department of Student Life. Beyond his roles as an artist and educator, Hermes is a mystic who advocates for the power of meditation and mindfulness in unleashing the full potential of the human spirit. He believes that art and spirituality are deeply intertwined and that by tapping into our creative energy, we can establish a connection with the divinity within. Hermes has explored other forms of expression as well. During his youth, he received a dance scholarship to the Clark Center for the Performing Arts and also achieved a black belt in judo, an Olympic sport. These experiences have significantly influenced his art and teachings, imbuing them with aspects of discipline, elegance, and a profound appreciation for movement.

Terra Goolsby

Terra Goolsby is an Austin, Texas-based artist and professor at UT Austin. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, where she was a Presidential Scholar. She also conducted independent research at Brown University with Gail Cohee, Department Head of Gender and Sexuality Studies, where she identified her obsession with the deconstruction of Mesoamerican and contemporary mythologies. Multiple residencies have shaped her career, including West Dean College of Sussex University in Chichester, England: Vermont Studio Center: and I-Park Foundation in New Hampshire. In addition to her status as a Presidential Scholar at RISD, Terra has received the Thantopolis Honorarium, Edward James Fellowship and Scholarship, Dimension Gallery Fellowship, and multiple grants. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions such as Dallas Contemporary, Umlauf Sculpture Museum and Garden, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Ivester Contemporary and Anya Tish Gallery. She is one of the founders of Icosa Gallery.

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Jan Gustav Fiedler

SPARK Art Fair Vienna advocates for a new art fair concept, addressing the challenges of the art market. Based on a strong trust in art and the role of the galleries in the primary art market, SPARK Art Fair Vienna is the only international art fair focusing exclusively on solo presentations. Its unique exhibition architecture is inspired by the steel construction of the historic MARX HALLE. A democratization model provides all galleries with same-size booths and architectural orientation. The vastness of the exhibition space and the booths’ open structure paves the way for a deeper and more personal encounter with each individual artistic position, lending SPARK an institutional flair. Through this exclusivity, the artists receive full attention for their work, the galleries are perceived more strongly in their role as developers and presenters, enabling collectors and art enthusiasts to engage on a more profound level with contemporary artists and possibly make surprising (re)discoveries. As a consequent development of SPARK Art Fair’s concept, the selection of galleries and especially of the represented artistic positions is made by a curatorial & advisory board comprising Walter Seidl and Jan Gustav Fiedler.

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Tatiana Cheneviere

Tatiana Cheneviere is the founder of London gallery, Pipeline (est. 2022). Previously she worked for nearly a decade at Gagosian. Pipeline's core concern is artist engagement. This can be experienced through the innovative two-room exhibition format—introducing each exhibition with a single, preview work—and the Patron Program whereby exhibiting artists are matched with a patron in support of their exhibition. Tatiana is a champion of cross-regional collaboration, working with artists and institutions beyond the UK capital. More recently, Tatiana co-founded Black+Cheneviere, a new-generation art advisory firm focused on collection building and patronage equally.

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Terra Goolsby

Terra Goolsby is an Austin, Texas-based artist and professor at UT Austin. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, where she was a Presidential Scholar. She also conducted independent research at Brown University with Gail Cohee, Department Head of Gender and Sexuality Studies, where she identified her obsession with the deconstruction of Mesoamerican and contemporary mythologies. Multiple residencies have shaped her career, including West Dean College of Sussex University in Chichester, England: Vermont Studio Center: and I-Park Foundation in New Hampshire. In addition to her status as a Presidential Scholar at RISD, Terra has received the Thantopolis Honorarium, Edward James Fellowship and Scholarship, Dimension Gallery Fellowship, and multiple grants. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions such as Dallas Contemporary, Umlauf Sculpture Museum and Garden, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Ivester Contemporary and Anya Tish Gallery. She is one of the founders of Icosa Gallery.

Virginia Sharkey

My interest in deep space started as a child looking at the stars in the Midwest. It has developed through many decades with the practice of mediation with its experience of an inner space, and with my long participation as a violinist in symphony orchestras, constantly enveloped within the “space” in a symphonic composition. The confined perimeters of a traditional two dimensional canvas present to me a challenge that I embrace; how to use these limitations to make something mysterious, ambiguous, and new which aims towards a singular point of beauty and serenity among a dynamic play between the intimate and the infinite. Though I have been enlightened by many “spiritual” traditions, my work celebrates the quotidian: essence, the elemental particles as in the physicists’ universe, and the apprehension of presence or fullness, as exemplified in certain zen paintings. I aim to create an experience in the viewer that is celebratory: the puzzle and amazement of how it is just to be alive. It is for this underlying goal that I often use the diving board of the structures of time. A scholarship to Vassar College , the mentorship of the mythopoetic painter Alton Pickens, the conversation of fellow artists, galleries and museums of New York, the beauty of South Tirol and the oasis of the Mendocino Coast of Northern California have contributed to over 100 exhibitions in New York, California and Europe.

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Martina Yordanov

Martina Yordanova is currently Curator at The National Gallery, Sofia (since April 2020), Founder and artistic director of IATRUS Residency Program in the city of Veliko Tarnovo, selection committee member and ambassador of Sofia Art Fair and founding member of Eastern Balkans Institute for art and architecture. She grew up between Bulgaria and Austria, received her BA and MFA in Publicity, Communication sciences and Art History from the University of Vienna, Austria in 2014. Yordanova’s curatorial practice is consistently cross-disciplinary. At the National Gallery of Bulgaria aimed at promoting the collection of the museum, developing partnerships with other art institutions, producing, and sharing knowledge around Bulgarian and international contemporary art, she is in charge of the curatorial department for contemporary art, onboarding and working closely with in- house and guest curators to develop educational and exhibition projects, commissioning artists for exclusive new artworks. Partnering with various institutions from the independent art scene in Bulgaria and on the Balkans, her curatorial practice facilitates navigating to the art environment locally and globally. Alongside her position as Curator at the National Gallery, she has founded IATRUS Residency program (2023), working towards building a sustainable new type of institution in the city of Veliko Tarnovo.

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Gina Borg

Gina Borg is a painter who lives and works in Oakland, California. Her paintings are about relationships between colors and light, employing shifts of warm and cool tones within a limited palette. Her work has been shown in solo exhibits in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been included in many group exhibitions including most recently the de Young Open at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and Sense of Place at 1GAP Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is included in the collection of the Alameda County Arts Commission, UCSF, Kaiser Permanente, and numerous private collections. Borg attended the MFA program in painting at Boston University and received her BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Amy Kupferberg

Amy Kupferberg was raised in Westchester, New York. She earned her BA in 1988 from Bard College and her MFA in 2003 from Pratt Institute. In 1998, Kupferberg began studying at the Art Student’s League. Bruce Dorfman has continued to be a significant influence, always encouraging her to take artmaking seriously. She has worked as an electrician in the film industry for the last 32 years. Her artwork can be seen in Dr. Melfi’s office on the Sopranos and other film projects. Kuperberg’s work has been reviewed in multiple publications, notably The Miami Lead, Times Herald-Record, and featured on ArtCritical.com. She has participated in a Residency at The Henry Street Settlement. Her Solo exhibitions include The Stuban Gallery, Pratt Institute, The Livingroom Gallery, Saint Peter’s Church, NYC, and Gallery In The Square, Wimberly, TX. She has participated in numerous group shows throughout the US, including Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint Denise Bibro, NY, Multi[Ply], Middlesex County College NJ, Miami ArtBasel Wynwood Lofts Art Complex/Project Space, Interplay: The Evolution of Artistic Process, Henry Street Settlement, NYC. Kupferberg lives and works in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Jamie Zimchek

Jamie Zimchek is a multi-disciplinary artist heavily influenced by her fundamentalist youth and world wandering. Years spent internationally as a freelance writer, photographer, and academic lecturing on topics such as U.S. Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Conspiracy have further shaped her focus. Much of Zimchek’s recent work has revolved around an exploration of the storylines used by controlling power systems as a means of manipulation. Often absurd, these false narratives and imagined truths enforce the separation between us and Other and are sometimes so deeply entrenched that they’ve been all but forgotten. Underlying her studio practice is a visual consideration of these storylines as they’re used to maintain control across cultures and contexts in intimate, domestic settings but also in more public, political ones. Recently, Zimchek exhibited at Juniper Sculpture Park in Plattsburg, New York, Understory Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and was featured for the Cultural Art Alliance Billboard Project. She has shown work as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the Seaside Prize, and other assorted shows in the U.S. and U.K. Zimchek has an MA in Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently based in Northwest Florida and an instructor in the art department at Gulf Coast State College

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Cristina Vasilescu

A curator working across disciplines, based between Bucharest and Berlin. Since 2018, she has been the Artistic Director of Suprainfinit Gallery, where she places a strong emphasis on public programming to expand curatorial and artistic practices. Together with Suzana Vasilescu, she is part of the Artistic Directors team at NOCA (New Oradea Contemporary Art), a new cultural centre emerging in the heart of Oradea, Romania. In 2020, she co-founded Quote—Unquote in Bucharest, an interdisciplinary platform that explores the mechanisms, uses, and effects of (public) speech in contemporary society through artistic practice and its intersections with other fields.

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Virginia Sharkey

My interest in deep space started as a child looking at the stars in the Midwest. It has developed through many decades with the practice of mediation with its experience of an inner space, and with my long participation as a violinist in symphony orchestras, constantly enveloped within the “space” in a symphonic composition. The confined perimeters of a traditional two dimensional canvas present to me a challenge that I embrace; how to use these limitations to make something mysterious, ambiguous, and new which aims towards a singular point of beauty and serenity among a dynamic play between the intimate and the infinite. Though I have been enlightened by many “spiritual” traditions, my work celebrates the quotidian: essence, the elemental particles as in the physicists’ universe, and the apprehension of presence or fullness, as exemplified in certain zen paintings. I aim to create an experience in the viewer that is celebratory: the puzzle and amazement of how it is just to be alive. It is for this underlying goal that I often use the diving board of the structures of time. A scholarship to Vassar College , the mentorship of the mythopoetic painter Alton Pickens, the conversation of fellow artists, galleries and museums of New York, the beauty of South Tirol and the oasis of the Mendocino Coast of Northern California have contributed to over 100 exhibitions in New York, California and Europe.

Sani Gulić

Sani Gulic is a conceptual artist driven by 'LIFE IS AN ATTEMPT TO AN APPROACH.' Born of Croatian origin in former Yugoslavia and raised in Germany, she has explored her sense of belonging and contradictory aspects from an early age. Gulić studied tailoring and fashion design. She is inspired by the complexity of being - the layers, levels, and dimensions of life. She explores the relationship between clothing as object, body, and space within the context of identity, integrating profound themes such as philosophy, cosmology, meditation, and indigenous traditions. The wild nature - an integral aspect of identity - allows her to question instinct and intuition, exploring the sensual essence of being a woman while finding her belonging in nature as she turns toward the presence of the feminine. The central element of her research - the circular skirt characterized by the experience of a center - guides her to a metaphorical ´space in between`. A vibrant space that blurs the boundaries between tangible experiences and imaginative narratives, allowing her to reveal fragility and vulnerability while contrasting with the cultural aspects of an accelerated society. In solitude with nature's silence, she develops mixed media installations, integrated as scenery for bodily expression - which she refers to as 'hidden performance'. The resulting captures ´moments of now` characterize her visual storytelling by imparting a sense of timeless fragments within an organic cosmovision.

Kiki Klimt

Kiki Klimt's approach to her work is truly unique, transcending the rigid boundaries established in our society since the Renaissance. She sees the realms of philosophy, science, and art as intricately intertwined, each playing a vital role in deepening our understanding of the world around us. Her artistic endeavours are deeply rooted in profound ontological and philosophical questions she seeks to illuminate through a blend of ancient wisdom and contemporary scientific approach. With over 25 years of experience, Kiki has passionately navigated the art world as both a professor and a professional artist, exploring a diverse array of visual media. She graduated in painting, finished postgraduate study in sculpture at ALUO in Ljubljana and later obtained a PhD in Painting and Visual Theory. She has been a professor at different universities and schools. Her works have been exhibited in galleries in New York, Berlin, Zagreb, Ljubljana, etc. Throughout her journey, she has utilised various medias and techniques to express complex ideas and emotions. Recently, she has reached a stage of maturity in her artistic practice that allows her to weave these diverse threads together into a rich, cohesive narrative. Through her work, she now creates stories that resonate deeply, employing visual language as her most eloquent means of communication.

Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist practicing in the UK. His main concerns focus on the interface of art and science, often working in collaboration with scientists, though not exclusively. His approach is media agnostic, using methodologies and media as informed by the context, concepts, and concerns. Drawing, painting, and sculpting have an enduring place in his practice, but video, projection, and installation are his primary strengths. He creates environments that are endlessly fascinating around subjects, like heart transplants, metabolism, and neurological conditions that intrigue him, and engage audiences in how we see ourselves through the world of science. Recent work has been shown at the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. the CCCB, Barcelona, Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Brain Observatory, San Diego, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, the RSU Anatomical Museum, Riga, and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, Old Operating Theatre, London, and Portsmouth Museum and Gallery, Portsmouth.

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Niamh Coghlan

Niamh Coghlan is a Senior Director at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, with whom she has worked for over 13 years. She holds a Masters in Contemporary Art History from Sotheby's Institute, London, with a Bachelor of Arts degree specialising in History in Art & Film Studies from the University of Victoria, Canada. She sits on the advisory board of Procreate Project, London, and has contributed to publications including ‘New African Portraiture’ (2023); ‘textos sobra la obra de Abraham Cruzvillegas’ (2016) and 'Lohner:Carlson - Silences’ (2013).

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Eva Silberknoll

Eva Silberknoll a transmedia artist based in Vienna, combines photography, the art of painting and textile techniques. Since earning her Fine Arts degree in 2010, Silberknoll´s artistry has continously progressed. Relocating to her countryside studio at the Burgenland, Eva more and more integrates scents and fashion into her art to create vibtrant and colourful pieces. She is an active part of the local art scene and is doing exhibitions, cooperationes and workshops. Additionally Eva is showcasing her work internationally, like at Maison10 and Olfactory Art Keller New York City. Her next solo exhibition is comming up soon as well as a launch of a new body of works.

Jeffrey Sass

Jeffrey Sass began a life in film photography with a cheap plastic toy Diana camera purchased by his grandmother at the Ben Franklin for $2.98 when he was about 6 years old. It got used until it broke. He then inherited his parent's Argus 75. This began a lifelong fascination with photography. Sass has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work has also been published in prominent art magazines and books. An award-winning, retired public school art educator, Sass holds a Master's degree in Art Education from Lindenwood University. Until its closing, Sass was the artist in residence at the Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, Illinois, teaching experimental photography and darkroom skills. Currently Sass is starting his own non-profit arts organization called Brick City Photography Center. He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with 60 cameras, a wife, two dogs, and a growing backlog of film that he keeps telling himself he has to develop.

Eliana Carvidón

Eliana Carvidón is a multidisciplinary visual artist born and based in Uruguay. She began her artistic studies at the National Dance School and in ballet and contemporary dance academies, later joining the Montevideo Chamber Ballet. In addition to studying at the Faculty of Arts (Uruguay), Carvidon attended ceramics courses, painting and digital painting with Rodrigo Fló and painting with Carlos Musso. Carvidón was selected for “New Visionary Magazine” by Erin Schuppert (art curator and director of Affordable Art Fair) (New York, 2025). She was one of eight women artists honored and selected for the #8M open-air exhibition (Montevideo, 2024). Her project “Intrinsic Nature” was selected for the “Mentorship for Visual Artists and Researchers” contest by the National Institute of Visual Arts, Ministery of Education and Culture (Uruguay, 2022). She received a Special Mention for Stagnari wine labels (2021) and was a finalist in the Colonia International Festival Biennials (2018, 2020) and Green Foundation solo show contest (2019). Solo shows in Uruguay include “Intrinsic Nature” (Torres García Museum, 2024), “Creatures” (Green Foundation, 2019), “Split” (National Library, 2016) and more. She has participated in group exhibitions: Artifact (New York, 2022), Rossocinabro (Rome, 2022), Torres García Museum (2014) and more.

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Kacha Kastner

Katherine (Kacha) Kastner is the co-owner of hunt kastner, a private contemporary art gallery located in Prague. Established in 2006 alongside Camille Hunt, the gallery was created to address the lack of professional representation for young Czech artists, both locally and internationally. At that time, the Czech Republic lacked a tradition of commercial galleries that showcased international works or supported the production and exhibition of new contemporary art. Few Czech artists had achieved international recognition, and there was no local commercial platform to support the emerging generation of artists. The long-term goal of hunt kastner has been to develop a reputable commercial space with a high-quality international program. Currently, the gallery represents 21 artists across various generations and hosts 6 to 8 exhibitions each year. These exhibitions include solo showcases for both gallery and guest artists, as well as curated group shows. In 2017, hunt kastner opened an additional project space on-site, which features 2 to 3 exhibitions per year, primarily focused on younger artists. The gallery has been participating in major international art fairs since 2007.

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Peter Sandback

Peter Sandback (b. Brooklyn, NY 1966) is a photographer and furniture maker based in southern New Hampshire. He earned a BFA from the University of Michigan (1988) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1992). For over 25 years, he has worked as a professional furniture maker, known for thoughtful craftsmanship and design.

Margret Wibmer

Margret Wibmer (*Austria) is an internationally renowned visual and performance artist based in Amsterdam. Her work explores the dynamic interplay between bodies, objects, and spaces. After formative years in New York City assisting minimalist artist Sol Lewitt, she developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, video, photography, and participatory performance. Rooted in her upbringing in a textile-centered household, textiles remain a key material in her explorations of identity, care, and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited globally at venues such as Kikugawa area, Kanazawa, Japan i.c.w. NPO Tsuzuru; Fotoforum in Innsbruck, Austria; Capital C Amsterdam i.c.w. Amsterdam Art; Palais de Tokyo in Paris, RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne, Oude Kerk and Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, KAI 10 - Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf, Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy; Ishikawa Nishida Kitaro Museum in Japan, Bradwolff Projects in Amsterdam and many others. Her achievements are documented in monographs published by Kerber Verlag and VfmK - Verlag für moderne Kunst. Wibmer is an adjunct lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore and serves as a board member and performer for the US based Institute for Cultural Activism International, reflecting her commitment to socially engaged art and cultural dialogue.

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Guido Costa

Guido Costa, born in Turin in 1957, graduated in philosophical aesthetics in Turin in 1982. Until the early 1990s, he wrote plays and radio plays and, as a journalist, contributed to the culture pages of major national newspapers. In 1992, he began working as a freelance curator, organizing exhibitions in the Netherlands, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Between 1994 and 1999, he directed the Theoretical Events gallery in Naples and curated solo exhibitions of many international artists, exhibiting in Italy for the first time, including Richard Prince, Carsten Holler, Nan Goldin, John Baldessari, Damien Hirst, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Philip Lorca DI Corcia, Laure Simmons, and Martin Kersels. With some of them, a collaboration was born that would last for years to come and would give rise to the Guido Costa Projects gallery, founded in Turin in 1999. In its 25 years of activity, the GCP gallery has hosted over one hundred exhibitions by international artists, including Boris Mikhailov, Robert Kusmirowsky, Miroslav Tichy, Leigh Ledare, Paul Fryer, Chiara Fumai, Gino De Dominicis, Nan Goldin, Martin Kersels and Peter Friedl. In 1996, with Gigi Giannuzzi, he founded the publishing house West Zone (Turin, Venice, London, later Trolley Books), with which he published dozens of volumes and with which he collaborated until 2002. Between 2005 and 2015, he was the artistic director of the Spinola Banna Foundation, in Poirino, in the Turin countryside, dedicated to supporting and teaching yo

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Eva Silberknoll

Eva Silberknoll a transmedia artist based in Vienna, combines photography, the art of painting and textile techniques. Since earning her Fine Arts degree in 2010, Silberknoll´s artistry has continously progressed. Relocating to her countryside studio at the Burgenland, Eva more and more integrates scents and fashion into her art to create vibtrant and colourful pieces. She is an active part of the local art scene and is doing exhibitions, cooperationes and workshops. Additionally Eva is showcasing her work internationally, like at Maison10 and Olfactory Art Keller New York City. Her next solo exhibition is comming up soon as well as a launch of a new body of works.

Glen Gauthier

Glen Gauthier is a mixed media artist working in collage often combined with other materials. Originally from south Louisiana, and currently living and working in Chicago, Glen uses printed ephemera to construct a new reality, one that’s been living in his mind for most of his life. Glen received a BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1988, with a degree in Advertising Design. He has shown his work in galleries and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Louisiana. Glen’s work has also been published internationally in art magazines and various online publications.

Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist practicing in the UK. His main concerns focus on the interface of art and science, often working in collaboration with scientists, though not exclusively. His approach is media agnostic, using methodologies and media as informed by the context, concepts, and concerns. Drawing, painting, and sculpting have an enduring place in his practice, but video, projection, and installation are his primary strengths. He creates environments that are endlessly fascinating around subjects, like heart transplants, metabolism, and neurological conditions that intrigue him, and engage audiences in how we see ourselves through the world of science. Recent work has been shown at the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. the CCCB, Barcelona, Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Brain Observatory, San Diego, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, the RSU Anatomical Museum, Riga, and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, Old Operating Theatre, London, and Portsmouth Museum and Gallery, Portsmouth.

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Shannon Rae

Shannon R. Stratton is an artist, writer and curator currently leading the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency in Saugatuck, Michigan. She founded the artist-run non-profit, Threewalls, in Chicago in 2003 where she was director until 2015. From 2015-2019 she was the Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design. As an artist Stratton works in painting and fiber, grappling with the ineffable through non-representation, collage, fragmentation and the composting of texts. Her work as a curator includes Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes; Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries; and Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia's Environment for Sound. She has written for artist monographs, exhibitions catalogs, art journals and other publications throughout her career and was awarded the Lois Moran Award for Craft Writing in 2022.

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Poem Johnson

Poem Johnson is a French-Beninese award-winning visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been shown extensively around the world. Important individual exhibitions include The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, United States (in collaboration with the Kramlich collection); La Maréchalerie, Contemporary Art Center, Versailles, France and The Zentrum fur Medienkunst, (Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.), Halle, Germany. Poem Johnson has participated twice to the Sundance Film Festival, twice to the Biennale of Moscow for Young Art, the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts, The Yvonne Rainer Project at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in France, Ligne of Chance at Fondation Ricard in France, and more than 50 International Film Festival worldwide. He received the LVMH Young Artist Award in 2009, was awarded The Jean-François & Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre award, the Best Short Film Award from the Las Palmas International Film Festival de Gran Canaria in 2016, the Cornish Family Prize for Art & Design Publishing from the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in 2017 and the Best Short Film Award from the 10th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival in 2018, among awards and accolades. Poem Johnson is currently an artistic research fellow (2021-present) in the Film and Media department of the Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden.

Jeffrey Sass

Jeffrey Sass began a life in film photography with a cheap plastic toy Diana camera purchased by his grandmother at the Ben Franklin for $2.98 when he was about 6 years old. It got used until it broke. He then inherited his parent's Argus 75. This began a lifelong fascination with photography. Sass has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work has also been published in prominent art magazines and books. An award-winning, retired public school art educator, Sass holds a Master's degree in Art Education from Lindenwood University. Until its closing, Sass was the artist in residence at the Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, Illinois, teaching experimental photography and darkroom skills. Currently Sass is starting his own non-profit arts organization called Brick City Photography Center. He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with 60 cameras, a wife, two dogs, and a growing backlog of film that he keeps telling himself he has to develop.

Eric Oliver

Eric Oliver is an American artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. His multidisciplinary work explores the interplay of light, color, form, and function within urban and natural environments. Originally from New York City, Oliver's early passion for photography was fostered by his father. He later earned a degree in fine art photography from Stanford University before moving to Los Angeles to work in film and television. Oliver's photography often utilizes large-format scanners and digital manipulation. His abstract expressionist paintings are influenced by artists like DeKooning and Twombly and embrace the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi. With over 30 years in film and television production, Oliver’s unique perspective helps inform his artistic vision. His work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York, and is held in collections worldwide.

Larry Eisenstein

Larry Eisenstein is a Canadian artist whose drawing practice spans more than fifty years. Working primarily with ink on paper, he creates densely accumulated fields of hand-made marks that investigate emergence, self-organisation and the relationships that develop through sustained acts of attention. Originally trained and established as an illustrator before devoting himself fully to contemporary drawing, Eisenstein has spent decades pursuing an independent studio practice that resists predetermined imagery in favour of generative processes. His drawings evolve through prolonged reciprocal engagement, allowing complex structures to arise from the interaction of countless individual decisions rather than from a fixed plan. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada and in New York, including exhibitions at Pierogi Gallery, Loop Gallery, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Humber College Art Commons and other public and private venues. His drawings are included in the Pierogi Flat Files in Brooklyn and have recently been presented through the Pierogi Traveling Flat Files at Mana Contemporary. Based in New Brunswick and originally from Toronto, Eisenstein continues to develop large-scale drawing projects while researching the intersections of observation, perception, complexity and the living behavior of marks in the field of the page.

Kiki Klimt

Kiki Klimt's approach to her work is truly unique, transcending the rigid boundaries established in our society since the Renaissance. She sees the realms of philosophy, science, and art as intricately intertwined, each playing a vital role in deepening our understanding of the world around us. Her artistic endeavours are deeply rooted in profound ontological and philosophical questions she seeks to illuminate through a blend of ancient wisdom and contemporary scientific approach. With over 25 years of experience, Kiki has passionately navigated the art world as both a professor and a professional artist, exploring a diverse array of visual media. She graduated in painting, finished postgraduate study in sculpture at ALUO in Ljubljana and later obtained a PhD in Painting and Visual Theory. She has been a professor at different universities and schools. Her works have been exhibited in galleries in New York, Berlin, Zagreb, Ljubljana, etc. Throughout her journey, she has utilised various medias and techniques to express complex ideas and emotions. Recently, she has reached a stage of maturity in her artistic practice that allows her to weave these diverse threads together into a rich, cohesive narrative. Through her work, she now creates stories that resonate deeply, employing visual language as her most eloquent means of communication.

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Robinson Holloway

Emma Fernberger is a New York-born gallerist and entrepreneur who opened her first gallery, Fernberger Gallery, in Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood in January 2024. With a background that includes roles at London's Hotel gallery and as a director at New York's Bortolami, Fernberger brings a wealth of experience to her own venture. Her gallery debuted with "Nicole Wittenberg: Jumpin' at the Woodside," showcasing the bold paintings of fellow New Yorker and longtime friend Nicole Wittenberg. Fernberger's move to LA was driven by a desire to return on her own terms and to be part of the city's vibrant, community-oriented art scene, which she finds distinct for its cross-disciplinary appreciation and support among artists. She believes that successful gallerists maintain a distinct vision and continue to refine it, a philosophy she intends to uphold in her own practice.

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Glen Gauthier

Glen Gauthier is a mixed media artist working in collage often combined with other materials. Originally from south Louisiana, and currently living and working in Chicago, Glen uses printed ephemera to construct a new reality, one that’s been living in his mind for most of his life. Glen received a BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1988, with a degree in Advertising Design. He has shown his work in galleries and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Louisiana. Glen’s work has also been published internationally in art magazines and various online publications.

Poem Johnson

Poem Johnson is a French-Beninese award-winning visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been shown extensively around the world. Important individual exhibitions include The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, United States (in collaboration with the Kramlich collection); La Maréchalerie, Contemporary Art Center, Versailles, France and The Zentrum fur Medienkunst, (Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.), Halle, Germany. Poem Johnson has participated twice to the Sundance Film Festival, twice to the Biennale of Moscow for Young Art, the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts, The Yvonne Rainer Project at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in France, Ligne of Chance at Fondation Ricard in France, and more than 50 International Film Festival worldwide. He received the LVMH Young Artist Award in 2009, was awarded The Jean-François & Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre award, the Best Short Film Award from the Las Palmas International Film Festival de Gran Canaria in 2016, the Cornish Family Prize for Art & Design Publishing from the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in 2017 and the Best Short Film Award from the 10th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival in 2018, among awards and accolades. Poem Johnson is currently an artistic research fellow (2021-present) in the Film and Media department of the Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden.

Jeffrey Hartman

Jeffrey Hartman grew up in the New York City suburbs. He graduated from Tufts University in 1972 with a BFA and a Diploma in Painting from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He worked in the Boston area until the mid-1980's, when he moved to New York City, and then to New Jersey.

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Kourosh Nouri

Kourosh Nouri is the founding director of Carbon 12, a contemporary art gallery based in Dubai. Established in 2008 alongside his partner Nadine Knotzer, Carbon 12 was among the first galleries in the region to introduce a comprehensive, international program featuring institution-grade artists. The gallery presents six to eight exhibitions annually, complemented by publications and talks that engage both the public and educational institutions. Before founding Carbon 12, Nouri earned a business degree and an MBA, working in consulting while cultivating a passion for art collecting that began in the mid-1990s. His transition from the corporate world to the art scene was driven by a desire to contribute meaningfully to the cultural landscape. Before founding Carbon 12, Nouri earned a business degree and an MBA, working in consulting while cultivating a passion for art collecting that began in the mid-1990s. His transition from the corporate world to the art scene was driven by a desire to contribute meaningfully to the cultural landscape. Carbon 12 is a permanent member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and has participated in over 40 art fairs worldwide. Its exhibitions and initiatives continue to enrich the UAE's contemporary art scene, reflecting Nouri's vision of fostering a universal and trans-regional artistic dialogue.

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Jeffrey Hartman

Jeffrey Hartman grew up in the New York City suburbs. He graduated from Tufts University in 1972 with a BFA and a Diploma in Painting from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He worked in the Boston area until the mid-1980's, when he moved to New York City, and then to New Jersey.

Poem Johnson

Poem Johnson is a French-Beninese award-winning visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been shown extensively around the world. Important individual exhibitions include The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, United States (in collaboration with the Kramlich collection); La Maréchalerie, Contemporary Art Center, Versailles, France and The Zentrum fur Medienkunst, (Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.), Halle, Germany. Poem Johnson has participated twice to the Sundance Film Festival, twice to the Biennale of Moscow for Young Art, the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts, The Yvonne Rainer Project at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in France, Ligne of Chance at Fondation Ricard in France, and more than 50 International Film Festival worldwide. He received the LVMH Young Artist Award in 2009, was awarded The Jean-François & Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre award, the Best Short Film Award from the Las Palmas International Film Festival de Gran Canaria in 2016, the Cornish Family Prize for Art & Design Publishing from the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in 2017 and the Best Short Film Award from the 10th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival in 2018, among awards and accolades. Poem Johnson is currently an artistic research fellow (2021-present) in the Film and Media department of the Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden.

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Millie Jason Foster

Millie Jason Foster, director of London’s Gillian Jason Gallery. The gallery was founded by Foster’s grandmother, Gillian Jason, in 1980 and exclusively works with women artists. Foster re-opened the gallery in 2019 with her mother Elli before taking the reins herself in 2021. Today, its roster features a slate of buzzy women artists, including Eleanor Johnson and Jess Cochrane. The Gallerist spoke with Foster to discuss her approach to supporting women artists and how Artsy supports her gallery’s mission. Outgoing and articulate, with a gift for understanding, Millie guides the gallery's agile collaborative attitude, working with the historical expertise established by her grandmother, while continuously approaching things through a dynamic start-up mindset. Her background in investment banking and tech start-ups informs her efficiency and problem-solving skills, underlined by an eye for detail which applies as much to artworks as it does to operations.

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Amy Kupferberg

Amy Kupferberg was raised in Westchester, New York. She earned her BA in 1988 from Bard College and her MFA in 2003 from Pratt Institute. In 1998, Kupferberg began studying at the Art Student’s League. Bruce Dorfman has continued to be a significant influence, always encouraging her to take artmaking seriously. She has worked as an electrician in the film industry for the last 32 years. Her artwork can be seen in Dr. Melfi’s office on the Sopranos and other film projects. Kuperberg’s work has been reviewed in multiple publications, notably The Miami Lead, Times Herald-Record, and featured on ArtCritical.com. She has participated in a Residency at The Henry Street Settlement. Her Solo exhibitions include The Stuban Gallery, Pratt Institute, The Livingroom Gallery, Saint Peter’s Church, NYC, and Gallery In The Square, Wimberly, TX. She has participated in numerous group shows throughout the US, including Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint Denise Bibro, NY, Multi[Ply], Middlesex County College NJ, Miami ArtBasel Wynwood Lofts Art Complex/Project Space, Interplay: The Evolution of Artistic Process, Henry Street Settlement, NYC. Kupferberg lives and works in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Jane McNichol

Jane McNichol is an artist living and working in the East Village of New York City. She works in oil on canvas as a figurative artist. Her inspiration is rooted in the post-impressionist artists. She is drawn to the strong colors and expressive compositions of artists like Cezanne and Bonnard. Jane is a native of Philadelphia where she studied studio arts at Temple University and spent a summer in Rome at Tyler School of art. Following the path of French artists, she was drawn to working directly from nature in places like Bucks County, PA and the New Jersey coastal wetlands. Upon moving to New York City in the late 1980’s she moved her art practice indoors to a shared studio with her artist husband in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This studio environment allowed her to create larger canvases, inspired by the deep open spaces of the mid-western United States. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Pollack Krasner recipient. She is drawn to the natural light in Down East Maine, working from nature and investigating artists like Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Fairfield Porter. Currently she is working in an East Village studio on East 10th Street, where her inspiration includes the streets of New York – the people, places and things that surround her daily. She continues to exhibit her work nationally.

JOHN SPROUL

John Sproul (b. Los Angeles, CA) makes work using family, friends, and people he encounters in places he frequents to examine how we share spaces, expressing the fear, anxiety, self-doubt, loneliness and resilience he sees in himself and in those around him. Sproul earned a BFA from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. The artist has held 26 solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 group exhibitions internationally. These include notable venues such as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, The Painting Center in New York, the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea, Bipolar Projects in Barcelona, Galerie Metanoia in Paris, The Kunstwerk Carlshutte in Germany, the Imagoars Center for Visual Arts in Venice, Italy, and the Sienna Art Institute in Italy. As an arts advocate, he served on the Executive Committee of the UMFA's FOCA from 2006 to 2013, acting as Chair in 2013. He founded and directed the Foster Art Program from 2009 to 2011 and the Utah Contemporary Art Think Tank from 2010 to 2011. He also owned and directed Nox Contemporary Art Gallery from 2010 to 2022, served on the board of Southwest Contemporary Art Magazine from 2023 to 2024, and has been the director of The Art Group since 2007. He is scheduled to have his 27th solo exhibition at the UVU Museum in Orem, UT, in June 2025, and will attend the Chateau D’Orquevaux Artist Residency in Orquev

Poem Johnson

Poem Johnson is a French-Beninese award-winning visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been shown extensively around the world. Important individual exhibitions include The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, United States (in collaboration with the Kramlich collection); La Maréchalerie, Contemporary Art Center, Versailles, France and The Zentrum fur Medienkunst, (Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.), Halle, Germany. Poem Johnson has participated twice to the Sundance Film Festival, twice to the Biennale of Moscow for Young Art, the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts, The Yvonne Rainer Project at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in France, Ligne of Chance at Fondation Ricard in France, and more than 50 International Film Festival worldwide. He received the LVMH Young Artist Award in 2009, was awarded The Jean-François & Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre award, the Best Short Film Award from the Las Palmas International Film Festival de Gran Canaria in 2016, the Cornish Family Prize for Art & Design Publishing from the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in 2017 and the Best Short Film Award from the 10th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival in 2018, among awards and accolades. Poem Johnson is currently an artistic research fellow (2021-present) in the Film and Media department of the Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden.

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Lucia Pietroiusti

Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator, programmer and organisational strategist, working at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, often outside the exhibition space. As Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London, Pietroiusti founded the the General Ecology project (2018-ongoing) and the Ecologies department (since 2023), two initiatives that further ecological research and experimentation in thought, infrastructure and practice, embedding environmental commitment throughout the organisation. Having focused her research on ecology in art and culture for the last decade, Pietroiusti was the curator of the Golden Lion-winning opera-performance, Sun & Sea by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte, the Golden-Lion winning Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (and its international tour, ongoing). Current and recent Serpentine activities include the research, festival and radio project The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (with Filipa Ramos), an interdisciplinary enquiry into theories of mind across more-than-human species and beings; as well as the Infinite Ecologies Marathon (2023-24) and the climate-justice project, Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal (2025). Pietroiusti was a co-curator of Back to Earth – Serpentine’s 50th anniversary programme (2020-2022), which invited 65+ artists to devise environmental campaigns, prototyp

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Gina Borg

Gina Borg is a painter who lives and works in Oakland, California. Her paintings are about relationships between colors and light, employing shifts of warm and cool tones within a limited palette. Her work has been shown in solo exhibits in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been included in many group exhibitions including most recently the de Young Open at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and Sense of Place at 1GAP Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is included in the collection of the Alameda County Arts Commission, UCSF, Kaiser Permanente, and numerous private collections. Borg attended the MFA program in painting at Boston University and received her BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Carolyn McDonald

Carolyn McDonald is a photographer, writer and filmmaker, who produced and directed the short film ��P.N.O.K.”, the documentary DESIGN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, several music videos & short films. In addition to being the photographer of “Nouns in the Road”, TIME + TIDE: AS REVEALED BY LIGHT, and “Imaginary Bands & their Fake Ass Songs”, Carolyn is the award-winning producer of HBO’s AMERICA’S DREAM, TNT’s FREEDOM SONG and BUFFALO SOLDIERS, and NatGeo”s documentary, BEARING LIGHT. Carolyn has exhibited her photographs at the Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, Scarritt Bennett Center’s Gallery F in Nashville, TN, where she was an artist-in-residence; and group shows in Los Angeles, CA. During the pandemic, Carolyn began designing mixed media frames for her photographs. A passionate youth arts advocate, Carolyn ran the Nashville Film Festival’s At-Risk Teen Film Project, was a teaching artist at the Cinema High School, Bronx, NY, and the Gathering of Native American Youth Arts Camp in Sonoma County, CA. She presently teaches screenwriting at New York Film Academy. Carolyn studied photography at SUNY Purchase; film, dramatic writing & art history at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and Art & Design at Watkins College, Nashville. She resides in Long Beach, CA.

Amy Kupferberg

Amy Kupferberg was raised in Westchester, New York. She earned her BA in 1988 from Bard College and her MFA in 2003 from Pratt Institute. In 1998, Kupferberg began studying at the Art Student’s League. Bruce Dorfman has continued to be a significant influence, always encouraging her to take artmaking seriously. She has worked as an electrician in the film industry for the last 32 years. Her artwork can be seen in Dr. Melfi’s office on the Sopranos and other film projects. Kuperberg’s work has been reviewed in multiple publications, notably The Miami Lead, Times Herald-Record, and featured on ArtCritical.com. She has participated in a Residency at The Henry Street Settlement. Her Solo exhibitions include The Stuban Gallery, Pratt Institute, The Livingroom Gallery, Saint Peter’s Church, NYC, and Gallery In The Square, Wimberly, TX. She has participated in numerous group shows throughout the US, including Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint Denise Bibro, NY, Multi[Ply], Middlesex County College NJ, Miami ArtBasel Wynwood Lofts Art Complex/Project Space, Interplay: The Evolution of Artistic Process, Henry Street Settlement, NYC. Kupferberg lives and works in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Ivana George

Ivana Damien George is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, printmaking, watercolor, drawing, sound, video, and mixed media since 1998. She has exhibited her work in over 50 national juried and invitational exhibitions including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Flash Forward Photography Festival, The Griffin Museum, Panopticon Gallery, Newspace Center for Photography, CAC in Las Vegas, Soho Photo Gallery, Dallas Video Festival, Junction Arts Festival and the Danforth Museum. She has completed artist in residency fellowships at the Vermont Studio Residency Center and Oolite Arts. Since 2002, she has been the recipient of numerous grants for the creation of artworks. Her work has been written about in the Boston Globe, Orion Magazine, E-Squared Magazine, South Shore Living, The Las Vegas Sun, Atlanta's Creative Loafing as well as several blogs. She holds a M.F.A. degree from the joint program of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University. She is a Professor of Art at a Massachusetts state university since 2003 where she teaches photography, digital art, sustainable art practices and business issues for artists.

Eliana Carvidón

Eliana Carvidón is a multidisciplinary visual artist born and based in Uruguay. She began her artistic studies at the National Dance School and in ballet and contemporary dance academies, later joining the Montevideo Chamber Ballet. In addition to studying at the Faculty of Arts (Uruguay), Carvidon attended ceramics courses, painting and digital painting with Rodrigo Fló and painting with Carlos Musso. Carvidón was selected for “New Visionary Magazine” by Erin Schuppert (art curator and director of Affordable Art Fair) (New York, 2025). She was one of eight women artists honored and selected for the #8M open-air exhibition (Montevideo, 2024). Her project “Intrinsic Nature” was selected for the “Mentorship for Visual Artists and Researchers” contest by the National Institute of Visual Arts, Ministery of Education and Culture (Uruguay, 2022). She received a Special Mention for Stagnari wine labels (2021) and was a finalist in the Colonia International Festival Biennials (2018, 2020) and Green Foundation solo show contest (2019). Solo shows in Uruguay include “Intrinsic Nature” (Torres García Museum, 2024), “Creatures” (Green Foundation, 2019), “Split” (National Library, 2016) and more. She has participated in group exhibitions: Artifact (New York, 2022), Rossocinabro (Rome, 2022), Torres García Museum (2014) and more.

Sani Gulić

Sani Gulic is a conceptual artist driven by 'LIFE IS AN ATTEMPT TO AN APPROACH.' Born of Croatian origin in former Yugoslavia and raised in Germany, she has explored her sense of belonging and contradictory aspects from an early age. Gulić studied tailoring and fashion design. She is inspired by the complexity of being - the layers, levels, and dimensions of life. She explores the relationship between clothing as object, body, and space within the context of identity, integrating profound themes such as philosophy, cosmology, meditation, and indigenous traditions. The wild nature - an integral aspect of identity - allows her to question instinct and intuition, exploring the sensual essence of being a woman while finding her belonging in nature as she turns toward the presence of the feminine. The central element of her research - the circular skirt characterized by the experience of a center - guides her to a metaphorical ´space in between`. A vibrant space that blurs the boundaries between tangible experiences and imaginative narratives, allowing her to reveal fragility and vulnerability while contrasting with the cultural aspects of an accelerated society. In solitude with nature's silence, she develops mixed media installations, integrated as scenery for bodily expression - which she refers to as 'hidden performance'. The resulting captures ´moments of now` characterize her visual storytelling by imparting a sense of timeless fragments within an organic cosmovision.

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Jasmin Glaab

Jasmin Glaab holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Basel Academy of Art and Design, a Master of Arts in Art Education & Curatorial Studies from the Zurich University of the Arts and completed further training in estate management at the Berlin University of the Arts. Glaab specializes in the administrative and operational management of artist studios and galleries. She has over ten years experience as a curator for institutions and has taken on numerous mandates for art associations, art fairs or private collectors and maintains an extensive international network with numerous partners. From 2024 until 2021 she was the founding curator of the non-profit artist-run initiative kunsthallekleinbasel in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2022 she is the founder and director of Galerie Glaab in Bern, Switzerland. Galerie Glaab deals in contemporary art, feminist art and art after 1945 by female artists. The curated gallery program focuses on emerging and established Swiss artists as well as international positions.

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Clara Nartey

Clara Nartey (b. Accra, Ghana) lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. Nartey spent the first part of her career working with large corporations as a management consultant. Then, she went on to develop a rigorous self-taught art practice. Her unique artistic style meshes drawing using threads, with digital painting, machine embroidery, and quilting on the artist’s own designed and printed textiles. Her practice reimagines painting and drawing through textiles, using colored fabrics as paint and stitching and thread work for drawing. Nartey’s bold, colorful, and textured figurative works have been exhibited widely. Her exhibitions include The Joy of Living II, Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT; Fabric of Identity, Anderson Gallery - Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA. Her work is held in both private and institutional collections. Notable educational institutions like Yale School of Management, which owns multiple pieces, and Dana Hall School, not only have permanent installations of Nartey’s work but have also incorporated her work into their curricula as educational tools for raising the next generation of leaders.

Margret Wibmer

Margret Wibmer (*Austria) is an internationally renowned visual and performance artist based in Amsterdam. Her work explores the dynamic interplay between bodies, objects, and spaces. After formative years in New York City assisting minimalist artist Sol Lewitt, she developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, video, photography, and participatory performance. Rooted in her upbringing in a textile-centered household, textiles remain a key material in her explorations of identity, care, and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited globally at venues such as Kikugawa area, Kanazawa, Japan i.c.w. NPO Tsuzuru; Fotoforum in Innsbruck, Austria; Capital C Amsterdam i.c.w. Amsterdam Art; Palais de Tokyo in Paris, RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne, Oude Kerk and Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, KAI 10 - Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf, Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy; Ishikawa Nishida Kitaro Museum in Japan, Bradwolff Projects in Amsterdam and many others. Her achievements are documented in monographs published by Kerber Verlag and VfmK - Verlag für moderne Kunst. Wibmer is an adjunct lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore and serves as a board member and performer for the US based Institute for Cultural Activism International, reflecting her commitment to socially engaged art and cultural dialogue.

Michael Biello

Michael Biello is an interdisciplinary artist who draws inspiration from his Italian American roots, his passion for theatre, and his longtime commitment to LGBTQ+ cultural activism. Biello is one of the artisan/makers who helped create the revivals of Old City Philadelphia in the 1970’s and Noho New York in the 1990’s. Biello's work has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous private collections including many in the entertainment industry. In addition to his work in visual art, Biello has a long history as a performance artist and lyricist in collaboration with his life-partner, composer Dan Martin. Biello graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1973 with a BFA in Ceramics. His teachers included ceramicist William Daley and curator/art historian Helen Drutt. Biello continues to create and show his work in his storefront atelier in Old City Philadelphia. Through art we heal. Art has always been my path to finding center in a sometimes unsettling ever-changing world. Art is my sanctuary, where I can feel safe in the midst of the madness. The creative process leads me home.

Besada Yakoub

Besada Yakoub is a Coptic American sculptor and painter whose work is deeply rooted in history, culture, and material mastery. Born in 1972 in Akhmim, Egypt, he began sculpting at the age of seven, shaping animals from clay. By twelve, he was carving wood and working with metal, inspired by visits to ancient Egyptian tombs along the Nile. In 1999, Besada immigrated to the United States to advance his career. He briefly studied at the Art Students League of New York and joined the National Sculpture Society. In 2001, he became a master carver at the Johnson Atelier Stone Division, where he refined his skill in granite carving. That same year, he established his own studio in Mount Holly, New Jersey, with support from the Herk Van Tongeren Memorial Sculpture Award. In 2018, Besada introduced Obeliskism, a sculptural style that explores the geometric shapes of the obelisk in contemporary abstraction. Working in granite, basalt, limestone, marble, wood, metal, clay, and plaster, his pieces are collected across Egypt, Europe, and North America. Besada has received numerous accolades, including the Michelangelo International Prize (2023), a grant from the George and Helen Segal Foundation (2003), and recognition from the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (2013). He remains an active member of the National Sculpture Society and continues to push the boundaries of stone carving and abstraction.

Skuja Braden

Skuja Braden is the collaborative identity formed in 1999 by artists Ingūna Skuja from Latvia and Melissa Braden from California. They share a passion for porcelain and an interest in decorative arts, literature, and art history. Their work blends tradition with contemporary innovation, challenging conventional notions of individual authorship and fixed identity. By transforming porcelain—a material associated with refinement—they create expressive pieces that explore the intersections of painting and sculpture, order and chaos, and personal versus collective narratives. Their breakthrough came with the Samsara exhibition at the Design and Decorative Art Museum in Rīga, Latvia, in 2020, which garnered national recognition, including the Kilogram of Kulture Award for Best Visual Artists and a nomination for the Purviša Balva. In 2022, they represented Latvia at the 59th Venice Biennale with Selling Water by the River, an installation featuring over 300 porcelain pieces, reflecting the chaotic beauty of a storm-blown home interior, earning critical acclaim worldwide. With over 180 national and international group shows and more than 50 solo exhibitions in cities such as New York City, Milan, Istanbul, and Zagreb, Skuja Braden’s creations continue to captivate audiences around the globe, finding a home in both prestigious public institutions and discerning private collections, while challenging viewers to reconsider the boundaries of art, identity, and creative expression.

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Omar Kholeif

Omar Kholeif is an award-winning and best-selling author, curator, cultural historian and broadcaster. Kholeif currently serves as director of collections and senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF), UAE and as visiting professor in critical race in fine art and the creative industries at the Middlesbrugh Institute of Modern Art Research Unit, Teesside University. Initially trained as a political scientist, Kholeif’s career began as a music writer, researcher, and producer of documentaries in the UK broadcast sector. Over the last two decades, they have been vested in leadership roles in museums, galleries, not-for-profits and the public sphere. The curator of over 70 exhibitions of visual art realized on five continents and the producer of hundreds of visual art and film commissions; they are the author/co-author or editor of over forty books, which have been translated into 17 languages. Widely recognised for their prolific and exploratory output, in 2012, Kholeif founded artPost21, a not-for-profit cultural agency that seeks to explore “platform culture” at the nexus of art, technology, and social justice. At Sharjah Art Foundation, Professor Kholeif oversees collection acquisition strategy, conservation practices, research, and co-maintains cross-campus oversight, as well as exhibition programming and strategic partnership. Dr. Kholeif has held leadership positions, including, Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives at the Museum of Contempora

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Sabra Morman

Sabra Skutt-Morman (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan, whose work explores themes of resilience, memory, and transformation. Navigating life with a physical disability, Sabra’s perspective was shaped early on by determination and adaptability, qualities instilled by her mother, a nurse. Her love for movement and expression began with ballet at the Detroit Windsor Dance Academy, and art became a source of solace after personal hardships, including the loss of her father to a brain tumor and major hip surgery. Sabra studied fine art and psychology at the University of Dayton, and the loss of her mother in 2004 and stepfather in 2017 deepened her commitment to art as a means of personal narrative and community engagement. Her work, known for its intricate details and mixed-media embellishments, has been exhibited in various galleries and public spaces. After establishing herself in Detroit, Sabra expanded to Washington, D.C. area, where she earned a residency and a full-time role with the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County in Maryland. Now, Sabra focuses on art with social impact, using her experiences to connect with others and inspire resilience. Her evolving body of work invites viewers to witness life’s iridescence through her unique perspective.

Suze Bienaimee

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST, PAINTER, POET, PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE FOR POETRY, ARTIST BOOKS Bienaimee is a New York City-based, multi- and mixed-media artist with work in premier corporate and private collections around the United States and abroad. For example: Altria collection, New York City; 125 High Street Collection, Boston Massachusetts; Tobu Collection, Sapporo, Japan. Solo exhibitions have been held in galleries throughout the United States including galleries in Massachusetts, Jersey, East Hampton, New York City. Bienaimee is the featured artist on www.ArtNow.org.

Amy Spitzer

Amy Spitzer has worked as an artist for almost 50 years. As a child, she loved to draw and paint and began her journey as an adult artist after participating in a foreign studies program at Waseda University in Tokyo and living with a Japanese family. The arts, which pervade Japanese culture and activities of daily living, reawakened Spitzer’s own need to express herself as a painter. Several months after completing painting and drawing classes at Wellesley College, Amy became a private student of acclaimed painter Richard Yarde, and then returning to Chicago in 1978, she briefly studied painting and color at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then Spitzer has continued to teach herself a painting method used by master painters from the Renaissance to the 19th century and adapted it for contemporary materials and expression. Over the years, she has been in conversation with other contemporary artists and has exhibited in various national and local shows juried by notable artists, critics, and curators. Beyond the contemporary art scene, she has leveraged her work experiences in social networking and online marketing to gain an even wider audience for her work as an artist and a teacher. Through her love of art, people, and conversation she aims to connect with a broad public interested in contemporary, modern, and historically significant works.

Jamie Zimchek

Jamie Zimchek is a multi-disciplinary artist heavily influenced by her fundamentalist youth and world wandering. Years spent internationally as a freelance writer, photographer, and academic lecturing on topics such as U.S. Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Conspiracy have further shaped her focus. Much of Zimchek’s recent work has revolved around an exploration of the storylines used by controlling power systems as a means of manipulation. Often absurd, these false narratives and imagined truths enforce the separation between us and Other and are sometimes so deeply entrenched that they’ve been all but forgotten. Underlying her studio practice is a visual consideration of these storylines as they’re used to maintain control across cultures and contexts in intimate, domestic settings but also in more public, political ones. Recently, Zimchek exhibited at Juniper Sculpture Park in Plattsburg, New York, Understory Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and was featured for the Cultural Art Alliance Billboard Project. She has shown work as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the Seaside Prize, and other assorted shows in the U.S. and U.K. Zimchek has an MA in Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently based in Northwest Florida and an instructor in the art department at Gulf Coast State College

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Britt Salvesen

Britt Salvesen is curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints & Drawings Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Prior to joining LACMA in 2009, she was director and chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. She received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her PhD from the University of Chicago. Curatorial projects at LACMA include Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (with Paul Martineau, 2016); 3D: Double Vision (2018); and City of Cinema: Paris, 1850–1907 (with Leah Lehmbeck and Vanessa R. Schwartz, 2022). Her most recent exhibition, Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, co-curated with Staci Steinberger, is on view through July 13, 2025, as part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: Art + Science Collide.

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Virginia Sharkey

My interest in deep space started as a child looking at the stars in the Midwest. It has developed through many decades with the practice of mediation with its experience of an inner space, and with my long participation as a violinist in symphony orchestras, constantly enveloped within the “space” in a symphonic composition. The confined perimeters of a traditional two dimensional canvas present to me a challenge that I embrace; how to use these limitations to make something mysterious, ambiguous, and new which aims towards a singular point of beauty and serenity among a dynamic play between the intimate and the infinite. Though I have been enlightened by many “spiritual” traditions, my work celebrates the quotidian: essence, the elemental particles as in the physicists’ universe, and the apprehension of presence or fullness, as exemplified in certain zen paintings. I aim to create an experience in the viewer that is celebratory: the puzzle and amazement of how it is just to be alive. It is for this underlying goal that I often use the diving board of the structures of time. A scholarship to Vassar College , the mentorship of the mythopoetic painter Alton Pickens, the conversation of fellow artists, galleries and museums of New York, the beauty of South Tirol and the oasis of the Mendocino Coast of Northern California have contributed to over 100 exhibitions in New York, California and Europe.

Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist practicing in the UK. His main concerns focus on the interface of art and science, often working in collaboration with scientists, though not exclusively. His approach is media agnostic, using methodologies and media as informed by the context, concepts, and concerns. Drawing, painting, and sculpting have an enduring place in his practice, but video, projection, and installation are his primary strengths. He creates environments that are endlessly fascinating around subjects, like heart transplants, metabolism, and neurological conditions that intrigue him, and engage audiences in how we see ourselves through the world of science. Recent work has been shown at the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. the CCCB, Barcelona, Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Brain Observatory, San Diego, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, the RSU Anatomical Museum, Riga, and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, Old Operating Theatre, London, and Portsmouth Museum and Gallery, Portsmouth.

Sasha Shalmina

Sasha Shalmina is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her recent body of abstract work centers on depicting the landscapes of the subconscious mind - inner thoughts, dreams, feelings and other dimensions of the human experience. During her childhood Sasha fell in love with drawing portraits, as she found the human form to be endlessly inspiring and captivating. She went on to study BSc Hons Architecture at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. Her architectural education gave her the foundation to push her creative skills much further, into the realm of graphic design, digital art, moving image and animation. In 2016, she fell in love with abstract art through the paintings of her father, architect and artist Ivan Shalmin. As a result of this cathartic experience she was able to break free from the confines of scale and proportion, to let go of the external and to embrace the world within, ultimately allowing her to connect more deeply to her true self. In 2021, her animated paintings - a collaboration with her father - were exhibited at the Saatchi gallery in London, followed by further shows in Amsterdam and the Louvre, Paris in 2022. Following her father’s unexpected passing, Sasha decided to give up her career in design to fully pursue her dream of becoming a fine artist. She continues to experiment with different media and constantly explores new ideas, styles, and techniques.

Maria-Agni .

Multidisciplinary creator, printmaker/master etcher experimenting with photography, digital imagining, analog mark making and visceral performance, exploring the subject of the alchemical nature of process and what is consciousness. Since early childhood, she has questioned her mission here, both awed and bewildered by humanity’s peculiar ways. As a small girl, she devised her own quiet rituals, drawing a heart shape on the ground, standing on it, and sending healing energy to others—including the monsters, who needed it even more than the people she saw on TV, seemingly on the receiving end of the monsters' bad behaviour. To this day, she believes in the power of the mind, in the artist as creator, and in the act of making as a form of reality-weaving. An obsessive observer, Maria-Agni records relentlessly through the photographic lens. She finds beauty in the ordinary and celebrates its role in the whole. Her images function as spells, mantras, and meditations—projections that shift and recalibrate the universal balance. Central to all her work is the concept of energy exchange, with the horizon line symbolising the limitation or expansion of understanding and the circular form mirroring the cyclical nature of dualistic experiences. M-A consciously explores the nature of contrast, the very tension that allows us to perceive our three-dimensional reality. She writes poetry.

Larry Eisenstein

Larry Eisenstein is a Canadian artist whose drawing practice spans more than fifty years. Working primarily with ink on paper, he creates densely accumulated fields of hand-made marks that investigate emergence, self-organisation and the relationships that develop through sustained acts of attention. Originally trained and established as an illustrator before devoting himself fully to contemporary drawing, Eisenstein has spent decades pursuing an independent studio practice that resists predetermined imagery in favour of generative processes. His drawings evolve through prolonged reciprocal engagement, allowing complex structures to arise from the interaction of countless individual decisions rather than from a fixed plan. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada and in New York, including exhibitions at Pierogi Gallery, Loop Gallery, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Humber College Art Commons and other public and private venues. His drawings are included in the Pierogi Flat Files in Brooklyn and have recently been presented through the Pierogi Traveling Flat Files at Mana Contemporary. Based in New Brunswick and originally from Toronto, Eisenstein continues to develop large-scale drawing projects while researching the intersections of observation, perception, complexity and the living behavior of marks in the field of the page.

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Raphael Gygax

Raphael Gygax is an art historian, curator and writer based in Locarno, Switzerland. He studied Art History, Film and Drama Studies at the Universities of Bern and Zurich. The topic of his PhD was on the use of instrumentalized bodies in contemporary art (Extra Bodies – The Use of the ‹Other Body› in Contemporary Art). From 2003–19 he was Curator at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich where he curated numerous exhibitions and was Head of Publications. From 2019–23 he was Head of the Bachelor Fine Arts – the largest program for the education of artists in Switzerland with over 180 students – and Deputy Director Department Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Zurich. Since 2023 he is an independent curator, organizing exhibitions a.o. in Zurich, London, Paris, Luxembourg, Locarno and New York. In 2023, he curated the annual exhibition program of Museo Casa Rusca in Locarno. In addition, in 2023 he became ART on THE MART‘s curator of digital art (2024–25, Chicago), the largest permanent digital art projection in the world. In 2024, he was also appointed Curator-at-Large at the Kunsthaus Zurich.

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Amy Kupferberg

Amy Kupferberg was raised in Westchester, New York. She earned her BA in 1988 from Bard College and her MFA in 2003 from Pratt Institute. In 1998, Kupferberg began studying at the Art Student’s League. Bruce Dorfman has continued to be a significant influence, always encouraging her to take artmaking seriously. She has worked as an electrician in the film industry for the last 32 years. Her artwork can be seen in Dr. Melfi’s office on the Sopranos and other film projects. Kuperberg’s work has been reviewed in multiple publications, notably The Miami Lead, Times Herald-Record, and featured on ArtCritical.com. She has participated in a Residency at The Henry Street Settlement. Her Solo exhibitions include The Stuban Gallery, Pratt Institute, The Livingroom Gallery, Saint Peter’s Church, NYC, and Gallery In The Square, Wimberly, TX. She has participated in numerous group shows throughout the US, including Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint Denise Bibro, NY, Multi[Ply], Middlesex County College NJ, Miami ArtBasel Wynwood Lofts Art Complex/Project Space, Interplay: The Evolution of Artistic Process, Henry Street Settlement, NYC. Kupferberg lives and works in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Kiki Klimt

Kiki Klimt's approach to her work is truly unique, transcending the rigid boundaries established in our society since the Renaissance. She sees the realms of philosophy, science, and art as intricately intertwined, each playing a vital role in deepening our understanding of the world around us. Her artistic endeavours are deeply rooted in profound ontological and philosophical questions she seeks to illuminate through a blend of ancient wisdom and contemporary scientific approach. With over 25 years of experience, Kiki has passionately navigated the art world as both a professor and a professional artist, exploring a diverse array of visual media. She graduated in painting, finished postgraduate study in sculpture at ALUO in Ljubljana and later obtained a PhD in Painting and Visual Theory. She has been a professor at different universities and schools. Her works have been exhibited in galleries in New York, Berlin, Zagreb, Ljubljana, etc. Throughout her journey, she has utilised various medias and techniques to express complex ideas and emotions. Recently, she has reached a stage of maturity in her artistic practice that allows her to weave these diverse threads together into a rich, cohesive narrative. Through her work, she now creates stories that resonate deeply, employing visual language as her most eloquent means of communication.

Jamie Zimchek

Jamie Zimchek is a multi-disciplinary artist heavily influenced by her fundamentalist youth and world wandering. Years spent internationally as a freelance writer, photographer, and academic lecturing on topics such as U.S. Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Conspiracy have further shaped her focus. Much of Zimchek’s recent work has revolved around an exploration of the storylines used by controlling power systems as a means of manipulation. Often absurd, these false narratives and imagined truths enforce the separation between us and Other and are sometimes so deeply entrenched that they’ve been all but forgotten. Underlying her studio practice is a visual consideration of these storylines as they’re used to maintain control across cultures and contexts in intimate, domestic settings but also in more public, political ones. Recently, Zimchek exhibited at Juniper Sculpture Park in Plattsburg, New York, Understory Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and was featured for the Cultural Art Alliance Billboard Project. She has shown work as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the Seaside Prize, and other assorted shows in the U.S. and U.K. Zimchek has an MA in Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently based in Northwest Florida and an instructor in the art department at Gulf Coast State College

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Katherine Anne Paul

Katherine Anne Paul was appointed the Virginia and William M. Spencer Curator of Asian Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2019. In her curatorial practice she works to promote the riches of both classical and contemporary art originating from Asia and its’ layered intersections with art of the greater world. Dr. Paul has curated traveling exhibitions like Loving Devotion: Visions of Vishnu and Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam through Time & Place as well as numerous special exhibition such as Ming to Modern: Elevating the Everyday in Chinese Art, Tiaras to Toe Rings: Asian Ornaments, Red Luster: Lacquer and Leatherworks of Asia, Why the Wild Things Are: Personal Demons and Himalayan Protectors, and Gilding the Lotus: Enriching the Himalayan Collection. She has thematically re-installed more than twenty permanent galleries with titles ranging from Southeast Asia: Art of a Cultural Crossroads, and Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia to Musical Arts of Asia and Korea: Land of the Diamond Mountains.

Artists Chosen

Jeffrey Hartman

Jeffrey Hartman grew up in the New York City suburbs. He graduated from Tufts University in 1972 with a BFA and a Diploma in Painting from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He worked in the Boston area until the mid-1980's, when he moved to New York City, and then to New Jersey.

Carolyn McDonald

Carolyn McDonald is a photographer, writer and filmmaker, who produced and directed the short film ��P.N.O.K.”, the documentary DESIGN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, several music videos & short films. In addition to being the photographer of “Nouns in the Road”, TIME + TIDE: AS REVEALED BY LIGHT, and “Imaginary Bands & their Fake Ass Songs”, Carolyn is the award-winning producer of HBO’s AMERICA’S DREAM, TNT’s FREEDOM SONG and BUFFALO SOLDIERS, and NatGeo”s documentary, BEARING LIGHT. Carolyn has exhibited her photographs at the Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, Scarritt Bennett Center’s Gallery F in Nashville, TN, where she was an artist-in-residence; and group shows in Los Angeles, CA. During the pandemic, Carolyn began designing mixed media frames for her photographs. A passionate youth arts advocate, Carolyn ran the Nashville Film Festival’s At-Risk Teen Film Project, was a teaching artist at the Cinema High School, Bronx, NY, and the Gathering of Native American Youth Arts Camp in Sonoma County, CA. She presently teaches screenwriting at New York Film Academy. Carolyn studied photography at SUNY Purchase; film, dramatic writing & art history at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and Art & Design at Watkins College, Nashville. She resides in Long Beach, CA.

Jordan Wong

As a Chinese American whose childhood was filled with anime, manga, and video games, Jordan Wong (WONGFACE) creates drawings, characters, and icons to contemplate the hero’s journey, the game theory of leveling up throughout one’s life, and the Ultimate Self. He has produced large-scale installations and public artwork for the city of Cleveland as well as exhibited at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (2024 and 2020), Massillon Museum (2023), and the Akron Art Museum (2021 – 2022). From 2020 to 2022 Jordan served as the president of the Cleveland chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design. His work has been featured by Graphic Design USA (”People to Watch 2021”), The Great Discontent (issue no. 5), Cleveland Magazine (”Most Interesting People 2021”), Ideastream, Destination Cleveland, and other local publications. Jordan has artwork in the collections of Meta (the parent company of Facebook), Cleveland Public Library, Akron Art Museum, University Hospitals, Laura and Fred Bidwell (founder and executive director of FRONT Triennial), and other private collectors.

Marco Raimondo

Marco Raimondo (b. Genova, 1961) is an artist living and working in Milan. With a background in electronic engineering, he works across the boundary between the physical and the digital, where matter meets code. His work explores identity, perception, and consciousness through a process that moves from automatic drawing through his own Digital Stain Immersion method into painting. At its core is what he calls the non-computable gesture: an automatic mark made before intention, irreproducible and tied to a single moment of perception, and for that reason distinct from any AI-generated image. The core body of work, Visions (2016–ongoing), is organized around four themes: Identity & Introspection, Perception & Reality, Consciousness & Duality, and The Infinite Horizon. www.raimondoart.com

Mutlu Yılmazer

Mutlu Yılmazer is a multifaceted artist known for his exploration and experimentation across various domains, including Ebru art, Ney playing, and composition. His work transcends conventional boundaries, featuring hundreds of captivating images and unique musical compositions that evoke deep emotional responses and challenge viewers to engage with complex ideas. Dedicated to uncovering humanity's cultural heritage, Mutlu breathes new life into Pythagorean music theory through his connection with the Ney and has developed a distinctive guitar tuning system called Rasttar. His artistic philosophy harmonizes tradition with innovation, emphasizing the importance of inheriting and passing on cultural legacies. In addition to his musical pursuits, Mutlu creates multi-dimensional, fractal, and extraterrestrial abstract Ebru paintings. These artworks emerge from a fusion of traditional mixing techniques and water dynamics, embodying an artistic alchemy that offers glimpses into the infinite. Through his diverse practices, Mutlu Yılmazer invites audiences to embark on a journey of discovery, reflection, and appreciation for the intricate tapestry of human culture and creativity.

Dan Cameron

Dan Cameron is a curator of contemporary art who also writes about art, teaches & gives lectures about art, makes art, serves on art-related juries and boards, and advises both public and private collections. He has lived in downtown Manhattan since 1979, although for periods of time he has also been based in New Orleans, LA and Long Beach, CA. Throughout his 40-plus year career organizing exhibitions, Dan has steadfastly championed both the unexpected and the under-recognized. In 1982, he was the first American curator to organize a museum exhibition on LGBTQ art, and in 2008 he launched the Prospect New Orleans triennial in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Along the way, he has curated international biennials in Istanbul, Taipei, Ecuador and Orange County, California, as well as retrospectives of such esteemed artists as Carolee Schneemann, Paul McCarthy, Peter Saul, William Kentridge, Faith Ringgold, David Wojnarowicz, Marcel Odenbach, Pierre et Gilles, Cildo Meireles, and Martin Wong. As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative in 2017, the Palm Springs Art Museum hosted Dan's exhibition Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969. Dan’s core connection with art stems from its capacity to expand our collective awareness of ourselves, the world around us, and the way that humans invent ways to communicate essential values with one another.

Artists Chosen

Maria-Agni .

Multidisciplinary creator, printmaker/master etcher experimenting with photography, digital imagining, analog mark making and visceral performance, exploring the subject of the alchemical nature of process and what is consciousness. Since early childhood, she has questioned her mission here, both awed and bewildered by humanity’s peculiar ways. As a small girl, she devised her own quiet rituals, drawing a heart shape on the ground, standing on it, and sending healing energy to others—including the monsters, who needed it even more than the people she saw on TV, seemingly on the receiving end of the monsters' bad behaviour. To this day, she believes in the power of the mind, in the artist as creator, and in the act of making as a form of reality-weaving. An obsessive observer, Maria-Agni records relentlessly through the photographic lens. She finds beauty in the ordinary and celebrates its role in the whole. Her images function as spells, mantras, and meditations—projections that shift and recalibrate the universal balance. Central to all her work is the concept of energy exchange, with the horizon line symbolising the limitation or expansion of understanding and the circular form mirroring the cyclical nature of dualistic experiences. M-A consciously explores the nature of contrast, the very tension that allows us to perceive our three-dimensional reality. She writes poetry.

Glen Gauthier

Glen Gauthier is a mixed media artist working in collage often combined with other materials. Originally from south Louisiana, and currently living and working in Chicago, Glen uses printed ephemera to construct a new reality, one that’s been living in his mind for most of his life. Glen received a BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1988, with a degree in Advertising Design. He has shown his work in galleries and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Louisiana. Glen’s work has also been published internationally in art magazines and various online publications.

Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist practicing in the UK. His main concerns focus on the interface of art and science, often working in collaboration with scientists, though not exclusively. His approach is media agnostic, using methodologies and media as informed by the context, concepts, and concerns. Drawing, painting, and sculpting have an enduring place in his practice, but video, projection, and installation are his primary strengths. He creates environments that are endlessly fascinating around subjects, like heart transplants, metabolism, and neurological conditions that intrigue him, and engage audiences in how we see ourselves through the world of science. Recent work has been shown at the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. the CCCB, Barcelona, Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Brain Observatory, San Diego, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, the RSU Anatomical Museum, Riga, and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, Old Operating Theatre, London, and Portsmouth Museum and Gallery, Portsmouth.

Udi Cassirer

Udi Cassirer is a Visual Artist (parents Moroccan & Romanian) whose work interacts with the art world's language. As a painter, he explored "About" Abstract Expressionism features big gestures, thick brush strokes, and constructive line composition. Some collages and assemblages reflect this return to the theme. Known for exploring human technologies and interactions, Cassirer utilises editing tools, AI and VR elements to create static and dynamic collages. He studied Social Sciences at the Open University (1996), attended "Midrasha Art Teachers College," And completed a "Real-Time "Multimedia program in Tel Aviv (1997). He also underwent programming training (1999). Cassirer has exhibited extensively, including Tel Aviv Museum of Art group shows. ("One Of a Kinds" 2022), T.V. 4 Artist Show and solo exhibitions at Tova Osman Art Gallery. He has shown work in Jerusalem, Berlin, Zagreb, and Rome. His work has been featured at art fairs Zürich Swiss, Art Fair Ghent, Arte Padova, Art Thessaloniki, and Luxembourg Art Fair. Artsy recognised him as an Emerging talent from Asia and its diaspora in 2022. Recently selected for NYC Residency in 2025.

Don Keene

A product of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, Don Keene has exhibited at the Walter Wickiser Gallery, Lichtundfire Gallery and Synchronicity Space in New York City, among many others in Westchester County, NY, as well as along the Connecticut Shoreline. His work emerges from a space of push and pull within the context of our daily lives. When we are constantly searching for ways to nurture ourselves and others while struggling to keep up with the relentless pace of everyday life, how do we not lose our sanity? How do we avoid getting lost in the chaos? While Keene’s work may not provide a direct answer to these questions, it offers a visual representation of the struggle to find balance while being acutely aware of the surrounding turmoil. In Keene’s paintings variations of incomplete figures appear to merge together, brought to life through bright, contrasting colors and dynamic, varied brushstrokes. Similar to a fragmented memory or an incomplete thought, the figures feel as though they are in motion, yet they perfectly capture the juxtaposition between peace and chaos. Long-time influences, among others, include Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch, Bob Thompson, George McNeil, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj and Willem de Kooning. More recent influences include Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz, Cristina de Miguel, Robert Nava, Eddie Martinez, Joe Bradley and David Humphrey.

Laura Raicovich

Laura Raicovich is a New York City based writer and curator. Her book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso 2021) addresses the ways in which museums and cultural institutions can become better spaces for more people. She recently co-founded The Francis Kite Club, an East Village NYC bar and collectively built space created for sociality, leisure, collaboration, debate, conversation, and play. She is curator and editor of Protodispatch, a monthly digital publication featuring artists’ reflections on the life conditions that necessitate their work. Raicovich is also working on a research initiative and book titled The 31 Women which centers on the 1943 exhibition by the same name, organized by Peggy Guggenheim at her Art of this Century gallery. And, with Carin Kuoni, she has edited a collection of essays, poetry, and art contributions titled Studies Into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech, which grew out of a year of regular public seminars on the subject organized at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Raicovich has served as interim director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, a museum devoted to queer art and artists, and is the recipient of both the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship and the inaugural Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators at Hyperallergic.

Artists Chosen

Carolyn McDonald

Carolyn McDonald is a photographer, writer and filmmaker, who produced and directed the short film ��P.N.O.K.”, the documentary DESIGN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, several music videos & short films. In addition to being the photographer of “Nouns in the Road”, TIME + TIDE: AS REVEALED BY LIGHT, and “Imaginary Bands & their Fake Ass Songs”, Carolyn is the award-winning producer of HBO’s AMERICA’S DREAM, TNT’s FREEDOM SONG and BUFFALO SOLDIERS, and NatGeo”s documentary, BEARING LIGHT. Carolyn has exhibited her photographs at the Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, Scarritt Bennett Center’s Gallery F in Nashville, TN, where she was an artist-in-residence; and group shows in Los Angeles, CA. During the pandemic, Carolyn began designing mixed media frames for her photographs. A passionate youth arts advocate, Carolyn ran the Nashville Film Festival’s At-Risk Teen Film Project, was a teaching artist at the Cinema High School, Bronx, NY, and the Gathering of Native American Youth Arts Camp in Sonoma County, CA. She presently teaches screenwriting at New York Film Academy. Carolyn studied photography at SUNY Purchase; film, dramatic writing & art history at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and Art & Design at Watkins College, Nashville. She resides in Long Beach, CA.

allan Baillie

Bio for Allan Baillie allanbailliephotography@gmail.com 212-203-6261 Website: allanbailliephotography.com IG: @allanbailliephotography Born in Washington D. C. 1941 Studied art at Richmond Professional Institute BFA Summer program at the Academia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy US Army 1967-1969 Studied with artist Grace Hartigan at Maryland Institute MFA ’69-’71 Studied painting with artist Sam Gilliam at Maryland Institute. Master class with Diane Arbus in New York City 1971 Painting studio on the Bowery NYC ’71-’75 Professional photo studio 1975-1994 Book of Photos with Asian poetry. Lotus with Kaz Tanahashi 2006 Artist in Residence at the Dune Shack Provincetown MA. 2010 Producing fine art portfolios from 1970 to present Living part time in San Miguel de Allende Mexico since 2019. Exhibited and sold my fine art photography internationally. Working on Book of my botanical portfolio.

Sani Gulić

Sani Gulic is a conceptual artist driven by 'LIFE IS AN ATTEMPT TO AN APPROACH.' Born of Croatian origin in former Yugoslavia and raised in Germany, she has explored her sense of belonging and contradictory aspects from an early age. Gulić studied tailoring and fashion design. She is inspired by the complexity of being - the layers, levels, and dimensions of life. She explores the relationship between clothing as object, body, and space within the context of identity, integrating profound themes such as philosophy, cosmology, meditation, and indigenous traditions. The wild nature - an integral aspect of identity - allows her to question instinct and intuition, exploring the sensual essence of being a woman while finding her belonging in nature as she turns toward the presence of the feminine. The central element of her research - the circular skirt characterized by the experience of a center - guides her to a metaphorical ´space in between`. A vibrant space that blurs the boundaries between tangible experiences and imaginative narratives, allowing her to reveal fragility and vulnerability while contrasting with the cultural aspects of an accelerated society. In solitude with nature's silence, she develops mixed media installations, integrated as scenery for bodily expression - which she refers to as 'hidden performance'. The resulting captures ´moments of now` characterize her visual storytelling by imparting a sense of timeless fragments within an organic cosmovision.

Karen Comer Lowe

Karen Comer Lowe serves as the Curator in Residence at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. With a passion for the arts and more than 20+ years of experience in museums, galleries, and arts institutions, she has held directorial, curatorial, and educational roles at notable organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, the Tubman Museum of African American Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recently, she curated two artists for the inaugural 2024 Atlanta Art Fair. As a curator, Karen is an advocate of 20th-/21st-century art by artists of the Black diaspora. She curated exhibitions like "African American Abstraction" (2000) at City Gallery East, which featured the art of abstract works of Mildred Thompson and Frank Bowling in dialogue. She also organized the first stop on Hank Willis Thomas's national tour of Questionbridge (2012). Karen's various roles as an art advisor, curator, educator, and collector are part of her multidisciplinary approach to preserving and sharing work by artists of the Black diaspora. She has curated exhibitions for artists such as Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Radcliffe Bailey, Carrie Mae Weems, Ming Smith, and Elizabeth Catlett. She has also lectured on contemporary artists, collecting art, and art movements throughout the United States. She currently teaches art history and curatorial studies classes at Spelman College as part of the AUC Art Collective cohort.

Artists Chosen

Stephanie Gengotti

Stephanie Gengotti is an Italian-French photographer based in Rome, a city serving as the starting point and creative laboratory for her multifaceted explorations. Her photographic practice delves into the intimate and unseen aspects of human lives and their environments, revealing what lies beneath the surface. Her work has been awarded and exhibited in numerous prestigious venues in Italy and abroad. Her projects are featured in multiple books. Important editorial collaborations include National Geographic, The New York Times, Internazionale, GEO Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, Stern, DER Spiegel, Die Zeit, The Sunday Times Magazine, Sekai, The Guardian, 6 Mois, L’Espresso, Yo Dona, China Newsweek, El Mundo, Vanity Fair, IL, and Il Reportage. Recognized for her unique vision, Gengotti has received numerous awards and distinctions for her contributions to the field of photography.

Mahshid Farhoudi

Mahshid Farhoudi is an Iranian Canadian artist whose passion for art began at the age of fourteen, when she was admitted to the Academy of fine arts in Tehran. Her studies were abruptly halted by the Iran-Iraq war, forcing her to flee to Canada alone. This early experience of displacement profoundly shaped her artistic exploration of identity, belonging, and exile. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada, Mahshid further honed her skills at Charles Cecil studios in Florence, Italy, studying traditional painting techniques. Her work, a fusion of classical methods and contemporary vision, is distinguished by the unique use of gold and silver leaf with charcoal and oil. Mahshid has exhibited her work in public and private galleries nationally and internationally. For over 20 years, she has shared her expertise as a faculty member at the Ottawa School of Art and currently teaches at Clark Centre for the arts In Toronto, continuing to inspire others through her teaching and creative practice.

Dan Reisner

Dan Reisner is a sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist known for his transformative public sculptures and introspective bronze works. His art bridges psychological and spatial realms, reflecting unresolved emotions and liminal spaces. With over 20 large-scale permanent installations worldwide, his works harmonize with their environments while offering a striking presence. Reisner’s ongoing series, Idols of the Sun (2002–), explores themes of post-trauma and transformation through bronze sculptures, blending memory, mythology, and healing. His George Floyd sculpture (2020), part of the International African American Museum's collection, showcases his empathetic engagement with social issues. His work has been exhibited in major international museums and galleries, among them the International African American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, The Jewish Museum, Viena, The Herzliya Art Museum, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and The Tel Aviv Museum. His work is in public and private international collections. Thus far he has installed around twenty permanent, large-scale sculptures in Israel and around the world.

Raúl Zamudio

Zamudio was born in Tijuana, Mexico. He was raised in San Diego, California and moved to New York City where he currently lives and works. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in art history from the Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also studied at the following institutions: Vassar College, Université Laval, Columbia University, and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in Critical Studies.

Artists Chosen

Margret Wibmer

Margret Wibmer (*Austria) is an internationally renowned visual and performance artist based in Amsterdam. Her work explores the dynamic interplay between bodies, objects, and spaces. After formative years in New York City assisting minimalist artist Sol Lewitt, she developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, video, photography, and participatory performance. Rooted in her upbringing in a textile-centered household, textiles remain a key material in her explorations of identity, care, and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited globally at venues such as Kikugawa area, Kanazawa, Japan i.c.w. NPO Tsuzuru; Fotoforum in Innsbruck, Austria; Capital C Amsterdam i.c.w. Amsterdam Art; Palais de Tokyo in Paris, RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne, Oude Kerk and Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, KAI 10 - Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf, Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy; Ishikawa Nishida Kitaro Museum in Japan, Bradwolff Projects in Amsterdam and many others. Her achievements are documented in monographs published by Kerber Verlag and VfmK - Verlag für moderne Kunst. Wibmer is an adjunct lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore and serves as a board member and performer for the US based Institute for Cultural Activism International, reflecting her commitment to socially engaged art and cultural dialogue.

Stephanie Gengotti

Stephanie Gengotti is an Italian-French photographer based in Rome, a city serving as the starting point and creative laboratory for her multifaceted explorations. Her photographic practice delves into the intimate and unseen aspects of human lives and their environments, revealing what lies beneath the surface. Her work has been awarded and exhibited in numerous prestigious venues in Italy and abroad. Her projects are featured in multiple books. Important editorial collaborations include National Geographic, The New York Times, Internazionale, GEO Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, Stern, DER Spiegel, Die Zeit, The Sunday Times Magazine, Sekai, The Guardian, 6 Mois, L’Espresso, Yo Dona, China Newsweek, El Mundo, Vanity Fair, IL, and Il Reportage. Recognized for her unique vision, Gengotti has received numerous awards and distinctions for her contributions to the field of photography.

Mia Babalis

I am a Los Angeles-based artist living and working in Santa Monica, CA. My practice spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Before transitioning to visual art, I had a long career as a modern dancer in New York, performing with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Ballet Hispanico of New York, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. I hold a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design.