Abby Lloyd (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator based in New York City. Her work utilizes humor and familiar motifs to confront themes of loss, memory, and the emotional charge of objects.

Born in San Francisco in 1986, Tony Huynh graduated from the California College of the Arts and now works from his studio in Sacramento, CA.

Lexia Hachtmann (*1993 in Berlin) is a British-German artist. She completed her Art and Design Foundation Diploma in 2013 in Brighton and returned to Berlin to continue her studies in Fine Art Painting at Universität der Künste Berlin. Here, she obtained a Meisterschüler degree in the painting class of Prof. Mark Lammert in July 2021. Lexia Hachtmann is alumna of the 2022 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt and went on to study a Master of Fine Art (MA) in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London for which she received the DAAD Grant.

Working in both figurative oil painting and printmaking, Lexia Hachtmann’s work deals with conceptions around miscommunication, identity and social hierarchies. To her, the area of the canvas presents a space on which to comprehend, reenact and visualize universal feelings of isolation, intimacy and longing. Lexia Hachtmann’s protagonists often move through displaced rooms, stagelike spaces of colour that are neither located in- or outside but rather depict moments of the in-between. Her figures often seem introverted and disconnected from one another, each in their own space, their own mind; fragile yet present. She is engaged in these motives that point to the thresholds; the boundaries between the private and public realm. This could be a physical and/or emotional space. The use of ambiguous objects and situations on the canvas enable her to create banal and yet uncomfortable situations. She aims to retain a certain ambivalence in her chosen subjects so that they may speak to our current and complex times by using fragmented, cropped, blurred, awkward and/or heavily enlarged images. In this way notions of both the fragmentary and the monumental are important trajectories in her work.

Graham Durward was born in Aberdeen, UK and currently lives and works in New York. Durward attended the Edinburgh College of Art (both Undergrad and Graduate) and studied in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

He has had solo shows at Maureen Paley, London; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Peninsula, New York; Step sister, New York; Shrine, New York; White Columns, New York; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York; and more. He has also been featured in exhibitions at Peter Blum Gallery, New York; Gavin Brown, New York; and more. Durward’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Newspaper, Art in America, and the New York Times.

Katja Farin works in figurative painting depicting the interactions between the subconscious and reality. The relationship between figures is uncertain; the everyday life of sitting at coffee shops, wandering in backyard gardens, answering boring phone calls becomes the backdrop for the internal dialogue with the self that contemplates traumas, coping mechanisms, dreams and distortions. The works are dream spaces that allow the viewer to peek into the interior worlds of the figures, their relationships with the self and others. Bright colors, glowing hands and distorted bodies create the dreamlike dysphoric space that these androgynous figures embody.

Farin received a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 and is a candidate for an MFA degree from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Selected solo exhibitions include Friends Indeed (San Francisco), Era Gallery (Milan), Lubov (New York) and in lieu (Los Angeles). Their art has been included in group exhibitions at Pace Gallery (Hong Kong), Alexander Berggruen (New York), Shulmit Nazarian (Los Angeles), Wilding Cran (Los Angeles) and Nicodim (Los Angeles). Their work has been shown in several art fairs including NADA Miami, Miart Milan, KAIF Seoul and Art Taipei Taipei. They live and work in Los Angeles, CA and London, UK.

Jovencio de la Paz (b. 1986) was born in Singapore, and currently lives and works in Eugene, OR. They received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, in 2008, followed by an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, in 2012. De la Paz has been included in group shows at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO; EFA Project Space, New York, NY; Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Los Angeles, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; The Franklin, Chicago, IL; Uri Gallery, Seoul, Korea; among others.

In 2022, Jovencio de la Paz was named a United States Artist Fellow for their significant contribution to the field of craft.

The title of the exhibition, el lugar de los milagros / the place of miracles is a quotation from didactic signage at the necropolis of Mitla. Located in San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico, this archaeological site is ritually significant to the history of textiles. The walls of the pre-Colombian settlement depict traditional weave structures from the region, considered to be sacred pathways for the souls of the dead to traverse between the seen and unseen worlds. De la Paz likens the site to a massive computational device transmitting sacred data via circuitry of carved stone, aiding the spirit in its negotiation between worlds. Re-coding the mathematical pattern language of Mitla into digital weave structures, de la Paz confronts their own colonial displacement as an immigrant and cultural descendent of Spanish colonialism.

Hoda Kashiha (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran) is a painter whose work fuses humor, fragmented figuration, and political resonance. Trained at the University of Tehran (BFA, 2009) and Boston University (MFA, 2014), she spent several years in the U.S. before returning to Tehran in 2016. Her artistic language combines Persian miniature and pop influences—with digital collage, airbrushed flat shapes, and emotive cartoon references—to probe identity, gender fluidity, and everyday acts of resistance.

Kashiha’s recent solo exhibitions reflect her international trajectory and evolving visual strategy. In 2021, In Appreciation of Blinking at Parallel Circuit in Tehran, followed in 2022 by I’m Here, I’m Not Here at Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brest. She was presented in Brussels in 2023 with Another World Is Waiting for Us at Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Most recently, she held her first New York solo exhibition, The Doubt Between Us Sways Like Hung Mirrored Eyes at episode, on view from April 12 to June 27, 2025. The show featured new paintings exploring surveillance, intimacy, and the shifting power dynamics between visibility and erasure.

Her work has been shown in notable venues like Palais de Tokyo, Gagosian & Jeffrey Deitch (Miami Art Week), and Helena Anrather in New York, and has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and Esther B. & Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award, and her works are held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and Commonwealth Hotel collections.