Alejandro Cardenas is an artist who lives in NY’s Hudson valley,

Primarily focusing on Painting, Sculpture, and drawing.

He graduated with a BFA in fine art from Cooper Union.

He has had solo exhibitions at BFI Miami, James Fuentes Gallery,

Anat Ebgi Gallery, Harper’s Books, Stems Gallery and Almine Rech.

His current exhibition titled “Porta-Mantis” is on view until March 2nd at Anat Ebgi

Gallery’s Fountain Avenue Location

Youngmin Park is a painter from Seoul, currently working and living in New York. Her works explore the unstoppable and competitive struggle within the vertical system through different forms of life. Elements such as power, movement, and consumption are shown through the tense relationships between the figures. Dislocated from their original functions, everyday beings build new meanings in the obscurely flattened world.⁣

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⁣Youngmin (b.1997) received her BFA from Korea National University of Arts and is about to receive her MFA at Columbia University.

Barbara Campbell Thomas is a North Carolina based painter who has exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Center (NY), the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), the North Carolina Museum of Art, Ortega Y Gasset Projects (NY), Maake Projects (PA), Wavelength Space (TN) and Hidell Brooks Gallery (NC).  Currently, her work is in a two-person exhibition at the Columbus College of Art and Design’s Beeler Gallery, and in March she will have a two-person show at James May Gallery in Milwaukee.

 

Her work has been written about in Two Coats of Paint, Art Papers, The Coastal Post and BURNAWAY.

 

Barbara Campbell Thomas attended Skowhegan, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts.  She is a Professor of Art and the Director of the School of Art at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Ken Nwadiogbu is a Nigerian-born London-based multidisciplinary artist. His undergraduate degree was in civil engineering, after which he received a Masters degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art.

Ken was awarded the prestigious The Future Awards Africa in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian arts community. His works have been shown in the Royal Academy of Art during the Summer Exhibition in London, Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery in London, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, BrickLane Gallery, Volery Gallery in Dubai, The Bishop Museum in Hawaii, ThinkSpace in LA anmongst many more. He has also exhibited at Scope Miami, 1-54 London, Prizm Art Fair, and ART X Lagos. He has collaborated with brands including Netflix, GANT, Macmillan Publishers, and Martell. A core focus for him is to inspire and encourage young creatives. He does this through public speaking and mentorship, as well as through his creative collaborations.

Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China) holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. She was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship at Columbia University in 2020, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019 and 2022. Yuan’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, NY; Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK; Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy; Haverkampf Leistenschneider Gallery, Berlin, Germany; among others. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, and The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA. Yuan currently lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.

A Thousand Ships runs through 2/2 at Make Room Gallery LA.

Kirsten Deirup (b. 1980, Berkeley, CA) graduated from The Cooper Union in 2003. She has had solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; de boer gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Guild and Greyschul, New York, NY; and Rare, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY; Marc Wolf Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; and Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA. She has completed residencies at the Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy, the Farpath Foundation in Dijon, France, and Idlewild, CA. Her work is held in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York.

Alina Zamanova (b. 1993) is a figurative multimedia artist who lives and works in Ukraine, Kyiv. Her paintings and sculptures reflect the complexities of the human condition, exploring themes such as identity, mortality, search for meaning and purpose in a conflict-thorn world, that is often filled with trauma, suffering and tragedy but also perseverance, dignity and compassion. Influenced by her personal philosophical reflections, life experiences as an artist living in a country in a state of war, and by an existential psychology theories, Zamanova draws attention to important issues such as an impact of conflict on people and the planet and the resilience of the human spirit.

With a deep research of trauma's insidious nature Zamanova delves into the intricacies of the human mind, exploring how the scars left behind by trauma shape our very being. Her artworks are a reminder of the long-lasting effects of war, and the way in which it can irrevocably alter our understanding of the world.

Francesca DiMattio is an artist born in NYC who lives and works between Manhattan and Upstate New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Wedgwood at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (UK), Sèvres at Nina Johnson, Miami (FL), Boucherouite at Salon 94 Bowery, New York (NY); Francesca DiMattio: Housewares at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (TX) and Vertical Arrangements at the Zabludowicz Collection, London (U.K.). Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton (NY); the Perez Art Museum, Miami (FL); the Frances Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (NY); the Saatchi Gallery, London (U.K.); the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (FL) and the Zabludowicz Collection. Francesca DiMattio’s work has been covered by the New York Times, Art Newspaper, T Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, W Magazine and World of Interiors, among others.

Martha Atienza (b. 1981, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Bantayan Island, Philippines) has moved between the Netherlands and the Philippines throughout her life. Constantly oscillating between these two cultures has had a profound influence on Martha’s focus as an artist.

Her practice explores installation and video as a way of documenting and questioning issues around environment, community and development. Her work is mostly constructed in video, of an almost sociological nature, that studies her direct environment.

Since graduating with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts and Design in the Netherlands, Atienza has exhibited internationally at various art spaces, galleries, and video festivals. In 2017, Atienza won the Baloise Art Prize in Art Basel (Switzerland) for her work, Our Islands. In 2016, she was one of the five shortlisted artists for the Benesse Art Prize (Japan) in the Singapore Biennale. In 2015, Atienza was awarded the Thirteen Artists Awards by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Martha Atienza has also had residencies all over the world: in 2005, she was a part of Kuvataideakatemia's art program in Finland. In 2016 and 2012, she won the prestigious Ateneo Art Award with studio residency grants in Liverpool, Melbourne, New York and Singapore. In 2016, she was the recipient of the first Mercedes Zobel/Outset Residency at Gasworks in London. In 2018, Atienza was a part of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art's residency program in Singapore.

Recent exhibitions include Equation of State, solo exhibition, Silverlens, Manila (2019) ; Honolulu Biennial: To Make Wrong / Right / Now, Honolulu, Hawaii (2019); 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane (2018); Taipei Biennale: Post-Nature – A Museum as an Ecosystem, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2018); Bienal de Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2018); Fair Isles, solo exhibition, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Center for Contemporary Art, Germany (2018); No Man's Land, MUDAM, Luxembourg (2018);2018 Asia Project: How Little You Know About Me, MMCA, Korea (2018).

Tschabalala Self is an artist born in Harlem who lives and works in Upstate New York. She received her undergraduate degree at Bard and her MFA from Yale. Recent solo exhibitions and perfiormances include Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Le Consortium in Dijon, Performa 2021 Biennial in NYC, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the ICA in Boston, the Hammer Museum in LA, Art Omi in Ghent, the Yuz Museum in Shanghai and many others. She has had several museum shows and has had residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Red Bull House of Art in Detroit, Liquitex work residency in London, the Fountainhead Residency in Miami and many others.

Her work has been covered in Art in America, ArtForum, Artnet, Bomb, Cultured, Essence, Frieze, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, T Magazine, The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, Vouge, W and more.

Her work can be found in countless institutions, with highlights that include The Art Institute of Chicago, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the California African American Museum, the Hirshhorn, LACMA, the New Museum, the MCA in LA, the Guggenheim, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Whitney Museum.

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