My name is Tang-Wei Hsu. I am 39-years-old and I currently reside in Sunnyside, Queens with my wife and three kids. I was born and raised in Taiwan where I began my career as an artist. I moved to New York when I received an artist abroad subsidy from the Asian Cultural Council. I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in architecture at the Shih Chien University and an MFA in visual arts at the Tainan National University of Arts.
Rawan Ita is a Detroit based artist of Babylonian descent. She was a full-time graduate student studying architecture, an intern, hairstylist, and volunteer. On January 20th, 2017 all of that changed. She was walking across a lot and was hit by an SUV. As a result, Rawan lost much of her physical capabilities and life, as she knew it, had changed. Injuries involving her spine, musculoskeletal, and nerves left her weakened and hurting.
I am a Russian artist that captures the beautiful strangeness of the world around me. I can be found in the salty lands of the United Kingdom to the Motherland of Russia when I need to connect to my soul. I have a Russian Soul wrapped in clothes of an English Gentlemen.
Kevin Peterson studied art at Austin College in Sherman, TX where he received his BFA in 2001.
Sónia Domingues - Sonny* was born in France. She was still a young girl when she came to Portugal and soon in her life the Art assumed an important role. At fourteen, she was invited to partake on what would be her first Collective Exhibition which allowed this young artist to reveal herself on the magnificent Universe of Art. A
Ana Nobre, born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1979. Graduated in Fine Arts-Painting, ESAD, in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal in 2006. About 5 years ago she moved to Algarve, Portugal. Since then, the mutation in her work has been remarkable. Made of contrasts, her painting reflects outbursts, critics… but always with a touch of fantasy.
Edmund Ian Grant’s first foray into the arts occurred in the third grade; he began playing the saxophone at seven and continued through his collegiate years studying and playing Jazz. After a long hiatus for a professional career of Dentistry in the mid 1980s, Grant pursued the visual arts and taught himself to paint.
Los Angeles-based artist and actor Joseph Lee paints thickly layered portraits that mask the details and expressions of his subjects’ faces.
For self-taught Dutch artist Irene Hoff, the world is out of balance which can be seen in the human & environmental challenges we are currently faced with. She craves a world where compassion, intuition and harmony are key elements for living. Irene’s art is filled with hope and inspiration that encourages viewers to become aware of their feelings and beliefs, making space for their true self.
In his carefully altered digital prints, American-born photographer Howard Harris takes on what is perhaps the most American of themes: the interrelationship of perception and technology.
Eriko Kaniwa is an international award-winning fine art photographer based in Tokyo, and the creator of Sensegraphia fine art photography.
Khalilah Birdsong (b. 1977, USA) is a visual artist with a studio practice based in Maui, Hawaii. She creates large-scale abstract paintings that explore issues of depth and line.
Charlotte Keates (b. 1990, Somerset, UK) is a London-based artist, represented by Arusha Gallery. She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and has recently been selected for the prestigious Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London – where she was invited to partake in a panel discussion about her work, alongside a select few industry professionals.
The work of Tishk Barzanji touches on the modernism movement, and surrealism. Inspired by his childhood in Kurdistan, and later moving to London in 1997. His process is about space, colour, deconstruction, breaking boundaries, understanding the living space in this fast moving world and human interactions within these spaces.
Kay Kok Chung Oi received her Doctorate Degree in Education from Durham University, UK. Kay also graduated with a Master Degree in Art Education and a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, USA and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia respectively.
Daria Vorobyeva is a photo artist based in Moscow, Russia. She was born in 1994. In 2018, Daria graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2018, Daria completed intensive course on art business at Synergy Art Academy, in 2019 - on history of arts, contemporary art and contemporary cultural process at the Higher School of design.
Edmund was born in San Mateo California in 1950 and presently, lives and paints in the Napa Valley. He is an Internationally collected, award winning self- taught artist whose extensive exhibitions over the last 30 years include shows in many USA cities including Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, San Francisco and New York, and International cities – Florence, Milan, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Venice, London and Paris.
Cinga Samson (b1986, Cape Town) lives and works in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. He has participated in several group shows, including A Painting Today (Stevenson, Cape Town); In the night I remember curated by Kabelo Malatsie (Stevenson, Johannesburg); Our Fathers curated by Kirsty Cockerill and Chantal Louw (AVA Gallery, Cape Town) and Strata at Greatmore Studios, where he completed a residency in 2011. Safari Fantasy is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.
Painting as a vision intends a dematerialization of painting itself by an intentional setback of perception that problematizes the experience of seeing. What painting sees, as much as what it allows to be seen, comprises the minimum unit of the image as its maximum consequence.
Born in Jinju, Korea, Kang received his BFA and MFA from Kyung Hee University. His paintings show a wide spectrum of unadulterated emotion.
