Deborah Segun (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist from Lagos, Nigeria, and now based in London, UK. She obtained a degree in Fashion Design at the Polimoda Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing in Florence, Italy in 2017. During her studies in fashion, she translated her own art
production into clothing, creating conceptual and sculptural wearable pieces.

His paintings employ layered images of vast natural elements—mountains, oceans, and the 
cosmos—built up through transparent layers

FAHFAHS (ฺBorn in 1992), also known as Napath Kuntaruck, embodies the essence of an artist – a Thai visionary skilled in illustration and masterful in crafting characters. For over a decade, FAHFAHS has transversed the realm of artistry, weaving her creative tapestry. Her passion for sketching ignited during childhood. Throughout her school days, she often engaged in impromptu drawing contests and clandestinely etched sketches into her notebook, harboring a dream that one day her work would bring joy to the hearts of others.
During her studies at the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, FAHFAHS embarked on an artistic journey intertwined with her academic pursuits. While immersed in learning, she concurrently delved into various art forms, including watercolor painting, digital illustration, and the inventive creation of works derived from her drawings. Whether manifested in notebooks or stickers, FAHFAHS’s creations consistently narrate tales brimming with joy and positivity, delivered through the guise of a young girl character with flowing hair and wide, captivating eyes – an embodiment of FAHFAHS herself.
The pivotal shift in FAHFAHS’s artistic journey commenced in 2022 when she joined the group exhibition titled “When Snowflakes Fall” at River City Bangkok. Here, she spun tales of the Snowy Fairy, celestial beings emerging in the winter, of which featured a character named ‘Midnight’ – a black-clad fairy embracing sorrow and consuming darkness, starkly different from the cheerful others. Midnight became the embodiment of loneliness, imperfection, and solitude, resonating deeply within the viewer’s souls, captivating them as the most beloved character. From this genesis, FAHFAHS found inspiration in exploring human emotions and delving into the uncharted territories of her own psyche – emotions like loneliness, solitude, and profound despair along the artist’s path, Nonetheless, FAHFAHS believed that transcending this darkness required an immense inner strength, gradually forged from within. This struggle culminated in her solo exhibition titled “Basement in Your Soul”, marking her inaugural solo showcase, born from the depths of her being.This exhibition received a warm welcome from the media and collectors, and all artworks were sold out. In the same year, FAHFAHS brought her Art Toy to participate in the Pop Toy Show 2024 in Singapore and received a warm welcome from collectors in Singapore and other countries in Asia.


Pannaphan Yodmanee
b.1988, Thailand
Currently lives and works in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
 
Pannaphan Yodmanee combines found objects, natural elements such as rocks and minerals, and painted elements that recall traditional Thai art and architecture. The artist examines the relevance of Buddhist philosophy to our lives. Through her works, she explores Buddhist philosophy and cosmology. Utilising a combination of raw, natural materials with found objects of contemporary origin, her works imbue the painted designs and motifs endemic to traditional Thai art with the universal and persistent themes of loss, suffering, devastation, and the karmic cycles of death and rebirth. 

Pannaphan Yodmanee has widely exhibited her work and attend international art events including the She POSSIBLE International Women's Day (2023), Art collection in Soho house Bangkok (2023), PARADISE Lost BACC Bangkok(2023), Art Basel Hong Kong (2022), Art Macao (2021), 15th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale (2019-2020), 11th Bienesse Prize, Southeast Asian, Shodoshima Island, Japan (2019), The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Gagoma, Australia (2018), The 1st Bangkok Art Biennale (2018), TIME LAPSE, Tang Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China (2018), An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore Biennale 2016, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2016), Thailand Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2015), Myth/History II: Shanghai Galaxy, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2015) and Thai Charisma: Heritage + Creative Power, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok (2014)

Her received numerous awards such as 1st Prize, Bualuang Gold Medal, The 35th Thai Traditional Painting Awards (2013), as well as the 1st Prize of the 1st and the 2nd Young Thai Artist Awards (2006, 2007). In 2016, Pannaphan Yodmanee also won the prestigious 11th Benesse Prize.


Instead of waiting for a moment of inspiration, Nature Haan has continued to work, focusing on the landscape and emotions surrounding him. Since majoring in Western Painting at Seoul National University, he has shown a variety of artworks that capture the artist's daily life in their respective fields in different ways. Beginning in 2016, “Receipt Work” is based on receipts, a common material of daily life, and the objective text is gradually erased, leaving just the image of the moment, which is presented to the audience as a daily record. The artist aspires to become an unostentatious artist in the future, who communicates with the audience through works that show his own self.

Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (aka Hahan)
b.1983, Indonesia
 
Creates works characterized by an ongoing tussle between ‘high art’ and ‘low art’, blurring realism with decoration. His works illustrate a point of contact that exists between urbanization and agrarianism or between the local and the global that both critique and admit complicity with the structures and mechanisms of the commercial artworld. Indeed, themes of rejection and success are present throughout Hahan’s practice, which spans painting, sculpture, drawing and print-making. These works offer an insight into the psyche of a post-boom South-East Asian artist navigating the complexities and challenges of an expanding global art world.

In recent years, he has attempted to display an art with the concept that emphasizes on the interaction with the visitors and relate it with the development of art in global as well as its society. Based on his grounded interest in the realms of value, time and speculations, Hahan lays his nonpareil craft by showing a metaphorical atmosphere yet full of satirical humor. He would then elucidate the mapping of production / consumption matter of cutting-edge art market and its gleaming, and also the ironies which are then packed with alluring spirit of artistic exploration.
 
He was also one of the founders of Ace House Collective, a young artists’ collective and initiative space based in Yogyakarta . Ace House Collective is an artists' collective that works with communities and their networks in running a space as a youth art and culture laboratory. Established in 2011 on self-funding, this community strives to support and develop the potential and the contribution to the latest art practices by providing a platform for productions, dialogues, and collaborations through assembly forums and exchanges.
 
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Indonesia and abroad, such on Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2019, NGV TRIENNIAL 1st 2017 Melbourne and APT 7th 2012 Brisbane. His art works have been being collected by several art museums like Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Melbourne, National Gallery of Australia (NGA) Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) Sydney, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) Darwin.

Toshiyuki Shibakawa developed an installation of "Excavation site 2000 years later" and recently produced (fossil) type artifacts excavated from there. They not only exhibit individual works but also exhibit various things (Archaeo- logical materials, works of art, antiques, relics, goods, etc.) in collaboration. They hold exhibitions and projects that focus on the region and place such as museums in Japan and overseas, historical buildings and shopping streets. At the same time, they hold workshops for a wide range of people, and continue their activities to reexamine the existence of things and contemporary problems.

Born in Hanover in 1964, Baumgarten studied at the “Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe” and the “École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris”, later receiving his MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1999. Since 2008, he has served as professor in the Department of Painting at Hongik University, establishing his practice in Seoul. His sustained artistic concern has been the hybridity of architecture and lived experience within urban neighborhoods. When he first visited Seoul in 1993, the dense vistas of red-brick and concrete houses climbing the hillsides struck him as at once unfamiliar and compelling. He has since focused on the hybrid landscapes born of the encounter between Western architectural order and Korean sensibilities of habitation, articulating them through his visual idiom.

Tarntara earned her bachelor's degree in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from Silpakorn University in 2014. Her art is stylized in a pop-surrealist style and presented with oil painting techniques. The softness of her brush strokes is a standout feature of her work, demonstrating high-level painting abilities. Her artwork is frequently influenced by her own intense emotions, childhood memories, dreams, and surreal fantasies. Tarntara is captivated by women's unique beauty, as well as Eastern culture and ideology expressed in a contemporary style.


Li Erpeng graduated from the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2018, and he currently lives and works in Beijing.
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He has received First Prize for the Fine Arts at CAFA, the Inter Youth Artwork Award (2015), the Inter Youth Innovation Award (2016), the Originality at the Academy New Talent Award and the Outstanding Artwork Award from the Oil Painting Department at CAFA (2016). His graduation work Objects from an Ideal World was added to the permanent LYC Collection (CAFA Art Museum). In 2020, his work was collected by White Rabbit Gallery in Australia and recommended by TARGET magazine.

Enzo Lee is a Korean journal artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Enzo first started his journey as an artist by carrying a journal during his teenage years. Uncertain of the future, he started to write down his feelings, thoughts, and experiences to study himself, hoping to gain control over his life. Over time, the habit naturally evolved into something more and became not only a form of recording but also a form of expression. His own voice, the art. Enzo published his first book of essays and poems, “Bird in Space”, in 2014. Realizing that the voice shouldn’t be limited by any specific medium, he went on to study filmmaking to learn multi-dimensional aspects of art. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Filmmaking from School of Visual Arts, and works on permanent video journal series called “Piece of Life”. Currently there are about 120 episodes online. Since 2020 COVID, Enzo also started to explore the medium of painting and is now expressing journals through large paintings. Enzo is pursuing to develop his philosophy and artistry of using journal as a tool to live life itself as a form art, the "Piece of Enzo".

Painting is a gauge of gravity, according to Jeongyoon Park. The artist, who is taking a master's degree in the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, has been focusing on the concept of gravity. Instead of defying or destroying gravity, she investigates what is possible with gravity. The artist actively utilizes various materials and methods in her works, experimenting with the horizontal possibility of the painting by incorporating fragmentary or complex elements into her works to show various art universes. 

From 1973-76 he attended the University Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He studied at the  Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa, from which he graduated in 1978. In the early ‘80s he moved to Paris to study theater, attending the École Jacques LeCoq, and investigating acting, directing, and filmmaking, with little success. In the late 1980s he went back to art, making drawings and animated films and other films. Between 1989 and 2011, he created 10 Drawings for Projection, a set of 10 animated movies, which caused him to understand that the films were fundamental to his work. Kentridge has also directed several operas. He has been awarded The Carnegie Prize, Pittsburgh in 2000, and is the recipient of several honorary doctorates, including an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London in 2010.

He was Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at Oxford University, Oxford, UK in 2013. He was honored as a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.  In 2016, his solo exhibition “Thick Time” opened at Whitechapel Gallery in London. Kentridge has participated in Documenta (2012, 2002, 1997) as well as the Venice Biennale (2015, 2005, 1999 and 1993). His work is in the collections of the Tate, London, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

A visual artist based in Bangkok, primarily working with Thai literature and history as well as their discourse and relations to the global narrative. His focus centers on exploring memories of Thai visual arts and cultures through the process of collage, as he endeavors to unveil and question them in various forms and dimensions. Infused with a contemporary aesthetic, the juxtaposition of local and exotic fragments creates an alternative chronicle, prompting a reexamination of the past. It nudges viewers to traverse through whispers of scenes that one might only partially remember, a distant murmur from an elusive past.

Hiroshi Nagai (Japanese: 永井博, born December 22, 1947) is a Japanese graphic designer and illustrator, known for his cover designs of city pop albums in the 1980s, which established the recognizable visual aesthetic associated with the loosely defined music genre

Jiyoung Yoo studies artificial orders and systems that are found in everyday life, and the history of objects that belong in such system. As a subject of painting, the artist observes and collages various forms of objects such as eggs, water cups, manuscripts, calendars, and clocks that are often categorized as one unit or assembled as a bundle. This unique practice highlights the idea of relations in paintings. Visually intersecting and yet limiting the conditions of systems that each object has, the variations that the artist depicts present a new perspective in her own language.

"Free and fun. Sometimes a bit aggressive."
Most of the work is based on the motif of a colourful, pretty girl desperately trying to appeal for something. The world is presented in a simple and realistic way, using appropriation techniques.

Fairuz Paisan (b. 1981, Malaysia), affectionately known as Po Oi in the Malaysian art scene, graduated with a Master’s degree in Fine Art and Technology from Mara University of Technology in 2014. Actively participating in numerous projects and exhibiting in seminal art exhibitions, Po Oi has gained recognition as an innovative voice in contemporary Malaysian sculpture. His work uniquely explores the organic form of the circle through materials such as wood and fiberglass, combining traditional craftsmanship with a modern Art Deco sensibility.

Through his dedication, Po Oi delves into the hidden complexities of the circular shape, which he sees as a pathway to uncovering deeper simplicity. His sculptures, from wall-mounted pieces to free-standing forms, are carefully constructed, blending fiberglass—symbolic of external beauty—and wood—to represent the underlying essence within. This approach invites viewers to reflect on the contrast between appearance and inner reality, leading them to a quiet, almost sacred center within each piece.

Not only are his pieces celebrated for their technical skill and elegant form, but they also reflect a subtle interplay with pop culture, capturing elements of movement and fluidity. Po Oi’s work is exhibited widely in Malaysia and has garnered acclaim in regional art fairs and galleries. Through his artistic exploration, Po Oi continues to enrich Malaysia's contemporary art scene, inspiring new perspectives on form, depth, and beauty in sculpture.

Blake Daniels, born in 1990 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an artist known for his unique blend of figurative and abstract art. Working between New York and Johannesburg, Daniels has a rich artistic heritage and developed his passion for art early on. With a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship, Daniels employs various techniques, including traditional oil painting and mixed media. His works explore themes of intimacy and human connection, portraying intricate interpersonal relationships set against mystical backdrops, creating an intimate, enchanting atmosphere for the audience.

The artist's work invites us to pause from our busy lives and direct our attention to the whispers within our hearts. This is likely because her work, even though it is full of the small and ordinary things of life, evokes a dreamy and free-spirited feeling reminiscent of childhood memories filled with all sorts of imaginations. Furthermore, the clumsy and unadorned appearance, reminiscent of a child's, also captures attention. These rough but heartfelt feelings seem to make the entire work soft and warm. The screen is full of childlike freedom, unspoiled purity, and honesty. As if following the old saying that great skill is rather clumsy, the artist's work transcends the confines of skill and style and freely conveys the artist's heart as it is.(Min Byung-jik, Curator)

Bac Jungwon has drawn compositional paintings that express the invisible emotions and minds of humans through various scenes encountered in daily life. After receiving a bachelor's and master's degree in Fine Arts from Kookmin University, she painted unusual, dreamlike, and dramatic situations, but in her mid-30s, she began to paint natural objects and everyday landscapes. Her paintings reveal the fragile psychology and feelings of contemporary people, which are concealed beneath the solid shell of civilization. The artist portrays difficult-to-express psychological levels through a variety of painting mediums, including sketching, watercolor, and oil painting. It defines creation as the discovery of remarkable moments in the repetition of her previous everyday existence and the transformation of the meaning into a material known as painting and reconstructs a daily life from her own unique perspective.

Inhyeon Lee(b. 1958) majored in painting at Seoul National University and obtained a master's and doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts. He served as a professor at the Department of Painting at Hansung University for over 30 years and trained younger students. Since the early 1990s, he has continued the ‘L'épistémè of Painting’ series, which raises philosophical questions about the historical structure of art. To this day, he has achieved outstanding pictorial achievements through endless challenges. Inhyeon Lee held 21 solo exhibitions across Korea and Japan. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad, including the INDEPENDENTS exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and 1980, the Gwangju Biennale in 2000, Grand Palais Paris, Seibu Museum of Art in Japan, Artcore Gallery in LA, Institute of Contemporary Art in Singapore, and Seoul Museum of Art. Participated in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He won the Award of Excellence at the 1st SPACE International Prints Biennale and the Grand Prix at the 10th Seoul International Print Biennale. His works are collected in the National Museum of Modern Art, the British Museum, and the Seoul Museum of Art.

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