Born in 1994, Seung-gyun Heo, known as CCREATT, studied industrial design at university. During and after completing his studies, the artist developed a keen interest in 3D modeling. He used his creativity and imagination to transform virtual objects into digital art, videos, and figures.CCREATT’s works portray the search for self-identity, lost in a fast-changing world dominated by commercialism. The artist creates 3D models of influential figures, such as artists or celebrities, by capturing their distinct features and characteristics. These figures are then transformed into memes with added symbolism within the digital space.The characters' emotionless facial expressions enhance the implicit meanings and emotions of each figure. Additionally, the small props and items placed beside each character not only symbolize them but are also closely linked to modern society.

The artist portrays how commercialization is deeply ingrained in our society. Through his art, he reveals what may be concealed or overlooked and encourages viewers to reflect on their own relationship with these issues. While his primary focus is on creating 3D figures and reproducing famous paintings, the artist is always exploring new styles and mediums, constantly expanding the boundaries of his art.

Marionne Contreras (b. 1992) is a visual artist based in Manila, Philippines, with a current emphasis on fiber and fabric based works. Her works are diaristic, often with themes of memory, its persistence, its purity, and its vulnerability to tampering, with constant undertones of womanhood, consistently taking the role of the female as narrator; taking visual inspiration from textures and forms found in nature while maintaining an aesthetic that leans towards the synthetic.

Highly aware of the universality of the personal, her works often carry intimate personal narratives despite her conscious decision to highlight their ornamental nature – to always stage them as a tableau of beauty given the parameters in which the very idea of “the beautiful” is meant to work.

She has been actively exhibiting in The Philippines. Her most recent one-person exhibition, Poetry has left me, has concluded last 10th of November, 2023 in Vinyl On Vinyl Gallery, Makati City, Philippines.

He focuses on the instinctive five senses that can be felt in screens, spaces, and objects that encourage erotic imagination. While visualizing the ‘desire for the unreachable’ in two-dimensional or three-dimensional works, he is also exploring the tactile sensations that can reach it. By recording and re-sensing the body in three-dimensional and flat surfaces, he is attempting to explore the body that has been sensed and the body that is being eroded by the desire to be sensed.

The artist mixes representations of the human body from the past to the present and places them in a contemporary context. The story of the inevitable relationship between wounding and healing is told in a way that remains ambiguous due to the dual representation of the image.

Minji Ryu recalls the emotions she experienced while observing the landscape in her daily life and investigates the manner in which gathered images are displayed in paintings. As a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, she acknowledged the inevitable gap between the experience of gazing at reality and drawing it and took a moment to recognize the landscape that was shared through abstraction and conceptualization. Her paintings focus on the experience of seeing and reproduce the impression produced by substituting an object for a function consisting of light and darkness as a physical image. In this manner, the artist hopes that paintings will serve as a channel for evoking past experiences in the minds of the audience, so reviving their perspective on current life. 

The artist records vanished neighborhoods and landscapes, translating memory and loss into painting. The city is reimagined not as a real place, but as a layered, emotional space shaped by time and perception. What remains is a self-portrait, constructed through the memory of a city that no longer exists.

Tulsi Patel is a Tanzanian multidisciplinary artist working across painting, mixed media, and installation. Raised in Dar es Salaam, her early practice was grounded in realism, but over time she embraced experimentation — discovering beauty not as replication, but as revelation. Her work interrogates the fluidity of identity, memory, and human connection, celebrating intuition, imperfection, and the rhythms of collapse and renewal. She has exhibited widely, including at Rangi Gallery.

oo Young Choi(b.1993, Korea) works from a place of deep agony over the notion that ideas branching out from the root of the “I” must inevitably exist in the context of relationships with the other. Choi expresses this idea as a faceless “black dot,” a character that represents the artist’s thoughts — along with those of many others in modern society. Containing both the stability of belonging that comes from a uniting, intertwining crowd as well as the unavoidable sense of isolation that occurs in any relationship, the duality of the “black dot” is sure to strike a chord with anyone living in the present era. Individual yet multiple, unfamiliar yet comforting, the “black dot” speaks to us all.

Tarnia Marmolajo
b. 1975, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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Tania Marmolejo’s distinctive Caribbean heritage and Scandinavian roots have greatly influenced her approach to creating contemporary art. Tania studied graphic design and illustration in Norway before returning to the Dominican Republic to pursue fine art at the Altos de Chavón School of Design. In 1998, she earned the Bluhdorn Scholarship, allowing her to continue her education at Parsons School of Design in New York, where she graduated with a degree in Fine Art and Illustration in 2000.
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Her artistry is a powerful exploration of the human experience, transcending conventional boundaries and redefining the world of figurative art. Through her mesmerizing large-scale paintings, she delves into the complexities of gender, identity, and cultural heritage, drawing from her unique Swedish-Dominican roots. Marmolejo Andersson skillfully weaves a mysterious realm of enigmatic female portraits that elicit deep emotions and empathy in viewers, while simultaneously addressing social issues and promoting women empowerment. Her innovative approach to capturing emotions and conveying powerful narratives through her art has earned her a prominent position in the contemporary figurative art scene.
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Tania Marmolejo’s work has participated in numerous solo exhibitions from around the world, including “As Far As Your Eyes Can See”, KIAF Seoul, Eligere Gallery, (South Korea, 2022); “The Dream And The Voyage”, CICA Vancouver (Canada, 2022); “elenovela Life”, GR Gallery, (USA, 2022); “Santas y Tígueras”, Museo Cándido Bidó, Bonao, (Dominican Republic, 2020) and “(In Between)”, Galleri Nord- Norge, Harstad, (Norway, 2018). Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions, such as “You Me Me You”, Nicodim Gallery, (USA, 2022); “Summer Camp”, GR Gallery, (USA, 2021); “Vibraciones Conteporáneas”, Lyle O Reitzel Contemporary Art, (Dominican Republic, 2021) and “CONTEXT”, Art Miami, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery,(USA, 2017).

Hyewon Na is a painter born in Gwangju, South Korea. Her work explores conflicting yet coexisting emotional states, such as anxiety, violence, imperfection, sacrifice, love, and beauty. Through her art, she reflects on human vulnerability and the tension between finitude and eternity. Her work is a study of how to aesthetically represent these human contradictions. Much of her inspiration comes from history, society, religion, and more.
She earned her Diplom from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (under Professor Martin Honert) in Germany, and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and other cities. She currently resides and works in Berlin, Germany.

Scott Young is fascinated by the strange and subtle relationships we project onto objects and possessions. His paintings are contemporary reimaginings of still life and vanitas, featuring objects and motifs with charged social meanings, carefully arranged in coded dialogues. Often employing painting techniques that mimic faux marble or wood, his work hints at the artificiality inherent in our extractive relationship between nature and culture.

Herbert Matter was a Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer known for his innovative use of photomontage in posters. Matter also photographed the unique personalities of his friends Alexander Calder and Alberto Giacometti at work in their studios. Born on April 25, 1907 in Engelberg, Switzerland, he went on to study painting under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant in Paris, before working as an assistant to the famed architect Le Corbusier. During the early 1930s, Matter established his career in design with the posters he created for the Swiss National Tourist Office. Moving to New York in 1936, the artist worked as a freelance photographer for a number of magazines including Vogue, before being signed exclusively by Condé Nast. In the decades that followed, Matter took on many roles, including working as a design consultant for both the furniture company Knoll and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The artist died on May 8, 1984 in Southampton, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others.

 ByungHo Lee (b. 1976) received both his B.F.A and M.F.A in sculpture from Hongik University, Seoul. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at PIECE (Perigee Gallery, Seoul, 2023), Three Shades (SPACE SO, Seoul, 2020) and BLOW UP (Gallery Zandari, 2009). Additionally, Lee participated in several group exhibitions including The Chronicle of Lost Time (SNU Museum of Art, Seoul, 2021), Repetition and Difference: About Time (Busan Museum of Art, Busan, 2019), Aging World- Will you still love me tomorrow? (Seoul Museum of Art, 2019), and Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2009). Lee has received awards such as SeMA Young Artist from Seoul Museum of Art, Korea (Seoul, 2011), and the 29th Joong Ang Fine Arts Prize, Korea (Seoul, 2007) and has participated in art residencies at Gyeonggi Creation Center (Gyeonggi, 2013) and Nanji Art Studio of Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, 2010). His works are housed in collections of esteemed institutions like the Seoul Museum Art, Busan Museum of Art and Suwon Museum of Art.

Aysha E Arar born in 1993, Jaljulia, where she lives and
works.
E Arar uses painting, video, performance and poetry
; she paints on paper, canvas and on the wall, moving
from narrative to abstract painting, where she combines
imaginary creatures based on Palestinian legends. At
the center of her practice lies her own identity. She
practices an art of resistance to oppression through the
power of images and voice, a quest for freedom and its
meaning. In her own words, “I don’t know how to draw
realistic paintings, I draw from the world of imagination
and fantasy. This allows me to merge imagination with
reality and all the contradictions that I live in”.

Jung Kwang Ho, who aims to weave between painting and sculpture, desires to explore the essence and interpretation of sculpture in particular. A sculpture is a tangible representation of an image manifested by the sculptor using materials, techniques, and tools to create a specific object in a particular way. Jung oxymoronically refers to his works as "non-sculptural sculptures," as he works with non-sculptural properties to create essentially sculptural works. The paradoxical expression is part of how he explores the essence of sculpture. The artist made no distinction between inside and outside, instead exposing the surface and penetrating through to suggest that surfaces are merely the superficial layer of sculptural essence and the surface of reality.
Jung presented solo exhibitions in various museums worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Art Sonje Museum in Gyeongju, Kumho Art Museum in Seoul, Gallery Thomas in Munich, Lumen Gallery in Paris, and Canvas International Art Gallery in Amsterdam. He also participated in significant group exhibitions at institutions such as the Seoul Museum of Art, Samsung Museum of Art Leeum, Singapore Art Museum, and Gyeonggi Museum of Art. His works are held in various collections, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Hanlim Museum of Art, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, and Ho-Am Art Museum.


Wada Chizu liked to draw from an early age, but learned to draw by self-taught against her parents' 
opposition. She started serializing her paintings on the Internet in 2009, and made her debut as a cartoon artist in 2014. Since then, she has been actively working in various art scenes such as publications, exhibitions, and art fairs, expanding the scope of her creation through painting. 
The paintings contain a wide range of themes: humans and animals, me and the outside world, and 
relationships. In recent years, the artist has been focusing on acrylic canvas paintings, but before that, she used to draw manga and illustrations. In the new works presented in this exhibition, she again used the pen, which was the main medium of her work. To her, new works simultaneously mean a return to the roots of her work and an exploration of new styles. In the painting, ‘I’ wear animal clothes. Costumes are a way to protect herself in relationships and an act of allowing her true inner self. That place, different from reality, is another form of self-expression.

After extracting the narrative structure of various stories, the artist reconstructs the events and reproduces the images to seek discourse with contemporary narratives. By removing or reconstructing the direct object of the event, the artist attempts to emphasize the essence underlying the narrative to create a dialogue with the audience.

『Patchwork』 series presents the theme of ‘corporealization’ as the counterpart of ‘nation’ and ‘body’ as the constitution of the world. From the Frankenstein-like figure of the combined ragged giant to the cyborg combined with mechanical devices to assist the body, from the small screen to the large screen combined with multiple screens, the evolving or expanding life reflects the state of war of all against all: “Man’s selfish nature to protect himself inevitably shapes the form of a powerful force to realize it”. The main forms (and the result of various agreements) of the entries, such as replacement, substitution, assembly, combination, and expansion, are presented as a body and a state (the mortal god) formed in this state of struggle, and through the exhibition, they come together to form a world.

ThankYouX is inspired by the pop tropes and bright colors of the NYC graffiti scene as well as tech innovation. He started his works from LA street stencils to paintings and sculpture exhibitions in London, LA, Miami, NYC and Hong Kong. Now using his street style in a more unique way, he has gained world wide attention for his geometric cube paintings and large scale abstract works. In 2020, he made the leap into the NFT space and now ThankYouX is bringing the physical and digital worlds together to make a unique collection of original paintings and NFTs.

Dain Lim captures the feeling of rest through sensory experiences in peaceful spaces, focusing on her "Window" series.

Hime was born in Osaka, Japan in 1986. 
From 2004 to 2007, he studied in the Comic Art Course at the Faculty of Manga, Kyoto Seika University. In 2008, Hime entered the fashion industry and embarked on his journey as a fashion photographer. In 2013, he moved to the United States for foreign brand shoots and returned to Tokyo the following year. Starting from 2019, he also pursued a freelance career as a digital illustrator, including clothing prints, music album covers, live performance and pop-up event posters. In late 2020, Hime painted his first artwork using acrylic on canvas, which was exhibited at artKYOTO, marking the beginning of his artist career. His works mainly feature women with an 80s aesthetic and have garnered widespread attention, making him a highly acclaimed artist.

Thanawat Numcharoen
b.1996, Sisaket, Thailand
Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand

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