Chicago-based Dan Devening is an artist, curator, writer and educator whose abstract collages speak through the language of color, shape, and surface. Drawing on familiar geometries, Devening teases out the particulars of visual pleasure, spatial play, and material assertiveness. His recent work features motifs and strategies that explore these concerns within deliberately tight parameters. In both his paintings and…

At first glance, YiMiao Shih’s world looks disarmingly cute: flocks of rabbits, sugar-bright colors, toy-scale furniture and outlines that recall comic strips or children’s books. Look longer, and the scenes tilt into something more incisive. Those rabbits are stand-ins for voters, bureaucrats and anxious citizens; the toy houses are proxies for the impossibility of buying real ones; the stitched lines, so…

Bronson Smillie (b. 1992, Calgary, Canada) is a Montréal-based artist whose practice sits at the intersection of drawing and sculpture. Working with dormant objects, often analog castaways of late capitalism’s obsession with digital efficiency, Smillie develops personal systems of logic and mark-making that reactivate them. In doing so, he sidesteps their intended functions and recenters their aura. The result is a…

Mahsa Merci is a Tehran-born, Toronto-based queer artist working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Her practice studies identity under conditions of instability, especially concealment, fragmentation, and partial visibility. She uses oil painting on wood panels and sculptural assemblage to treat light and shadow as lived states rather than symbols. Paint is often built up into near-relief, and…

Canadian artist Alan Belcher, based in Toronto, transforms everyday digital and commercial imagery into physical art objects. Informed by Pop, Arte Povera, Nouveau Realism, and Neo-Conceptualism; his work zeroes in on the intersection where image becomes object. Series like his glazed JPEG icons and painted “Corportraits” expose the economic structures behind visual culture, blending serial precision with a deadpan…

Costa Rican-born, Antwerp-based artist Ileana Moro has built a practice shaped by introspection, shadow, and intuition. Working across painting, photography, and performance, she probes the intangible registers of human experience. Her work is organized by dualities: darkness is not an absence but a dense material, activated by deep tones and restrained light to open psychological depth. Drawing on Jungian thought…

From his studio in Copenhagen, the Danish painter Nicky Sparre-Ulrich uses layering and controlled erasure to test the reliability of images. Sparre‑Ulrich's guiding idea is that memory is fragile yet persistent, always rewriting itself, and this clarity has made his exhibitions essential for anyone tracking how contemporary art covers the politics of remembrance.

Working between sculpture, digital media, and installation, Polish artist Anna Raczyńska (based between Berlin and Warsaw) interrogates the symbols and structures of everyday life. Her art is characterized by an interplay of opposites: she brings together rural motifs and urban materials, analog craft and high-tech processes, personal narrative and collective history. Influenced by post-humanist ideas, Raczyńska…

Working in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Italian artist Simone Nicola Filippo paints air‑brushed scenes drawn from anime, video games, and fan art to study para‑social bonds and nostalgia. His canvases probe why fictional figures feel intimate yet carry built‑in power dynamics, especially around female avatars. Seen in his solo show “Tour Bonheur” and through the collective General Aesthetics, Simone’s work has become a…

Sarah Bogner’s work circles around a familiar figure—the horse—but resists any fixed reading. Based in Vienna, the German artist draws from historical sources and digital aesthetics alike, testing how painting can hold emotional tension and formal precision. Her technique moves between soft washes and bold lines. Humor, intimacy, and visual rhythm shape her approach, while her ongoing use of the same motif since…