Arthur Jafa (born 1960, Mississippi) is an artist and filmmaker whose work examines Black identity through the history and circulation of images in the United States, foregrounding questions of representation and power.
Working primarily with the moving image, he constructs complex montages that bring together found footage with music, developing a visual language deeply informed by Black musical traditions.
In 2019, Jafa received the Golden Lion for Best Participant at the 58th Venice Biennale.
The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
Brandon Morris (born 2000, California) is an artist whose visual language draws from role-playing games, experimental music, and Japanese cyberpunk cinema: his work merges sci-fi and Victorian references to produce forms that are at once grotesque and refined.
His recent work operates at the intersection of fashion and sculpture, exploring the relationship between the garment and the absent body, transforming clothing into autonomous sculptural forms through materials such as fiberglass and resin.
He lives and works in New York.
Laura Owens (born 1970, Ohio) is known for expanding the possibilities of painting through an experimental approach that combines hand-painting and digital techniques.
Her work brings together abstraction, figuration, and text, integrating references to art history with elements drawn from contemporary visual culture.
By collapsing distinctions between manual and technological production, she redefines the conventions and hierarchies traditionally associated with painting.
In 2017, a major retrospective of her work was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Owens lives and works in Los Angeles.
Charles Ray (born 1953, Chicago) explores the tension between realism and artifice through shifts in scale and form that alter the viewer’s physical perception.
Across nearly five decades of practice, he has established himself as one of the most influential sculptors of his generation.
Working across materials such as fiberglass, aluminum, paper, and stainless steel, he produces meticulously crafted works that balance familiarity with disorientation. His practice engages the history of sculpture—its forms, themes, and conventions—while remaining sharply attuned to the present.
His work has been the subject of major institutional exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022), as well as presentations at the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
Jenny Saville (born 1970, Cambridge) is a painter known for her large-scale depictions of the human figure, through which she has redefined the possibilities of figurative painting.
Her work challenges canonical ideals of beauty and representation, foregrounding flesh as both subject and material. Characterized by dense, layered surfaces, her paintings use distortion, fragmentation, and movement to intensify the physical and psychological presence of the body.
Engaging with the history of painting—from Old Masters to contemporary visual culture—her practice expands the expressive and material limits of the medium.
Saville’s work has been the subject of major institutional exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Tate Britain (2018), and more recently presentations at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the National Portrait Gallery. An exhibition of her work is currently on view in Venice at Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna.
She lives and works in the United Kingdom.
Tino Sehgal (born 1976, London) is a British-German artist whose practice centers on the production of immaterial works he defines as “constructed situations.”
His works take the form of choreographed encounters enacted by interpreters through speech, movement, and interaction, unfolding in real time within the exhibition space.
By deliberately avoiding the production of objects as well as all forms of documentation, Sehgal reconfigures the conditions of artistic production, display, and transmission.
The artist’s work has been presented at major international institutions, including Tate Modern (2012) and the 55th edition of La Biennale di Venezia, where he was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist.
Sang Woo Kim (born 1994, Seoul) is an artist whose work explores self-perception, identity, and the experience of cultural displacement.
Raised in London within a Korean family, his practice reflects on the tension between inherited and acquired cultural frameworks, often addressing the condition of diasporic subjectivity.
In his paintings, he develops layered compositions that reflect on self-image and the construction of identity within contemporary image culture. Kim has only recently turned to self-portraiture, using it to reclaim agency over his image after working as a fashion model.
His work explores perception and visibility, addressing the dynamics between observer and observed.
The artist currently lives and works in London.
Christopher Wool (born 1955, Chicago) is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation.
His practice incorporates a wide range of processes and media, with a sustained focus on the material and conceptual complexities of painting.
Working across painting, works on paper, and photography, he investigates the relationship between language, image, and process through strategies of repetition, fragmentation, and erasure.
Techniques such as stenciling and silkscreen—often using enamel—introduce both control and contingency, disrupting compositional stability and authorship.
Wool’s work has been the subject of major institutional exhibitions at museums worldwide.
He lives and works in New York City and Marfa, Texas.
Joseph Yaeger (born 1986, Montana) is a painter whose work explores the limits of representation through fragmented and ambiguous imagery.
Working primarily with watercolour on heavily prepared surfaces, he applies pigment to gesso-rich grounds that emphasize both the physical qualities of the support and the instability of the medium.
Yaeger’s compositions, often drawn from existing images, balance suggestions of narrative with visual indeterminacy, resisting fixed interpretation.
He lives and works in London.