Piya Wanthiang

Apichaya Wanthiang (b. 1987, Bangkok, Thailand) holds a BFA from Sint-Lukas Brussel (2009) and an MFA in Fine Arts from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2012). Wanthiang constructs environments in order to explore how they influence our perceptions, behaviours and interactions. She often works with painterly installations and architecture/scenography. She has exhibited widely in Norway and currently works as an assistant professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.

Image 1: Driftwood and Ghost Hunters, 2018. Landsforeningen Norske Malere, Oslo, Norway. 182cm x 321cm; canvas, acrylics, nails, wood, concrete

Image 2: While The Light Eats Away at the Colors, 2017. Stiftelsen 3,14 Bergen, Norway. Installation view: a painterly installation consisting of 8 large paintings. Measurements variable; canvas, acrylics, wood, nails

Image 3: Driftwood and Ghost Hunters, 2018. Landsforeningen Norske Malere, Oslo, Norway. Installation view and detail; canvas, acrylics, wood, concrete

Image 4: Evil Spirits Only Travel in Straight Lines, 2018. UKS (Young Artists’ Society), Oslo, Norway. Installation view showing entrance corridor, heated clay sculpture, alternating ‘breathing’ led cycles, heated clay scuptures and Spirit Festical and Mayflies video. Measurements variable; wood, drywall, foam, clay, textile, projection, heating cables

Bianca Turner

Bianca Turner (Brazil, b.1984) is a multimedia artist, holds a BA in ‘Performance Design and Practice’ from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (2011, London, UK) and a Master of Arts in “Scenography” from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2013, London, UK).

She exhibits regularly since 2014. A special mention should be made to the individual exhibition “Memory, body as resistance”, at Airez Gallery, (Curitiba, Brazil) in 2018; Among her collective exhibitions the most relevant is at Mostra Verbo of Performance, at Vermelho Gallery in São Paulo, Brazil. She also exhibited in São Paulo at the Red Bull Station, Galeria Ponder 70, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Itaú Cultural, Municipal Theatre of São Paulo, SESI Digital Gallery, DAHAUS, among other collective exhibitions. In New York at the residency ‘Arts, Letters and Numbers’, in Leipzig at the residency ́Pilotenkueche ́.

Her research is on the subjectivity of memory: Is memory material or immaterial? Is memory embedded in objects? – A quest that doesn’t have the intention to be solved but yet to be the source for many artworks. ‘My work explores the documentation of the ephemeral. I explore the immaterially of an object or a place; the invisible, the subjective, and the unspeakable. I think of memory as built in the present rather than something from the past; and I am interested in traces and layers as textures of memory and nostalgia.’

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Magnus Tomt

Magnus Tomt (b.1994, Norway) is an artist based in Tromsø, primarily working with appropriation within an interdisciplinary practice. He is currently taking his BFA at Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art.

His current work is concerned with the indecisiveness of contemporary art. He focuses on progress, value and autonomy as sites for material self-reflection and conceptual exploration. Tomt has exhibited at: Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø; Sortland Kunstforening, Sortland; Alta Kunstforening, Alta; Meieriet, Leknes among others.

Image 1. Cats Don’t Like Dead People, 2019

Image 2. I Guess I’ll See You In My Dreams, 2018

Image 3. Untitled (I Feel Alive), 2018

Image 4. Only Reactionaries Have Plans After The Revolution, 2019

Neja Tomšič

Neja Tomšič (1982) is a visual artist, poet, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice merges drawing, photography, poetry, and performance. By uncovering overlooked and often hidden stories from history, she aims to rethink dominant historical narratives, research into particularities, and create situations where new understandings of the present can be formed. She approaches histories as maps of starting points and links. Performative elements in her projects explore possible projections of history into the subjective present of individual visitors.

Her project Tea for Five: Opium Clippers, a performative essay in the form of a Chinese tea ceremony, has toured 11 countries and was performed more than 55 times. Her artist book Opium Clippers was awarded as best Slovenian artist book in 2017/2018 and the best book design in the category Book as Object at the Slovenian Book Fair. She is a member a Nonument Group, an art collective that maps, archives and intervenes in forgotten, abandoned or demolished 20th century monuments, public spaces and buildings, that have undergone a change in meaning.

Neja also works as a curator and producer and is a co-founder of MoTA (Museum of Transitory Art), a Ljubljana-based research and production platform devoted to transitory art. She lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Image 1: Tea for Five: Opium Clippers, Glej Theatre, September 2018, photo: Jaka Babnik

Image 2: Tea for Five: Opium Clippers, Azores Fringe Festival, Pico Island, July 2018, photo: Neja Tomšič

Image 3: Opium Clippers artist book, photo: Jaka Babnik

Image 4: Nonument Group: From Nowhere to Noplace, The Pioneer Railway, May 2019, photo DK

Michele Tocca

Rooted in a lineage of painters of phenomena and things, itinerant sketchers and landscapists, Michele Tocca’s depictions elicit questions on the direct relationship between painting and the physical world with all the paradoxes implied in sur-le-vif perceptive, ruminative and imaginative dynamics.

Born in 1983 (Subiaco, Rome), Tocca is based in Rome, Italy. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and independent spaces, among which: 1/9unosunove gallery, Rome (2018); Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese (2018); Francesco Pantaleone Gallery, Palermo (2015); Musei di Villa Torlonia, Rome (2015); Fuoricampo Gallery, Siena-Bruxelles (2015-2014); FLAG ART Foundation, New York (2014); Studiolo Project, Milan (2014); Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania Pallanza, (2013); MARCA, Catanzaro (2011); CIAC, Genazzano, Rome (2010); the Moscow Biennale, Moscow (2010); the Prague Biennale, Prague (2009); Otto Zoo Gallery Milan (2008).

Image 1: In Lorenzetti's (the turret under storm), 2014, oil on canvas, 40x35 cm

Image 2: De Valenciennes's Pollen, 2017, oil on canvas, 100x85 cm.Photo: Sebastiano Luciano

Image 3: Early dripping (Pastificio Cerere), 2018, oil on canvas, 71x65 cm. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano

Image 4: Belvedere (Lojacono through sunglasses), 2018, oil on canvas, 45x20 cm. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano

Hanna Sjöstrand

Hanna Sjöstrand is an artist born in Karlskoga, Sweden in 1978, now living in Oslo. She works within the field of painting with a complementary praxis in performance, theatre and film. Her work often combines an understanding of Chinese philosophy accumulated through years of internal martial art training with contemporary western discourse. This manifests in a painting praxis where traditional materials and expressions are brought into conceptual processes in order to investigate metaphysical framing of reality. 

She holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy since 2009 and has just received a two year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden. She also received a one year working grant from Konstärsnämnden in 2014. In 2013 she received the Ellen Trotzig grant. Recent public events include: 2019: Mellan dig och mig, Ystad konstmuseum. 2018: PaintedGalleri Gerlesborg, Gudenes FeltLNM Oslo, The Field, Elastic Gallery Stockholm. 2017:Time med et tre, Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, The Encounter of Bodies, Ystad Konstmuseum, Arne Næss- Gjenuppstandelsen - the Ecosofi F sect,Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, Bli Arne Næss, KHIO, Oslo. Sjöstrandis represented in a number of private collections. Her work is also represented at Malmö Museum and Statens kulturråd. In 2017 she is working as a head teacher at Gerlesborgsskolan i Bohuslän. 

Hanneline Røgeberg

Hanneline Røgeberg is a painter born in Oslo, Norway and holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale. Her work has been featured in group and solo exhibits in institutions such as the Whitney Museum; the MIT List Center; the Aldrich Museum; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; the Inside-Out Art Museum Beijing, China; the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, and Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in Norway. Recent and upcoming solo exhibits include Thomas Erben Gallery, New York and Galleri Riis in Oslo.

She has received an Ingram-Merrill award, a WESTAF/NEA grant, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Anonymous-Was-A-Woman award and an OCA grant, in addition to numerous residencies.

She is a professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and has previously held positions at Cooper Union, University of Washington and Yale University. She was a visiting artist at Skowhegan in 2009, and is a graduate critic at Yale School of Art in the spring of 2019.

She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Oslo, Norway.

Image 1: ‘National Sins: The hole’, 2014

Image 2: Installation shots from ‘Off the Bone’ solo exhibit at Blackston gallery, 2015

Image 3: ‘Rebound Extrovert’, 2013

Image 4: ‘Rebound Introvert’, 2013

Tyler Matthew Oyer

Called an "interdisciplinary gospel immortalist" by Kembra Pfahler of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Tyler Matthew Oyer is an artist, writer, organizer, and educator based in Los Angeles. By researching diverse modalities of activism (ACT UP, queer theatre, Brechtian theatre, surrealism, underground cabaret, and punk) his performance works generate an intergenerational dialogue around politics, seeking new ways of articulating the connection between various systems of oppression from the past to the present in an attempt to grapple with our collective political future.

Oyer has performed at MoMA PS1, REDCAT, The Getty Museum, dOCUMENTA (13), Hammer Museum, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Munch Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bergen Kunstall, Rogaland Kunstsenter, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, High Desert Test Sites, Highways Performance Space, Human Resources LA, Silencio Paris, MIX NYC, and the Orange County Museum of Art. He has written works of performance including CALLING ALL DIVAS, GONE FOR GOLD, Shimmy Shake Earthquake, La Bola Negra, and 100 Years of Noise: Beyoncé is ready to receive you now. Oyer is the founder of tir journal, an online platform for queer, feminist, and underrepresented voices. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2012 and has offered workshops and lectures at CalArts, Bard College, Occidental College, University of Southern California Santa Barbara, Penn State University, Southern Exposure, and Grand Central Art Center. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

Matthew Musgrave

Matthew Musgrave (b. 1985 UK) lives and works in London, is interested in a kind of thinking through painting, how painting has a tendency to figure and to abstract, how it meanders and wanders, continually merges the past into the present on and on. Things often begin with something close to hand, a chair, limb, some grass or foliage, a tree, window, weather, something seen or remembered, moving paint around until something begins to make some sort of sense.

He studied painting at the Royal College of Art (2011) and Chelsea College of Art (2008). Exhibitions include: The Value of Liveliness, White Crypt, London (2018); Pink Density, Clovis XV, Brussels (2016), Only with a light touch will you write well, freely and fast, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2015) & Supplement, London (2016); All the best/yours sincerely, Galeria Alegria, Madrid (2016); To Paint a Line, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo (2015); Around, Supplement, London, (2014); Head to Head, Standpoint, London (2014); Paintings, Supplement, London (2012); The Milkplus Bar, Josh Liley Gallery, London, (2010); The Library of Babel, Zabludowicz Collection, London, (2010); Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Gallery, London (2009).

Image 1: 'Setting Out', 2016, Oil on linen, 40.5x35.5cm

Image 2: 'The Eyes Have It' installation shot, 2016, 53 Beck Road, London

Image 3: 'Of a Bush', 2012, Oil on linen, 25x20cm

Image 4: 'Around' installation shot, 2014, Supplement Gallery, London

Patrick McElnea

Patrick McElnea (b. 1981) is based in Los Angeles, California. His work uses pigment, pixilation, and phrasing to visualize imaginations that underpin culture. Recent photographs forage through fantasies of selfhood, inheritance, and flesh. Pictures are made in pairs; the same scene fabricated in different materials, like short stories told in separate languages. McElnea’s video projects similarly explore how images are collaboratively made or misinterpreted under institutional care such as preventative medicine, primary education, and art therapy. He has had solo exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects in New York, and Daniel Weinburg Gallery in Los Angeles. He earned his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2008 and his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2004.

Image 1: Alone In the Vault, 13 x 22.5 inches, archival pigment print, 2019
Image 2: Older Brother, 19 x 26.5 inches, archival pigment print, 2018
Image 3: His Brother, 25 x 36 inches, archival pigment print, 2018

Image 4: Translantic, 63 x 95 inches, archival pigment print, 2018

Image 5: Jan's Shorts, 15 x 21.5 inches, archival pigment print, 2018

Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga

Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga is a performance artist and provocateur. Known for her public arts activism and provocative public speaking, she performs many different roles. Her performance work deals with umsebenzi of protest practices and asks questions about ritual and rape. Nondumiso is also an independent arts’ writer and academic.

Syowia Kyambi

Kyambi’s practice probes issues of race, perception, gender and memory. Her work examines how contemporary human experience is influenced by constructed histories, creating installations that include a performative practice to narrate stories and activate objects, exploring cultural identities, linking them to issues of loss, memory, race, and gender.

Based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin, Syowia Kyambi has received commissions by the Kenya Institute of Administration, the National Museum of Kenya and the Art 4 Action Foundation in Kenya. She is an alumnus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been the recipient of several awards and grants, including most recently the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, being shortlisted for the Financial Times Emerging Artist Award and recipient of the Art in Global Health Grant from the Wellcome Trust Fund in the United Kingdom.

Her work has been exhibited in museums in Belgium, Finland, Kenya, Mali, Sweden, Germany, Zimbabwe, France, United Kingdom, Mexico, South Africa North America and Ireland

Tina Kryhlmann

Tina Kryhlmann (b 1986, Oslo) completed her MFA in Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy 2017. Working in an extended field of practises, varying from text, scuplture, installation, video and artist books, she uses painting as a pivot point and vantage point, to question the role of the self.

Robert Holyhead

Robert Holyhead studied Fine Art at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, between 1993 and 96, and at the Chelsea School of Art and Design between 1996 and 97.

Solo exhibitions include shows at Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, in 2016; PARTS Project, The Hague, in 2016; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, in 2014; PEER, London, in 2012; and Karsten Schubert, London, in 2009, 2010 and 2012. He was a recipient of the five-year ACME Fire Station live/work residency (2005) and in 2009/10 he was commissioned by the Government Art Collection to produce two site-specific works for the new British Embassy in Brussels. In July 2018, he completed a residency at SoART in Austria. He is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin and Paris. In 2018, he was selected for one of the Art Foundation’s 20th Anniversary awards. Public collections holding his work include the UK Arts Council Collection, the UK Government Art Collection, Tate and the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Recent writing projects include What is Seen: a catalogue essay published by Tate for Patrick Heron’s retrospective at Tate St Ives.

Olga Grotova

Olga Grotova (b. 1986, Saint-Petersburg) is an artist based in London. Grotova takes family history, landscapes and experience of displacement as starting points for multi-layered paintings, videos and performances. Her multidisciplinary practice connects repressed narratives to ecosystems through the contemporary female body, movement, text and mark making. The paintings are made using traces of studio debris and plants with cameraless photographic processes. In Grotova’s installations ambivalent historical and political material is re-established and re-articulated in the present.

Grotova graduated from MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016. Previous exhibitions include: Centrala (Birmingham), 2019; Mimosa House (London), 2018; Osnova (Moscow) and others.

Morgane Clément-Gagnon

Morgane Clément-Gagnon is a Canadian self-taught visual artist and photographer whose images explore the uncanny through optics, modified cameras and color study. She draws inspiration from her background as a philosophy academic and professor. Her images are a reminder that our existence is complex, strange and fragile.

She has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Jewish Montreal, McCord Museum and Espace F. Morgane currently works and lives in Montreal.

Elenie Chung

Elenie Chung is a filmmaker born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago and currently based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Her films bring the everyday into sublimity and the unfamiliar to the everyday. Before attending the University of California: Los Angeles to pursue an MFA in Film Directing/Production, she worked at Women Make Movies, a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City and also served as an assistant for artist Karina Skvirsky. At UCLA, she was a recipient of the Edie and Lew Wasserman Production Fellowship.

http://eleniechung.net

Robert Bordo

Robert Bordo makes thematic paintings that integrate a notion of formalism with a range of personal and theoretical narratives. Since the mid-1980s, his work has been exhibited extensively and internationally in solo and group exhibitions.

Highlights include shows at the National Exemplar Gallery, Bortolami Gallery, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, MoMA PS1 and the Brooklyn Museum (all New York); The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, Mummery + Schnelle, London, the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, and Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Collections in which his work features include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE. Awards and fellowships he has received include the 2014 Robert de Niro Sr. Painting Prize, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Canada Council Arts Grant, the Tesuque Foundation Arts Fellowship Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Ballinglen Fellowship, a Hermitage Retreat Fellowship and a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has designed sets, costumes and posters for the Mark Morris Dance Company, including designs for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2017 revival of Dido and Aeneas. As Associate Professor of Art he led the Cooper Union’s painting program from 1996 until 2017. He lives and works in Columbia County and Brooklyn, NY.

Noor Bhangu

Noor Bhangu is a curator and scholar, whose practice employs cross-cultural encounters to interrogate issues of diaspora and indigeneity in post- and settler-colonial contexts. She completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices at the University of Winnipeg.

Her written work has appeared in academic and public journals, including Black Flash, gal-dem, Moveable Type: The University College London English Journal, Public Parking, Uncommon Sense, and C Magazine. Her curatorial practice includes projects: Overlapping Violent Histories: A Curatorial Investigation into Difficult Knowledge (2018), womenofcolour@soagallery (2018), Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives in Contemporary Art (2018), and Digitalia (2019). In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York University in Toronto.

Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin

Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin (b. 1981) is a curator, freelance writer, translator, producer, and occationally an exhibition guide and mediator.

She contributes regularly to the camera-based art magazine Objektiv Journal (OJ), her latest project; a review-series at OJ with ArtConstructs that runs through February 2020. The platform ArtConstructs launched the fall of 2018 as an IG account promoting futurity by combating white washing in the arts.

Lisa Andrine is also the programme curator for the inaugural contemporary art exhibition 2020 at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.