Nicolette Mishkan (b. 1986, Los Angeles) graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2008. A first-generation Iranian American, she lives and works in Los Angeles. 1. Your work explores the idea of escaping one’s current reality. Do you see escapism as...
Muzae Sesay (b. 1989, Long Beach, California) lives and works in Oakland, California. 1. You describe your work as existing at the intersection of what we’ve built and what was already here. How do you navigate this tension between human-made structures and...
Scout Zabinski (b. 1997, New Jersey) is a self-taught artist based in Los Angeles California. She holds a BA from the Gallatin School at NYU, where she studied psychology, postcolonial feminism, art history and literature. Scout Zabinski had her debut solo exhibition...
Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach, CA) is a Cambodian-American painter. Her work plays with narrative and the everyday experience of a first-generation American born to immigrant parents. Her bright and somber paintings present nuances of domesticity. Figures and...
Christian Rex van Minnen was born in Providence, RI in 1980 and received his BA from Regis University, Denver in 2002. He has exhibited throughout the US and internationally and is represented by NANZUKA, Tokyo and VETA Galeria, Madrid. Your work draws from...
3 Artists at Frieze Los Angeles Catching the Eye of Top Tastemakers Written By David Roff As Frieze Los Angeles 2025 takes over Santa Monica Airport, the city’s art world pulses with fresh energy, drawing collectors, curators, and creatives eager to discover the next...
Tim Irani earned his degree in Architecture from the University of San Francisco before working as a mobile product designer. These skills, along with a strong interest in the sciences, inform his artistic practice which contains visual elements of computer-generated...
Aaron Johnson lives and works in Los Angeles, and holds an MFA from Hunter College, NYC, 2005. What initially drew you to featuring spirit-like figures, and what do they represent to you in terms of human or cosmic experience? The ethereal beings started appearing in...
Rema Ghuloum (b. 1978, North Hollywood, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. What initially inspired you to explore spatial contrasts? Life. It is fragile, fleeting, and full of contrasts. I think a lot about how our internal and external worlds reflect one another. I...
Daniel Gibson (b. 1977, Yuma, AZ), lives and works in Los Angeles. He is represented by Almine Rech and Nazarian /Curcio. Can you talk about childhood memories that have influenced the way you depict desert landscapes? My first drawings of a desert landscape as a...
Vincent Pocsik is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He holds a master’s degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Vincent is interested in how the invisible feelings of human life converse with the visible...
Nevena Prijic earned her BFA and MFA in Painting from The University of Novi Sad, Academy of Fine Arts, Serbia. Prijic immigrated to the United States in 2017. Her work has recently been exhibited at Mrs. New York City, NY; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Public...
Avery Wheless, 1993, grew up in Petaluma, CA and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2015). Her paintings explore the existence of female bodies in regards to the space they...
Alison Blickle lives and works in Los Angeles. Tell us about your work being shown at the Venice Biennale. Yes! I have two paintings at the Biennale in a show called Unapologetic Womxn, curated by Destinee Ross Sutton. The show includes work by 34 women artists on the...
Tahnee Lonsdale (b. 1982, Reading, England) has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Cob Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Mine Project, Hong Kong, China; MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris, France; and De Buck Gallery, New York, NY among...
Meeson Pae was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her fine art degree from University of California Los Angeles. Her solo exhibitions and group exhibitions have been shown internationally throughout Asia and...
Ho Jae Kim (b. 1993, Seoul, South Korea) received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. Most recently, he has participated in exhibitions at Harper’s, New York, Los Angeles, and East Hampton (2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021); GANA ART NINEONE, Seoul (2024);...
Based in Los Angeles, Erick Medel was born in Puebla, Mexico in 1992. He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Embroidering denim with an industrial sewing machine, Medel’s works touch on everyday life in Los Angeles, particularly those living and...
Alana Hernandez is the Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum. In her curatorial practice, Hernandez co-creates and develops relational projects and exhibitions that amplify intersectional and multifaceted interpretations of Latinx art. Her practice endeavors to bolster...
Miki Garcia was appointed the Director of the Arizona State University Art Museum in December 2017. She was previously the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara from 2005-2017. Prior to this, she worked at the...
Tania Marmolejo Andersson was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1975). Influenced by her Scandinavian and Caribbean heritage, she studied Graphic Design and Illustration in Norway. She returned to the Dominican Republic to study Fine Arts at...
mosie romney received their BFA in Visual Art from SUNY Purchase in 2016 and have completed residencies with the Home School, Hudson, NY; Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City, MX; Painters Painting Paintings, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy,...
Matt Hansel (b. 1977, Martinsburg, WV) lives and works in New York. What was it like having an interest in art growing up in West Virginia and at what point did you decide to be a full-time artist? I’m not sure I ever decided to be a full-time artist. I...
Calli Moore is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in Iowa, Moore received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa in 2014 and earned her MFA at American University, Washington, D.C. in 2016. Moore has exhibited work nationally and...
Allison Zuckerman (b. 1990, Harrisburg, PA) lives and works in New York. Can you talk about the significance of colliding artistic styles within your work? We live in an era of media saturation, where images and information bombard us constantly. My work seeks to...
Loren Erdrich (b. 1978) lives and works in New York City where she is currently represented by SHRINE gallery. Her undergraduate degrees include a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA in 2000, and a BFA from the School of the...
Kyle Coniglio (b. 1988, Wayne, NJ) has his MFA in painting from Yale University and a BFA from Montclair State University. He has been a fellow of the Queer Art Mentorship program in New York and an affiliated fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Over the past year...
Responding to the historical textile, Mia Weiner creates intimate declarations that explore identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships. She hand-weaves each tapestry in her Los Angeles studio. Mia Weiner (b. 1991, Chicago, IL) received her MFA...
Jessica Taylor Bellamy is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, and video exploring themes of utopia><dystopia, human><nature, fantasy><reality image ><text and the collapsing of time. A native Angeleno, born and raised in...
Caris Reid (b. 1983, Washington D.C), lives and works in Los Angeles, California. What core principles influence your practice as an artist? Attunement. Harmony. Intuition. Through painting, I can access an idealism that I don’t always feel outside of the...
Conrad Ruíz (b. 1983, Monterey Park, CA), lives and works in Los Angeles, California. What is one Mantra that you live by in regards to your practice as an artist? My Mantra is to trust my instincts. When I get excited about an idea, or image, I have to trust...
Born 1986 | Mexican-American Represented by Nicodim Gallery Living and working in Phoenix, Arizona. What is one mantra that you live by in regards to your practice as an artist? I have several mantras depending on the season, but a common one is, “To move, you must...
Stan Edmondson (b. 1962, Pasadena, CA), lives and works in Los Angeles, California. What is one mantra that you live by in regards to your practice as an artist? Well my father had a saying, he said if you’re not getting dirty, you’re not making art. That has a...
Shingo Yamazaki is a Honolulu-born artist whose work addresses the complexities of cultural hybridity, identity, and the meaning of “home.” His work captures a rich mixture of Hawai‘i’s cultural nuances and iconography along with his own personal history as a mixed...
