Artists We Play With
CAMILLE WALALA is a multidisciplinary artist working across the fields of art, architecture, textile art and graphic design. A perpetual purveyor of positivity, expressed through vibrant color and bold patterns.
Spanish artist Raquel Rodrigo creates large-scale cross-stitch and embroidery installations under the name Arquicostura, spanning public art, architecture, hospitality, interiors, and retail environments.
Lakwena’s iconic, kaleidoscopic work is informed by the use of decoration as a means of communication. As a form of expression within a political world, Lakwena explores how the use of adornment in worship and myth-making translates into contemporary popular culture. Central to her practice are words, used as both images and anchors of meaning, borrowing from the techniques and conventions of traditional sign-writing and contemporary graphic design.
MANTRA’s murals process is a careful combination of careful perspective composition lending mastery to his Trompe-l'œil style along with exquisite use of colors, leaving his distinctive trace in the urban areas he visits like an echoing mantra, hence his artist name. The rising french artist is well on his way to the international vanguard of contemporary muralism, having his works recognized beyond the European frontiers.
Spidertag is a Spanish artist and muralist who has worked since 2008 reinterpreting geometry, abstraction, and minimalism, and is internationally recognized for his Interactive Neon Murals.
Bicicleta Sem Freio ("Bicycle Without Brake”) is the internationally acclaimed Brazilian duo of illustrators and muralists, Douglas de Castro and Renato Perreira. Founded in Brazil in 2005 and mostly inspired by rock posters at the beginning, they became internationally famous for their hand-drawn illustrations and for their large-scale public artworks around the world with the collective Justkids.
Julien Colombier is a French artist celebrated for his captivating and poetic artwork. His imaginative landscapes blend vibrant colors, repeated patterns, and a contemporary aesthetic, often featuring mineral and plant motifs that create nature-inspired scenes with a modern contrasted twist. His intricate details and harmonious compositions invite viewers into immersive and vibrant environments.
Agostino Iacurci is an Italian-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist celebrated for his striking, synthetic forms and multilayered narratives.
Alexis Diaz is a Puerto Rican painter and urban muralist, known for his chimerical and dreamlike depictions of animals in a state of metamorphosis.
Neon Saltwater is a multimedia artist based in Seattle, Washington. Her work primarily consists of digital environments created with architectural 3D modeling programs. All imaginary spaces are tied together by a consistent use of light, color, and nostalgic architectural details. While there are often elements referenced from familiar environments, they are contrasted with impossible sunsets, complex color dynamics, and cinematic emotions.
We Are Nice’n Easy is a collaborative endeavor by artists Allison Matherly and Jeffrey Noble. Their work focuses on creating immersive mixed media installations and developing a visually cohesive subtropical vernacular through their material choices and use of repeated motifs. Often referencing themes of self-help, recovery, and interpersonal dependency, their fabricated environments utilize romantic tropes to enhance the collective truths among participants and create a platform for intimate exchange. They have exhibited their works at Locust Projects, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Young at Art Museum, and The Bass Museum. They have also realized several public art projects commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami Beach Art in Public Places, Broward Public Art & Design, and the Downtown Hollywood Mural Project, among other private commissions.
Based in Lisbon, the Portuguese artist Artur Bordalo, known as Bordalo II, has gained international acclaim not only for his keen artistic eye, but for the media he has chosen for this body of work. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather who also painted the city walls, Bordalo chose to visually entice the fellow inhabitants while engaging in a dialog about a concern that encompasses all of us. Collecting various discarded materials natural to each city he visits, Bordalo II incorporates waste such as old tires, appliances, aluminum cans, and imperishable objects into his street art installations.
Okuda San Miguel is a Spanish artist based in Madrid, Spain and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Madrid’s Complutense University. In his work, rainbow geometric architectures blend with organic shapes, bodies without identity, headless animals and symbols that encourage reflection in artistic pieces that could be categorized as Pop Surrealism with a clear essence of street forms.
ANNE VIEUX is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn NY. Vieux works in the great tradition of artists who use tools wrong. Innovation through misuse is a key part of how artists are responding to technology, and here the artist starts by confounding the CCD array of a scanner by training it on holographic paper
PONI is one of the most famous contemporary Mexican illustrators. She enjoys mixing and matching techniques, for each piece the results are always held together by gracefulness.
DOUGLAS DE CASTRO is a Brazilian contemporary artist and illustrator born and based in Goiania, Brazil, who practices painting, illustration, sculpture and design. He founded, along with Renato Reno, the internationally known arts and design collective Bicicleta Sem Freio.
DAKU (Hindi for “bandit”) is India’s most famous anonymous street artist, notorious for his stenciling and text based works around Mumbai and his most recent text and light based installations: Time Changes Everything.
Vhils destroys to create. He is a Portuguese street artist who openly operates under his real name, Alexandre Farto. Now Vhils is undoubtedly one of the most skilled and talented young artists on the contemporary and urban art scene.
Expanding on the legacies of artists such as Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, Fairey blurs the boundary between traditional and commercial art through type and image, communicating his brand of social critique via prints, murals, stickers, and posters in public spaces. Fairey’s iconic poster of President Barack Obama was adopted as the official emblem associated with the presidential campaign and encapsulates a number of recurring concerns in the artist’s work, including propaganda, portraiture, and political power.
NINA CHANEL ABNEY is a contemporary American artist whose work explores abstraction and popular culture with a focus on narratives that allow wide interpretation. Combining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney’s paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture.
Alexandre Bavard (b. 1987) is a Parisian multidisciplinary artist. His work integrates diverse visual media like performance, sculpture, graffiti, photography, assemblage, textiles and found objects deemed “Neo-Archaeologies”. Bavard has been praised with awards such as the Palais de Tokyo Young Revelation prize in 2017 («Jeune révélation talents» urban art price 2017. ADAGP), he has delivered talks on his influences and work in TED and participated in exhibitions in galleries and institutions in Paris, Milan, Berlin, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo, to mention a few.
Felipe Pantone is an Argentinian- born artist, active in the fields of kinetic art, installations, graffiti and design. His style is characterized by the use of bold colors, geometrical patterns and Op Art elements.
Joakim Ojanen (b. 1985 Västerås, Sweden) received his BA in 2012 from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, and his MFA in 2014 from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Since then, he has exhibited widely from Stockholm to Los Angeles, Cologne and Paris, Edinburgh and Belgium. He is represented by Christian Larsen in Stockholm, Ruttkowski 68 in Paris and Cologne, and Richard Heller in Los Angeles.
Graffiti was the first way André Saraiva made his mark on the world. He was born in Sweden and grew up on the outskirts of Paris, tagging his name on the neighborhood’s walls as an urgent declaration of his existence. His works have been shown in museums and contemporary art galleries around the world. Now an established hotelier, restaurateur, and nightlife pioneer, Saraiva has never put away his spray can. In fact, he sees everyone of his many ventures as part of the same irreverent lifelong art project. One that he always approaches with a wink—just like his iconic graffitied alter-ego,Mr. A.
Morag Myerscough’s work often orchestrates type and form and space informed, perhaps, by her graphic design education . Her use of colour is solid, chunky, with a rhythm and the influence of textile. She’s increasingly sought out to work on larger and bolder projects, from the Deptford Project Café and MVMNT Café to The Bernie Grant Arts Centre Café and The Design Museum in London. She’s been lauded with numerous award nominations including the Design Museum’s Design of the Year and has been awarded the position of Royal Designer for Industry.
Egle Zvirblyte is a Lithuanian artist and illustrator. She has studied Film and Spatial Design in London, continuing to work in set design and later focusing on her own practice. While living in Melbourne, Bali, Tokyo, Barcelona, and London, Egle has been working as an illustrator in advertising, product design, and for public space commissions, while developing her art through painting, street art, installations and digital drawing.
Born in 1964 in Bronx NYC, Doze Green began painting on New York subway trains in the 1970s. He rapidly distinguished himself through his highly recognizable graphic style exhibiting his work as early as 1981. His creations have been displayed at the Fun Gallery, The Venice Biennale, Pavillon Bienal Sao Paulo and at Tony Shafrazi Gallery alongside Keith Haring and Rammelzzee who became his very good friend and mentor.Green has developed a unique and iconic style exploring figurative abstraction, fluidity by combining different influences such as writing, Japanese calligraphy, graphics and Cubism.
Edoardo Tresoldi is a Italian sculptor & scenographer who creates amazing hand-made sculpture from metallic wire mesh, transforming a mundane industrial material into delicately crafted three-dimensional figures. The artist's sculpture have a sense of capturing time like photography, but with life-sized and larger meshed figures. The ephemerality of the art places a ghostly stamp within space. In reference to his work Tresoldi says, "Through these figures emerging from wire, I strive to capture the relation of the human body to space. These woven sculptures of wire depict a frozen moment in time."
Robert Montgomery is a Scottish-born, London-based poet, artist, and sculptor known for his site-specific installations created from light and text, as well as his 'fire poems'
Misaki Kawai (河井美咲) is a japanese artists (b. 1978 in Osaka) based in New York city. Ms. Kawai’s cartoon like universe is made up of papier-mâché, wood, fabric, and other low-tech, "crafty" materials like felt, stickers, and yarn.