Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, former Soviet Union) is an artist based in New York. Baras' paintings take shape through a process of layering and accumulation, combining oil media with various found and unconventional materials. Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Baras was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Baras was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014, she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America, amongst others. Baras co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side (2010-2018).

Bernice Bing (b. 1936 San Francisco, USA, d. 1998) was a trailblazing Chinese American painter whose work navigated the intricacies of cultural and sexual identity, informed by her personal experience. Born in San Francisco's Chinatown, Bing faced the dual struggle of assimilating into American life while seeking a connection to her Chinese heritage. Known affectionately as Bingo, her work explores themes of identity and cultural assimilation, reflecting her unique position as an independent-minded queer artist. Her profound impact is increasingly recognized, with significant exhibitions including Bingo: The Life and Art of Bernice Bing (2020) at the Sonoma Valley Museum and Into View: Bernice Bing (2022–23) at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Bing's legacy is preserved in major collections such as the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Her archives, housed at Stanford University, continue to offer valuable insights into her life and work. 

Nanette Carter (b. 1954, Columbus, USA) is known for her abstract collages that express her sensitivity to contemporary social issues and her responses to the drama of nature. Exhibiting her work nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s, Carter has produced multimedia works on Mylar since 1997. Her art reflects the Black American abstract art tradition, drawing inspiration from mentors like Alvin Loving Jr., and is influenced by jazz, Japanese prints, Russian Constructivism, and Abstract Expressionism. Her work has been featured in prominent exhibitions, including Magnetic Fields and African-American Artists & Abstraction, and she has received numerous grants and awards for her contributions to the arts. Carter's art continues to expand in thematic, technical, and humanistic dimensions, solidifying her legacy as a significant figure in contemporary abstract art.

Lynne Drexler (b. 1928, Newport News, USA, d. 1999) developed a distinctive Abstract Expressionist style defined by vibrant, swatch-like brushstrokes and luminous, contrasting color. After initially studying drama at the Richmond Professional Institute, Drexler turned to painting following an illness and later moved to New York in 1956 to study with Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell. By the late 1950s, she had established her signature Pointillist-inspired technique and became active in the downtown New York art scene, exhibiting at the historic Tanager Gallery. In the 1960s, Drexler’s connection to Monhegan Island, Maine, profoundly shaped her work, inspiring richly atmospheric abstractions rooted in memory and landscape. Though increasingly overlooked as Pop Art rose to prominence, Drexler continued painting throughout her life, later incorporating more representational imagery drawn from coastal life, still lifes, dolls, and masks.

Yaron Michael Hakim (b. 1980 Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in Los Angeles. Working across media, Hakim’s practice reflects upon assimilation, living between cultures, and exoticization. Through detailed, surrealistic depictions of flora and fauna, his paintings on recycled sailcloth investigate translation and migrancy, offering new insights and approaches to understanding hybrid identities, in which the exotic is rendered personal and familiar. Hakim’s artist book, Yaron Michael Hakim: Psittaciformes was published with Grand Central Art Center and X Artists’ Books in September 2023 and features a conversation with Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Senior Curator José Luis Blondet, among other texts. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA), California State University (Sacramento, CA), Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana, CA), Herrnando’s Hideaway (Miami, FL), and LAXART (Los Angeles, CA). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Tanya Bonakdar (Los Angeles, CA), Praise Shadows (Boston, MA), California State University (San Francisco, CA), The Pit (Los Angeles, CA), among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) and the Peréz Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL). 

Gianni Politi’s (b.1986, Rome, Italy) work has been exhibited extensively in Italy and internationally, including at prestigious venues such as the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, MACRO, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Palermo, and the Nomas Foundation in Rome. Politi has also shown his work in New York and Hong Kong. Recent projects include performances and exhibitions at Palazzo Barberini, Monteverdi in Siena, Fonderia Battaglia in Milan, and McNamara Art Projects in Hong Kong.

Carlos Rosales-Silva (b. 1982, El Paso, TX) was born on the border of the United States and Mexico. His studio practice considers the vernacular culture in the American Southwest, the western canon of art history, and the political and cultural connections and disparities between them. Carlos has exhibited throughout Texas, and in Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kansas City. He has been an artist in residence at Abrons Art Center in New York, NY, Residency Unlimited in New York, NY (2020), Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (2018) and at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY (2017). Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters in Los Angeles (2023), a two person exhibition at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio (2022) and group shows at The Latinx Project at NYU, Beverlys in New York, NY and North Loop Gallery in Williamstown, MA. Carlos graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Masters in Fine Arts in 2020.

Lucia Wilcox (b. 1899 Philippopolis, Bulgaria) was a painter of Lebanese and French descent. Wilcox moved to Paris in 1921, where she immersed herself in the city’s avant-garde circles, studying painting and befriending artists including Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. Initially supporting herself as a seamstress and textile designer, she later helped establish Elsa Schiaparelli’s Paris atelier. In 1938, she emigrated to New York, eventually settling in East Hampton, where her home became a celebrated gathering place for artists, writers, and critics. Her work blended Byzantine color, expressive gesture, and spiritual intensity, evolving from figurative painting into a dynamic Abstract Expressionist style shaped by friendships with artists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Despite losing most of her eyesight in 1972, Wilcox continued working in ink and exhibited at major venues including the Leo Castelli Gallery. Today, her work is recognized as a singular contribution to twentieth-century modernism. Collectors of Lucia’s work include Léger, Sara Murphy, Sidney Janis, Bertha Schaeffer, Dorothy Newman, John Graham, and Harold Rosenberg.