Born in Shiga Prefecture in 1980, he started using the artist name Otani Workshop in 2005. Currently based in Shiga Prefecture town of Shigaraki, the artist works with wood, iron, and other materials in addition to ceramics. Otani’s works maintain the rough texture of course-grained clay, which, together with their cute appearances, give them their distinct air as sculptures. He participated in the group shows curated by Takashi Murakami and held at Blum & Poe’s Los Angels and New York galleries in 2015 and 2016, respectively. In his solo show with Kaikai Kiki Gallery in 2016 titled “When I Was Seventeen, I Learned About Giacometti from My Art Teacher and Became Drawn to Sculpture—and So I Make Sculptures Now,” the artist explored the relationship between ceramics and sculpture.

Born in Osaka in 1974 and relocated to New Jersey at a young age, MADSAKI graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York (BFA, 1996) and was a member of international artist group Barnstormers before starting his solo career. Both satirical and sentimental, aggressive yet vulnerable, MADSAKI has used graffiti influences as a way to express the frustration and alienation of his bicultural identity and to critique the value of art.

Born 1975 in Taipei, Taiwan, Tang Jo-Hung currently lives and works in Taipei. He graduated with BA. from Department of Fine Arts, Tunghai University in 1998. In 2002, he received his MFA. from University of Salamanca in Spain (Máster del Arte de la Universidad de Salamanca), and was granted the prestigious Premio San Marco premiere award in the same year. He received the first prize at the 22nd Kaohsiung Awards in 2005, Liao Chi-Chun Oil Painting Award in 2008, and the First Prize of Taipei Arts Awards in 2016. Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts held a solo exhibition for Tang in 2018, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum is to host Tang’s solo exhibition Old Man·Fairy·And A Bit Of Everything in 2019.

1981 Born in Baoji
2005 Graduated from Oil Painting Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in and received Bachelor Degree
Now Works and lives in Beijing

He uses images and memories to understand the relationship between the world and him through painting.The architecture of space has been transformed into the way of memory existence, a state of multi-dimensional overlapping and interlacing. Through these constructions, the work captures the psychological state of society: the aliena-tion between people, the uneasiness of the future and the sympathy for the family, which drive our generations into the depth of helplessness.

Rao Fu (China / Germany) was born in 1978 in Beijing, P.R. China, and lives and works in Dresden and Leipzig, Germany. His works explore the differences and similarities between Western and Eastern cultures. The relationship and status among the figures in Rao Fu’s paintings reflect his personal interaction with them. Each frame comes from a memory fragment or the experience for a certain period of time, his feelings upon it, and his thoughts on the present and social phenomena. All drive him to create, to visualize the emotions on this certain canvas. As the artist says: ” I am honest and always want to infuse souls into each character or object while painting, so they would be alive in my story. That’s my never-ending journey.”

Tohru Matsushita is an artist born in 1984, and known as the director of SIDE CORE, which is co-founded with Sakie Takasu in 2012 (Taishi Nishihiro join in 2016). He is an artist and a director (or producer). It seems that he is engaged in two (or three) different occupations. However, the same person, Matsushita, is engaged in those activities. The only difference is the media he applies. Sometimes, Matsushita works on a canvas, other times on a city, or even on the phenomenon itself.

Keeenue was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture in 1992. She has been working on various activities both in Japan and abroad such as creating murals, presenting paintings, and providing artworks. Keeenue’s work is both figurative and abstract, triggering the viewer’s imagination and giving them a sense of their own perception. She has been involved in numerous collaborations with Nike, Facebook, SHAKE SHACK, and ABC-MART.

BIEN, born in Tokyo in 1993 and currently based in this city, has been creating abstract paintings and installations based on his unique drawing style influenced by street culture, animation, and toy figures. The artist attempts to deconstruct and reconstruct symbolic meanings by tracing the shapes of human-made letters, symbols, manga and anime characters portrayed through dynamic lines, while inheriting and sublimating the various modes of expression of street and animation culture.

Zhao Zhao, born in Xinjiang, 1982. Now he works and lives in Beijing and Los Angeles.

Zhao Zhao uses a variety of media to transform realistic subject matters and artistic forms, focusing on the relation between individual consciousness and social sphere in which he lives. In the global context, the combination of contemporary expression and traditional culture in his works is a metaphor for people’s living conditions and their real state in today’s society. Tradition to the artist is the thing that cannot be abandoned. In contemporary form of creation, the full spirit of traditional aesthetics can still be seen, so that we can always find a profound understanding of traditional cultural aesthetics in Zhao Zhao’s works.

Lai Chiu-Chen, born in Jiufen Taiwan, 1970.

Lai’s works carry a whiff of pop art. Though western pop culture and the aesthetics of Japanese animation seem to appear frequently in his works, underneath the surface of his cartoon-like images is actually a constant painting proposition —simulation and reproduction. The spiritual expression of oriental culture is hidden in the layers and layers of the images. The artist dissolves, integrates and outputs the fragmented symbols, images, and memories he has collected. The layer after layer of colors on the canvas and the artistry embedded within the evenly spread interior and the border silhouette express a flat and cold feeling but also a solid and rich material transformation, presenting the artist’s personal narrative logic and worldview.