Taipei-based British artist Felix Treadwell (b.1992, Maidstone, UK) depicts fictional characters performing everyday actions. Drawing from childhood’s memories, fashion, sci-fi movies and comics, Treadwell explores the implications of internet culture on young generations, and the way it has reshaped the interactions between the East and West. ​
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Combining airbrush and traditional brush, Treadwell’s paintings appear as an encyclopaedia of behaviours and styles in contemporary society, imbued in a veil of imagination and nostalgia.​
“I guess, with my works, it has always been about going back to my childhood or youth and looking at longing for something I wish or want to have, or looking at how nostalgia affects you” Felix Treadwell, Juxtapoz, 2021.​

Lam Tung Pang (b. 1978, Hong Kong)’s artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, performance, video, and installation. Assembling traditional iconography and found objects, Lam creates layered allegorical landscapes that engage themes of history, memory, and time. These works capture the nuanced emotions that seep out from beneath the weight of drastic socio-political change.

Lam received his BFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his MFA from Central Saint Martins in London. He is the recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2012. Lam currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Michael Müller (b. 1970, Germany) is an artist with a German-Indian background, whose manifold, proliferating oeuvre cannot be ascribed to any one-way interpretation. He continuously broadens the methods of his artistic expression, combining works on paper with painting, text-based work, sculpture, found objects, music, and performance. Müller studied sculpting and fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Magdalena Jetelová. From 2015 to 2018, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2018, he was nominated for the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen. Müller lives and works in Berlin.

In the second half of 2022, Müller will have two museum solo exhibitions in Germany, at Frankfurt’s Städel Museum and Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg.

Adia Millett (b. 1975, USA) is acclaimed for her deep exploration of basic configurations, diverse expressive practices, and experimentation with mediums. Trained in the fine arts, art history, and the postmodernist theories of cultural studies, Millett conveys her felt concerns in the discourses of the domestic, the public sphere, gender positions, and spirituality through the interdependent form and content of the abstract compositions of her works. Millett received a BFA from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. In 2001, she moved to New York for the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, followed by a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, exhibiting in high-profile group shows at MoMA PS1 and Studio Museum, among others.

Born in Beijing, China in 1985, Wang Jiajia has received a BA Honours Degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art& Design in 2008, and currently lives and works in Beijing.

Like many of his generation, Wang was eclipsed with the populization of the television, the advent of the Internet, and the ubiquity of pop culture. His paintings draw elements from both art history and pop culture, blending them into a vivid and playful language.

Using mundane, everyday ready-made materials such as hula-hoops, shampoo bottles and scarfs, Kengo Kito (b. 1977) incorporates effects of color, reflections by mirror and glitter, and motorized spinning and circulation, across various media from photographs, paintings, and sculptures, to large-scale installations. Kito’s work evokes our contemporary sense of artificial colors, proliferation of organic life and expansion of the universe.

Yuichi Hirako, born in 1982 in Okayama Prefecture and now working primarily in Tokyo, has been producing art for which themes include the uncertainty and questions raised by coexistence between humans and the natural world. He intentionally portrays a vague representation of the boundaries between the internal (human society) and the external (the natural world), such as a human with a plant head or the inside of a room filled with overgrowing plants. A situation in which people and man-made objects coexist at the same level with nature could be a utopian world or a chaotic one.

The uniqueness in Shih Yung Chun’s works is the sense of vicissitudes of the fleeting time. Shih Yung Chun not only skillfully lays out three-dimensional spatiality in a two-dimensional space; further, by using techniques of abrasion, mosaic, color-gradation and rubbing, he creates an association to fourth-dimensional space. From his unique perspectives, Shih Yung Chun expresses “life” in various quirky and grotesque ways. “Painting” is his exit for fleeing from reality. Here, he is able to rationalize every fantasy and fictional creation. The thrilling plots hidden under ordinary materials in his works are more like the mystifying tricks in horror movies, and are more deviant than from the surrealists’ dreams.

Yeh Shih-Chiang was born in 1926 in Guangdong Province, China, and died in Taipei in 2012. He was among the last class of students at the Guangzhou Municipal Junior Art College under the directorship of the illustrious ink painter Gao Jianfu. He settled in Taiwan in 1949 after first visiting the island as an art student from Guangzhou. This was a time when many Taiwanese artists were coming into contact with Western Post-War modernism, which inspired them to embark on an intensive period of experimentation, seeking a new language of Chinese ‘modernism’ with ink painting as its basis. Ultimately he found his solution in a return to the pure and eternal realm of art, taking elements he found compelling from both modern and traditional languages as he developed his own painting practice.

Born in 1952, the world-renowned American sculptor Rona Pondick received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1977. Exhibiting for over 35 years, her work has been collected by more than 50 institutions worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Centre Pompidou. Pondick has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and grants. In 2013, working in pigmented resin, acrylic, and modeling compound, Pondick began a series of sculptures that were inspired by Kafka, mythology, and ancient art, centering on her personal experience of the fragility of the body. Pondick’s extraordinary craftsmanship perfectly merges different media, while leaving visible and expressive traces of hand sculpting.