Zuhoor Al Sayegh graduated with a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 and participated in a residency program at the Textile Art Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 2019–20. She is an interdisciplinary artist and Assistant Curator at the Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi. She is inspired by movement and stories, and her research revolves around indigenous textile practices and the decolonization of her own craft, which she explores through her work in fiber, sculpture, and mixed media. Al Sayegh has exhibited at the Acre Projects space in Chicago; the Jameel Art...
Eleni Maria Berg is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist working primarily with painting and ceramic sculpture. Eleni’s personal identity as someone born in the Bay Area by a family of immigrants from both Central and South America influences her work in every aspect. Our relationship to nature and animals, the erasure of indigenous culture and practices for self preservation, and the “culture” of mass consumption and waste many of us have now due to imperialism are all themes Eleni wants to discuss. Identifying herself as a product of Eurocentrism by exploring her Mestizo ancestry is...
Gian Campos is an artist, graphic designer, and educator from Los Angeles, CA. Their practice centers collage as a visual discipline, research strategy, theoretical framework, and a metaphorical motivation for building solidarity. In their previous body of work, Dungeon Flower, they collected the traces and ephemera from sites of queer gathering—screenshots of (now deleted) porn from tumblr, condom wrappers, out-of-print magazines, and 'trash' transmuting them into dense, over saturated technicolor compositions. The poetic ethos of this body of work approximated their...
Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan (she/they) is a first generation Chinese Malaysian artist, writer, and educator from the American South living in California. Her work examines the material memory of the landscape and the excluded histories of the Asian American diaspora. She researches the political, historical, and environmental heritage of the landscape and its material elements and organisms incorporating their properties into her processes. She is interested in the relationships between themes of migration, labor, trade, and reciprocity with the natural world, challenging ideals of extractive...
Priyanka D'Souza/ Pinka PopsicKle is a visual artist, writer, and poet from Mumbai, India. In her academic and artistic practice, she works with crip time and protest in ecological reimaginings, Mughal miniatures, early modern natural history, and the concept of the ajai'b (wondrous/strange), particularly in imaginings of borderlands of nation-empires and as applied to anomalous bodies.
She is one half of the artist duo, Resting Museum, with Shreyasi Pathak. Resting Museum uses rest, queerness and disability as methodology in its art practice and curatorial...
Arianna Khmelniuk (Ukraine, 1987) is a Bay Area experimental artist. She is the creator of the artistic ventures Zapah Lab and Olfactory Playground, both of which focus on artistic research and aim to further the creative and theoretical use of smells in an art context. Her artistic investigations span topics such as art and reality perception, space and time, grief, and notions of knowledge, interpreted through the sense of smell, performance, and installation.
She has shown her work in a duo exhibition "Phantoms and Soft Time" at Swan Coach House Gallery with Wihro Kim, curated by...
Viviana Martinez is a transdisciplinary and research based artist born and raised in Mexico and currently based in the Bay Area. Her work is located at the intersection of multimedia installation and photography. In her work she challenges traditional narratives and conventions of cultural uprooting, normative femininity, memory and grief.
Swaleha Masude is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work delves into the moments that reveal the essence of our existence as individuals in relation to the world, with a focus on the experiences of Muslim women in the West. She holds degrees in Human-Computer Interaction and Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington.
Swaleha has served as a teaching artist in various mediums at K-12 and Community College students, where she empowers youth through self-expression and fearless exploration. She is also the co-founder of Dou Number Club, a collective...
Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán is a disabled, first-generation Mexican-American painter and illustrator from South Berkeley, California. His art is a rich tapestry woven from the influences of Mexican artists, revolutionaries, and icons, blending the realistic colonial Mexican Spanish caste paintings with the flat, evocative aesthetics of Aztec pre-Columbian art. This unique fusion vividly represents his Mestizo identity.
Drawing from moments of his life, Muñoz-Guzmán incorporates recurring personal elements alongside Mesoamerican imagery and diverse environments he has inhabited. His...
Jasmine Nyende is an artist and musician from Los Angeles, CA. Her work explores how patterning in punk, astrology, poetry and craft can become healing collaborative modalities in our communities. She is an astrologer rooted in the planet Saturn’s legacy told through African American culture, lead vocalist for the Black queer punk band FUCK U PAY US! and has a textile practice creating assemblage art from repurposed and recycled materials.
