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Pedro Hernández

Pedro Hernández was born in 1927 in Mexico City and studied at the Academia de San José, the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Fotografía “La Esmeralda”. Hernández has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 500 group […]

Aleska Nowak

Aleska Nowak (1948 – 1998) was a 20th-century painter, print maker, drawer and illustrator. She was born in Poland but spent a large part of her career in Britain and France. Nowak painted portraits and cityscapes throughout her career, but is best known as a animal illustrator, anatomist and creator […]

Bahir Ayad

Bahir Ayad (born 1979) is an Algeria-born French photographer, based in Paris. In 2020 Ayad won the Rudger Male Nude Prize. His work is held in the collection of the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris. Ayad was born in Baraki, Algeria. He moved with his family to France when […]

Adrian Makris

Adrian Makris is a Greek photographer born in Athens in 1985 He started taking photographs at 17 when a friend in France showed him a book of the work of Yunos Kemp, which had an impact that was both instant and lasting. In 2005, Makris started studying art in Athens […]

Helder Tavares

Helder Tavares (born 1959 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese visual artist who exhibits internationally, known for his melding of stamps and collage. He has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dia Center For The Arts, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Madrid’s Contemporary Art […]

Api Wooler

Api Wooler (born 1987) is a Indian-born American visual artist, known primarily for his painting, sculpture, film, and collage art. Born in India, he has lived and established his career in New York for more than twenty years. Wooler’s work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, […]

Hana Watanabe

Hana Watanabe (born in 1995 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist working in the genres portraiture, street photography, installation, and collage. In 2016, Watanabe was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award. Watanabe is a art lecturer at Waseda, Tokyo and Musashino Universities in Tokyo and a […]

Olivia Di Cesare

Olivia Di Cesare (December 12, 1948 – December 25, 2020) was an Italian abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postmodern Italian painting. Having exhibited her work for over four decades (early 1970s until 2020), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to […]

Rita Kinga

Rita Kinga (born 1968) is a Kenyan painter who lives and works in Paris, France. Her work explores sexuality, race and African tribes. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya, where she lived until the age of nine. From the age of nine to seventeen he lived in South Africa. At […]