Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka is a Japanese - Canadian, queer artist who lives with bipolar condition, all of which sculpts her practice. She works primarily with paper, and uses printmaking, ink drawing, and natural dying combined with sewing. Her adaptations of traditions, in the form of sculpture, large-scale print installations and wearable sculptures, address contemporary questions of climate change, mental health, and survival. Recurring motifs related to landscape, fish, and bodies of water together speak about personal and collective experiences of struggle, resilience, connection, and radical joy. 

Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea is internationally renowned for his incisive site-specific approach. Created by engaging with the historical, cultural, ideological, and philosophical legacies of each location, his multidisciplinary works foster meaningful dialogues between architecture, cultural memory, and the public.

Born in Poland and based in Berlin, Alicja Kwade is recognized for her sculptures and installations that use simple materials in surprising ways, encouraging viewers to rethink their ideas of time, space and reality. Over the past years, she has increasingly worked in the public realm, creating vast installations that respond to the architecture and the natural phenomena of various sites.

Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe and French ancestry, originally from the Outaouais region, who lives and works in Mooniyang/Montreal.

With a deep interest in communicating Indigenous identity through complex cultural narratives, her artistic and cinematographic work grapples with colonialism’s impact, updating outdated systems with anishinaabeg methodologies. 

Dean Baldwin Lew gambols down many avenues of art production, prioritizing projects that cajole people into various forms of gathering. He is of Irish-Acadian-English-Scottish-Chinese ancestry and is the current generation of family restaurateurs going back a century. Having grown up in his mother's restaurant, he iterates on themes of hospitality, conviviality, performative still-life, and the structural discrepancies around which we pivot. He is represented by MKG127 in Toronto, Ontario where he was born. He lives in Montreal, Quebec and he also makes wine.

Hank Willis Thomas is a world-renowned American conceptual artist primarily working with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. Additionally, he is a founding member of the artist-led organization For Freedoms, lauded as the largest community for creative civic engagement in the United States.

Joana Vasconcelos is a Portuguese visual artist based in Lisbon and internationally recognized for her monumental sculptures and immersive installations. Through her work she decontextualizes everyday objects and updates the arts and crafts concept for the 21st century, establishing a dialogue between the private sphere and public space, popular heritage and high culture.

Kara Hamilton is an artist who works in a variety of mediums: sculpture, drawing in two and three dimensions, and jewelry. She explores the agency of material using mostly found or discarded matter. With a background in visual art, design, and architecture, Hamilton’s works live at the intersection of these disciplines, de-contextualizing materials and forms to create new narratives. 

Kent Monkman is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory, Manitoba, he lives and works between New York City and Toronto. Known for his thought-provoking interventions into Western European and American art history, Monkman explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences—across painting, film/video, performance, and installation.

Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary Ontario-based artist committed to exploring the collective nature of being, especially as it relates to human relationships with the environment. Spanning photography, sculpture, and installation in addition to social practices and writing, her recent works grapple with the alarming realities of climate change.

Monira Al Qadiri, born in Senegal and educated in Japan, is a Kuwaiti artist now living and working in Berlin. Spanning sculpture, installation, film and performance, Al Qadiri’s multifaceted practice is mainly based on research into the cultural histories of the Gulf region. Her interpretation of the Gulf’s “petro-culture” is manifested through speculative scenarios that take inspiration from science fiction, autobiography, traditional practices and pop culture, resulting in uncanny and subversive works.  

Nadia Belerique is an artist whose sculptural and photographic installations explore perception, intimacy, play and the shifting boundaries between images and objects. 

Oluseye is an interdisciplinary Nigerian - Canadian artist. Working with what he has termed “diasporic debris”, or artifacts and objects collected on his trans-Atlantic travels, Oluseye traces Blackness through its multifaceted migrations and manifestations across time and space.

Ryan Gander is an artist and professor living and working across Suffolk and London in the UK. Over the past two decades, Gander has established an international reputation through a vast and pluralistic body of artworks that materialize in many different forms, ranging from sculpture, apparel and writing to architecture, painting, typefaces, publications and performance. Through creative and associative thought processes that connect everyday life and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Gander’s work involves a questioning of language and knowledge, a reinvention of the modes of appearance and creation of an artwork. 

Tony Romano is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice transforms everyday materials into assemblages that explore memory, labor, and the intersections of craft and contemporary life.

Dame Tracey Emin is a British artist 

currently living and working between London, the South of France and Margate, UK. In 2011, Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and in 2012, was made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts.

Virginia Overton creates sculptures and installations by repurposing materials drawn from industrial, agricultural, and architectural contexts. Through decisive interventions, Overton recontextualizes these ordinary objects to reveal their intrinsic properties, shaped by repeated handling and the traces of their prior use.