Artist bios:
Elee Danny
Elee Danny is a Korean artist active across Korea, Europe, and the United States, and has participated in more than 50 exhibitions since 2024. Notable presentations include the Gustav Klimt Award (Austria, 2024); the Asia Contemporary Art Convention (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2024); Focus Art Fair London (Saatchi Gallery, 2025); and Salon International d’Art Contemporain (Louvre Museum, Paris, 2025). He is also the author of numerous publications on art.
He graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Hongik University, completed the Communication program at Carnegie Mellon University, and later completed studies at Harvard University. His academic career includes serving as an adjunct professor at Hongik University, professor at the College of Fine Arts at Keimyung University, and honorary dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the Korea University of Science and Technology. In 2016, he was awarded the Order of Industrial Service Merit by the Republic of Korea.
じょん Jon
Born in Osaka in 1970, Jon built a distinguished 30-year career as a graphic designer. In 2022, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that resulted in right-side paralysis and aphasia. In April 2025, he began a new artistic journey, creating a series of works featuring “winged cats.” His work reflects both the precision of his design background and a perspective shaped by his personal experiences, gaining recognition in Japan and internationally.
河津美希 MIKI KAWAZU
Miki Kawazu is a Japan-based spiritual healing artist and flower essence counselor with over 19 years of experience supporting more than 10,000 clients. Her paintings incorporate vibrational energy derived from flower essences she creates, with works that shift in appearance depending on light and viewing angle. Using symbolic imagery such as roses, her practice reflects themes of perception, inner experience, and emotional transformation. Alongside her visual work, she creates accompanying messages described as songs.
波多の明翠 Meisui Hatano
I am a contemporary calligrapher and a recipient of the prestigious Mainichi Award in Japan. In 2005, my signature character "Rakuchan" was born in an apartment in NYC, inspired by the city's energy. After a brief hiatus, I am returning to New York in 2026 to begin a new chapter in my creative work.
出月智子 Toko Idetsuki
Toko Idetsuki is an artist whose work has been recognized through multiple exhibitions and awards in Japan. Her practice is rooted in ongoing participation in national exhibitions, reflecting continued engagement with painting and competitive exhibition platforms.
橋本智子 tomoss.
Tomoss. is a Japanese illustrator whose work spans magazine illustration, fashion, and theater-related publications. Her practice focuses on visual storytelling through illustration, developed through both editorial and exhibition contexts.
安田圭伸 YASDA
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田畑住子 Sumiko TABATA
Born in Wakayama in 1946, Sumiko Tabata studied oil painting before developing a practice that includes doll-making and wood carving. Her work spans decades of exhibitions and teaching, with a later focus on sculptural practices including wood carving and chainsaw art. Her activities reflect continued exploration of material-based work and traditional craft techniques.
岡出武久 Takehisa TR okade
Born in Hokkaido in 1982, Takehisa Okade is an artist selected for the 2025 New York Open Call Exhibition (Autumn/Winter). His work is presented through participation in international exhibition platforms.
富永章子 FUDESHI Shontaro
FUDESHI Shontaro is an artist working in calligraphy, exploring visual expression through ink techniques such as gradation, dry brush, and ink bleeding. His work approaches calligraphy as a form of visual art, focusing on expressive possibilities within brush and ink. His background includes both artistic practice and professional experience related to craft and education.
幸田さちこ Sachiko Koda
Sachiko Koda is a Japanese artist and color specialist whose work centers on her original “Happy Color Mandala.” Using a pointillist technique developed through a meditative process, her work reflects an interest in color, pattern, and perception. Drawing inspiration from natural forms and traditional Japanese design, she also teaches her method alongside her artistic practice.
石松誓子 Seiko Ishimatsu
Seiko Ishimatsu is an artist working primarily in photography, focusing on details such as wall textures, rust, light, and reflections. Her work developed from using photography as reference material for painting, evolving into a primary practice. She captures visual elements shaped by time and environment, presenting them as subjects of observation.
Elisabetta Nitoglia
Elisabetta Nitoglia’s work explores the tension between inner experience and the external world. She is drawn to moments of quiet transformation, where memory, emotion, and environment intersect. Through layered textures and deliberate mark-making, she builds spaces that feel both familiar and unsettled, inviting viewers to slow down and look inward.
She uses her materials intuitively, allowing process to guide meaning. Each piece becomes a conversation between control and chance, reflecting how identity is shaped by both intention and circumstance. Light, color, and form act as emotional cues, suggesting movement, absence, or resilience.
Rather than offering fixed narratives, she creates open-ended works that ask questions. She wants viewers to find themselves within the work, bringing their own stories to complete it. Her art is an invitation to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what is often left unspoken.
Rachael Delaney
Rachael Delaney is interested in the intersection of art, education, and ecology, particularly in how art can serve as an entry point for engaging with complex social, environmental, and cultural conversations. As a visual form of documentation, art allows complexity to be encountered rather than decoded. When issues are made tangible through artworks, they move beyond information toward lived understanding, opening space for empathy, reflection, and dialogue. Her work takes shape through visual narratives that engage these conditions.
Chasey Wang
Chasey Wang is a visual artist working primarily in painting and mixed media. Her practice explores emotion, memory, and psychological states through abstraction, material experimentation, and spatial composition. By layering color, texture, and form, she investigates how internal experiences can be translated into visual language. Influenced by both fine art traditions and contemporary design thinking, her work often blurs the boundary between intuitive expression and structured systems. Wang’s recent projects focus on transformation, restraint, and the persistence of memory, inviting viewers to engage with subtle emotional tensions and personal narratives embedded within abstract forms.
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