Piya Wanthiang

Apichaya Wanthiang (b. 1987, Bangkok, Thailand) holds a BFA from Sint-Lukas Brussel (2009) and an MFA in Fine Arts from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2012). Wanthiang constructs environments in order to explore how they influence our perceptions, behaviours and interactions. She often works with painterly installations and architecture/scenography. She has exhibited widely in Norway and currently works as an assistant professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.

Image 1: Driftwood and Ghost Hunters, 2018. Landsforeningen Norske Malere, Oslo, Norway. 182cm x 321cm; canvas, acrylics, nails, wood, concrete

Image 2: While The Light Eats Away at the Colors, 2017. Stiftelsen 3,14 Bergen, Norway. Installation view: a painterly installation consisting of 8 large paintings. Measurements variable; canvas, acrylics, wood, nails

Image 3: Driftwood and Ghost Hunters, 2018. Landsforeningen Norske Malere, Oslo, Norway. Installation view and detail; canvas, acrylics, wood, concrete

Image 4: Evil Spirits Only Travel in Straight Lines, 2018. UKS (Young Artists’ Society), Oslo, Norway. Installation view showing entrance corridor, heated clay sculpture, alternating ‘breathing’ led cycles, heated clay scuptures and Spirit Festical and Mayflies video. Measurements variable; wood, drywall, foam, clay, textile, projection, heating cables

Michele Tocca

Rooted in a lineage of painters of phenomena and things, itinerant sketchers and landscapists, Michele Tocca’s depictions elicit questions on the direct relationship between painting and the physical world with all the paradoxes implied in sur-le-vif perceptive, ruminative and imaginative dynamics.

Born in 1983 (Subiaco, Rome), Tocca is based in Rome, Italy. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and independent spaces, among which: 1/9unosunove gallery, Rome (2018); Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese (2018); Francesco Pantaleone Gallery, Palermo (2015); Musei di Villa Torlonia, Rome (2015); Fuoricampo Gallery, Siena-Bruxelles (2015-2014); FLAG ART Foundation, New York (2014); Studiolo Project, Milan (2014); Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania Pallanza, (2013); MARCA, Catanzaro (2011); CIAC, Genazzano, Rome (2010); the Moscow Biennale, Moscow (2010); the Prague Biennale, Prague (2009); Otto Zoo Gallery Milan (2008).

Image 1: In Lorenzetti's (the turret under storm), 2014, oil on canvas, 40x35 cm

Image 2: De Valenciennes's Pollen, 2017, oil on canvas, 100x85 cm.Photo: Sebastiano Luciano

Image 3: Early dripping (Pastificio Cerere), 2018, oil on canvas, 71x65 cm. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano

Image 4: Belvedere (Lojacono through sunglasses), 2018, oil on canvas, 45x20 cm. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano

Hanna Sjöstrand

Hanna Sjöstrand is an artist born in Karlskoga, Sweden in 1978, now living in Oslo. She works within the field of painting with a complementary praxis in performance, theatre and film. Her work often combines an understanding of Chinese philosophy accumulated through years of internal martial art training with contemporary western discourse. This manifests in a painting praxis where traditional materials and expressions are brought into conceptual processes in order to investigate metaphysical framing of reality. 

She holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy since 2009 and has just received a two year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden. She also received a one year working grant from Konstärsnämnden in 2014. In 2013 she received the Ellen Trotzig grant. Recent public events include: 2019: Mellan dig och mig, Ystad konstmuseum. 2018: PaintedGalleri Gerlesborg, Gudenes FeltLNM Oslo, The Field, Elastic Gallery Stockholm. 2017:Time med et tre, Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, The Encounter of Bodies, Ystad Konstmuseum, Arne Næss- Gjenuppstandelsen - the Ecosofi F sect,Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, Bli Arne Næss, KHIO, Oslo. Sjöstrandis represented in a number of private collections. Her work is also represented at Malmö Museum and Statens kulturråd. In 2017 she is working as a head teacher at Gerlesborgsskolan i Bohuslän. 

Hanneline Røgeberg

Hanneline Røgeberg is a painter born in Oslo, Norway and holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale. Her work has been featured in group and solo exhibits in institutions such as the Whitney Museum; the MIT List Center; the Aldrich Museum; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; the Inside-Out Art Museum Beijing, China; the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, and Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in Norway. Recent and upcoming solo exhibits include Thomas Erben Gallery, New York and Galleri Riis in Oslo.

She has received an Ingram-Merrill award, a WESTAF/NEA grant, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Anonymous-Was-A-Woman award and an OCA grant, in addition to numerous residencies.

She is a professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and has previously held positions at Cooper Union, University of Washington and Yale University. She was a visiting artist at Skowhegan in 2009, and is a graduate critic at Yale School of Art in the spring of 2019.

She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Oslo, Norway.

Image 1: ‘National Sins: The hole’, 2014

Image 2: Installation shots from ‘Off the Bone’ solo exhibit at Blackston gallery, 2015

Image 3: ‘Rebound Extrovert’, 2013

Image 4: ‘Rebound Introvert’, 2013

Matthew Musgrave

Matthew Musgrave (b. 1985 UK) lives and works in London, is interested in a kind of thinking through painting, how painting has a tendency to figure and to abstract, how it meanders and wanders, continually merges the past into the present on and on. Things often begin with something close to hand, a chair, limb, some grass or foliage, a tree, window, weather, something seen or remembered, moving paint around until something begins to make some sort of sense.

He studied painting at the Royal College of Art (2011) and Chelsea College of Art (2008). Exhibitions include: The Value of Liveliness, White Crypt, London (2018); Pink Density, Clovis XV, Brussels (2016), Only with a light touch will you write well, freely and fast, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2015) & Supplement, London (2016); All the best/yours sincerely, Galeria Alegria, Madrid (2016); To Paint a Line, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo (2015); Around, Supplement, London, (2014); Head to Head, Standpoint, London (2014); Paintings, Supplement, London (2012); The Milkplus Bar, Josh Liley Gallery, London, (2010); The Library of Babel, Zabludowicz Collection, London, (2010); Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Gallery, London (2009).

Image 1: 'Setting Out', 2016, Oil on linen, 40.5x35.5cm

Image 2: 'The Eyes Have It' installation shot, 2016, 53 Beck Road, London

Image 3: 'Of a Bush', 2012, Oil on linen, 25x20cm

Image 4: 'Around' installation shot, 2014, Supplement Gallery, London

Patrick McElnea

Patrick McElnea (b. 1981) is based in Los Angeles, California. His work uses pigment, pixilation, and phrasing to visualize imaginations that underpin culture. Recent photographs forage through fantasies of selfhood, inheritance, and flesh. Pictures are made in pairs; the same scene fabricated in different materials, like short stories told in separate languages. McElnea’s video projects similarly explore how images are collaboratively made or misinterpreted under institutional care such as preventative medicine, primary education, and art therapy. He has had solo exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects in New York, and Daniel Weinburg Gallery in Los Angeles. He earned his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2008 and his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2004.

Image 1: Alone In the Vault, 13 x 22.5 inches, archival pigment print, 2019
Image 2: Older Brother, 19 x 26.5 inches, archival pigment print, 2018
Image 3: His Brother, 25 x 36 inches, archival pigment print, 2018

Image 4: Translantic, 63 x 95 inches, archival pigment print, 2018

Image 5: Jan's Shorts, 15 x 21.5 inches, archival pigment print, 2018

Tina Kryhlmann

Tina Kryhlmann (b 1986, Oslo) completed her MFA in Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy 2017. Working in an extended field of practises, varying from text, scuplture, installation, video and artist books, she uses painting as a pivot point and vantage point, to question the role of the self.

Robert Holyhead

Robert Holyhead studied Fine Art at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, between 1993 and 96, and at the Chelsea School of Art and Design between 1996 and 97.

Solo exhibitions include shows at Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, in 2016; PARTS Project, The Hague, in 2016; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, in 2014; PEER, London, in 2012; and Karsten Schubert, London, in 2009, 2010 and 2012. He was a recipient of the five-year ACME Fire Station live/work residency (2005) and in 2009/10 he was commissioned by the Government Art Collection to produce two site-specific works for the new British Embassy in Brussels. In July 2018, he completed a residency at SoART in Austria. He is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin and Paris. In 2018, he was selected for one of the Art Foundation’s 20th Anniversary awards. Public collections holding his work include the UK Arts Council Collection, the UK Government Art Collection, Tate and the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Recent writing projects include What is Seen: a catalogue essay published by Tate for Patrick Heron’s retrospective at Tate St Ives.

Robert Bordo

Robert Bordo makes thematic paintings that integrate a notion of formalism with a range of personal and theoretical narratives. Since the mid-1980s, his work has been exhibited extensively and internationally in solo and group exhibitions.

Highlights include shows at the National Exemplar Gallery, Bortolami Gallery, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, MoMA PS1 and the Brooklyn Museum (all New York); The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, Mummery + Schnelle, London, the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, and Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Collections in which his work features include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE. Awards and fellowships he has received include the 2014 Robert de Niro Sr. Painting Prize, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Canada Council Arts Grant, the Tesuque Foundation Arts Fellowship Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Ballinglen Fellowship, a Hermitage Retreat Fellowship and a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has designed sets, costumes and posters for the Mark Morris Dance Company, including designs for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2017 revival of Dido and Aeneas. As Associate Professor of Art he led the Cooper Union’s painting program from 1996 until 2017. He lives and works in Columbia County and Brooklyn, NY.

Sarah Pettitt

Sarah Pettitt (b.1978, UK) is an artist based in London and New York. Her work interrogates painting’s history, materiality and presentation, embracing process-orientated methods to construct surfaces which seek to evoke empathy. Her research includes examining pre-modern artistic modalities, and the notion of the absent body, to explore non-visual representations of pain. Recent works attempt to fuse the environment and body as a sites of silent anguish.

She has exhibited across the UK, Europe and the USA. In 2013 she was awarded the Clare Winsten Memorial Award and in 2016 was invited to be Honorary Materials Research Associate at the Slade in conjunction with University College London on a research project The Tyranny of Surface. In 2018 she co-curated a special project with Norte Maar at the artist-led art fair SPRING / BREAK, New York. She holds an MA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Art (2013) and BA in Fine Art Painting from Norwich School of Art (2000).