WhIsBe
Contemporary artist WhIsBe has established a formidable reputation in both the renegade world of street art but also the mainstream art world encompassing the museum, gallery and arena of public installations. His moniker, shorthand for “What is Beauty, is at once innocuous and sweet and introduces more substantive themes of cultural examination and subversion that underline much of his body of work.

WhIsBe wanted to share his message with a broad spectrum of people, not only those who have access to museums and galleries, and began putting up self-sanctioned work in the street in 2011.

WhIsBe has partnered with charities and corporations ranging from the Art Works Charity Foundation to Charity Water to Red Bull to COACH and has exhibited work at notable events including: Art Basel, Context & Art Show, Scope Art Show, and Art Southampton.

Patrick Amadon
digital disobedient 🏴

Jack Kaido
Jack Kaido is a digital abstract painter whose art explores the abstract image through digitally-native works which reflect their medium and their time.

Emotions, memories, ideas and concepts are weaved with expressionism, minimalism, colour theory and the incorporation of the digital visual language the artist lives and interacts with, such as internet web pages and interfaces, search bars, apps, text, glitches, errors, gradients, composites, digital collage and pixelation.

Kaido's art is positioned within the emerging genre of fine art digital abstract painting and is minted on blockchain technology; cryptoart collected via cryptocurrency. The artist draws upon a wide range of influences, from the prehistoric cave painters to the Japanese woodblock artists, Impressionists, Cubists, the European and American Abstract Expressionists right through to contemporary crypto art.

In April 2023, Christie’s selected Kaido to feature in an exhibition and auction in New York, citing him as one of the artists at the forefront of digital art today who are influencing the future of the medium.

Kaido's paintings have been shown worldwide, reside in private collections internationally and are owned by some of the world’s foremost cryptoart collectors.

Botto
Botto is a decentralized autonomous artist, creating works of art based on collective feedback from the community. Botto’s art engine has been trained on millions of images, more than any one human has ever seen. From that latent space it creates over 4000 unique images every week, all untouched by human hands.

Each week, Botto presents 350 promising pieces for consideration by the DAO. These are not yet considered final artworks, they are “fragments” as they are still unproven. The community tells Botto what it considers art, and Botto perpetually evolves its generative algorithms from the feedback.

The most popular fragment is minted as a final artwork on Ethereum and sold at auction. Botto’s proceeds are managed by the DAO to pay for the artist’s management, its servers, and to reward the creative labor of the community.

Mikael Brandrup
Mikael B fully manages to transform impressions and experiences into an abstract design language that exudes energy and joy as he creates his conceptual works of art with spray and acrylic. As an urban contemporary artist, Mikael B has developed his own identity and special signature, deeply rooted in his early years as a graffiti artist. From the start, Mikael sought to depart from the traditional ways; he has his own, unmistakable style, which he is eager to share with the outside world. His life unfolds on the basis of an awareness of being present and acting in the present.

The works are attractive and open to interpretation. It is art that we step into and experience with our entire body. A universe where everything can happen – a mindset that also permeates Mikael B’s life. He juxtaposes and challenges art historical references from Baroque to Cubism, expressed in utterly contemporary fashion with spray paint.

Raised on Tuse Næs, west of Copenhagen, Mikael already exhibited a strong need to express himself visually as a child. It all started with his notebook drawings during school hours; his parents immediately acknowledged the need and allowed him to paint with spray cans on large wooden boards in the family’s backyard. As a teenager, Mikael quickly became part of Copenhagen’s graffiti environment in Sydhavnen, where he painted several hundred walls in a few years.

Taking up a graphic designer course seemed only natural given his passion for creating colors and shapes. However, the desire for independence was so great that he left his internship colleagues halfway through training to found IDentity Provided, a design agency with his twin brother and later manager, Morten.

Still, Mikael never abandoned his artistic dreams, which a single work turned suddenly real. Mikael created his own world map when he couldn’t find one that lived up to his expectations. “Vibrant World” was the title of what was the start of his meteoric career. Friends and acquaintances sought copies, and over a million views of a Facebook photo that went viral confirmed the artist’s career bet. The brothers sold the agency and Mikael moved to Los Angeles to live the dream. Mikael B the artist became a solid reality.

His agenda was bursting with wall projects for international companies such as LinkedIn, Google, Nike and American Express. Brands such as Mercedes, Chase and The Black Eyed Peas have had the pleasure to work with Mikael. One after another and several group exhibitions led to the first solo exhibitions on Danish soil (Just Be, 2016) and American soil (Reality Shift, 2017). Mikael B has been attending one of the world’s leading art fairs for several consecutive years; Art Basel, Miami, incl. a solo exhibition at SLS Hotel in collaboration with the charity Lonely Whale in 2017.

He has always had a desire to give back and use his art to make a difference. For this reason, the artist founded the Mikael B Foundation in 2017, where all charity projects come together. It started with a school in Cambodia but has since spread to projects in favor of saving the world seas, planting trees to reduce CO2 in collaboration with The Perfect World Foundation and, last but not least, he is an ambassador for the Red Cross

Michael Hafftka
Michael Hafftka is an American figurative expressionist painter living in New York City. His work is represented in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, New York Public Library, McNay Art Museum, Housatonic Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Yeshiva University Museum.

Hafftka was born in Manhattan (1953) to Eva and Simon Hafftka, European refugees and Holocaust survivors. He was raised in the Bronx and attended public schools. Hafftka designed covers for Urizen Books, including Detour, Wedding Feast and Circuits, by Michael Brodsky. Kevin Begos of Guignol Books published Hafftka's drawings in 1982. His first one-person show was at Art Galaxy. Among the New York galleries that subsequently have featured his work are: the Rosa Esman Gallery, the Aberbach Gallery, the Mary Ryan Gallery, and the DiLaurenti Gallery. He has also exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. The Housatonic Museum of Art mounted a retrospective in October 2004.Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History in New York held a solo exhibition I of the Storm, a major show of recent works, March through August 2009.a

P1AbyPIA
PIA is an artist who studied both post-conceptual art, stage and costume design, and puppetry. She's been in the world of art since high school, now she combines her artistic journey and profession of storytelling with the concept she created...

Dave Pollot
Dave Pollot is NY based artist and former software engineer known for his seamless addition of contemporary life/pop culture icons into traditional backgrounds (most often using oil paints and found/thrifted paintings). What initially began as a joke between him and his wife in 2012 quickly became a desire to answer a question: Could he change the meaning of an unwanted piece of artwork without drastically altering its aesthetic and make it wanted again? Since that time he’s completed hundreds of paintings and his work has been displayed and found in homes, galleries, businesses, and private collections in all 50 states and in over 40 countries around the world. His work has attracted attention from the media both in the U.S. and abroad, including Business Insider, Instagram, Hypebeast, HiFructose, the SyFy Channel, and more. His corporate clients include SONY, Instagram, McDonalds, New Balance and others.

ADHD
ADHD, an artistic alias for Colin Frangicetto, born in 1981 in Abington, Pennsylvania, is a versatile multidisciplinary artist who seamlessly navigates both analog and digital realms. His creative spectrum spans painting, collage, photography, drawing, printmaking, assemblage, installation, and music.

ADHD's diverse artistic vocabulary includes abstraction, mixed media collage, expressive figuration, zines, graphic design, found objects, and post-graffiti mark-making. This eclectic mix converges into a visually captivating body of work tightly bound by conceptual and emotional threads.
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Common themes in ADHD's art explore interpersonal communication, mental health, neurodivergence, the artist's journey, humanity's relationship with technology (especially the internet), and the concept of time. With over two decades of creative exploration, Frangicetto transitioned from a full-time touring musician to a visual artist, earning a global presence with his work featured in collections worldwide.

Parin Heidari
I use a single line with simple elements and colours to convey my own visualisation of the deepest

emotions we humans can feel and to make the complex problems simple.
The minimalist nature of a ‘one-line’ drawing requires a lot of precision and is a perfectionist's nightmare. Every element has its own place and intrinsic visual authority within the image.

Crafting a ‘one-line’ drawing is a visually rich and rather complex experience. It’s a process that can be painful sometimes though as I have to ultimately give something away that’s so close to my heart.

Kyle Austin Dunn
My work explores biases. I think the cognitive shortcuts we use in everyday decision making are overlooked and underestimated, and that the psychology of perception has clues for exploring and challenging preconceptions, many of which are questionable.

Jake Andrew
A multidisciplinary artist and experimental musician with synaesthesia, Jake-Andrew's practice sits at the intersection of physical and digital art; centred around the way the mind can perceive audio or emotional stimulus as colour, texture, shape and movement. 
 
​We all have a relationship with colour and sound and his work exists as an expressive, physical performance that allows him to create projected installation environments and immersive experiences; either on screen or in situ. 

Gina Choy
Gina Choy (aka Georgina Hooper) is an Australian artist living in Gubbi Gubbi Country working in a fusion of traditional art media and processes as well as traversing the cutting edge of technology with AI.

To Choy, art is a form of philosophy and science in which she seeks to better understand the seen and unseen energies around and within us.

Gina majored in painting in her Bachelor of Fine Art with Griffith University in 1999. She was the recipient of a research scholarship from the University of Queensland in which she studied traditional Chinese painting at the University of Tianjin, China (2010). Choy has been an artist in residence at Toa-Bou studio in Nakaoyama (2013), Japan; Kouraku Gama, Arita Japan (2013); Sanboa Ceramic Institute (2013) and The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China (2013). Her work is in private collections across the world and also part of a 100 year ceiling installation in a Buddhist temple in Hasami, Japan (2014). Gina was awarded First Class Honours in Art and Design from the University of Canberra (2017) and is now in her final year of her PhD in Art and Neuroscience with the University of Queensland.

Hooper has had a rich exhibition history and has artwork in private collections in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. Her NFTs have been exhibited internationally for NFT LIVERPOOL (2021), MONOLITH x QUANTUM NFT (2022) NFTNYC (2023), OBSCURA NFT BALI (2023), BLOOM x MakersPlace NFC LISBON (2023).