Founders
Yin Lau (Hong Kong) explores the intricate experience of being human through the body. His creative process is a journey into the inner world while connecting to other dimensions with an interdisciplinary approach combining painting, installation, and performance. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2003 and has participated in numerous art exhibitions and performances around the world. From 2008-2022, He created and directed the alternative art space W Studio in Hong Kong. Since then he has been creating art and performance projects accross Latin America. Recent work includes collaborative performances at the Memory and Human Rights Museum and the Benjamin Vicuna MacKenna Museum in Santiago, Chile, Casa Darte in Cusco, Peru, and KRUDO in Bogota, Colombia.
Yin Lau
Anik Kurkjian is a site-responsive multi-discplinary artist whose work begins with listening. She creates inuitive sculptural installations and experiences that merge fibre traditions in non-traditional ways with found objects, storytelling, and light. Her practice explores identity, belonging, and the liminal through place, interconnected systems, and the quiet stories held by land and people. Trained in textile design and theater production, Kurkjian works with materials and environments as carriers of
meaning. Drawing on a background in cultural production, placemaking, and community led design, her projects span socially engaged, multi-venue and public art installations that collaborate with local communities. Her work engages cultural and social identity through material, space and shared experience. Her projects have formed around travel and are shaped by local history, tradition, stories, and land accross Europe, the U.S. and South America.
Anik Kurkjian
Rick Gradone is a queer, 55-year-old artist working in New York in the areas of painting, sculpture, fiber arts, costume, theater, and social practice. He holds a B.A. in Art History from Fairfield University in which he studied painting independently with Peter Michael Gish. Functioning at the intersection of geology and religion, his work imagines a new inclusive religion with the earth as its central figure. In collaboration with Jen DeMartino he created and performed as HI FASHION, a queer art band that produced music, conceived videos, and played queer music festivals and Gay Prides internationally in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Sydney. He has done residencies in California, Serbia, Chile, Colombia, and Sweden. He has been profiled on Art Attitude for Humboldt Hot Air and his work has been featured in Marie Claire Maison, Residence Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Medium.
Rick Gradone
