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ARTIST BIOS

Adam De Boer graduated with a BA in Painting from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2006) and an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art, London (2012). Recent exhibitions include Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2024,2022); The Pit, Los Angeles (2023); Gajah Gallery, Jakarta and Singapore (2023,2022); Ben Brown Fine Arts, London and Hong Kong (2022); The Hole, New York and Los Angeles (2023,2022); Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles (2020,2018); World Trade Centre, Jakarta (2018); and Art|Jog, Yogyakarta (2018,2015).

De Boer is currently a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellow and in 2017 was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Java, Indonesia. Other grants include those from the University of the Arts, London + Arts for India, The Cultural Development Corporation, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and The Santa Barbara Arts Fund.

For over a decade de Boer has travelled throughout Indonesia to investigate his Eurasian heritage. His recent work employs imagery and traditional crafts from the region as a way to connect his artistic practice with those of his distant cultural forebears. He currently lives in Los Angeles.


Ahsan Javaid (b. 1992) graduated in Fine Arts (Painting) from National College of Arts, Lahore in 2015. He is a resident artist at studio RM and teaches drawing as well. Ahsan has also been awarded with Arjumand Painting award 2021. He has been exhibiting his work in various shows around Pakistan, most recently Sanat Initiative in Karachi. Javaid lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.

Aiza Ahmed (b. 1997) is an interdisciplinary Pakistani artist who works with painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Ahmed is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Class of 2024) and received her BFA from Cornell University in 2020. She is the recipient of the RISD Fellowship, The Edith Stone and Walter King Memorial Prize and David R. Bean Prize. Ahmed has exhibited in solo and group shows including at Christie’s (New York), Aicon Gallery (New York), Franklin Parrasch Gallery (New York), NYC Culture Club (New York), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca, Cornell University, Rhode Island School of Design, VM Art Gallery (Karachi, Pakistan), Dominion Gallery (Lahore, Pakistan) and Little Lahore (restaurant in Dubai, UAE). She has also collaborated with Rastah, a luxury streetwear brand that aims to decontextualize South Asian heritage. Ahmed’s work is held with private art collectors internationally.

Allison Hueman: Oakland-based artist Allison Hueman creates dynamic paintings, murals, site-specific installations, and new media works that oscillate between abstraction and representation of the human form. Driven by instinct and experimentation, Hueman renders sublime and transcendent experiences by abstracting figures, layering and enveloping them in vivid colors with paint and textiles. Her practice draws from a constellation of art movements–from spontaneity in abstract expressionism and the ethereal quality of the Light and Space movement to the rich drama of the Baroque period. Renowned as a trailblazer in street art, Hueman blends these influences, exploring themes of liminality, memory, and healing. She has received prestigious large-scale projects throughout the US, such as those in the City of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nike, Golden State Warriors, Google, and Adobe. Hueman has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her work is part of several public and private collections, including the Bishop Museums, Lancaster, Ava Duvernay Array campus, and Swizz Beats private collection. Hueman received a BA at UCLA.

Amber Arifeen is a Pakistani – American visual and performance artist, born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her masters in painting from Wimbledon College of Arts in 2019. After completing her undergraduate studies from U.C Berkeley in 2011, she returned to Pakistan to work with an international women’s reproductive health organization, giving her exposure to the contrasting realities of women living in Pakistan, across different classes, and to the ties that bind them. Her feminist practice and interest in South Asian female subjectivity draws inspiration from philosophers she studied as an undergraduate at U.C Berkeley and her experiences of living abroad and in Pakistan. Arifeen has had five solo shows and several group shows in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Dubai, Paris, Berlin, and London. She will be debuting her work in the United States this year with Rajiv Contemporary in “Now Streaming” in Los Angeles. In October of 2021 Arifeen was invited to participate at Domus Residency - an eco-feminist residence located in Southern Italy. Amber was nominated and awarded the Nigah Art Award for female emerging artist of 2023. Her practice has evolved and expanded to include painting, performance, sound, animation, film and sculpture. She works between Hunza, Lahore, and New York.

Anoushka Bhalla (B. 1997, India) is a visual artist working and residing in New York City. She completed her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York City in 2023 and her BFA in Sculpture from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India in 2019.

Her recent solo and two-person shows include ‘A Pound of Flesh’ at Charmoli Ciarmoli gallery, New York City and ‘An Endless Journey’ curated by Uttara Parekh at SVA CP Space. Her thesis show curated by Sara Raza, was exhibited at SVA Chelsea Gallery and works have also been exhibited in group shows at Charmoli Ciarmoli, Downtown Arts, Flatiron Gallery SVA, the Kochi-Muziris Students Biennale, Space118 and Space Studios, India.

Bhalla has been a recipient of the FABnyc Young Artists of Color Fellowship, the School of Visual Arts Alumni Scholarship, the School of Visual Arts MFA Scholarship and has completed an artist residency at Space Studio, India. She was also awarded the prestigious Girish Bhatt Award and Scholarship by her alma mater for her BFA thesis show. She was also nominated for an award by the Foundation for Indian Art & Education and was named one of the top emerging artists from India. She has received grants from the School of Visual Arts, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation for Sculpture and was offered scholarships by the Parsons School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, University of the Arts London and the Glasgow School of Art. In 2021, she published a thesis titled ‘Existential Aesthetics: A study of existentialism in art’. She has also sbeen on the jury of Apex Art several times and has given artist presentations and panel talks at NYU and School of Visual Arts respectively.

Her practice has been covered by Canvas Rebel, Voyage LA, The Design Collective Magazine, A Women’s Thing among other publications. She previously served as a critic for Hyperallergic and the Mumbai International Film Festival.

Gurjeet Singh (1994, India) is a Chandigarh-based artist who works in soft sculpture (among other mediums), creating imperfect creatures out of various textiles and embroidery elements. He studied art at the Government College of Art in Chandigarh, where he developed a distinct sculptural approach based on conversations and experiences in his life. Gurjeet draws on the art of storytelling and conversation to bring to life various human experiences in all their imperfect, unique form. With a particular interest in queer stories, Gurjeet creates entirely unique beings through seemingly domestic methods, particularly embroidery. After a smash debut with Chemould Colab gallery in Mumbai, Gurjeet has been featured in Vogue India, Platform Magazine, and The Dirty Mag, where his work was featured on the cover. Gurjeet makes his US debut in Now Streaming.

Kuldeep Singh is a contemporary artist based in New York whose practice traverses the boundaries of painting, immersive performance/films and installations. Born out of a decade-long and rigorous training in Indian classical dance of Odissi, under the tutelage of acclaimed exponent Madhavi Mudgal in New Delhi, Kuldeep's work weaves together deconstructed elements into a rich tapestry of speculative narratives.

His painting practice, anchored in oil/acrylic on canvas, embodies the essence of his multidisciplinary exploration. Reinterpreting historic Ragamala paintings through a queer and ecological lens since 2019, his strokes are whimsical, bringing to life storytelling rooted in Sanskrit literature and the Natyashastra. His canvas becomes a playground for mischief, sensuality, and denial, resulting in a hypnotic world charged with emotive tones of pathos, confusion, and wonder. Kuldeep's work invites viewers into a realm where tradition and innovation coalesce, creating a space for introspection and dialogue on the intersections of culture, identity, and contemporary existence. Holding a BFA in Fine Arts from the College of Art, Delhi University, and an MFA from the University of Iowa (on full scholarship), Kuldeep has earned recognition through prestigious residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and Residency Unlimited,

among others. His accolades include the highly competitive New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2018), Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Dance Fellowship (2022) and the National Freedom of Expression Award from Mumbai's Infinity Films (2009).

Kuldeep's solo exhibitions include those at gallery Chemould Colab in Mumbai (2024), the Knockdown Center in Brooklyn (2019) and the Asia Society Museum in NYC (2018), which created immersive environments charged with a unique blend of queerness, environmentalism, and decolonial thought. His work has also been featured at institutions like the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi. And forthcoming in 2025, Kuldeep will be presenting his work at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo.

Maya Varadaraj is an interdisciplinary artist, she received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design before completing a Master's Degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Varadaraj's work has been exhibited internationally at Vitra Design Museum, Museo Del Disseny Barcelona, India Art Fair, Sapar Contemporary, Mana Contemporary, and Medium Tings among others. She has been featured in publications such as Artnet, Juxtapoz, Platform Magazine, and the Hindustan Times.

Muvindu Binoy (b. 1989, Sri Lanka) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is focused predominantly on digital collage and film. He uses the internet as a primary archive to create collages that interrogate the cracks in our social world, systems of fate and ‘online’ realities with a tone of absurdist humour and uncanny truths. He explores themes of gender, agency, title and the expectation of traditional values and the contradictions of modern living through the digital manipulation of images. He was selected for the Cité Internationales des Arts residency in France (2021) and the Ya Connect Artist-in-Residence in Sri Lanka (2019). His work has been featured at Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular at Sharjah Art Foundation (2022), Jawahar Kala Kendra, India (2019) and the Colombo Art Biennale (2016). (Bio courtesy Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo)

Ricky Vasan (b. 2001, Dehradun, India) is a representational painter currently based in Boston Massachusetts. Vasan has been exhibiting in local galleries in the New England area and has received the George Nick award, The Rob Moore Grant in painting and recently his painting ʻTwo Aliens Share A Beerʼ was awarded best in show for the Cambridge Art Associationʼs annual National Prize Show.

Vasan draws from his inter-cultural experiences and aims to produce work that speaks to a diverse audience, he is interested in representing his personal truth on the canvas while taking into account formal and conceptual considerations derived from the complex history of painting.

Predominantly Vasan's work focuses on domesticity and the celebration of the mundane. The minutiae of life serves as the artistʼs prelude. Through an autobiographical lens, Vasan works to create smaller narratives, showcasing moments, spaces and people that are personally significant, while also expanding on memory and nostalgia. Itʼs interesting that for Vasan, who is also a musician, dissonance is at the core of his artistic practice. The haziness of memory, the distortion of events, the warping of recording time, are all explorations he undertakes. Under the umbrella of realism, Vasan delves into the multiplicity of time, turning the photographs that begin his process into a depiction that is far from linear.

Tarek Sebastian Al-Shammaa is a painter who creates large technicolour canvasses that delve into tropes of mysticism, colonialism, and tokenism. As a first-generation French / Iraqi living in Britain, he continually questions the ongoing turmoil and injustices in the Middle East under Western imperialism, and the effects of colonial exoticism. (Bio courtest the Bomb Factory, London)

His main practice is contemporary history painting in which he combines historical and mythological subject matter, but contrasts these ideas with the harsh reality of the contemporary world. As an artist with a complicated mixed ancestry he is ideally placed to comment on the past / current dominant forces at large.

Tarini Sethi (b 1987, India) creates work that focuses on themes of world building, mythology, folk stories, dream worlds and sexual emancipation. Created in direct response to my understanding of declining mental health, skepticism of current political discourse, dread of communalism, and distress at the destruction of the natural world, I attempt to make art that defies these realities. Her subjects –some quite human, some quite animal, but none clearly one or the other – fight and ponder, observe and converse, love and luxuriate, often within labyrinthine physical spaces and multi limbed anthropomorphic anatomies. In this world, bodies are freed from the ideas attached to the conventional notion of gender, perfection and beauty. As a woman from India, existing in a space of extreme sexual oppression, and constant scrutiny, I try to focus as much as possible on the idea that bodies can exist as perfect vessels for exploration, action and sexual emancipation. Taking cues from a range of artistic practices spanning the length of the subcontinent, specifically Kalighat, Miniature, Kavad and Tholu Bommalata, she uses these themes and ideas to bring my utopia to life. These themes are explored through a multimedia practice that includes paintings, drawings, and metal sculptures. Sethi currently lives in New Delhi, India.

Viraj Khanna (b. 1995, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) is a visual artist from India who primarily works with the medium of textile. He studied Business Administration at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2018. Khanna's works have been exhibited in solo shows at the LOFT, Gallery Art Exposure, Kolkata (2021); Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai (2022) ; the India Art Fair (2023) and recently at the National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai (2023). He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Viraj Mithani is an interdisciplinary artist. His practice involves painting, printmaking and using of specialised material and layering techniques such giclee and vinyl. Native of Mumbai, India, he began with a traditional background in the arts. He holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) as Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar Visiting Scholar in Painting in Providence, RI. B.F.A in Painting and Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a diploma degree in Studio Art and Visual Communications from Chelsea Camberwell Wimbledon College of Art and Design (CCW) of University of Arts London (UAL 2012), where he studied fine arts, new media, animation and graphic design.

Mithani has had several exhibitions in India, United States, London and Europe. His selected exhibitions include: New Contemporaries (RISD Museum), Rota Fortune (Field Projects, NY), di/ sjoi/nted Pluralities at Nightingale Brown House (Main Gallery), Of Soiled bodies (Gelman Gallery, Providence RI,) Making Space at (Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai), Boomerang (Tao Art Gallery), Site Art Space in Vadodara, Ilinois State Museum, Lockport, IL, Dalarnas Museum Falun in Sweden. Mithani has been selected and invited to be Artist-in-Residence at Spudnik Press Co-operative in Chicago, Vermont Studio Center in Jhonson, VT (Merit Scholarship Recipient) and Space 118 in Mumbai. His teaching experiences include at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Rhode Island School of Design, Fulton Street Collective and at Chicago Public Library. His curatorial ventures include at Gallery SUGS, Chicago (2015) and as Guest Artist Curator at Lemill (2021) and Grazia Magazine (2020). He’s a founding member of Carpe Arte group and founder of Carpe Arte Supports in India. Mithani’s recent accolades include being awarded by Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022) and has been featured by various publications; Global Indian and New American Painting issue being most recent

Zeehan Wazed (b. 1991) is a Bangladeshi-American artist based in Queens, NY. He attended Baruch College where he earned a degree in Perceptual Psychology. In addition to being a recognized fine artist and a freestyle dancer, he has also made his mark all over New York City with his murals. He has murals at the Arthur Ashe Stadium, World Trade Center, JFK, and massive murals in his native borough of Queens.