Combining Conceptual Art, Land Art and Social Practice, Mark Brest van Kempen’s varied sculptures and performances often use the landscape itself as sculptural material. From the Free Speech Monument on the University of California, Berkeley campus to Land Exchange at the National Academy of Art in China, his work explores the range of emotions and […]

Tianzong (TZ) Jiang is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. As an artist with a Chinese American background, he explores the intricate relationship between culture, identity, and history. Through video, installation, sculpture, and performance, he creates experimental interventions and idiosyncratic performances that undermine the seriousness of art-making and challenge conventional perceptions […]

Wacala! Studios is a creative duo composed of Camila Montero and Ale Raigoza. (fragmentation)     (spectacle)    (performance)     Montero and Raigoza met in an animation class at California College of the Arts and began their stop motion journey together through various short form experimental animations.     YUCK!  WACALA!    They have been collaborating since 2024 and have worked on […]

Nicole Shaffer is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist with a focus on research-based installations. They incorporate historical research, family history, and passed-down craft techniques to make sculptures that center the nuance and beauty of divergent embodiments. Their work intercedes private and public spaces through the creation of “speculative furniture,” ceramic and upholstery sculptures that suggest […]

Vanessa Woods is a San Francisco Bay Area artist working in photography, collage, sculpture, and installation. Her work uses a range of visual strategies and a hybrid approach to image-making to explore discourse around identity, motherhood, and gender. Like motherhood itself, Woods’ artworks and installations are in constant flux, continually remixed and reconstructed to highlight […]

Yiming Clara Li is interested in how forms of language—utterance, noise, color, gait, space—construct the fabric of our reality. Interrogating how modes of seeing and being are constructed and how their supposed solidity can be unsettled, she turns to construction materials and found objects, using sculpture and photography to render questions in material form. Propelled […]

Taro Hattori is an interdisciplinary artist who has shown his socially-engaged installations and projects nationally and internationally. His recent work creates relationships between spatial sculptures and people in a specific socio-political background through performance, conversation, and song. His installations consist of carefully crafted structures and provide a sensory environment where viewers face conflicting issues and […]

Travis Somerville was born in 1963 in Atlanta, GA. After growing up in towns across the southern United States and along the eastern seaboard, he briefly studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore before settling in San Francisco, where he attended the San Francisco Art Institute.  His large-scale oil paintings on paper […]

Sisi Ivy is an image-based artist born in San Jose, CA. She utilizes photography, drawing, and found object sculpture to explore contemporary and historical narratives of place. Informed by her upbringing in Silicon Valley, her current work traces the landscape of the tech capital while examining its physical and imagined manifestations of progress.  Through embodying […]