Natalia Palacino Camargo (b. 2001) is a Colombian artist born in Bogotá D.C. and based in New York City. Through her work, she is interested in pushing the boundaries of the body and exploring how it is impacted by the cultural, social, and environmental landscape of Colombia and the USA. For the past years, she has explored the overarching theme of “body politics” in an attempt to understand the practices and systems through which the human body is regulated. The paradoxical control that human animals possess and exert over our environment and the battle over individual and social control over…

Regina Escobedo Guerra is a NYC based artist from Guadalajara, Mexico in her final year at New York University. Escobedo is pursuing a Bachelor in Fine Arts and a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology. As a multidisciplinary artist, Regina primarily works with oil paint. Through her use of pattern-making and vibrant colors, she creates autobiographical spaces influenced by her Mexican roots and her life in New York City. 

Talia Rudofsky is a Visual Artist in her Senior Year of her BFA degree in Studio Art and Liberal Studies at New York University. Image making and the production and distribution of images is employed in Rudofsky’s work. Coming from the photo program at The California Institute of the Arts, Talia has ruminated over the importance of an archive, as well as referencing stock and pop imagery. Much like other artists that came out of CalArts that subsequently formed the Pictures Generation, which has become integral to Talia’s practice and engagement of institutional critique. Her practice falls under a multidisciplinary…

Born in Rochester, New York, Elsa Stern is a current undergrad at the Steinhardt BFA Program. Elsa is an Artist who works in mixed media, with a strong focus in ceramic sculpture and painting. Much of her work illustrates internal conversations and conflicts in the hopes to bring them to the surface of discourse and conversation with others.

Youyi Echo Yan (b.2000, lives/ works in New York City) Yan’s works usually present the metamorphosis of bodies in different contexts. She creates research-driven art that is based on a myriad of academic fields. Lately she explores the idea of mutated physical and cognition of the body in philosophy of mind, Zoology, Anthropology, and Eroticism in the forms of mixed-media sculpture. Yan is pursuing a Studio Art major at New York University. Recent exhibitions include: Island of Light, at 559 W 23rd Street, New York, 2022. Werewolf/Ferryman (Relic), at Commons Gallery, 34 Stuyvesant St, New York, 2022.

Rhea Barve was born in Mumbai and raised in Bangalore, India. She is interested in depicting physical and digital ecosystems. She loves ponds and is usually drawing, working with clay or watching videos about things growing. She will receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University in Spring 2022. Rhea Barve

Talia Deane was raised in the redwood forest, running through the trees, into the sea, and back again. They are curious about sites of ruin as spaces where natural and human systems are simultaneously in conflict and collaboration. Their multimedia installations and sculptures are explorations around nonlinear growth, centering life’s persistent return to sites of abandonment and devastation. In May 2021, they will receive their Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University.

Sarah Goldman is a twenty two year old artist from Long Island, New York. She is interested in painting, books, feminism, and queer theory. She is looking at artists Agnes Martin, Sarah Rapson, and Mamma Andersson, reading writers Simone Weil and Eileen Myles, and listening to musicians Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez.

Ebony Joiner is a multidisciplinary sculptor who was born in Lockport, NY and raised in Dearborn Heights, MI. Her work has become a physical manifestation of a memory palace and is characterized by domestic construction methods, home videos, recorded phone calls, and chairs. She’s interested in memories and archives but mostly focuses on all the things that can’t be adequately stored in either. Her practice is a combination of people watching and maintaining silence and exists somewhere between a liquor store and a science lab. She likes the quiet and misses her family. Ebony will receive her Bachelor of Fine…

David Ma is an Asian-American-born interdisciplinary artist, raised in New York and Virginia. He navigates the mediums of Ceramic sculptures, Painting, and Video Performances, as he searches under the clutter of mainstream American culture to look for the vibrant, often complicated portrayals of Asian representation in American culture, swept by misconceptions and surface-level privileges. He uses traditional eastern decorative motifs to contemporary westernized self-concepts to collage various beliefs into a cluster fuck of who he is and how he relates to society.

Nina Molloy is from Bangkok, Thailand. Her practice attends to her local surroundings and the peculiar things that gather in it. Working primarily in painting, she is interested in how the medium––existing as material and illusion––possesses its own historically and materially specific capacities to produce effects out-side and in-side of us. Her layered process involves structuring surface, volume, light and shadow, color and transparency, to mediate the space between tactility and transcendence, where matter meets mythology. Narrative, then, comes not only from imagery but from particular formal/sensuous qualities.

Delia Pelli-Walbert is a multidisciplinary artist from New York City, who uses clay, video, and found materials to pursue ideas of storytelling and archive. Working from existing data, as well as internal narrative, Delia creates literal and metaphorical vessels to contain her meticulous observations. Her work often concerns biologic/geologic balance and decay. She will receive her BFA from New York University in Spring 2022.

Brock Riggins is interested in how good conversations interweave themselves, the gossip of 149 BC Rome, alligators, the length of the Indian Ocean, our relationship to seasons, motherhood, maps, the long histories of culinary ingredients, mining rare earth metals, walking down the street, Mediæval Europe, the country of Georgia, the color of icebergs, shepherds (biblical and otherwise), the responsibilities of the student, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, swimming, theatre, why painting peaked in late nineteenth-century France, the American West, and plumbing. He is a painter.

Kris Waymire grew up in Baltimore Maryland. They make colorful work fueled by memories of power grids. They combine what does not belong together such as metal with ceramics, industrial with organic and digital with traditional.

Caleb Williams is an activist and an interdisciplinary artist, who brings her audience into her world by challenging and inspiring the viewer through her mediums of paintings, photography, and video work. She is currently receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts at New York University. Growing up in Queens, New York gives Williams the perspective of witnessing the different characteristics of a diverse community, such as fashion, poverty, art culture, gentrification, injustice, and diversity, that she implements through her art practice into each art piece. Through her work, she seeks to capture, challenge, and reinterpret the beautiful, the ugly, and the…

Oona Bebout is an artist from Parrottsville,TN who is currently based in Brooklyn. Her work explores texture, memory, and vulnerability, creating a body of work that is subtle and organic. Although primarily working in sculpture, Oona uses various mediums in order to investigate the connection between the natural world and the human body in space, calling upon her own fascination with organic textures and forms as an entry point into the creation of her work. She will receive her BFA from New York University in May of 2021.

Yinan Chen (Rebecca) is from Shanghai, China, and will receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University with a minor in Media, Culture, and Communication in the Spring of 2021. Her work explores the existence of the female body in society today and the intimate relationship between our body and individual space. She deals with themes such as intimacy, vulnerability, feminine gaze, beauty, solitariness, the individual sense of self and being by pulling the viewers into a state of mind, an emotional landscape that is created for “self-conversations”.

Naava Guaraca is a painter/printmaker born and raised in New York City. She is committed to a deep investigation into her familial history, reconstruction of personal narrative, and the material function of oil paint. Her practice is currently focused on invention of memory and the recreation of intimate home spaces in both New York and Ecuador. She likes to make pasta and rub her cat’s ears. She will receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University in May 2021.

Derek Koffi-Ziter is a 22 year old artist and educator. Born and raised in western Massachusetts and later moving to New York City for university, they are currently working on their bachelors degree in photography/fine art  and their masters of art education at New York University. Their artistic practice is one of flux and constant introspection, continuously changing, growing and adapting to their surroundings. Connection to space and people is a throughline throughout all of their work across mediums. Switching seamlessly between analog and digital mediums to create a narrative that is uniquely them. An artistic abstraction of their life and a manifestation of their innermost fears…

Les-lie López is a multidisciplinary artist that is based in The Bronx. Their work covers an array of topics beyond identity politics. López’s work is glamorous, and healing to the luchadores in silenced communities who continue to fight for visibility. López believes that their responsibility in art-making is to lend a hand in re-establishing the connection with artists, and the white eurocentric art world. Their work in Unwillingly Sazonado and Morado is specifically dedicated to the marginalized communities that have built an avenue for artists like López to continue their passion for art-making.

D.C. born, Hyattsville raised twins Eleisha Faith McCorkle & Tonisha Hope McCorkle are currently seniors attending New York University majoring in Studio Art, with minors in Social & Cultural Analysis and Psychology, respectively. Individually, one is skilled in drawing, printmaking, and digital art while the other is a painter and ceramicist. They combined artistic qualities in their junior year show, “OUR SKIN, OUR LOGO.” Since then, they have decided to come together for their senior body of work at NYU. Formerly enrolled in the Visual and Performing Arts program at the Jim Henson School of Arts, Media, and Communication in…

Giovanna Pedrinola was born in São Paulo, Brazil and is currently living in New York City. Her most recent mixed media works explore connections between the physical body and the subconscious mind in an attempt to comprehend our existence. This combined with her fascination of ancient traditions, architecture, dance, music, textiles, rituals and cosmology, generate a continuous research currently archived as text and images. In May 2021 she will be receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts from New York University.

Camila Rodriguez Jimenez is a Colombian artist based in New York City who uses her interest in cultural anthropology and history to investigate the socio-cultural diversity of her country. She defies the colonial history by presenting imagery that challenges the traditional visual culture with folklore and colour. With each piece, she celebrates tradition as much as she exposes the hardship that accompanies it. By participating in Unwillingly Sazonado y Morado she wants to bring to light the overlooked narrative that sits behind the narrowed stereotypes of violence and the “exotic savage” around her identity. 

Isabella Wang is an artist and writer who is fascinated with perception, self-awareness, absurdity, the subconscious, and vulnerability. She creates art, poetry, and auto-fictive prose-works out of curiosity and instinct, a purist and unrestricted mode of expression borne out of a careful examination of emotion and a curiosity about the ways in which language and images are both, in their own ways, inadequate forms of expressing the consciousness and the self. Though she will never stop being a maker, she intends to next earn a medical degree as a psychiatrist, so she can help artists, writers, and other creatives navigate mental disorder and the…

Shane Weiss is a New York based visual artist. They work mainly in abstract sculpture as well as special effects makeup. As a transgender artist, much of their work deals with the body and its fluidity, gender, sexuality, the grotesque and the abject. They are interested in presenting the body in new ways that become abstracted, the physicality of the body is emphasized rather than its implications; a focus on the qualities of an orifice rather than the location of it. They are also exploring through their work the concept of concavity and the materiality of absence. Weiss will receive…