ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2024

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Jesse Jinghan Liu is a Beijing born artist, currently based in California. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2022, majoring in Illustration. Liu’s work is predominantly oil-based, with long-haired female figures serving as the central motif. 

Drawing inspiration from both the imagined nocturnal world and the minutiae of everyday life, and intertwines these elements with her personal experiences. Liu’s works employ a vivid color palette and interplay of light and show to convey a spectrum of emotions with specific contexts. Specializing in using composition to emphasize the significance of narrative storytelling, to create a sense of mystery or romance in their atmosphere.

Justin Yoon is a Brooklyn based painter who was born in Los Angeles and grew up both in LA and Bundang, South Korea. Early childhood memories of American junk food, late night old Hollywood movies on the TV, and listening to jazz in the car with his family on long drives significantly affected him to create a world of romantic melancholia, synthetic colors, and casual lostness of being.

With no specific emotions provoked, the group of characters reoccur over and over in a deeply synthetic yet ambiguous dream-like landscape, continuing on this never ending "Highschool Reunion". The viewer becomes a part of this experience, which is vaguely both universal yet deeply personal. These three characters represent a certain glamorous queer Asian idolatry as well; By glamorizing such figures in a hyper masculine and feminine visual, they become a symbol of sensual intimacy within oneselves, especially as Asian Queer characters.

Vita Kari (1994, Los Angeles), is a non-binary artist known for creating immersive performance work involving illusion. Kari highlights contemporary issues of digital identity and commercialism via works live and on video, showcasing in Los Angeles, New York City and Miami in the past few months. They have had solo exhibitions, including "Escape to Vitawood" at ULO World, and participated in group exhibitions, most recently at Good Mother Gallery in Los Angeles.

Kari's work has been profiled in publications such as Forbes, Artnet, Interview Magazine, Gay Times, Jezebel and more. They have had collaborations with Marc Jacobs, Loewe, Levi, Warby Parker, PUMA, Savage x Fenty by Rihanna, Bratz, and Adult Swim and have given artist talks, such as at UCLA this year. Kari is also known for opening VITAWOOD LA; 2020 - 2022, a community-run art space and gallery in Los Angeles. Kari is a 2024 MFA candidate at Otis College of Art and Design.

Wang Shuang, born in 1987 in Hubei, graduated from Chongqing University, and currently lives and works in Wuhan. Wang Shuang is a painter and an independent avant-garde artist.

He integrates painting, sound art, music production, and modular circuits into unique art installations. His works focus on how sound is generated and explore the interaction and transformation between physical space and sound itself.

Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in 2022, Yang Ming is a full-time artist based in Hangzhou, China.

Yang’s works have been exhibited in art museums in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hubei. Through the inversion of organic relationships and inorganic forms, Yang uses inaccessible flowing spaces as a medium to reveal the intermediary state of human existence.