Artists Bios

Ugo Rondinone was born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. He studied at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. The artist currently lives and works in New York. In 2007, Rondinone represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Referring concurrently to the natural world, romanticism and existentialism, Rondinone’s works encapsulate a “mental trinity” that has underpinned his art for 30 years.

Nadia Kaabi-Linke is a Tunisian-Ukrainian-German artist born in 1978 in Tunis. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Tunis (1999) before receiving a Ph.D. from Sorbonne University in Paris (2008). Her works were recently displayed in solo exhibitions at Darat al Funun – The Khaled Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan (2020); Izolyatsia, Kyiv, Ukraine (2019); Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2017-2018); Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (2015); The Mosaic Rooms, London, (2014); and Centro de Arte Moderna – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2014).

Moataz Nasr explores traditions and new globalism, questioning geopolitical and social development in Africa. Artistic practice for Nasr is a tool and a language that embraces art, sociology, Sufism and history, in order to encourage dialogue across geographical boundaries. His most recent group shows include: Arab Contemporary Architecture, Culture and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Metropolis. Afriques Capitales, curated by Simon Njami, La Villette, Paris, 2017; and Senses of Time: Video and Film-based Arts of Africa, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Arts, Washington.

Walaa Fadul is a graphic designer who describes herself as having the soul of an artist. She holds a first-class honor master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She describes herself as being influenced by the multiculturalism and openness of her home city of Jeddah, on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast. Her artistic practice often involves deep and fundamental understanding of the materials she works with, which help her to adapt the materials to the concept she is working with. 

Tomás Saraceno’s floating sculptures, artworks and interactive installations challenge ways of inhabiting and sensing the environment. From collaborations with the air to spiderwebs, he envisions renewed relationships with the terrestrial, atmospheric and cosmic realms.

Robert Lazzarini is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. He has been exhibited internationally since 1995 and is included in major collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others. 

Mounir Fatmi was born in Tangier in 1970. When he was four, his family moved to Casablanca, Morocco. At the age of 17, he traveled to Rome where he studied at the free school of nude drawing and engraving at the Academy of Arts, then at the Casablanca art school, and finally at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Since 2000, Fatmi’s installations were selected in several biennials, including the Venice Biennale, the Sharjah Biennale, the Dakar Biennale, the Bamako Biennale, the Setouchi Triennial and the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial in Japan.

Mohammed Kazem has developed an artistic practice that encompasses video, photography and performance to find new ways of apprehending his environment and experiences. Kazem captures the un-capturable. From his own body and the objects of his quotidian to nature itself, he senses what is unmeasurable, even un-seeable, and transfigures it into a visual work.

Jorge Macchi studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires. In 2001 he received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship award. His solo exhibitions include: La Catedral Sumergida at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts de Lausanne, Switzerland (2020); Perspectiva, CA2M, Madrid, and MALBA, curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio (2017 and 2016); Music Stand Still, SMAK of Ghent, Belgium (2011); and The Anatomy of Melancholy, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2008). In 2005, Macchi represented Argentina at the 51st Venice Biennale.

Do Ho Suh received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 1997. He works across various media, creating drawings, film and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality and collectivity. Suh is best known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale his former homes in Korea, Rhode Island, Berlin, London and New York.

Born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile, Iván Navarro grew up under the Pinochet dictatorship. He has lived and worked in New York, where he emigrated in 1997, just after graduating from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Growing up under the Pinochet regime has truly influenced his work. Navarro represented Chile at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.

Gabriel de la Mora, born in 1968 in Mexico City where he currently lives and works, is best known for constructing visual works from found, discarded and obsolete objects. In an obsessive process of collecting and fragmenting materials, whether eggshells, shoe soles, speaker screens or feathers, the Mexican artist creates seemingly minimal and often monochrome-looking surfaces that belie great technical complexity, conceptual rigor and embedded information. De la Mora has exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York, and the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.

Farhad Moshiri’s mixed media practice spans across painting, assemblage and sculpture. Inspired by pop art and conceptualism, he has developed a profoundly hybrid aesthetic at the crossroads between the Middle East and the West. While Moshiri usually draws his motifs from American consumer culture, he reinterprets them through equally distinctive traditional Persian craftsmanship.

Darel Carey is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, known for his optical art using lines to shape and bend the perceived dimensions of a surface or a space. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art at Otis College of Art and Design in 2016. His art has been featured internationally and across the US in galleries and commercially in projects with Google, Adidas, Equinox, Cadillac and more. His current work includes dimensional line drawings, digital art, murals and immersive tape installations.

Esther Stocker was born in 1974 in Silandro in northern Italy. She studied art in Vienna, Milan and California. She is currently living and working in Vienna. Stocker’s shows include: SQUARE UNIVERSE, North Bank of Huangpu River, SUSAS 2019, Shanghai, 2019; Konkrete Gegenwart - Jetzt ist immer auch ein bisschen gestern und morgen, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2019; Anarchy of Forms drj art projects, Berlin, 2019; Extended Architectures Galerie Alberta Pane, Venice, Italy, 2018; Galerie Krobath, Vienna, 2018; Setouchi Triennale 2016, Awashima, Japan, 2016; Der fremde Raum, Marta Herford, Germany, 2016;

Carsten Höller uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. His major installations include Decision, Hayward Gallery, London, 2015; The Double Club, London, 2008- 2009; Revolving Hotel Room, 2008, which was shown as part of theanyspacewhatever exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2009;

Antonio Santín was born in Madrid in 1978, where he continues to live and work. He received a degree in Fine Arts from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2005.

Aisha Khalid graduated in traditional miniature paintings, and lives and works in Lahore. She works in various mediums including painting, murals, installations in architectural spaces, videos and art performances; recently she has included music in her art practice. She participated in solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally, including at APT Asia Pacific Triennial Queensland, Lahore Biennale, National Art Gallery/Museum Copenhagen, Aga Khan Museum Toronto, Moscow Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, Venice Biennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale and the V&A Museum of London.

Abdulrahman Katanani is a Palestinian artist born in the Sabra refugee camp in Beirut in 1983. He studied at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University, and was a resident in Paris at Centre d’Art de Nanterre in 2016 and at Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2012, 2013 and 2016. Katanani has had solo and group exhibitions in the UAE, Lebanon, France, the UK, Malaysia, Qatar, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Bahrain, Germany and the US.

Robert Irwin is a pioneering figure of the Los Angeles-based Light and Space movement of the 1960s. Beginning his career as a painter, Irwin later began exploring perception and light with his acrylic columns and discs. In 1969, he gave up his studio and began what he termed a conditional practice, working with the effects of light through subtle interventions in space and architecture.