A contemporary artist known for his mixed-media portraits, murals and live events, the native Angeleno - a leading creative force in the revitalization of Downtown LA’s art scene whose works infuse classic genres of portraiture and nudes with an avant-garde...

New York-based Mickalene Thomas – who is known for her elaborate rhinestone-adorned paintings, including those of African American women who romanticize power and femininity, and whose practice also includes sculpture, printmaking, photography and video, with her work...

Miami-born, Los Angeles-based Jen Stark – who earned a degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and explores color with mind-bending, psychedelic sphere installations, 3-D optic sculptures, patterned paintings and public art, and has had exhibitions in places...

Midwestern-raised, Los Angeles-based Kim DeJesus – who trained at Arizona State University and whose large-scale abstract paintings revolve around process and discovery, and encompass the fluidity of memory, but nevertheless tell specific stories that express human...

Colorado-born, Athens, Ohio-based Matt Wedel - whose paintings and sculptures have been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of clay, resulting in objects that recall familiar plant forms while also springing from his...

Extracting familiar pictorial codes from the pop culture of his youth, Greg Miller – who divides his time between New York, NY, Fredericksburg, TX and LA, CA, and whose work is featured in numerous museum and private collections, with a volume of his writings,...

A Los Angeles-based graffiti artist and member of LA graffiti crews K2S and KGB, Gajin Fujita, who blends Eastern techniques and elements (anime, ukiyo-e; geishas, demons) with Western urban imagery, and has exhibited at galleries and museums such as LACMA and L.A....

Born in Turkey in 1984, Los Angeles-based media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence whose work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines and has been installed globally, including in Italy, France,...

Reanimating mythological themes through incidents from political history and popular entertainment in disparate fields that collide in a dreamlike mélange, L.A.-based artist Jim Shaw - whose works are included in such institutions as the Hammer Museum, San Francisco...

Los Angeles-based Casper Brindle, a contemporary disciple of the 1960s and 70s Light and Space generation whose paintings explore the expressive possibilities of color, light and form and range from spectacularly technicolor to subtly monochromatic – and whose work...

Los Angeles-based artist, writer, musician, independent curator, erstwhile owner/director of the NYC Alleged Gallery and helmer of the 2008 cult documentary, “Beautiful Losers” – whose teenage experience with Mod culture led to a collaboration with DC and whose public...

British-born, Hong Kong-based Simon Birch, who has been awarded the prestigious Louis Vuitton Asian Art Prize and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, and whose work has encompassed sculpture, painting, photography, performance, video and large-scale multi-media...

Born in Aspen, CO in 1976, the Ubud, Bali-based photographer, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and whose work has been exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions internationally while living between London, UK and Maun, Botswana - and has...

Born and raised in Topanga Canyon and primarily using the blind contouring technique – drawing the shape of a subject without looking at the paper by exploring the boundaries of form, identity, play and body language, ultimately transforming the images into something...

The Los Angeles-based, internationally known graffiti artist and muralist extraordinaire, who has collaborated with musicians, including Slash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Halsey and more – and who also works with brands such as the NFL, Lyft, and Marvel Studios, as well...