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Yasmine Anlan Huang | Lucas Dupuy | Azza El Siddique | Adriana Furlong | Alice Gong Xiaowen | Eloise Hess | Hings Lim | Kameelah Janan Rasheed | Thiang Uk | Shu Hua Xiong

July 17 - August 30,  2025




Yasmine Anlan Huang (b. Guangzhou, China) is an artist and writer. Investigating the evolution of literary motifs and archetypes across cultures and time, her work seeks to expose hidden power structures and decolonize storytelling. She orchestrates a polyphony that blends past and future, fiction and reality, sublime and absurdity, innocence and violence. With a fusion of personal cosmology, political entanglements, youth subcultures, and everyday objects, she crafts emotive worlds through moving images, texts, installations, performances, and public programming. These works serve as surrogates for her hyper-vulnerability—she is also interested in how digital spaces consume and regurgitate life experiences. Huang’s works have been featured internationally, including Whitney Biennial 2024, Power Station of Art, Peckham24, HART Haus, with solo or duo exhibitions at Floating Projects, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Seoul National University Woosuk Gallery, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong and Small Gallery London. She has been awarded residencies in Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Wassaic Project, Penland School of Craft, among others. Her writings and translations appeared in Heichi Magazine, p-articles, SAMPLE Mag, and many other platforms. Her debut book of poems and essays, Love of the Colonizer, was published by Accent Sisters in 2022.

Lucas Dupuy makes artwork that is multi-layered, ambient and cerebral – touching on subjects as wide and varied as video games, natural landscapes, hauntology, the uncanny and semiotics. Light and austere in form, Dupuy works across a range of media to create spectral, post-industrial overtures to an increasingly digitised and melancholic world, offering space and atmosphere to not only see but feel with tension and texture.

Azza El Siddique (b. 1984, Khartoum, Sudan) lives and works in New Haven, CT. She
received an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2019 and a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2014. Known for large-scale sculptural environments, multidisciplinary artist Azza El Siddique combines steel and ceramic sculptures with ephemeral matter to explore ritual, mortality, and memorialization. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Bradley Ertaskiran, Mattress Factory, Helena Anrather, Cooper Cole, and Towards, among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at MOCA Toronto, Gardiner Museum, Oakville Galleries, Shin Gallery, and Green Hall Gallery. She was a Skowhegan resident in 2019, a finalist for the Sobey Art Award in 2022, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025.

Alice Gong Xiaowen (b. 1994, Beijing, China) now lives and works in New York. She
received her BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and a MFA in
Sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 2025. Alice Gong Xiaowen’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: Sustain, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2025; Asymptote, circling, CHAMBER lower_cavity, Holyoke, 2024; Malar, House of Seiko, San Francisco, 2023. Group exhibitions include: Fourth River, Romance, Pitttsburgh, 2025; Can Thought Go On Without a Body?, Stilllife, New York, 2024;Adaptation, Franz Kaka, Toronto, 2024; In Summer’s Teeth, Silke Lindner, New York, 2023; Bury the Bridge, DUPLEX, New York, 2022. She is the recipient of the Explore and Create Grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts, 2022; the UrbanGlass Winter Scholarship Award, 2019; and the John W. Kurtich Foundation Travel Fellowship, 2015.

Adriana Furlong (b. 1998, Oakland, CA) investigates the allegorical translation of labor into urban space, using symbols and forms to reflect on the contemporary experience of work, exhaustion, and desire. Working across computational modeling, 3D printing, and painting, Adriana develops a process-driven approach that merges architectural motifs with intuitive gestures. Using Blender, a 3D modeling software, she builds, prints, and reshuffles her imagery, molding them into concrete to reinterpret architectural motifs and the histories of labor. These works act as bodily proxies, reflecting both physical and emotional states—fragmented forms suggesting speculative possibilities for symbols of labor and urbanization as reflections of the contemporary human condition.
Adriana received a BFA from the Parsons School of Design in 2022 and participated in the 2023–2024 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art (Class of 2027). Her debut solo exhibition, Hundreds Do Things, was held at Island Gallery in 2023. Reviews of her work have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Whitehot Magazine, Impulse Magazine, The Coastal Post, Musée Magazine, and Teeth Magazine. Adriana lives and works in New York.

Eloise Hess (b. 1995, Los Angeles, CA) works across photography, printmaking, and painting to explore the picture, as limit and threshold, as artifact of the tireless attempt to hold and to transfer the present. Her paintings unfold in the slippage between what is seen and what is held. Her most recent exhibition, Early Morning Tomorrow (von ammon co, Washington DC) follows an exchange with her father, a photographer living with Early Onset Alzheimer’s. Shooting through the viewfinder of his camera, Hess frames the act of picturing itself - intimate and expectant, subjective and mediated. Hess holds a BA from Bennington College (2017) and an MFA from Yale University (2024). Other recent solo exhibitions include Second Hand (Matta, Milan) and Eyelidding (Helena Anrather, NYC). Her next solo exhibition will open at Chapter (NYC) in September.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1986, East Palo Alto, CA) is a learner, seeker, and harvester. Her work across art, pedagogy, and emerging technologies has garnered numerous honors. In 2024, she was an Artes Mundi 11 Finalist and received a High Desert Test Sites Fellowship at Joshua Tree. She received additional fellowship and awards from Working Artist (2023); Schering Stiftung (2022 Award for Artistic Research); Creative Capital Award (2022); anArtists + Machine Intelligence Grants - Experiments with Google (2022); and Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2021). Her work has also been presented across the world including the continents of North America, South American, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Henry Art Gallery (2025), REDCAT (2024), KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023), Art Institute of Chicago (2023), and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). She has participated in group exhibitions as Studio Museum, Bronx Museum, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, MASSMoCA, the Kitchen, and ICA Philadelphia among others. She is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin, Germany.

Hings Lim (b. 1989, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) works in an expanded range of the medium that includes video, installation, sculpture, performance, simulation, and situation. His process-oriented practice probes the formation of apparatuses and addresses the multiplicities between historicity, performativity, materiality, subjectivity of things and their becoming. Lim is currently based in Los Angeles, United States. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree and the Performance Studies Graduate Certificate at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2021, as a recipient of the USC International Artist Fellowship; and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia in 2012. He is a recipient of the Petronas – P. Ramlee Chair’s Award in 2012 and completed the Southeast Asian Artist Residency Program at Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia in 2018.

Thiang Uk (b. 1993, Myanmar) investigates notions of holding manifold identities, inhabiting ever-shifting landscapes, as well as exploring ancestral memory through animism, metamorphosis, distance, mystery and the formality of painting. Uk is currently based in Baltimore, MD. He received his M.F.A. in the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), his B.F.A. at Hunter College in NYC in 2017, and also completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2023.

Shu Hua Xiong (b.1994, Shanghai, China) is a chinese-american painter who works and lives in New York, known for her ethereal and poetic paintings and illustrations. Her work straddles between abstract and representation, exploring themes of spirituality and religions, the physical and psychological realms, and often draws inspiration from music, literature, myth and nature.

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