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Nnena Kalu

Nnena is the 2025 winner of the Turner Prize. She is the first learning-disabled artist to win. Born in Glasgow in 1966 to Nigerian parents, Kalu is known for sculptures resembling cocoon-like forms that she strews with videotape, cellophane, and other unconventional materials. 
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Francisco Masó

Luis De Jesus just presented Francisco Masó: Documentary Abstraction, the Cuban conceptual artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition brings together new works from Masó’s ongoing series Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces. The series establishes a catalog and archive of acrylic on canvas paintings which serves as an abstract geometric guide for identifying the forces of power within a state control apparatus while simultaneously generating discourse on the militarization of Cuban civil society.
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Emily Kame Kngwarrey

One of the most celebrated Australian painters of the 20th century, Emily Kame Kngwarreye painted over 3,000 abstract acrylic paintings of dots, gestural lines, and vibrant hues, all inspired by her Aboriginal community’s symbols, rituals, and daily life.
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Pierre Obando

Michael Brennan notes of Pierre’s paintings, made between 2021 and 2025, in “Some Kind…,” that while his imagery is for the most part recognizably organic it is not easily decipherable, and draws some lovely parallels to Matisse (which makes me think of Josef) although they remind me more of Diebenkorn.
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Nikolas Antoniou

like many artists from Helene Grace (go see The Gift of Attention at NCMA if you live in the Triangle or, soon enough, in Portland) and Ficre to Tamina and even locals like Pete, explores figuration and abstraction. About his practice he says that in his explorations abstraction gradually took precedence, leading me to delve into the creation of abstract landscapes. This unexpected shift revealed to me a fundamental truth: amidst the chaos that surrounds us, I am driven by a relentless pursuit of balance and meaning.

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Rebecca Pempek

is a recent MFA recipient from UNC. Her most recent painting and printmaking work utilizes her pelvic MRI scans to interrogate the history and mythologization of female pain. By layering and abstracting 17th-century reproductive anatomical illustrations with fauna imagery and gestural mark-making, she reclaims agency over the narratives of chronic pain.

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Cecily Kahn

As a native New Yorker, Cecily says her ” paintings have always reflected the angularity of the city. I spent years making paintings of buildings, roof tops, and finally maps of the city. I began to play with the map image, layering one on top of the other thus creating new forms. Eventually, these map paintings shed their representational base and became more internal, psychological maps.”

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Michael Alexander Campbell

In his most recent works, Campbell employs wax, oil paint, and traditional techniques such as glazing and impasto. He exposes his canvases to the elements, allowing the weathered surfaces to coexist with areas of meticulous, classical brushwork. The result is a body of work that is simultaneously raw and refined.

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