New York – Makowski Gallery

Yarden Hana Lieber

Rusa Makowski — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:41:50 +0000

Yarden Hana Lieber

Biography:

Yarden Hana Liber is a 29-year-old photographer and multidisciplinary artist from Tel Aviv, Israel. She graduated with distinction from her photography studies in August 2025. She is currently participating in the residency program at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, as well as in the professional development program of the Edmond de Rothschild Center.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

Published Works – Portfolio Magazine, Emerging Artists, September 2025.
Here and Now – Curated by Leora Gov de Weiss, October 2025.
Artist Residency Studio Program – Led by Kate Feinstein in collaboration with the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, January 2026.
New Horizons (BFAMI 2026) – Curated by Gili Yuval, February 2026.
Coexistence – Curated by Kate Feinstein, June 2026.
Artistic Development Program – Edmond de Rothschild Center, January 2026.
Benjamin Gallery Exhibition – Curated by Michal Blair and Irit Barel-San, August 2026.

Statement:

“My practice engages with sculpture in space while exploring the boundaries of the photographic medium and the conflict between two dimensionality and three-dimensionality.

In my work, I seek out objects that have been left behind at the margins. I collect them, place them within new environments, and photograph them-sometimes in the studio, sometimes in public space. Through this process, I grant the photographed object a place, visibility, and validity. It is no longer merely a remnant; it reclaims its place in the world.

Through photography, I renegotiate the relationship between chance and choice, creating a sense of control and order within the world-even if only momentarily, and even if that sense is nothing more than an illusion”.

Lee Chiu Yeh

Rusa Makowski — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:11:42 +0000

Lee Chiu Yeh

Biography:

Lee Chiu Yeh, a Taiwanese artist based in New York, began her practice in traditional Chinese ink painting before transitioning into oil painting. Her work emerges from a multicultural context, where Eastern sensibilities and Western painterly traditions intersect to form a distinctive visual language.

Rooted in Chinese cultural heritage, Yeh’s early ink portraits reveal a refined sensitivity to human emotion and narrative. Her relocation to the United States—and subsequent recognition as an Extraordinary Ability artist—expanded her creative horizon, prompting an exploration of Western mediums and the integration of diverse aesthetic influences.

Yeh’s paintings are characterized by a poetic interplay between delicacy and intensity. She weaves together the soft fluidity of ink and the vivid chromatic depth of oil paint, creating compositions that resonate with emotional nuance. Nature serves as a recurring motif—wisteria blooms, canyon landscapes, koi fish, and animal forms—reflecting both her reverence for the natural world and her connection to traditional Chinese visual culture.

Her practice is marked by experimentation, incorporating mixed media, collage, and even architectural materials to push beyond conventional boundaries. This openness to material exploration enriches her work with layered textures, spatial depth, and unexpected visual contrasts.

Across both abstract and figurative modes, Yeh constructs dreamlike environments where movement and stillness coexist. These painterly landscapes invite viewers into a contemplative space, offering encounters that are at once intimate, atmospheric, and culturally resonant.

Through her continued inquiry into identity, place, and the natural world, Lee Chiu Yeh presents an artistic vision that is both deeply personal and universally evocative—one that expands the dialogue between cultures and mediums while inviting audiences into a realm of emotional and aesthetic reflection.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

1987

Learning Chinese painting as a student of Mr. Jinhuo Chang, who is a student of Master Zhaoshen Jiang.

Learning Chinese zhuan calligraphy as a student of Mr. Zequn Chen, who is a student of Master Xinyu Fu.

Learning Chinese calligraphy as a student of Master Tianwen Zhou.

Extending deep contact with the Taiwan aboriginal tribes to provide volunteer service.

1990

Won third award in National Youth Calligraphy and Painting Competition; by painting “Quiet ZhongShan Tomb”, collected by National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Go to Japan to take a sketch painting class.

1991

Won second award in National Youth Calligraphy and Painting Competition by painting “The Big Tree in Home Town”, collected by the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.

1992

Won the first award in the National College Calligraphy and Painting Competition, and was invited to the National Fine Arts Exhibition, Taiwan Province Exhibition, and Taipei County Exhibition. graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University. Went to Jiangsu Province, China, to ask for advice and instructions from Mr. Wenzhi Song, Mr. Zixi Wei, Mr. Dayu Chen, Mr. Baowen Fan, Mr. Yiming Feng, and Mr. Ming Ya.

1993

Landscape Painting Exhibition, Chung Ming Gallery Accepted by Mr. Baowen Fan, the Chairman of Hsu Beihong Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, as his formal student. Afterwards, I followed teacher Baowen Fan to sketch-paint around China.

1998

Visit Malaysia for sketching. Joint Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association.

2000

Greeted the visit of painters of Chinese painting from Jiangsu province of China. Starting the program of visiting Taiwan’s aboriginal tribes to take sketch paintings this year.

2001

Visited New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington DC, USA to take sketch painting

2003

Visited places in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto of Japan to take sketch painting.

2004

Go to the Philippines to visit the aboriginal tribes and take sketch painting

2005

Follow Teacher Baowen Fan to visit the Jianna area in China to take sketch painting.

2006

Go to the area around Yunnan, China, and visit the local minority tribes and take sketch painting.

2007

Attended PIMA seminar and had conversations with Mr. Albert VAEA, the Chairman of PIMA, to exchange opinions and experience, and Professor Sucui Ko of Queensland University, Australia. Joint Austronesian Development Association. Held an individual exhibition of heavy color ink painting by Lee-chiu Yeh.

2008

“Exhibition of Taiwan Indigenous People Culture Features in Color Ink Painting of Lee-chiu Yeh” held in the Taiwan area Fine Arts Museum, Museums, and Culture Museum. The major newspapers and TV stations carried reports on this exhibition.

2009

“Exhibition of Painting in Color Ink of Minority People Culture across the Taiwan Straits” in National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and “Artists” magazine had a special report on the exhibition.

2010

Individual Exhibition, Nan-ning City, Guan-xi Province, China

2011

Being assigned as a member of the appraisal committee for the 4th National Indigenous Children Painting and Creation Competition.

2012

EXTRAORDINARY ARTIST GREENCARD live in New York, USA

2018

Published in the Art Tour International Art shows in New York Fall Issue 2018 – Artists for a Green Planet”.

2020

Art Tour international art show in New York

2022

Art Tour international art show in New York

2023

Published in Art Tour International Art Shows in New York

2025

Honorable finalists in Circle Foundation for the Arts contest Published in the Circle Foundation for the Arts shows in France

2026

Honorable Mention in Circle Foundation for the Arts contest

Arts shows in the Louvre in Paris

Arts shows in the Parcus gallery

Arts shows in the Gallery Makowski Hong Kong

Arts shows in the Gallery Makowski New York

Arts shows in the Switzerland Zurich

Publications:

Heavy Color Ink Painting by Lee-chiu Yeh

Taiwan Indigenous People Culture Features in Color Ink Painting by Lee-chiu Yeh Color Ink Painting by Lee-chiu Yeh

Artworks are being collected by the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and museums in the USA, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York, Paris, France, Germany, Switzerland as well as by private collectors.

Statement:

“My work begins with observing nature and listening to the quiet passage of time. My early training in traditional Chinese ink painting taught me that emptiness and stillness are expressive forms in themselves. Living in the United States expanded my artistic vision, leading me toward abstraction as a language capable of expressing both the visible landscape and the invisible emotional terrain.

My Silent Horizons series is not intended to depict a specific place. Instead, it reflects my perception of the earth, light, and the accumulation of time. Expansive fields of color and richly textured surfaces resemble geological strata, preserving traces of memory while revealing the quiet rhythms of nature. The horizon becomes more than a boundary between land and sky—it becomes a threshold where memory, perception, and inner reflection meet.

Through repeated layering, scraping, and rebuilding, each painting records the passage of time within its material surface. Rather than offering a representation of the natural world, I seek to create contemplative spaces where viewers can slow down, reflect, and reconnect with both nature and themselves.

For me, painting is not about illustrating the world; it is about revealing the silent dialogue between time, memory, and the enduring spirit of the earth.

I see painting as a quiet dialogue between the visible and the invisible. My work invites viewers to slow down, to inhabit moments of contemplation, and to rediscover the profound connection between the human spirit and the living earth”.

H.A.T.H.A.I.R.A.T M.A.N.E.E.R.A.T

Rusa Makowski — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:41:59 +0000

H.A.T.H.A.I.R.A.T M.A.N.E.E.R.A.T

Biography:

Hathairat Maneerat is a Bangkok born, New York City based contemporary artist and former fashion designer. Her background in fashion design and formal training in painting have shaped a distinctive visual language, where confident line, structural form, and sculptural techniques merge seamlessly with contemporary figurative painting. Working primarily on wood panels, Hathairat builds richly textured surfaces using modeling paste, sand, and oil paint, creating sculptural relief that dissolves the boundary between painting and sculpture. Light, texture, and material become active elements within each composition, producing shifting visual experiences that evolve with the viewer’s perspective. The tactile quality of her work evokes an almost irresistible desire to experience the surface physically, while its durable construction reinforces themes of resilience, permanence, and transformation.

Describing her practice as Neo Psychological Surrealism, Hathairat explores the unseen architecture of the human mind through symbolic portraiture, layered surfaces, and immersive visual space. Her paintings merge contemporary figuration with surreal elements to examine memory, identity, resilience, and personal transformation. Recurring upward facing figures become symbols of hope, quiet strength, and the courage to rise beyond adversity, while organic forms and sculptural textures extend the emotional narrative beyond the limits of the traditional two-dimensional picture plane.

Drawing inspiration from both classical craftsmanship and contemporary expression, Hathairat creates works that exist between painting and sculpture, where materiality becomes inseparable from psychological storytelling. Each painting is conceived not simply as an image, but as an immersive experience that invites prolonged observation, revealing new relationships between texture, symbolism, perception, and emotion with every encounter

EDUCATION

New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Certificate of Fine Arts, 2024

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

Advanced Certificate in Painting (Expected 2027)

Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008
ESMOD Paris, Paris, France

Fashion Design, 2004

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2025

Art on Paper, New York, NY
One Art Space, New York, NY

2024

Spectrum Miami, Miami, FL
Agora Gallery, New York, NY

2023

Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Red Dot Miami, Miami, FL
Galleria La Pigna, Rome, Italy

Statement:

Hathairat Maneerat’s work exists where emotion becomes architecture, where psychology, beauty, and chaos collide. Rooted in her self-defined movement, Neo Psychological Surrealism, her paintings transform invisible patterns of thought into physical landscapes. Layer by layer, she constructs tension between control and eruption, serenity and storm, using sculptural surfaces that fuse fragility with strength. Her figures often emerge from fluid optical fields and luminous distortions, symbolizing the complexity of inner life. Each surface carries traces of time, memory, and resilience, evoking a state of consciousness suspended between reality and dream.

Hathairat’s practice questions what it means to be seen, to endure, and to reclaim power through beauty, where calm is never passive, and silence holds voltage.

Roman Imhof

Rusa Makowski — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:22:41 +0000

Roman Imhof

Biography:

The artist began painting oil paintings and portraits in youth and is largely self-taught. For approximately 13 years, painting has been a regular and integral part of the artist’s life. Over the past five years, the focus has shifted to abstract, figurative, and semi-abstract figurative art. Prior to this period, the artist created biblical illustrations in watercolor.

Professionally, the artist is a medical doctor and runs a hospital-based practice. Born in Germany on April 17, 1964, the artist continues to pursue an active artistic career alongside a medical profession. The artist lives and works in Bavaria, Germany. For the past five years, the artist’s work has been created in an abstract and semi-abstract figurative style. The artworks are developed digitally on an iPad and printed on canvas. To date, the artist has held one solo exhibition. Recently, participation in an art competition organized by Create! Magazine further expanded the artist’s exhibition experience. The artist is also an active member of an international online art gallery based in Paris.

Since 2013, the artist’s practice has evolved through several developmental phases, exploring a wide range of themes and series, including people, animals, sports, and nature.

Exhibitions & Art Fair:

Roman Imhof has participated in numerous exhibitions and is currently represented in New York and Hongkong by the Makowski Gallery.

Statement:

“Through its abstract composition, I invite the viewer to immerse themselves in the dynamic interplay of color and movement, experiencing the strength, harmony, and liveliness that this artwork brings to a space. The painting radiates both calmness and energy, creating a captivating visual experience”.

Alicja Górecki

Rusa Makowski — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:03:29 +0000

Alicja Górecki

Biography:

intermedia art and art therapy.

Connection between different media with the integration of natural elements.

The focus is on textiles, supplemented by drawing, writing, and also poetry and collage.

The aim is to explore the possibilities and limitations of different media, as well as the processes of change that are opened up by artistic activity.

Added to this is a reflective level with insights into artistic practice as a form of self-Care.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

Nov. 24: Rome „IL PORTE DELLE PAROLE“

Dec. 24: Milano „GIFTS OF ART“

Sept. 25: Chania/ Crete „NIGHT OF CONTEMPORARY“

Oct. 25: New York „INTERCONNECTING LINES“

May 26: Kuldīga / Latvia -> Artist Residency @studija Space

June 26: Vienna „HUNDRED SHADES OF PINK“

Jul/Aug 26: Marbella „ART WORLD MARBELLA“

Aug. 26: London „WOMEN IN ART BIENNALE“.

Statement:

“My work exists at the intersection of intermedia art, textile art, and art therapy. Through textiles, natural materials, drawing, writing, and poetic fragments, I create layered works that reveal traces of memory, transformation, and interconnectedness.

Transformation lies at the heart of my practice. Pre-loved and reclaimed materials are collected, deconstructed, and reassembled, allowing their histories to intertwine with questions of impermanence, identity, and the value of what remains.

My artistic research revolves around philosophical inquiries into the human condition—exploring body and mind, vulnerability and resilience, intimacy and estrangement. The creative process itself serves as a path of inquiry and a form of self-care: a space where thinking, feeling, and making enter into dialogue”.

Kamran Fallahpour

Rusa Makowski — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:38:52 +0000

Kamran Fallahpour

Biography:

Kamran Fallahpour, PhD, is a neuroscientist, sculptor, composer, and musician based in New York City. He works in various artistic media with a special focus on sculpture. His multidisciplinary background inspires him to create artwork that offers immersive, cross-modal experiences for the viewer. His most recent work, Arrival: Consciousness at the Edge of Chaos (2023), exemplifies this artistry. To accompany the large bronze sculpture, Fallahpour composed original music that extend the sculpture’s narrative into the realm of sound and invites the audience to experience the piece on multiple sensory levels.

Fallahpour’s work has been exhibited in several venues and is part of private collections across the United States and Europe.

Medium & Process

Fallahpour frequently works with plaster and applies it to steel rods and frames. This method introduces an element of spontaneity and a sense of urgency to his creative process as he must shape the piece quickly before the plaster dries. Fallahpour draws inspiration in the moment from this dynamic process and the tactile sensation of the plaster, allowing the work to organically evolve in real-time and give rise to stylized sculpted figures. Reduced to their most basic and minimal form, his sculptures convey subtle but powerful expressions that evoke depth beneath their simplicity.

Neuroscience

Fallahpour’s interest and professional training in neuroscience and psychology add an additional layer to his work as he utilizes art as a medium for exploring themes related to the fragility of human nature, resilience, stillness, transcendance, and plasticity of perception. His work also explores the boundaries between opposing forces—order and chaos, music and noise, form and formlessness—and how meaning can be found from their interplay.

Central to his artistic vision is this recursive idea of mutual transformation: the artist changes their medium to create art and in turn, the finished work changes both the artist and the viewer.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

Plasticity of Perception

September 8 – October 23, 2016

Opening reception:
September 15

The exhibition – Plasticity of Perception – is his first public show with Capture Gallery in NYC.

555 WEST 25th STREET GROUND FL WEST
NEW YORK, NY 10001

L’artists muses at 13 space

October 1, 2017: 1-11 pm

13 Greenpoint Ave Brooklyn, NY 11222

Statement:

“My artistic practice emerges from a lifelong fascination with transformation—how matter becomes form, how perception becomes meaning, and how moments of stillness can reveal something essential about the human experience.

Working primarily in sculpture, I am drawn to the tension between opposing forces: order and chaos, structure and spontaneity, permanence and impermanence. Many of my pieces begin with simple materials—plaster, steel, bronze—yet the creative process itself is often unpredictable. The immediacy of working with plaster requires rapid decisions and an openness to discovery. Rather than imposing a fixed outcome, I allow the material to participate in the evolution of the work, revealing forms that emerge through gesture, intuition, and chance.

My background in neuroscience has deeply influenced this approach. Both science and art seek to understand how we construct reality from incomplete information. As a neuroscientist, I study the remarkable plasticity of the human brain; as an artist, I explore the plasticity of perception itself. I am interested in the spaces between certainty and ambiguity, where the mind actively participates in creating meaning.

The human figure appears frequently in my work, often reduced to its most essential elements. These simplified forms are not portraits of specific individuals but reflections of universal human states: vulnerability, resilience, longing, contemplation, connection, and transcendence. By stripping away unnecessary detail, I hope to create space for viewers to encounter their own experiences within the work.

Increasingly, my practice has expanded beyond sculpture into multisensory experiences that combine visual form, music, and sound. I am interested in how different sensory modalities interact and how art can become a meeting place between what we see, hear, feel, and imagine. Works such as Arrival: Consciousness at the Edge of Chaos extend sculptural narratives into sound, inviting viewers to engage with the work through multiple dimensions of perception.

Ultimately, my work is an exploration of mutual transformation. The artist changes the material, the material changes the artist, and the completed work continues its journey by transforming those who encounter it. In this sense, art is not an object but a relationship—a living dialogue between form, perception, and consciousness”.

Dalia Nosratabadi

Rusa Makowski — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:23:09 +0000

Dalia Nosratabadi

Biography:

Dalia Nosratabadi, born in Teheran, has chosen a very changing and indiscernible subject: water. Not the sea or canals and rivers which are much loved in photography, but its most unpredictable, fleeting and insignificant – even impure – form: puddles of rainwater, neglected and avoided by the rush of passers-by. Emotions are of prime importance and, apart from certain well-known urban symbols, it is often difficult to identify what is being presented. Although New York, Paris, Brussels and Tokyo are easily recognized, there are many indications which upset our certitudes, forcing us to accept the unexpected. After all, snow may transform itself into clouds and mud may reinvent the Eiffel Tower.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2025
Galerie Seed Factory, Brussels – Belgium
Red Dot Art fair, Miami USA
Caroussel du Louvre, Paris – France
Uccle centre d’art, Brussels – Belgium

2024
Galerie Seed Factory, Brussels – Belgium
Uccle centre d’art, Brussels – Belgium

2023

Galerie Seed Factory, Brussels – Belgium

Uccle centre d’art, Brussels – Belgium

2022
Galerie Johanne Riss collaboration with Alice on the Roof, Brussels – Belgium
Renting Art, Paris – France
Uccle Centre d’art, Brussels – Belgium

2021
Galerie du Bihotza, Saint -Jean De Luz – France
Renting Art, Paris – France
What Galerie, Waterloo – Belgium
Balthasar, Brussels Belgium
Uccle centre d’art, Brussels – Belgium

2020
Gallery Bihotza, Saint -Jean De Luz – France
Partnership with Pulmann hotel Roissy – France

2019
Gallery Arnaud Roger, Brussels – Belgium
Gallery Bihotza, Saint – Jean De Luz – France

2018
Degroof Petercam Bank, Gosselies – Belgium
Gaudi Art gallery, Madrid – Spain
Art 3f Paris, Contemporary Art Fair with Gaudi Art Gallery, Paris – France

2017
Degroof Petercam Bank Namur – Belgium
Ten Gallery, Knokke – Belgium

2016
AAF at Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels – Belgium
Gallery Rivoli, Brussels – Belgium
Jeux d’hiver, Brussels – Belgium

Bart Brussels, Brussels – Belgium
Emile Dujard Gallery, Brussels – Belgium
Art Under Construction, Brugge – Belgium

2015
Gallery Rivoli Brussels
Quai 26, Lille – France
Galerie Büchi Bjornsen, Monaco
L’Art pour l’Accueil, Brussels – Belgium

2014
Gallery Bortone, Paris – France
Off Art Fair / Brussels – Belgium
Galerie Borato Bortonne / Paris – France

2013
Financière de Courcelles / Paris – France
Winston & Strawn / Paris – France

2012
Jewish Museum of Belgium, Selected by Bozar in the bienal “Summer of
photography” / Brussels – Belgium
OFF Art Fair / Brussels – Belgium
AAF NY / New York – USA

2011
Gallery Lierhmann / Liège – Belgium
SF Fine Art Fair / San Fransisco – USA
Gallery Collection Privé / Cannes – France
BACC Bangkok Art Cultural Center / Bangkok – Thailand
Truc Troc Bozar / Brussels – Belgium

2010
Gallery Antonio Nardonne / Brussels – Belgium
The Joan McLoughlin Gallery / San Fransisco – USA

Selected for the national art show « Canvas collectie / La Collection RTBF »
Bozar / Brussels – Belgium
Truc Troc Bozar / Brussels – Belgium
Lineart, Flanders / Gand – Belgium (with Absolute Art Gallery)

2009
Gallery Antonio Nardonne / Brussels – Belgium
Gallery Pierre Mahaux / Megève – France
Absolute Art Gallery / Knokke – Belgium
Women art show / Brussels – Belgium
Truc troc Bozar / Brussels – Belgium
Fthegallery / Amsterdam – Hollande
Galerie Berkowitsch / Sain Paul de Vence – France
Lineart, Flanders / Gand – Belgium (with Absolute Art Gallery)

2008
Sibony Art Gallery / Paris – France
Absolute Art Gallery / Knokke & Bruges – Belgium
Art London Fair / London – United Kingdom
Leonhard’s Gallery / Antwerp – Belgium
Truc troc Bozar / Brussels – Belgium
Lineart, Flanders Expo / Gand – Belgium (with Absolute Art Gallery)
Lille Art Fair / Lille – France (with Absolute Art Gallery)

2007
Toast Gallery / Paris – France
Truc troc Bozar / Brussels – Belgium
Boycott Art Gallery / Brussels – Belgium
Lineart, Flanders Expo / Gand – Belgium (with Absolute Art Gallery)

2006
Public auction – Embassy of Luxembourg / Brussels – Belgium
ARTEspace – Brussels / Bruxelles
MUBI Museum / Sao Paulo – Brasil
Toast Gallery / Paris – France
Boycott Art Gallery / Brussels – Belgium

2005
Contemporary Art Fair Tour&Taxi / Brussels – Belgium
Appartement Gallery / New York – USA
Boycott Art Gallery / Brussels – Belgium
Subway Rogier & Schuman / Brussels – Belgium

Statement:

“After my studies on painting I’ve traveled, and I’ve started taking pictures first in NY. The camera became a tool like the pencil on a canvas. I focus on the colors, the textures and the graphics without thinking about representation. I’ve wanted to find a new way of showing a city. With a big place of hazard (weather, wind, scene of life…) I’ve started playing with.
In contrast to photography which immortalizes a second of life, I want to give the feeling of movement and sort of timelessness.
My subject is water vibration. The cities’ s reflections under the rain. I like the idea of fugitive, evasive and uncontrollable. I have a very short moment to take the picture, after the rain, before the water goes out. When the picture is done I frame it upside down (that’s why the title of my
book, Tectum edition) to question my interlocutor.
I think as much as the picture is large, as much is interesting because we can see all details of texture and graphical better: A piece of snow become a cloud, a walker take place and a leave become monumental!
I enjoy to arrive in a city and to get lost, I want to give a new vision of the places as it’s new for me. My inspiration come from the discovery of culture
and urban scene”.

Noa Ry

Rusa Makowski — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:20:48 +0000

Noa Ry

Biography:

Born in 1979, Noa Ry grew up in a small town in the Swiss canton of Aargau, in a commune woven from the lives of her extended family. Today, she lives in Zurich. It was her stepfather’s work with computers in the 1980s that quietly opened a path—one that would lead her to explore the fragile, shifting relationship between humans and technology.

At sixteen, she entered art school in Zurich. By twenty, Noa Ry had completed her Bachelor of Arts, and by twenty-seven, a Master’s degree in Cultural and Gender Studies at ZHdK Zurich. This period of study left a deep imprint on her perception of the world—her inspiration rooted not outside, but within the architecture of her own mind.

Living with schizoaffective disorder, Noa Ry moves through realities layered beyond the visible. She hears voices, sees what others do not, and experiences the world as distortion—colliding, splintering, dissolving into a thousand fragments, much like identity itself. What may appear as rupture holds, at the same time, a hidden potential. Through persistence, she has come to recognize this multiplicity as a source—both fragile and powerful—of artistic creation.

For over three decades, Noa Ry has explored the unstable threshold where the human and the technological converge. Her concept of the “DIVORG”—a dividing organism—extends Donna Haraway’s „Cyborg Manifesto“, reflecting the fractured, fluid condition of the digital age.

And so at the core of Noa Ry’s work lies a question: how do humans and technology shape one another?

Her practice spans robotic art, sculptures, sculptural paintings, digitally drawn works, animations, videos, and installations. Moving fluidly between analogue and digital forms of expression, she experiments with combining and transforming different media. In doing so, her work dissolves the boundaries between the physical and the virtual. Through this approach, Noa Ry strives to question and transcend the divisions between formats, media, individuals, and society—ultimately surrendering to the creative process itself.

She does not approach technology with fear, but with curiosity. For her, art is a way of facing the future—of entering it, questioning it, and shaping it.

Again and again, she returns to a constellation of questions:

Who created whom?

Where will this merging lead us?

Is technology becoming a new form of belief?

Are we drowning in machines—or being remade through them?

What, now, does “nature” mean?

Noa Ry’s work does not offer answers. Instead, it reflects—like a fractured mirror—the condition of the 21st century, where humanity and technology are no longer separate, but entangled in a continuous process of becoming.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2026

Context Art Miami, with Gallery Makowski, USA
Tokyo Art Fair, Japan
Representation at Gallery Makowski, New York, USA (6 months)
Exhibition at General Assembly Gallery, London, UK
Exhibition at Chaos Gallery, London, UK
“Art House Show,” DNA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition, Holy Art Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Barcelona, Spain
Group Exhibition, Espazio Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibition, Gallery Azur, Miami, USA (1 month)
Publication: Top Investable Artists 2026 Hardcover Edition

2025

Group Exhibition, Boomer Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibition, Bizart at Gallery Art & Business, Zurich, Switzerland
Award Winner: El Greco Fine Arts Award (ICM Gestora Cultural Board, Spain)
Award Winner: Collectors Art Prize: Art Legends of Our Time
Group Exhibition, Gallery Azur, RED DOT Miami Art Basel, USA
Group Exhibition, Gallery Artifact2, LA Art Show, USA
Publication: Tagblatt Zurich City Newspaper
Group Exhibition, Photobastei / Gallery Bizart, Zurich, Switzerland

2024

Publication: AATONAU Magazine
Group Exhibition, Artavita Gallery, RED DOT Miami Art Basel, USA
Group Exhibition, MEMA Barcelona, Spain
Group Exhibition, Art International Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibition, Art Expo New York, USA
Publication: World Art Guide 2023

2023

“Underneath” & “Underneath Animated,” Monaco Art Fair, Monaco
“Underneath” (Print), Times Square, New York, USA
“Animalis, Golden Age and Web,” Times Square, New York, USA
LA Art Show / Miami / New York (digital), Gallery Artifact, USA
Publication: World Art Guide 2023

2022

Focus Art Fair, Carousel du Louvre, Paris, France
DIVORG Animation, Capital Culture House, Monaco
Publication: Art Vue Prize Summer Magazine
Award Winner: Most Original Idea (Bruxelles Art Vue)
“Holding Together,” MADS Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
Canvas International Art Fair, Venice, Italy
Group Exhibition, Madrid, Spain
Artscloud Digital Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
VR Exhibition “Clash,” Holy Art Gallery, London, UK

2021

Publication: NNC Gallery VWorld Art Magazine
“Locked In,” Artfield, Paris, France
VR Exhibition, Capital Culture House, Madrid, Spain
Video Art “The Wall” — 3rd Prize, TMF Gallery, Switzerland
“Golden Age,” Haarwerkstatt, Zurich, Switzerland

2020

FAT Art Fair, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Artbox Project Zurich 2.0, Swiss Art Expo

2017

Exhibition, Neuzeit Ruinen, Zurich, Switzerland

Statement:

“In my works, if you encounter what you call “mistakes,” it is only the inability to see the possibility within them. Take another angle. Think further, differently— and an entirely new perspective begins to unfold. For these “errors” are the very soul of storytelling”.

Ildiko Sopronfalvi

Rusa Makowski — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:05:14 +0000

Ildiko Sopronfalvi

Biography:

Ildiko Sopronfalvi (b. 1976, Hungary) is a Hungarian fashion, beauty, and portrait photographer recognized for her emotionally resonant and visually striking imagery. Originally trained in civil engineering at the Technical University of Budapest, she pursued her passion for photography at the Academy Deutsche Pop in Stuttgart, Germany, graduating as a photo designer in 2017. Since then, she has worked on international fashion campaigns for designers such as Babe yond Vintage Couture New York, Nagea Eco-Fashion Hungary, Viola Ballin Berlin, and Aurora Folk Glamour Hungary, as well as beauty and cosmetics campaigns featured in European and

American publications. An AFIAP photographer (2023), Sopronfalvi has earned multiple awards in FIAP and PSA competitions, including a PSA Gold Medal. She also leads workshops and masterclasses,

mentoring emerging photographers in both technical skills and creative vision.

Her work emphasizes color, contrast, texture, and form, blending aesthetic elegance with socially relevant narratives. “I shoot with heart and soul, shaping concepts weeks before pressing the shutter, striving for perfection in every frame.”

Professional Overview:

Editorial & Commercial Campaigns

Over the past decade, Sopronfalvi has collaborated with international brands and designers, producing fashion, beauty, and lifestyle imagery that blends editorial storytelling with fine art. Notable campaigns include Babeyond Vintage Couture New York, Nagea Eco-Fashion Hungary and Aurora FolkGlamour Hungary, Viola Ballin Berlin, Aden Cosmetics, with her work featured in leading magazines across New York, Paris, and Berlin.

Awards & Recognition

Her photography has received international acclaim in FIAP and PSA competitions, including multiple special awards, a PSA Gold Medal, and selection for juried exhibitions and curated showcases throughout Europe.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

Exhibitions & Conceptual Projects

In 2020, she curated the socially engaged installation “Plastic or Fashion?” in Budapest, exploring sustainability through creative fashion and performance art. In 2025, her Wounded World series was exhibited at Hotel Bristol, Budapest, reflecting on war, environmental crises, and humanity’s resilience. Both projects highlight her commitment to concept-driven photography and her ability to engage audiences with socially relevant narratives.

Education, Workshops & Mentorship

Sopronfalvi regularly leads fashion photography workshops, masterclasses, and portfolio intensives in Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna, mentoring emerging photographers in technical skills, visual concept development, and creative confidence.

Professional Philosophy

As an AFIAP photographer (2023), she approaches photography with the belief that it is “made with the eye, the heart, and the mind.” Her work merges beauty, narrative depth, and cultural relevance, evolving at the intersection of fashion, portraiture, and concept-driven photography.

PHOTO AWARDS:

PSA Gold medal Altius circuit:

Architecture romance (2020)

Gold medal Hungarian Mafosz photo award:

Tears for mankind (2022)

Jury silver choice certificate, Altius circuit 2021: African vision (2017)

Certificate of Merit, Fiap Limelight Photosalon, India: Balett dancer (2020)

HM Salon Medal – Focal Point circuit 2021, Portugal: Golden Tourban (2017)

HM Salon Medal, Focal Point circuit 2021, Portugal: African woman (2017)

Salon Bronze Medal, NSAPK Circuit 2021, Podgorica, Serbia : African dreams (2017)

HM Bronze Medal, Portugal 2022, 4th International Exhibition for Photography: Black or pink (2017)

Salon Bronze Medal, NSAPK circuit 2021, Serbia: African dreams (2017)

IPAS PRAISE MEDAL Portrait 2022, Haifa Awards: Red circulation (2021)

EXHIBITIONS

2025: Wounded World Budapest Hotel Bristol

2023: Artbox New York, „Black or pink”

2023: Artbox Basel, „Tears and faces”, „Girl with birds”

2022: Group photo exhibition, Berlin Indie heads Gallery

2021: & quot; Plastic world & quot; Photo Exhibition, Agora, Budapest

2020: & quot; Plastic world & quot; Photo exhibition and fashion show, Budapest H13 Gallery

2020: GURUSHOTS Ljubjana “Black or pink”

Statement:

“My work explores the intersection of fashion, beauty, and humanity, reflecting on emotion, narrative, and social issues through photography”.

Yasmine Musallam

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Yasmine Musallam

Biography:

Yasmine Musallam (b. 1976) is a Lebanese – American senior interior architect and photographer. She graduated from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in 2001 with a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures (DES) en Architecture d’Intérieur.

Since 2009, she has worked with Y000 Design and Photographic Art and as Senior Interior Architect with Indigo DSPP. From 2003 to 2009, she worked at Dar Al-Handasah in the Interior Architecture Unit, contributing to major international projects including Dubai International Airport, Hurghada International Airport, the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani, and the American University of Beirut Hospital. Earlier, she worked with Malek Mahmassani Architectural Practice in Lebanon and completed an internship in textile design at the French Cultural Centre in Lebanon with Claude Mabélé. Her photographic work has been nominated for the 2025 Photographer of the Year Contest (Exposure One Awards), the 2025 World Photo Annual (Refocus Awards), and the 2026 One Shot Photo Contest (Exposure One Awards).

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2009 – Present | Y000 Design and Photographic Art

2009 – Present | Indigo DSPP

Senior Interior Architect

2003 – 2009 | Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners)

Architecture Department – Interior Architecture Unit

Responsibilities

In charge of interior architecture design, detailing, and coordination for the following projects:

Bones and Joints Hospital — Saudi Arabia
The Pearl – Giardino Villas — Qatar
Horizonte Hotel — Angola
American University of Iraq at Sulaimani — Iraq
Concourse 2, Dubai International Airport — United Arab Emirates
Transit and Vehicle National Directorate — Luanda, Angola
Dubai Exhibition City at Dubai World Central – Dubai World Trade Center (DWTC) Exhibition Facility — United Arab Emirates
New Terminal Building at Sharm El-Sheikh Airport — Egypt
Dubai World Central – Dubai Logistics City (DLC) Headquarters and Office Park — United Arab Emirates
Hurghada International Airport – Terminal Building and Landside Facilities — Egypt
President Al-Saleh Commercial Complex — Yemen
Terminal 3, Dubai International Airport — United Arab Emirates
National Library — Luanda, Angola
Dubai International Airport Expansion (Phase 2) – Concourse 3 — United Arab Emirates
Sana’a International Airport Development Project – International Terminal Building — Yemen
Medical Design Services at the American University of Beirut Hospital (AUH) — Lebanon
- Established standard finishes for all facility areas
Paediatric Hospital and Emergency Department at King Hussein Medical Centre (KHMC) — Amman, Jordan
Royal Airwing at Dubai International Airport — United Arab Emirates
Development of King Abdul Aziz Endowment for the Two Holy Mosques — Saudi Arabia
South Oil Headquarters Project — Basra, Iraq
Ahmad Baha’addine Cultural Centre Project — Egypt

2002 – 2003 | Malek Mahmassani Architectural Practice, Lebanon

Interior Designer

Selected Projects

HRH Prince Saud Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Apartment — Beirut Central District, Lebanon
Lebanese Stock Market — Beirut Central District, Lebanon
Adel Hamieh Roof Apartment — Chimlan, Lebanon
Bishr Al-Haffar’s Apartment — Beirut Central District, Lebanon
Elie Semaan Villa — Adma, Lebanon
Fadlo Touma’s Building — Ashrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon
Mahmassani’s Apartment — Verdun, Beirut, Lebanon
Sheikh Abdallah Al-Athel’s Duplex — Lebanon

2001 – 2002 | French Cultural Centre, Lebanon

Internship with Claude Mabélé – Textile Design

Awards Nominations in photographic art:

Award-nominated for the 2025 Photographer of the Year Contest, Exposure One Awards. Black and White photography, abstract.
Award-nominated for the World Photo Annual, Refocus Awards, 2025.
Award-nominated for the One Shot Photo Contest, Exposure One Awards, 2026.

Statement:

“I believe that revealing the beauty of nature is essential to inspiring the protection and conservation of all living species. As a designer, I began photographing project models to create realistic visualizations of building skins and interior spaces.

Nature has always been my source of inspiration; a place where I draw and paint, photograph, and learn to see the world differently”.