25 of 2025: 5 Painters Who’ve Been Catching Our Eye

Artnet News spotlights five emerging painters who have defined 2025, including Pol Taburet and Maja Ruznic. Taburet, a Parisian artist born in 1997, has seen rapid institutional success with solo shows at Lafayette Anticipations and Longlati Foundation, and his auction prices have soared—his large-scale painting "Buried on a Sunday" achieved $156,000 at Sotheby's. Ruznic, a Bosnian-born painter based in New Mexico, blends abstraction and figuration with spiritual and folkloric themes; her work was a standout at the 2024 Whitney Biennial, and she is represented by CFA Berlin and Karma Gallery.