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art cherrie yu young artist

Cultured magazine profiles Cherrie Yu, a 30-year-old artist based in New York who grew up in Xi'an and Wuxi, China. Yu creates videos, performances, and prints that examine the relationship between everyday movement, dance, labor, and play. Notable works include 'Trisha and Homer' (2018), which juxtaposes a 1986 solo by choreographer Trisha Brown with the movements of a mopping maintenance worker, and 'Wrestling Study' (2017), a video reenacting a wrestling match in Chicago traffic. Yu cites mentor Bryan Saner, a woodworker and performer, as a key influence on their understanding of the laboring body as the dancing body.

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art witt fetter young artist

Cultured magazine profiles 31-year-old artist Witt Fetter as part of its 2025 Young Artists list. Based in New York and originally from Los Angeles, Fetter is known for paintings that reimagine surreal American scenes—such as the White House Situation Room, a Titanic-shaped inflatable slide, and a false missile alert sign—bathed in a distinctive violet-blue haze. Her work has been featured at Fierman and Derosia galleries, and she describes her practice as motivated by grief, desire, and faith, often exploring the tension between personal mythology and broader cultural contexts. The profile includes her reflections on a self-portrait titled *Diana, 2022*, inspired by a photograph of Princess Diana, and her tribute to her grandfather, who taught her to paint and whose technique of using a violet undercoat she continues.

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art luz carabano young artist

Luz Carabaño, a 30-year-old Venezuelan-born artist based in Los Angeles, is featured in Cultured's 2025 Young Artists list. Known for her small, candy-hued canvases with glossy, imperfect surfaces, Carabaño's work has attracted attention from galleries such as Nina Johnson, Lulu, Hoffman Donahue, and April April. In the profile, she discusses her creative process, including a formative painting called 'araña' made from a bandsaw offcut, her admiration for writer John Berger, and her reliance on a single palette knife. She also expresses a dislike for iPad art and names her dream dinner party guests: Natalia Goncharova, Luchita Hurtado, and Etel Adnan.

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art kye christensen knowles young artist

Kye Christensen-Knowles, a 32-year-old figurative painter based in New York, is featured in Cultured's 2025 Young Artists list. A recent solo exhibition at Lomex in New York showcased his range, from unnerving contemporary society portraits to epic science-fiction scenes. His work is also on view in a group show at the Warehouse, a private museum in Dallas. In an interview, he discusses his readymade work "Painting" (2019–23), a studio rug covered in accumulated paint, and cites influences such as Vito Acconci and Louise Bourgeois.

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art shen xin young artist

Shen Xin, a 35-year-old artist based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and Portree, Isle of Skye, is featured in Cultured's 2025 Young Artists list. Born in Chengdu, China, Shen earned an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2014 and centers their practice on language, personal history, myth, and scientific research through moving image, performance, and writing. Their work has been exhibited at the Swiss Institute, Walker Art Center, and through December 21 at Edinburgh's Collective. The profile highlights their recent 16mm black-and-white film "Bearing Fruit of Fondness," developed using leaves from a cotoneaster plant on the Isle of Skye, which explores mother-child patterns and belonging.

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art jesus hilarios reyes young artist

Cultured profiles Jesús Hilario-Reyes, a 29-year-old New York-based artist who describes themself as “anti-disciplinary,” working across performance, sound, video, and sculpture. Inspired by queer rave culture, migration, Western carnivals, and Puerto Rico’s hurricane-worn mangrove forests, they have performed at Documenta, the Kitchen, Gladstone Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In the interview, Hilario-Reyes discusses key influences from graduate school teachers, the importance of spontaneity and presence in their practice, and their underrated studio tool—an electrical die grinder.

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