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art tunji adeniyi jones young artist

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, a 33-year-old London-born, Brooklyn-based artist, is featured in CULTURED's 2025 Young Artists list. He contributed a luminous ceiling painting to the Nigerian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and his work is represented by White Cube and held in collections including the Dallas Museum of Art and Pérez Art Museum Miami. In the profile, he discusses his painting "Dance in Heat," his influences (including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Bob Thompson), and his interest in starting a clothing line.

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art lauren quin young artist

Pace Gallery announced representation of Los Angeles-based painter Lauren Quin in August 2024, following a solo show of her manic, neon-tinged abstractions at its downtown offshoot 125 Newbury. Quin, age 33, is slated for a solo exhibition at Pace's Los Angeles outpost opening in January. In an interview, she discusses her creative process, the struggle behind works like "Cub Cross," and her dream of building a sauna gallery in her backyard.

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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 ali eyal young artist

Ali Eyal, a 31-year-old artist based in Los Angeles, was featured in CULTURED's 2025 Young Artists list. His multidisciplinary practice addresses the violence he and his family experienced from the U.S. military during his upbringing in Baghdad in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as what he calls 'the after war.' His work uses grotesque, cartoonish figures to depict state violence, and he cites pieces like his video installation *Tonight's Programme* and a planned reconstruction of his father's burned car as central to his practice. Eyal was a standout in the latest Istanbul Biennial and the Hammer Museum's 2025 'Made in L.A.' exhibition.

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art lorenzo amos young artist

Lorenzo Amos, a 23-year-old painter based in New York, held his debut solo exhibition at Gratin gallery last fall. The show featured paintings that blend Abstract Expressionist mark-making with the composed clarity of David Hockney portraits, all rooted in the intimate space of his living room-studio. Amos describes his approach as "Material Realism," where image and paint become inseparable, and his work as "painting about painting." He cites his friend Alex as a key influence, emphasizing the freedom found in imperfection.

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art tidawhitney lek young artist

Tidawhitney Lek, a 33-year-old first-generation Cambodian American artist based in Long Beach, CA, is profiled in CULTURED's 2025 Young Artists list. Her densely layered, brightly colored paintings collapse distinctions between interior and exterior, past and present, and foreground and background, reflecting her life and heritage. She gained attention at the Hammer Museum's "Made in L.A." biennial in 2023 and has upcoming shows at Victoria Miro in London and Art Basel Miami Beach with Night Gallery. The profile highlights her painting "Refuge," currently at the Henry Art Gallery, which depicts a bomb exploding outside a home and addresses themes of disconnect, erasure, violence, and generational trauma.

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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 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 erin calla watson young artist

Cultured magazine profiles Los Angeles-based artist Erin Calla Watson as part of its 2025 Young Artists list. Watson, age 32, gained attention for her 2023 solo exhibition at Foxy Production in New York—the gallery's final show—where she manipulated 15 images from the iconic 1975–76 exhibition "New Topographics" by inserting the likeness of Australian supermodel Jordan Barrett. The project was critically acclaimed and sparked renewed discussion about the gallery's closure. Watson, who now shows with Ehrlich Steinberg in Los Angeles, continues to create ghostly, darkly humorous images that draw from internet subcultures like the "manosphere" to explore suburban gothic aesthetics.

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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 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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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 justin emmanuel dumas young artist

Cultured magazine profiles 31-year-old Pittsburgh-based artist Justin Emmanuel Dumas as part of its 2025 Young Artists list. Dumas creates what he calls 'painting-shaped objects' that challenge traditional notions of painting, often incorporating wear and tear, slouching forms, and surfaces that peel outward. His work, including the piece 'Détrompe Warp' from his graduate thesis, explores infrastructural decay and renewal on both citywide and intimate scales. Dumas has exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, and his practice involves using tools like a heat gun and improv techniques learned from his aunt, Sandy Dowe.

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art alice bucknell young artist

Alice Bucknell, a 32-year-old artist based in Los Angeles, is featured in CULTURED's 2025 Young Artists list. Bucknell creates video games and films that explore ecological and political themes, such as a recent work examining Los Angeles from the perspective of its rivers and non-human inhabitants to critique drought politics. They have held residencies at CERN and the New Museum's NEW INC, and founded New Mystics, a digital platform blending magic and technology. Upcoming projects include the game "Earth Engine" and its film component "Ground Truthing," which uses climate data to shape an evolving game world where Earth is the main player.

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art selma selman young artist

Selma Selman, a 34-year-old artist based in New York, Berlin, and Amsterdam, is featured in Cultured's 2025 Young Artists list. Growing up in a Roma community in Bosnia, she helped her family strip precious metals from discarded items at their scrapyard—a ritual she now performs at venues like MoMA PS1 and the Venice Biennale, melting down the metal to create sculptures that explore value, labor, and exchange. She has participated in Manifesta 14, Documenta 15, and the 2025 Istanbul Biennial. In the interview, she discusses her professor Veso Sovilj, her foundation Get the Heck to School that supports Roma girls' education, and an upcoming performance destroying a Mercedes-Benz as a tribute to her late father.

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art mimi park young artist

Mimi Park, a 29-year-old South Korean artist based in New York, creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore themes of responsibility, care, and value. Her recent work at SculptureCenter, titled “Dahlia,” consisted of recycled shredded paper arranged in a firework shape that viewers inadvertently destroyed within minutes of the opening—a process she embraced as part of the artwork's evolution. Park has also shown at Bard’s Hessel Museum and Sebastian Gladstone, and her practice includes handmade robots, dust, and seedlings.

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art coumba samba young artist

Coumba Samba, a 25-year-old artist based in New York, is featured in Cultured's 2025 Young Artists list. Her recent installation at Kunsthalle Basel uses 176 steel poles spaced four inches apart to evoke the U.S.-Mexico border wall, referencing policies from the George W. Bush and Trump administrations. Born in New York and partly raised in Senegal, Samba creates work about the permeability and absurdity of international borders. Her show “Red Gas” at Arcadia Missa incorporates found home radiators painted with colors from a photo of former Senegalese President Macky Sall shaking hands with Vladimir Putin at the 2023 Russia-Africa Summit, blending abstraction with global politics.

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art asher lifrin young artist

Asher Liftin, a 27-year-old New York-based artist, is profiled as part of Cultured's 2025 Young Artists list. He gained early recognition at age 12 when Wes Anderson selected his artwork for the film *Moonrise Kingdom*. Liftin now creates trompe l'oeil paintings that resemble tapestries but are actually finely rendered pointillist compositions inspired by art-historical still lifes and history paintings. He holds degrees in cognitive science and visual art, and cites graffiti artist Christian Aldunate as a key early influence.

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