Trevor K. Shimizu

Trevor K. Shimizu (born 1978) is an American visual artist, known for his work as both a painter and video artist. His work is often described as performative in nature because Shimizu uses stories and fantasies from his everyday life as source material for paintings. Since the 1990s, he has made works that focus on self-presentation, often in humorous and self-effacing ways. He lives in Long Island City.

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. Odita is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.

Odili Odita is a Professor in Painting, Drawing & Sculpture at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and is represented by the David Kordansky Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, and the Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.

Marc Handelman

Marc Handelman (b. 1975) is a visual artist and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York.  Handelman’s works explore the afterlives of the genre of landscape, often where they intersect with the ideological legacies of American Landscape painting. Their work has drawn from sources and research from art history, colonial archives, imperial botany, and contemporary image culture to consider questions of who and what belongs, what is native or invasive, and who or what is deemed naturalized or deviant in the violent grammar and hierarchies of social, legal and political life. Handelman is an Associate Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Sasha Gordon

Sasha Gordon’s (b. 1998) her luminous, hyperrealistic paintings, often render her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision and rigor, the artist’s visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as a kind of unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience.

Gordon was born in Somers, New York and received a BA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, presented a solo exhibition of Gordon’s work, titled “Surrogate Self,” from 2023 to 2024. Other recent solo presentations include “The Flesh Disappears, but Continues to Ache,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2023); “Hands of Others,” Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022); and “Enters Thief,” Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021).

Her work has been included in group presentations including “Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration,” The Jewish Museum, New York (2024), and “Heroic Bodies,” Rudolph Tegners Museum og Statuepark, Dronningmølle, Denmark (2022). From 2023 to 2025, a work by Gordon was part of “Love Languages,” a thematic collection display installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Cynthia Daignault

Cynthia Daignault lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where she was born and raised. She received her degree from Stanford University, and has presented solo exhibitions and projects at many major museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and White Columns. Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Walker Center for Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Daignault is a regularly published author, and editor of numerous publications. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a 2016 Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Award, a 2011 Rema Hort Foundation Award, and a 2010 MacDowell Artist Fellowship. In fall of 2026, she will present a new monumental commission at the ICA Boston. 

Jennifer Coates

Jennifer Coates is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY, and Lakewood, PA. Most recently, she presented a solo booth with High Noon Gallery at the Chicago Art Expo (2026); had a solo show entitled “This Compost” at Tyler Park Presents in LA (2025); and mounted “Edge Effects,” a solo show spanning two galleries in NYC at High Noon and Chart Galleries (2024). She has been included in notable group shows at the Brooklyn Museum; Acquavella Galleries (NYC and Palm Beach); Bates College Museum of Art; Eric Firestone Gallery; the Georgia Museum of Art, among many others. 

She has been a recipient of the John Koch Art Award in Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a NYFA Award in painting; a Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation; a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency; and the Stewart/Macmillan Endowed Chair in Painting Award from Maryland Institute College of Art. 

Her work has been written about in publications including The Observer, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Bomb Magazine, the Huffington Post, Art News and Smithsonian Journeys. 

Recent paintings and writing will be featured in the forthcoming book “Nature into Art: Landscape Then and Now” by Marcia B. Hall and Dana Prescott, published by Brepols in the Harvey Miller Art History series.