Neïl Beloufa was born in 1985 in Paris, France, where he currently lives and works. He studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, California Institute of the Arts, Cooper Union, and Le Fresnoy National Contemporary Arts Studio. Beloufa’s practice playfully interrogates and deconstructs geopolitical, economic, representational, and technological systems that organize contemporary life. Across a variety of media, including video, sculpture, artificial intelligence, and installation, the artist investigates how contemporary global power structures operate, using his role as an artist to offer alternative models of production, collaboration, and governance.

Jacky Connolly was born in 1990 in Lower Hudson Valley, New York, where she currently lives and works. The artist received her BFA from Bard College at Simon’s Rock in 2011 and her MFA and MSc from Pratt Institute in 2016. Working with artificial intelligence (AI), machinima filmmaking techniques, and the preexisting worlds and assets of video games, Connolly creates works that explore slippages between real and simulated life. In her films, sculptures, and installations, the artist draws inspiration from the everyday: whether experienced in day-to-day life, simulated in the worlds of video games like Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) and The Sims, or reflected in the generated imagery of AI softwares that call attention to the variously banal and unsettling scenes that texture our worlds.

Julien Creuzet was born in 1986 in Blanc-Mesnil, France, and lives and works in Montreuil, France. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Caen, the Beaux-Arts in Lyon, and the Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Through sculpture, video, animation, performance, and poetry, Creuzet’s practice highlights Afro-Diasporic experiences and postcolonial relationships between peoples, cultures, and nations. The artist draws upon the symbols, histories, and foundational myths of his ancestral home, Martinique, and the wider Caribbean, creating immersive experiences that give form to ideas like emancipation, decolonization, and modernity.

Sara Cwynar was born in 1985 in Vancouver, Canada, and currently lives and works in New York City. The artist received her BA from York University in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Using photography, film, found materials, and collage, the artist explores the role that photography and image-making have in the production of meaning and value. Cwynar investigates visual cultures and how they change over time: collecting, altering, and re-presenting visual imagery from a wide variety of sources and time periods to comment on the role of commercial and everyday photography in shaping values, ideologies, and aesthetics.

Ho Tzu Nyen was born in 1976 in Singapore, where he lives and works. He received his BA from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, in 2001 and his MA from the National University of Singapore in 2007. In 2024, he was a recipient of the CHANEL Next Prize. Throughout his practice, the artist draws from epic mythologies, historical figures, popular culture, and film archives to better understand how history, culture, and identity are constructed and disseminated. Through film, animation, performance, and installation, Ho weaves fact and fiction to investigate the realities, histories, and temporalities that comprise Southeast Asia.

Xin Liu was born in 1991 in Xinjiang, China, and currently lives and works between New York City, New York and London, United Kingdom. Liu received a BA and BEng from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2013, an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. An artist and engineer, Liu works in a variety of media and contexts, fusing art and science in sculptures, installations, videos, virtual-reality experiences, and publications, amongst other media. Through her work, the artist considers the personal implications of our technological advancements, constructing narratives that provide space to imagine ourselves in a world of rapidly expanding possibilities.

Rachel Rossin was born in 1987 in West Palm Beach, Florida, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a Bachelor of Arts and Science from Florida State University. A self-taught programmer working in painting, installation, and virtual reality, Rossin examines the slippage between virtual and physical space, building hybrid sites for escape and reflection.

Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina, and currently lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. Working across performance, animation, drawing, virtual reality, and installation, Satterwhite creates immersive digital landscapes and cinematic universes. He populates them with avatars of himself and his community alongside everyday household objects drawn from his mother’s archives. Referencing the aesthetics of video games, modernism, and contemporary visual culture, the artist creates a personal and public mythology of joy, freedom, and celebration.