b. 1973, Los Angeles

Filled a briefcase with hand-painted denominations of a fictional nation and called it Bank of Timbuctoo. Two-time Whitney Biennial artist (2004, 2022). Co-founder of Mountain School of Art (MSA), the oldest continuous artist-run school in California. Solo exhibitions at MOCA Los Angeles and Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples.

b. 1979, New Zealand

A civil engineer who turned his structural training against the sterility of contemporary space. Currently presenting an immersive social sculpture inside the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Nelson Packer Tank - sauna, steam, sound, gathering infrastructure. At Basel: 24 out of 100 hand-sculpted paperweight figures, vitrified industrial brick embedded with archive.

b. 1972, Indianapolis

Studied under Charles Ray and Mike Kelley at UCLA. Builds sculptures from wood, metal, and found objects (beer signs, hamburger imagery, plastic six-pack rings raining down a Japanese pagoda). Work held in the Tate Modern, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Featured in Artforum, Frieze, Art in America.

b. 1987, Milan

His practice unfolds as cosmic archaeology - tracing ancestral echoes while projecting possible futures. Alchemical materiality, post-anthropocentric vision, environments designed to dissolve spatial and temporal constraints. Founder of Octagon (Milan); exhibited at Centre d’Art Contemporaine (Geneva), Felix (Los Angeles), Fitzpatrick Gallery (Paris).

b. 2000, Louisville, Kentucky

He destroys real American currency to make art. Hand-cuts U.S. dollar bills into thousands of fragments with X-Acto blades, then rebuilds them into constructed landscapes. Every miscut costs real money. Featured in The New York Times; emerged as a breakout voice at Basel Social Club 2025.

Nebraska

She carves entire locomotives onto pencil lead. National empires, sovereign rulers, herds of bison, all rendered at a scale where a single breath ends the work. Museum exhibitions internationally, working from Nebraska — outside art-market gravity, answerable to nothing but the material.

b. 1985, Havana

Grew up among Havana’s stratified walls and worn facades; now paints in Berlin. Works oil pastel into recycled drawing paper that already carries its prior life. Royal College of Art (London), Berlin Program for Artists, presented at Martin Gropius Bau. Cuba is present not as subject but as structural condition.