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Nicol Grindulis

United States

Nicol G is a Seattle-born realism specialist whose work focuses on murals and pet portraiture, with an emphasis on detail, scale, and a strong sense of presence. Her practice centers on familiar subjects rendered with precision, exploring how everyday imagery takes on new meaning when brought into public space. 

Mauricio Ramirez

United States

Mauricio Ramirez is a muralist whose vivid, large-scale work has become a defining feature of urban landscapes across the United States. His practice is rooted in a vibrant fusion of street art, pop culture, and Latinx heritage, with kaleidoscopic color palettes and geometric stylization that mark his work as immediately recognizable. 

Kwonny

United States

Kwonny is a Seattle-based artist born in New York whose practice began while she was living in Australia, where she was first drawn to the local flora and fauna. Her canvases feature animals and mythic figures depicted mid-fight or mid-flight, often involving stretched material and surface tension. Her use of negative space functions as both compositional and conceptual device, holding the friction between history and mythology, predator and prey, domestication and wildness. 

Devin Liston

United States

Devin Liston is a painter and muralist who began his career as part of the collaborative teams CYRCLE and DEVNGOSHA before going solo at the end of 2014. His practice draws from utilitarian objects, sports, bugs, and imagery from his childhood, with an intuitive process that finds meaning in time, space, and the universal nature of competition.

Dana Blume

United States

Dana Blume is a Seattle-based painter, born in 1993, with a BFA in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach and an MFA from the University of Washington. His work has been exhibited across the United States, England, Italy, and Singapore. 

Caratoes

Belgian-Hong Kong

Caratoes is a Belgian-Hong Kong multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on monumental portraits of women of color. Her work moves across mural, installation, painting, and performance, growing out of graffiti in Hong Kong after early creative work in Amsterdam and at Wieden+Kennedy. She has lived nomadically for over a decade, with international commissions ranging from Facebook's Hong Kong office to public spaces around the world. 

Al-Baseer Holly

United States

Al-Baseer Holly is a Philadelphia-born multidisciplinary artist now living on the West Coast. His path to visual art began through music. Early in his career he collaborated as a recording artist with Pharrell Williams and others, and his self-taught visual practice has since become a body of work that rewards careful study. His murals and paintings are bold, deliberate, and grounded in archival research.