GORDON CHEUNG

Gordon Cheung lives and works in London. Cheung graduated from Central Saint Martins, BA 1998 and received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2001. He was selected to take part in the largest and most ambitious survey of recent developments in art from the UK: The British Art Show 6, BALTIC Museum, Gateshead (2006). His recent exhibitions include Gordon Cheung – Recent Paintings, Djanogly Gallery, UK (2007), Arrivals and Departures, URBIS Museum, UK (2007), John Moores Painting 24, Liverpool Bienalle (2006), ACG Publications, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (2005), His works have recently been acquired for the ASU Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Whitworth Museum and he has been commissioned for a Laing Art Solo Award for July 2007.

NICK GOULIS

Nick Goulis lives and works in Athens. Goulis received his BA from the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Thessaloniki, Greece (2001) and MFA in Fine Art at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2006). He has shown in Greece, The Netherlands, Italy and UK, including recent solo shows: Sorry H8ters at Athanassiadou Art Advice (AAA), Athens (2007); I hope I won’t die poor at Gallery De Praktijk, Amsterdam (2006) and Nick Goulis at Art Gallery of Ziekenhuis Rijnstate, Arnhem, The Netherlands (2006). He has taken part in several recent group exhibitions: Let me hear your body talk, Arti et Amiticia, Amsterdam (2005) and masquerade in Selini Gallery, Athens (2006).

LAKIS AND ARIS IONAS

Lakis and Aris Ionas live and work in Athens. The Ionas brothers studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (MA Fine Art 2001-02). They have exhibited across the UK and Europe, including 11th Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens (2003); Charlie’s place, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2003); Euroscreen, PAN Kunst Forum, Emmerich, Germany (2003); The London Institute Gallery (nominated for the Red Mansion Spero Prize), London (2002); the Callas - Superman Died Yesterday, the Breeder Gallery, Athens (2006); Contemporary Traditions at Bios, Athens; Sequence, De Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam (2005) and the Space, London (2006). They have recently curated Part-Time Punks at DESTE Foundation, Athens in March 2007. Since 2004 they formed the band The Callas. They released Superman Died Yesterday 2005, Trust Lust 2006 and DIY or DIE 2007 on their own label, Out of Tune! 

TOINE KLASSEN

Toine Klaassen lives and works in Rotterdam. Graduated from Rietveld Artacademy, Amsterdam (1995-2000), Klaassen’s daily research into ‘archeology of the nowadays’ has produced exhibitions such as Immortality Bar at Stadsalerij Museum for Contemporary Art Heerlen, web-based project: Six Films on BasementArtProject.com; the artist in residence Orbino with the project Fatamorgana organised in the shipping containers of Unit 1 at Alkmaar, The Netherlands (2006); an experimental laboratory in the group show, Sense and Sensitivity at Tent, Center for visual arts Rotterdam (2006) and Satellite Works, La Centrale, Montreal and Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City (2007). He is working towards a new project, Reservation, which will be part of TEMPORARY MUSEUM in Amsterdam (2007). 

MATHIJS LIESHOUT

 Mathijs Lieshout lives and works in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Lieshout studied Fine Arts at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (1995-2000) and philosophy at Universiteit van Amsterdam (2000-2003). He has participated and organized projects, residency and events across The Netherlands, such as in 2005: Project Basis, Artis Den Bosch; Toine's Immortality Bar, Stadsgalerij, Heerlen; Creation is Beautiful, Destruction is Awesome, Galerie minimaal twee weken, Schiedam; Subgoed, Kunsthuis Syb, Beetsterzwaag; Sequence, De Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam and The Space, London. In 2006: Enter the Callcenter, Performancelab, Kunstvlaai6, Amsterdam; Nuzeum, Kunstlab Orbino, Alkmaar. He is currently working towards Ukuntnubellen! (callnow!), Galerie Sign, Groningen, The Netherlands. 

MAURICIO LUPINI

Mauricio Lupini lives and works in Rome. Lupini studied architecture in Caracas, photography in Rome and in 2001 received his Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. His recent group exhibitions include: Sequence, De Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam and The Space, London (2006); Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2005); San Juan Triennial (Puerto Rico, 2004), Prague Biennale I (2001). In 2002 Lupini produced a video-installation TV show: Unidad de Habitacion for the exhibition Etnografía: modo de empleo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas. Lupini’s solo exhibitions were held at Museo Otero, Caracas (1999), Sala Mendoza, Caracas, (2000 and 1995) and Museo Jesus Soto, Ciudad Bolivar (1995). The National Art Gallery of Venezuela (GAN) published his book ‘Things to Consider Before Shooting’ in 2001. 

SHEENA MACRAE

This is a filmic world: the urban vision, in which space, though not existing in reality, is presented as more real than the actual world we live in. Having worked within the film and television industry, Macrae's new photographic works: from nowhere and are nowhere bound explores how popular culture produced by the media affects our perception. These works are stills within a filmstrip, a series of single frames once rooted in motion pictures. They are presented as individual photographs and function as a new sequence of images. The sequential pictures are stop-framed; the large interval gaps in between break down the narrative into incoherent fragments. These fragmented images of stereotypical street scenery of sunshine and blue-sky in Hollywood are depictions of urban America. Macrae has invited viewers to step into the cinematic world. These images are a mixture of the sublime and banal in American life in which the familiar cinematic experience collapses with viewers' re-entry to the not-real-world produced by Hollywood production.

JORGE RIVERA

Jorge Rivera lives and works in London. Rivera completed an MA at the Royal College of Art where he is currently doing his PhD in sculpture. He has exhibited internationally, including Sotheby's in Chigago, Vienna and Tel-Aviv (2001); solo shows in Nagoya, Takumy Museum (2002), Madrid Galeria 57 (2003), Galeria Caracol, Valladolid (2003); international art fair ARCO'03, ARCO'05 and Project-rooms ARCO'04; Galeria SCQ in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2004), Parlamento de Galicia, Spain (2005-2006). He was a finalist of the Madame Toussauds Prize 2002 and Purificacion Garcia Prize in 2004. 

ANDRO SEMEIKO

Andro Semeiko lives and works in London. Semeiko studied at Goldsmiths College (London, 2001), and the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2006). He has exhibited in New Contemporaries 2001, Camden Arts Centre (London) and Sunderland Museum; Beautiful Tomorrows, Palix Gallery (Paris, 2002); tent., Podion Gallery (Amsterdam, 2002); Shine, The Lowry Gallery (Manchester, 2002); Charlie’s Place, Annely Juda Fine Art (London, 2003); Caution: Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary (London, 2004); Bow Festival (London, 2005); Sequence, De Roode Bioscoop (Amsterdam 2005) and The Space (London 2006); Beauty Unrealized, PSWAR (Amsterdam 2007) and Ethereal, CWG Fine Art (London 2007). He received the Kunstanjer 2000, Prince Bernard Culture Prize (The Netherlands), British Institution Prize 2004 (London) and has been selected as a finalist for Celeste Art Prize 2007. 

YU-CHEN WANG

Yu-Chen Wang lives and works in London. Wang studied at Goldsmiths College (2000-01) and Chelsea College of Art and Design (MA Fine Art 2001-02). She has exhibited internationally, including tent., Podion Gallery, Amsterdam (2002), Tank.TV, ICA, London (2004), Caution, Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London (2004), Synch Festival, Athens (2005) and Darklight Film Festival, Dublin (2006). She was short-listed for the Guardian/Observer Award (2002), the Pizza Express Prospects 2004 Drawing Prize, UK and The Vauxhall Auteur Theory (Curzon Soho 2005; ICA 2006). Her works have been shown on BBC Big Screen, Manchester (2006); Archipeinture: Moving in Architecture, Camden Arts Centre, London (2006) and Curzon Soho, London (2006); Satellite Works, La Centrale, Montreal and Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City (2007) and FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France (2007).