Participating Artists

Xiao Wang

Brooklyn, NY

Xiao Wang is a Chinese painter who lives and works in the US. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland where he received his BFA degree in Painting and Printmaking. He continued his study at San Francisco Art Institute and earned his MFA degree in Painting. Wang currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.​

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Wang has shown internationally in Europe and California. In 2014, he received the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award. During recent years he was awarded 1st place for the Anne Bremer Memorial Prize and the silver award for the Art Forward Contest. In 2016, he was nominated for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA award. His work has been featured in publications such as Hi-Fructose Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine, and New American Paintings. Wang has also attended artist residency programs at MASS MoCA (MA), the Vermont Studio Center (VT), Root Division (CA) and Art Point (CA).

Sara Zaher

Brooklyn, NY

Sara Zaher is a visual artist and designer based in New York.

Born in Cairo in 1990; her restlessness pushed her to a path of transition. Since then she has lived in Lebanon, London, Manchester, New York and Sydney. This constant shift in space has affected the social, political and personal themes in her work.

In 2015 she completed her MA (Dist) in Graphic and Media Design from the University of the Arts London. This one year program helped define her interest in mediums such as video art, digital collage and installation art. Through the use of these tools, her work aims to question the fragile boundary between the personal and the political. A way to exploit her relentless need for questioning as a way to position herself within this ever-changing social pendulum.

In her recent transition as an emerging artist, her work has already garnered national and international attention through publications such as Design Taxi, Grazia and Designboom. Her work has also been exhibited in galleries and fairs in New York, Sydney, Singapore, and Paris and has been featured in collections globally.

Dolly Faibyshev

New York, NY

Dolly Faibyshev is an American artist with a love for color, composition, and the human condition. She has photographed a wide range of subjects, from the primped and prodded models of New York Fashion Week to the overly groomed animals at the Dog Show, from Dolly Parton impersonators to the the muscle-bound performers of Wrestlemania, from the 1950s time capsule of Palm Springs to the faux iconic people and structures of Las Vegas. Born to Russian immigrants, the vicarious fantasy of America became ingrained in her from an early age until she learned to define those experiences in pictures. She is a New York City based self-taught photographer exploring the meaning of the American Dream in all of its forms.

Dolly’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Le Monde, TIME, The New York Times, Businessweek, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and other publications.

Her works can be found in collections including the Museum of the City of New York, South Street Seaport Museum, White Columns Artist Registry, Uprise Art, Milk Gallery and Duncan Miller Gallery.

Haley Gewandter

New York, NY

Haley Gewandter is a painter, muralist and installation artist born in 1992 in New York City. She graduated with a BA in Visual Art from Bowdoin College in 2014, where she was awarded the Anne Bartlett Lewis Memorial Prize for Excellence in the Visual Arts, as well as the Senior Art Exhibition Faculty Award. Haley now works out of her studio in Manhattan.

Her work has been exhibited in Art Fairs including SCOPE Miami in 2018, as well as Superfine! Miami and New York City in 2017. She was the lead artist of CityArt’s 318th public mural “STORYVINE,” created at the 40 Beaver Street Garden Playground in Brooklyn alongside other professional artists, local youth, volunteers and residents in the community.

Joe Gallagher

Brooklyn, NY

Joe Gallagher is a self-taught visual artist from Tacoma, WA. Currently working in Brooklyn, NY, his work involves his interpretation of dreams, daily interactions with people, diversity, and beautiful scenery around the world. Over the years, Joe created original cartoon characters and other pictures on large poster boards, which eventually led him to his passion of painting.

His contemporary style combines street and pop art with bright, graphic-style characters. Through its comical expression, the work wisely speaks to the meaning of human relationships and symbolism of different experiences.