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Khara Oxier-Mori is an Idaho-based artist whose primary focus is the human body. Oxier-Mori attended Boise State University after receiving an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. In 2016, she earned her degree in anthropology with a concentration in genetics, evolutionary medicine, and osteology. Her life experiences are her chief artistic inspiration, but she credits the deconstructionist theories of Derrida and Foucault for her relentless pursuit and examination of human power dynamics. 

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David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next five years, he exhibited work in Paris, Brussels and London while working at studios in Germany and Brussels.

After returning to the States and living for a...

Born in Chile, P.X. Miranda has lived in Italy since 1999. She was awarded a scholarship to Davidson College and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where she won several prizes for her highly regarded oil paintings. Fascinated by history and its notable figures, she uses literature, poetry, and music as inspiration for her paintings.

Medieval tapestry, Renaissance portraiture, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and William Morris designs also underpin her works. She combines these elements in her pieces to create images that have a timeless quality resembling a sort of puzzle. P. X. Miranda paintings unapologetically embrace nature...

Born in Mexico, Duarte’s work is rooted in history both collective and personal, his own, he intertwines experiences of modern life with collective ones rooted in myth and history through the lens of his own Mexican culture. Despite the seemingly cultural specific themes he touches on, the experiences he brings are universal because he sees Mexican history, no different than Roman or Japanese - it belongs to all of us and within each story, each culturally specific narrative, we find the collective experience that binds us all. The narratives we tell ourselves across the world, whether it’s in Mexico, Kenya or...