Summer Delight: Pablo Benzo, Bouke de Vries, Falk Gernegross, Tewodros Hagos, Nicholas Bono Kennedy, Andrew Leventis, Marta Leyva, Kyle Meyer, Pedro Montilla, Amy Morken, Martine Poppe, Lee Simmonds, Suzuki Takako, Nikolai Torgersen, Janet Vollebregt, Rufai Zakari

30 May - 12 September 2026

Summer Delight
Pablo Benzo, Bouke de Vries, Falk Gernegross, Tewodros Hagos, Nicholas Bono Kennedy, Andrew Leventis, Marta Leyva, Kyle Meyer, Pedro Montilla, Amy Morken, Martine Poppe, Lee Simmonds, Suzuki Takako, Nikolai Torgersen, Janet Vollebregt, Rufai Zakari
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- Pablo Benzo, Still Life with Returning Silence, 2026
- Pablo Benzo, Still Life During Eclipse, 2026
‘The briefest and slipperiest of the seasons, the one that won't be held to account - because summer won't be held at all, except in bits, fragments, moments, flashes of memory of so-called or imagined perfect summers, summers that never existed.’ – from Summer by Ali Smith.

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach is delighted to present Summer Delight, a group exhibition bringing together artists from within the gallery family and beyond. Taking place within the gallery’s monumental space, just steps from the ocean, the exhibition draws on Florida’s luminous light, lush climate, vivid colours and the energy of early summer to explore desire, connectedness, ephemerality and longing.

Ghanaian artist Rufai Zakari’s vibrant portraits are stitched together from flattened, upcycled plastics to create bold, textured surfaces that bear a deep relationship to the land and local culture as well as to craft traditions. His most recent works capture quiet, intimate moments where subtle gestures and expressions are used to convey emotional states and points of connection.

Oslo-based artist Nikolai Torgersen’s paintings depict dreamlike landscapes that draw on autobiographical details. Sometimes featuring people and animals, these environments convey an eerie, melancholic atmosphere, revealing how our perception is shaped as much by memory as by reality. Pedro Montilla also uses the medium of painting to explore the experience of being alive, weaving together fragments of memory and fantasy to create uncanny spaces filled with shadows and reflections. Working on fique, a coarse Andean fibre used to transport grains across the fibre, the works bear a unique tactile quality, with raw, fraying edges.

Kyle Meyer’s works weave together photography, textiles and performance to explore how the essence of people, spaces and histories can be held before they shift, fade or are forgotten. Through site-specific interventions, his materials absorb the imprints of bodies and environments, creating layered surfaces that blur boundaries between memory, material and place.

Paintings by Lee Simmonds explore relationships between the organic and inorganic in which natural forms take on synthetic appearances and vice versa. Channelled through the genre of magical realism, his compositions occupy an uneasy space between the familiar and the surreal. Tewodros Hagos similarly explores our relationship with the natural world. In his new series of portraits, titled Sunlight Reverie, women appear immersed within light-filled botanical environments that function not as decorative backdrops but as spaces of healing and transformation.

Martine Poppe also takes interest in the impact of light on mood as well as perception. In her latest landscape paintings, light is both a source of seduction and distortion. Glistening on the surface of bodies of water, it invites us to enter into a meditative state while also disorientating our sense of place and time.

Grown from porcelain clay by Bouke de Vries depicts a rose seemingly emerging from a pile of broken fragments of 18th and 19th-century Chinese porcelain plates. Constructed from shards, the flower appears both fragile and resilient, while the bronze-coloured stem and leaves seem caught in a state of decay. The work is a meditation on rupture and renewal, where destruction gives way to unexpected forms of beauty.

A highly-detailed painting by Andrew Leventis from his series What We Take With Us explores the idea of keepsakes, using the suitcase as what he terms a ‘memory vehicle’. Within it, he places objects he wants to remember, evoking a specific time, place and human presence. Contrasting classically feminine colours with markers of masculinity – such as a bowtie or black leather shoes – he explores identity as fluid and unsettled, infusing each work with a sense of longing for moments that can no longer be inhabited. Pablo Benzo’s work is also concerned with the instability of memory. His compositions are constructed from fragments of images, borrowed, half-remembered or imagined, creating surreal spaces and encounters that feel as if they are flickering in and out of focus.

Janet Vollebregt’s practice is rooted in architecture and eastern and western philosophies, with a particular focus on Jin Shin Jyutsu, an energetic healing art from Japan. She works with subtle energy to harmonise both the user of space and space itself, approaching buildings as living entities that require care and balance. For this exhibition, she presents pendant sculptures inspired by the protective and decorative histories of talismans and jewellery, extending these traditions to architecture by imagining adornment as a means of protection, identity and energetic alignment.

Nicholas Bono Kennedy’s light-filled paintings explore the ways in which we inhabit and aestheticise spaces. Lush with plantlife, his scenes have a carefully constructed, seductive appeal that’s unsettled by surprising or abstract details. Amy Morken’s large-scale layered compositions draw on the people and fleeting moments of daily life, spanning childhood memories of watching travellers in transit at the airport to small mundane absurdities. Filled with colour and movement, each work begins on a piece of large scale paper marked with the washes and stains from her studio table.

Marta Leyva’s Gloves series also takes inspiration from everyday moments, elevating the pleasure of drinking a glass of wine or eating a piece of fruit into a ritualistic or even heavenly event. The yellow washing up gloves set against idyllic skyscapes add a touch of humour to her work, invoking spontaneity and a playful tension between the mundane and the indulgent. Drawing on ‘synesthetic impressions’, Takako Suzuki’s paintings also capture the joys of daily experiences – from the textures of nature to the flavours of food. The world she paints is one of peace and harmony, populated by fantastical hybrid creatures and elongated figures.

Falk Gernegroß’s paintings sit in a haze between fantasy and memory. His works capture tantalising glimpses of exposed skin – a man stretching open his shirt to reveal his chest, a line of pubic hair above white cotton briefs, droplets of moisture on a naked woman’s back – playing on the sensuality of the body and heat to suggest sexual awakening and desire.

Together, the works in Summer Delight draw us into moments and spaces that shimmer and dissolve, where fleeting impressions give way to a heightened sense of pleasure and presence.
Pablo Benzo

Pablo Benzo (b. 1982, Santiago, Chile) is a Berlin-based painter whose paintings draw on fragments of remembered and imagined imagery, forming carefully constructed arrangements using contrasting colour combinations. His practice centres on both composition and surface, bringing together interior objects to create surreal spaces.

Solo Exhibitions include time traveler and other fragile detours, The Hole, New York, USA (2025); Anticipate Memories, ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, South Korea (2025); Reciting from memory, 68 Projects by Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2024); Some things last a long time, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, USA (2023); Brief encounters, Art021 with Dio Horia, Shanghai, China (2022); Inner Landscapes, BC Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (2021); Some velvet morning, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece (2021); El ruido vano en la entrada del silencio, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile (2020); The great silence of these distances, Cass Contemporary, Tampa, FL, USA (2019); Benzo Solo II, Mommsen 35 Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2019); Favoritismo, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile (2018); The allure of devotion, BC Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2018); Dissolution of all enchantments, Soon Gallery, Bern, Switzerland (2018); Willow Waltz, BC Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2016); Strange enthusiasm in troubled times, Mommsen 35 Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2015); Benzo Solo, Mommsen 35 Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2014).
Group Exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2026); Forgotten Eyes, Johansson Projects, San Francisco, USA (2026); Dreamscape, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, USA (2024); Body Language, Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); After Hope, Dio Horia, Athens, Greece (2022); Tutti Frutti, Plan X Gallery, Milan, Italy (2022); The Breakfast Club, Eligere Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Manscaping Paris Edition, The Hole, Paris, France (2022); Domesticity, Volery Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2021); Misa #3, König Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021); East Hampton Phase Three, The Hole, New York, USA (2021); Colectiva XLII, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile (2020); Grand Opening BC Gallery Basel, BC Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (2020); The New Classics Show, C.O.A. Gallery, Montreal, Canada (2019); Destination 131, Forum des Halles, Paris, France (2018); Paint It Forward, Cass Contemporary, Tampa, FL, USA (2017); Modern Fusion, The Art Scouts, Berlin, Germany (2017); Jedno – s Drugim / One – Another, Izložbeni salon Izidor Kršnjavi, Zagreb, Croatia (2017); What the Gallery Weekend Is II, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2017); More Than This, Mommsen 35 Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2017); Knotenpunkt 17, Affenfaust Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (2017); I Sky You, Magic Beans Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2016); What the Gallery Weekend Is, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2016); Billboard Painters Exhibition, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark (2016); Pienkow Art Residents Exhibition, Pienkowsky Gallery, Lipinki, Poland (2016); International Artists III, Mommsen 35 Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2016); No Walls, Mario Kreuzberg Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2016); International Artists, Mommsen 35 Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2015); International Artists II, Mommsen 35 Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2015).

Highlights

His work is held in collections including Deji Museum, Nanjing; Xiao Museum, Rizhao; Colección Solo, Madrid; Fundación Medianoche0, Granada; and Colección Casa, Santiago.
Bouke de Vries

Bouke de Vries (b. 1960) is from Utrecht, The Netherlands. He Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven and Textiles at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. After working with fashion icons John Galliano, Stephen Jones and Zandra Rhodes, de Vries decided to return to education to study ceramics conservation and restoration, becoming one of London's leading ceramic conservators. This led to his current artistic practice of creating – and deconstructing – intricate sculptures from fragments of broken pottery and porcelain, instilling them with new values and new narratives.

Solo exhibitions include Unbroken, Keramiekmuseum Princesshof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (2026); Memories in Porcelain, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, USA (2024); Visions in Porcelain, Sir John Soane Museum, London, UK (2022); War and Pieces, a travelling installation shown in The Lightner Museum, Washington County Museum, The Frick Pittsburgh, Hillwood House, Museum of Fine Art Montgomery and Wadsworth Atheneum in the USA; Alnwick Castle and Holbourne Museum in the UK; Gemeente Museum, Netherlands; Charlottenburg Palace, Germany (2011-2022); Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdan, Netherlands (2018); Sometimes I look East and sometimes I look West, Officina Saffi, Milan (2018); UN-Damaged, Musea Dal Ceramica Mondovi, Mondovi, Italy (2017); Fractured Images, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2017); Studying human activity through the recovery of material culture, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016); War and Pieces, Gemeente Museum The Hague, Netherlands (2016); Fragments, Château de Nyon, Musée historique et des porcelaines, Nyon (2014); and Threads of My Life, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan (2014).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2026); All About Eve, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2025); Boeken Als…, Huis van het Boek, The Hague, Netherlands (2024); My World, Singer Laren, Netherlands(2024); Horse Show, Messums, Whiltshire, UK(2024); Golden Veins, Alison Bradley Projects, New York, USA (2024); The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, Pallant House Gallery, Chicister, UK (2024); Contem’Plate, Messums, Wiltshire, UK (2024); Listening to the Earth, Mudac Lausanne, Switzerland (2022); Confluence, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK (2022); Yobitsugi, White Conduit Projects, London, UK (2022); 10 Ans Design, MAD, Paris, France (2022); Design & Dynasty, Vonderau Museum Fulda, Germany (2022); Homo Faber, Library of St Giorgio Venice, Italy (2022); Lust at Lustheim, Lustheim Palace, Oberschleißheim, Bravia, Germany (2021); Group Exhibition, Witte the With, Rothertham, The Netherlands (2020); All the Days and Nights, Kristin Hjellegjder Gallery, London (2020); War and Pieces, Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama, USA (2019); The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, Worcester, UK (2019); Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge, Taiwan (2018/19); Glitch, Kuntsi Museum, Vaasa Finland (2018/19).

Highlights and collections

De Vries' renowned installation War and Pieces has been exhibited across Europe, Asia and the USA since 2012, with each new iteration reworked to reflect on the region and its history and interact with the interior settings. De Vries work is in numerous collections such as Aberdeen Art Gallery; The Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland; Caldic collection, Netherlands; Castle Hingene, Belgium; Collection Edgar J. and Clarissa Bronfman, London; Collection Hugo Brown, The Netherlands; Collection Elton John, London/Los Angeles; Collection Taiq Al Jaidah; Collection Kay Saatchi, Los Angeles; Collection Frances Reynolds, London; Collection Mizuho Bank London; Drake collection, The Netherlands; Le Chateau de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland; MIMA, Middlesbrough; MONA, Tasmania; MUDAC, Lausanne,Switzerland; Ministry of foreign affairs Netherlands; Pallant House Gallery; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Philadelphia Museum; National Dutch ceramic museum Princessenhof, Leeuwarden Netherlands; York City Art Gallery; Zabludowicz Collection, London.
Falk Gernegroß

Falk Gernegroß (b. 1973, Marienburg, Germany) is a Leipzig-based artist that paints scenes from the calm before the storm, scenes of innocence and open-ended possibility. The artist establishes a rich tension between stillness and simmering forward motion, pausing each character just before they commit themselves to a more determined or narratively compelling form of action. In this arrested state, fantasy reigns supreme.

Solo Exhibitions include Kurzweil, Museum Bensheim, Germany, (2025); Endless Summer, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, Germany, (2025); Le pique-nique, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, (2023); Fleur de Sel, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2022); Connected, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, (2022); Morning Glory, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2018); Twist, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2014); Painting (with Matthias Ludwig), Gallery am Ratswall, Bitterfeld, Germany, (2013); Kurzgeschichten, Ornis A. Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2012); Miss Wonderbar, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2011); Malerei, Schwind Gallery, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, (2010); Ping-Pong, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2008); Delikatessen, Hobbyshop Gallery, Munich, Germany, (2006).
Group Exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2026); Symposium, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2025); The Scenes (with Christian Brandl & Julius Hofmann), AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, (2025); Greetings from LE, Jari Lager Gallery, Köln, Germany, (2024); Dissonance, Platform Germany, National Museum of Art, Bukarest, Romania, (2024); Dante’s Inferno, Unit London, UK, (2024); Licked by the Waves, Museum More, Gorssel, Netherlands, (2024); Dissonance, Platform Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany, (2024); Dix and the Present, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, (2023); DM Spotlight 'Neue Leipziger Schule', Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands, (2023); High Voltage III, Nassima Landau Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel, (2022); Hartwig Gallery, Sellin, Germany, (2022); NEW, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2021); NEW, Westside, Leipzig, Germany, (2020); face look, Kunstverein Gera, Germany, (2020); Leipzig Connection, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia, (2019); Featuring Arno Rink, Kleindienst Gallery, Art Cologne, Germany, (2019); New Horizons in Painting III , Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece, (2018); Jahresend, Westside, Leipzig, Germany, (2018); Münchener Salon, Georgenstrasse, München, Germany, (2018); F/our Views, Connex Trias, Leipzig, Germany, (2017); Immer und Ewig, 23th Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Westwerk, Leipzig, Germany, (2016); ETAGE, Gallery Leuenroth, Frankfurt/M., Germany, (2015); New visual worlds from Leipzig, Heike Moras Art, London, UK, (2014); BGL# 1, Kesselhaus , Bergisch Gladbach / Cologne, Germany, (2014); Mensch werde wesentlich, Art association FAK, Zwickau, Germany, (2014); Saxonia Paper, Art hall of the Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany, (2014); Pittbullbutterfly, Leuenroth Gallery, Frankfurt/M., Germany, (2013); Un été spectaculaire, Ornis A. Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2013); unterwegs, 19th Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Westwerk, Leipzig, Germany, (2012); Amor und Psyche, Raum Hellrot, Halle/Saale, Germany, (2012); Convoy Leipzig, Biksady Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, (2011); Convoi Leipzig, Csikàs Galéria, Veszprem, Hungary, (2011); After the Goldrush, Art association Speyer, Germany, (2011); Hart und Spitz, Gallery am Ratswall, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany, (2010); Sichtbar durch, Raum Hellrot, Halle/Saale, Germany, (2010); Realism uit Leipzig, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands, (2009); Drawcula, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2008); Zweidimensionale, Art hall of the Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany, (2006); Artforum, Berlin, Germany, (2005); NADA Artfair, Miami, USA, (2005); Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, (2005); Junge Kunst 9, Kleindienst Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, (2004); Neue Leipziger Schule, Art association Essenheim, Germany, (2004).
Tewodros Hagos

Tewodros Hagos (b. 1974, Addis Ababa), graduated from Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts and Design in 1995. Today, Hagos is considered to be one of the most promising artists of his generation. His works have been exhibited in Ethiopia, Belgium, Germany, Italy and the US. Hagos’ work is often inspired by contemporary journalistic imagery as he explores the many layers of social injustice experienced by migrants. At home in Ethiopia, his paintings are witness to the profound transformation and evolution of Ethiopia.

Solo exhibitions include The Enigma of the Gaze, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2024); Salon Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA, (2024); Fragile, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2023); Mirage, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2022); THE DESPERATE JOURNEY II, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); THE DESPERATE JOURNEY, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); LeLa gallery, Addis Ababa (2019); LeLa gallery, Addis Ababa (2017); Alliance Ethio-Francaise, Addis Ababa (2016); LeLa Gallery , Addis Ababa (2015); Alliance Ethio-Francaise, Dere Dawa (2014); Ethiopia cultural centre, Los Angeles (2013); Alliance Ethio-Francaise, Addis Ababa (2010); Gallery BEK, Leuven (2007); Gallery KN10, Antwerp (2004); kappelen cultural center, kappelen (2000); Studio am schloos, Berlin (1998); Futuro cultural center, Rome (1998).
Group exhibitions include (upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristen Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach (2026); Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Annual Exhibition, Mall galleries, London (2025); Through the Seasons, Christen Sveas Foundation, Henie Ostad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway (2025); Center, Høvikodden, Norway (2025); LOST GIRLS, Flowers Gallery, London, UK (2023): Untitled Miami Beach Art Fair, Miami, USA (2022); The Unseen, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Unsettled, Duende Art Projects, Antwerp, Belgium (2022); Young Curators: Melketenner / Milk Teeth, Nitja Centre of Contemporary Art, Lillehammer, Norway (2022); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London (2021); LeLa gallery Addis Ababa (2018); Lela art gallery, Addis abeba (2016); laphto art gallery Addis Ababa (2015); LeLa gallery, Addis Ababa (2014); Atelier Fine Art Gallery, Addis Ababa (2012); Studio am Scholes Berlin (2008); Biblotheek Permeke, Antwerp (2007); Biblotheek Durne, Antwerp (2005).

Highlights and Collections

Tewodros Hagos' workwas featured in The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw's publication "Was Socialist Realism Global?"; with an essay by art historian Kate Cowcher, published by The University of Chicago Press. In 2021 Tewodros Hagos received the second prize award from the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture following his award in 2017 of the prestigious “Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters” from the Culture and Communication Minister of France. His works can be found in many public and private collections worldwide including the Kistefos Museum, Oslo, Norway; Laurent Dumas, Farida et Henri Seydoux Collection, France; the Bunker Artspace Museum, USA; Arthur Lewis Collection, USA; Easton Capital Collection, USA; Birchby Collection, USA; W Art Foundation and the C.C.H. Pounder Collection, USA; Naimah/IIham Foundation, UK/Malaysia.
Nicholas Bono Kennedy

Nicholas Bono Kennedy (b. 1992, Birmingham, AL) is an artist based in Los Angeles. His paintings explore the relationship of lived environments and our ability as humans to alter and control those spaces. Inspired by everyday life and what the artist observes in private and public environments. At the core of Kennedyʼs practice are formal concerns such as color, light and pattern, these shape the artistʼs densely populated scenes. Mostly, though, Kennedy simply loves painting.

Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Mood Lighting, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2026); (Upcoming) Plus One, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, USA (2026); Doggone Delightful, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, USA (2026); After the Dinner Party, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY (2026); Dinner Party While the World Burns, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Sunset Nursery, Simchowitz Gallery, Los Angeles,CA (2023).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2026); Symposium, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2025); Cold Turkey, Stolen Space Gallery, London, UK (2025); Windows, Baker—Hall Gallery, Miami, FL (2025); Animal Garden, Wonder Gallery, Rome, Italy (2025); Film School, Giant Robot Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2025); Flower Petals, David Maxwell Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2025); The Superfluity of Things, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Grow, Palo Alto Art Museum, Palo Alto, CA (2024); Green House, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2024); 10 year Anniversary Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, Sanfransisco, CA (2024); Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2024); For the Love of Dog, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Multiples, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Fransisco, CA (2023); Outside In, Gallery x Chiao, Taipei, Taiwan (2023); Desert Haunt, Bloody Gums Gallery, Palm Springs, CA (2023); Living Room, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (2022).
Andrew Leventis

Andrew Leventis makes meticulously detailed oil paintings of contemporary vanitas, a motif popularized in early still life in which food, flowers, and other perishable objects represent the fleeting nature of life and the passing of time. Often his work is infused with iconography that reflects his queer identity. Leventis received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from the American Academy of Art, Chicago. Leventis’ work is represented by SOCO Gallery. He lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming 2-Person Exhibition), Main Projects, Richmond, VA (2027);Proposal for a Story, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2025);The Flower Fades, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC (2024); Refrigerate After Opening, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2023); Contemporary Vanities, Mint Constellation Series, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC (2022); Inner Life, Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA (2021); Worlds Within, The Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO (2020); Fractured Realities, Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University (2019); Reconstructed Images and Nature Morte, Milliken Art Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC (2018); Mise-en-Scene, SOZO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2018); “Re-collections”, Rowe Arts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (2017); Still Life and Moving Image, Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, Oneonta, NY (2015); Into the Screen: Still-Life and Moving Image, Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2014); New Paintings, High House Gallery, Oxfordshire, UK (2013).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL (2026); Dallas Art Fair, SOCO Gallery, Dallas, TX (2025); CAN Art Fair, Espacio Liquido Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2026); Winter Show, Greenhill Arts Center, Greensboro, NC (2025); Shelf Life, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (2025); Wildflowers, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY (2025); Game Time, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2025); Layer Cake: 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2025); UVNT Art Fair, Madrid Spain, Espacio Liquido Gallery (2025); Late Checkout, Zepster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2025); Food in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Krakow, Poland (2024-25); Fall Artist In-Residence Showcase, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC (2024); Generations - 60 Years, 21 Conversations, Rowe Arts, UNC Charlotte, NC (2024); Forever Transient (2024); Pairing: Antiques with Contemporary Art, Hodges Taylor, Charlotte, NC (2024); April Collection: Collect Bean, online exhibition of paintings (2024); Vanitas: A Multimedia Performance, UNC Charlotte and Davidson College, NC (2023); The World Without Us, Neon Gallery, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy, Wroclaw, Poland and Moving Poets Projects Space, Berlin, Germany (2023); Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, Rowe Galleries, UNC Charlotte (2022); Group Exhibition, Hidell-Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2022); Arte Laguna Prize 15th Edition, Exhibition of Shortlisted Artists, Venice Arsenale (2021); Perspectives, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo, South Korea (2020-2021).
Marta Leyva

Marta Leyva (b. 1985, Spain) is a Barcelona and Stockholm-based artist whose work draws deeply from her Catalan roots, depicting lavish meals, intimate gatherings, and vibrant social scenes suspended between the mundane and the absurd. Using the communal ritual of eating as her central motif, she subverts social convention and decorum, reimagining the imagery of French bourgeois painting through a contemporary, free, and hedonistic lens. Her after-dinner scenes pulse with Dionysian energy, as Mediterranean light, landscape, and mythological spirit transform uninhibited figures into celebrations of unrestrained pleasure. Transcending gender and nationality, each canvas is an opulent, emotionally charged narrative that invites viewers into a sensory feast, connecting them to their own imagination and personal memories.

With a background in translation and interpretation, Leyva brings a transcultural approach to her self-taught practice. Emotion and humour are universal languages, and Leyva paints in them with her tongue-in-cheek approach to food, pleasure, and the human condition.

Solo exhibitions include Les Dones de Picasso, Sala Muncunill – Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain (2025); Mediterranean Delicacy, Vogue, Digital Exhibition (2023); Culture Explosion, Misshumasshu, Stockholm, Sweden (2022); Spanish Vision, Alma Club, Stockholm, Sweden (2019); Himno a lo Exótico, Hotel Emperador, Madrid, Spain (2019); Art in Women, Soho House, Barcelona, Spain (2019); I’m Feeling So Exotic, Paradiso, Ibiza, Spain (2019); Flower Power, Studio Rei Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2018); Primary Colours, Taverna Brillo, Stockholm, Sweden (2018); Flower Power, Jung Relations, Stockholm, Sweden (2018); Exotic Anthem, Cage Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2018).
Group Exhibitions include (upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristen Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA (2026); The great big winter show, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2026); New Adventures in Hi-Fi VOL. V, Victor Lope Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2025); Morning Haze, Lazy Mike Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2025); Art Fair KIAF with SEOHWA GALLERY, Seoul, South Korea (2025); Interior, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025); Woman is Art, Miss Clara, Stockholm, Sweden (2020); Woman is Art, Melia, Madrid, Spain (2020); Hidden Talents, AAF, Stockholm, Sweden (2019).

Highlights

Leyva has exhibited internationally. She has worked as an illustrator for Vogue, AD, and Harper’s Bazaar.
Kyle Meyer

Kyle Meyer (b. 1985) in Ashland, Ohio, Currently Living and working in New York, he completed a Bachelor of Arts in photography and graphic design from City College in New York and MFA in photography from Parsons New School of Design, New York. In 2009 Kyle was awarded the Mortimer B. Hayes-Brandeis Travelling Fellowship which led him to Swaziland where he learned the art of weaving which he now combines with photography in his work. By weaving together photographic and sculptural elements, his artwork metaphorically speaks to the human condition of seclusion, oppression, memory, and loss. It also laboriously questions the potency of digital photography by embracing the haptic qualities of craft.

Solo exhibitions include Interwoven Rupture and Repair, Morris Museum, Morristown (2025); Unidentified, High Line Nine, New York (2021); When will I see you again?, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery London (2020); Interwoven, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (2018); Be-Longing, Blank Space Gallery: New York, New York (2014).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach (2026); Here, Now, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis (2024); Amur Yakue: The Land of God, Loft Art Gallery, Marrakech (2024); Welche Stimmung fondest du dort vor?, Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin (2021); Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black and Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach (2021); COLOR, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York (2020); ONE: An Exhibition of Unique Objects, Transformer Station, Cleveland (2020); Inaugural Installations: Kinder Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2020); New York to New Mexico: New Acquisitions, Montclair Art Museum (2020); Strangers in Town, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin (2019); A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2019); Honoring Stonewall, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York (2019); Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black and Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando (2018); "Bronx Calling" AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx (2017); Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln (2016); Uncommon Exposures: Photography in Craft Based Media, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton (2016); The Museum Within and Without, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2015); Nine Five One, The Forg, Memphis (2014).

Highlight and Collections

Meyer’s work can be found in numerous international collections including the JP Morgan Art Collection; 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; Fondation Blachère, Apt, France; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Meyer has been the recipient of several residencies and grants, including Flying Horse Editions (2022); Foundation Blachere (2019); Bronx Museum AIM Program (2017); Eddie Adams Workshop (2013); and the Mortimer B. Hayes- Brandeis Travelling Fellowship (2009-2010).
Pedro Montilla

Pedro Montilla (b. 1997, Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian artist who lives and works in Chicago, IL. Montilla’s practice perceives painting as a mystical being, full of vitality and a capability to imbue objects with life, a perspective which allows space for transformation and reflection in his practice. Montilla works primarily on fique fabric, a fibre connected to his Andean roots used traditionally to transport coffee beans and harvests. This material is tied both to belonging as well as dislocation and memory for what it touches. Montilla’s hybrid objects on fique depict landscapes, scenes, and abstractions, revealing a blend of internal conditions and lived experience.

Solo exhibitions include Mirar abajo, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2025); Estudios para un horizonte inestable, Galería Policroma, Medelín, Colombia (2023); La palabra casa tiene dos techos: Ahora rosado, Galería Policroma, Medelín, Colombia (2021).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, FL (2026); Minima expression, Policroma Galería, Medellín, Colombia (2025); ARTBO Feria, Policroma Galería, Bogotá (2025); This is too rapid, it hurt the eyes, Betsy Gallery, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist’s Residency, Saugatuck (2025); Self-Made: Narratives of Knowing and Being, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL (2025); Drown-Proofing, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL (2025); Graduate Exhibition One, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL (2025); Auto Portrait Spectacular: Algo así como un sancocho entre una Chiva, un paseo de olla y un trasteo, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL (2024); YAWN SIGH! Colllaboration with Berenice Vargas, MAYFIELD, Chicago, IL (2024); Geographies Of The Self, PASTEL CO, online (2024); A Garden Show, Slow Dance, Milwaukee, WI (2024);Visiones de la naturaleza, Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia(2024); Social Tapestry, Chili Art Projects, London, UK (2024); ARTBO Feria, Policroma Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2023); La cerca suena lejos, Policroma Galería, MedelÍin, Colombia (2022); ARTBO Feria, Policroma Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2022); ARTBO FDS, Salón Comunal & Policroma, Bogotá, Colombia (2022);Dog show, Mmaison Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2022); Dios bendiga este hogar, Quinta paredes Artist-run-space, Bogotá, Colombia (2021); Nuevos pintores, SGR Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2021); Antes de que todo sea polvo, ARTBO: programa Artecámara, Bogotá, Colombia (2020); Layover, Maleza Proyectos, Bogotá, Colombia (2020); Tierraleja, Obra en la vía, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (2019).

Highlights
In 2024, Pedro Montilla received the Second Year International Graduate Scholarship. The year prior, he received the New Artist Society Scholarship as well as the Graduate Enrichment Award from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at which he currently lectures.
Amy Morken

Amy Morken (b. Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Drawing on the people and fleeting moments of daily life, her work spans memories of childhood airport visits with her mother—watching travellers in transit—to the subtle absurdities of the everyday. Her vibrant paintings explore rhythm, humor, and interconnectedness.

Solo Exhibitions include Amy Morken & Tracy MacFarlane, Convey/er/or Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA (2025); Amy Morken, Cerasoli Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2010); Amy Morken & Bonnie Collura, A Symptom of Beauty (obsessions on an ideal), Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2006); Backwards Diving, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2006); what’s this? …a viking song, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (2005); Amy Morken, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, USA (2004); New Paintings, String Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2004); Amy Morken – Works on Paper, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (2003); Amy Morken – New Work, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (2001); Amy Morken – Works on Paper, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (2000).
Group Exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2026); The Tower Show, Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2026); Small Works Juried Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2025); Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow, Immaterial Projects, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2025); Fearless Watercolors – Acuarelas con Cojonés, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2024); Salon Des Refusés, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2024); Small Works Juried Show (Juror’s Choice Award), 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2023); A Painting is a Painting is a Painting, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY, USA (2023); The Tower Show, Arts Gowanus / St. Mark’s Place, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2022); Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY, USA (2022); Dumplings and Sugar Cookies, A Jam Session, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY, USA (2022); Small Works Juried Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2022); Small Works Juried Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2021); EndWorks / Out of Darkness, 287 Gallery, Danbury, CT, USA (2017); Passiones Contemporaneas, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico (2012); Santa Fe Art, Arroyo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA (2012); SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, USA (2010); The Funnies, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME, USA (2009); Ultra Concentrated Joy: Ecstatic Drawings by Contemporary Artists, curated by Catherine Howe, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA (2008); What I Did on My Summer Vacation, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2006); Earthly Delights, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2005); The Twilife, curated by Daria Brit Shapiro, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (2005); The Ludovico Treatment, curated by David Hunt, Muller deChiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2004); Tits & Art, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2004); SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, USA (2004); The Art of Collecting – IV, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, USA (2003); TeamWork, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2003); Six Artists – Drawings by Seong Hea Ahn, Michael Joo, John L. Moore, Amy Morken, Michael Phelan & Lisa Sanditz, Iminil Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2000); Group Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2000); A Compliment to Love, curated by Alicia Felton, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2000); The Gallery Gang, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (2000); The Passion – Passions in Art, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2000); What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA (2000); pay-per-view, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (1998).
Martine Poppe

Martine Poppe (b. 1988, Norway) lives and works in London and Oslo, and graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art BA and MFA in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Poppe's works are developed from the fluidity between the different materials she employs, negotiating the boundaries between abstraction and representation. Her paintings carry the effects of diffracted light and overexposed photography, as well as the pixelation of blown-up digital images. The photographs, as well as other surplus materials, such as textiles, are recycled as sculptures, forming standing barriers and scrunched up shapes in the exhibition space.

Solo exhibitions include East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2025), The Earth in Search of Magic Tidings, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Nevlunghavn, Norway (2023), Peering at the Edge of Daydreams, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023), Pause, COUNTY, Palm Beach, Florida (2021), A Piece of Me, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021), To Be Announced, Buer Gallery, Oslo, Norway (2021), Zima Blue, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2020), Waiting for Y, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2019), Portraits of Trees, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker, Norway (2018–2019), Crinkled Escape Routes and Other Somewhat Flat Things, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2016); 50% Grå, Trafo Kunsthall, Norway (2015).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL (2026); EXPO Chicago, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, IL (2025), XXS, Brintz + County, Palm Beach, Florida (2025), Echoed Vistas, Piermarq* in Sydney, Australia (2024), Norton Museum Art Benefit Gala, Palm Beach (2024), Art SG, Singapore, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2024), Untitled Miami Beach, County, Miami (2023, 2022), Girl meets girl, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway (2022), Regeneration, Informality, Oxfordshire (2022), Forårskuller, CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2022), Dallas Art Fair, County, Dallas (2021), Artmonte Carlo, Monaco (2019), ALAC, Los Angeles (2019), LISTE, Basel, Switzerland (2018) with VI, VII, Slippage: Performative Utterances in Painting, Post Institute, London, UK (2018), Aphrodite Lowers Her Mirror, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Berlin (2018), Studio Spring, CCA Andratx, Spain (2018), Between the Lines, The Women’s Museum and Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway (2018), Los Angeles Benefit Art Auction, Rema Hort Mann Foundation at Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2017), S|2 x SF, S|2, Sotheby's, San Francisco (2015), New Order II: British Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London (2014).

Highlights and Collections

She has participated in several notable residencies, including Vice x Velux (2022), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2019), The Banff Centre (Canada, 2018), CCA Andratx (Mallorca, 2017), and Hooper Projects (Los Angeles, 2015). Poppe has received numerous esteemed grants and awards, including grants from Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Stiftelse in 2021 and 2022, the Young Artist Grant from the Norwegian Arts Council (2017), and the Juvenarte Prize in Norway (2010 and 2011). She was also shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize in 2015. Collections that feature Poppe’s work include the UK Government Art Collection (UK), KODE Museums (Norway), the Saatchi Collection (UK), Benetton Collection (Italy), the Kistefos Museum (Norway), The Kotanko Collection (Europe/Asia), Claremont University Collection (US), Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norway), House of St. Barnabas Collection (UK), CCA Andratx (Spain), UCL Art Collection (UK) and Oxford University (UK).
Lee Simmonds

Lee Simmonds (b.1996) received his BFA with First-Class Honours from the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, England in 2019. His work explores boundaries between abstraction and narrative; the personal and the macrocosmic. Channelling everyday experience through the genre of magical realism, he strives to create uncanny situations, rendered through a continually evolving visual language. Simmonds is actively involved in theatre-making and he is often seeking new ways in which his two practises can converge.

Solo Exhibitions include Salon, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida USA (2025); Kaleidoscopes, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2024); Can You See the Wood for the Trees?, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2022); Blooming ‘Eck, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022); Into Yonderland, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, FL (2026); Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Salon, West Palm Beach, Florida (2025); The Armory Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York, USA (2024); Enter Art Fair, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023); Cob Gallery Anniversary Show, Camden, London, UK (2022); Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (2021); W1 Curates x Artsy | Black History Month, Flannels flagship store, London, UK (2021); Tête à Tête, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Nevlunghavn, Norway (2021); IRL, Unit London, London (2020); All the Days and Nights, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); Ruskin Degree Shows, Ruskin School of Art in Oxford (2019); New College Arts Week Exhibition, Warden’s Barn, New College, Oxford (2019); Ensemble Fictions, Brown’s Café, Oxford (2019); Cass Art Festival, OXO Tower Wharf, London (2017); National Open Art, Mercers’ Hall, London and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2016); Artsdepot Annual Exhibition, Artsdepot, London (2016); Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London (2016); BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scottish Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Ulster Museum, Belfast (2015); Royal Academy Online Summer exhibitor (2014) and Royal Academy Online Summer exhibitor (2013).

Highlights and Collections

Lee Simmonds has received several prestigious awards which include the Christchurch A4 Prize (2019). In the same year, Simmonds was selected as one of 31 students worldwide for the Saatchi’s Rising Art Stars. He also received the MS Amlin Young Artist Award (2016); and BP Portrait Award (2015) and was the Winner of Regional 'Kickstart' Competition (2014). Lee Simmonds’ work is part of the Artspace Bunker Museum Collection in Palm Beach, USA, as well as The RO2 Collection, USA.
Takako Suzuki

Takako Suzuki (b. 1984, Japan) is a self-taught painter based in Japan. Her practice translates everyday sensory experience into a distinctive visual language of elongated human figures and whimsical creatures inhabiting worlds where humans and animals coexist freely. Central to her work is an interrogation of contradiction: through abstracted figures that are human, animal, or hybrid, apparent simplicity gives way to notes of vulgarity, folly, and absurdity, prompting viewers to examine their own assumptions. In this way, Suzuki elevates the ephemeral pleasures of ordinary life into an open and quietly profound artistic language.

Solo exhibitions When your shining eyes touch mine, a story blooms between you and me, ATELIER AKI, Seoul (2024); We Will Meet Up Soon!, Lorin Gallery, LA (2022); Ambiguous Us, Lorin Gallery, LA (2020); Nympholepsy Cider, HK (2018).

Group exhibitions (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA (2026); Light/Structure, AWASE gallery, Tokyo (2026); gyroid resonance, Spiral Garden, Tokyo (2025); grid next 2025, AWASE gallery, Tokyo (2025); UNFOLDING, ATELIER AKI gallery, Seoul (2025); Drawing Show #3, ARTAIGA, Tokyo (2025); ART TAIPEI, with Lucie Chang Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2025); Art Central HK, with ATELIER AKI, HK (2025); ART BUSAN, with ATELIER AKI, Busan (2025); Exploring the Boundaries of Reality and Imagination, RE’VAN Art Space, China (2024); Exhibition Maker, WATARI-UM, Tokyo (2024); ART BUSAN, with ATELIER AKI, Seoul (2024); Kiaf Seoul, with ATELIER AKI, Seoul (2024); West Bund Art & Design, with ATELIER AKI, China (2024); Art Central HK, with Lorin Gallery, HK (2023); CHRONICLES VOL5, Galerie Droste, Germany (2022); Art Central HK, with Lorin Gallery, HK (2022); Kiaf Seoul, with Lorin Gallery, Seoul (2022); Asia Now, with Lorin Gallery, Paris (2022); Art Central HK, with Lorin Gallery, HK (2021) ; Kiaf Seoul, with Lorin Gallery, Seoul (2021); Without Warning, Lorin gallery, LA (2020).
Nikolai Torgersen

Nikolai Torgersen (b. 1990) is a Norwegian artist based in Oslo, working across painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, and writing. His practice is grounded in expressive figuration, often pushing the boundaries of scale, color, and texture to reflect on the subjective way we perceive ourselves and experience the world. Torgersen’s work is highly autobiographical, and the recurring themes of trauma, addiction, and personal life always make their mark on his work, whether it is nocturnal textile sculptures, dreamy landscape paintings, memoir-based books, or lo-fi video installations. Torgersen’s work also engages with ideas about human nature, culture, and society, questioning what shapes our memories and defines our lives. In some installations, he reconstructs environments from periods in his life, creating intimate works that foster a strong personal connection with the audience.

Solo exhibitions include Light Years, Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, Norway (2025); Office Wall X Nikolai Torgersen, Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, Norway (2025); ECHO STRESS TRAUM, Galleri Fineart, Oslo, Norway (2024); She asks what the sunset means, Galleri Hervold, Hamar, Norway (2024); WORTHLESS CRYING ADDICT JUNKIE LOSER SCUM, Secret location, Oslo, Norway (2023); And my life could not be saved by flowers but our deaths will be, Galleri Zink, Lillehammer, Norway (2023); & then in continuation: Revisiting the world for dummies, Gategalleriet, Bergen, Norway (2022); 96 notes on how scaring a little boy can make him abandon reality (for ever), Galleri Fineart, Oslo, Norway (2022); Avatars of love, Kulturhuset, Bergen, Norway (2022); It tells us that sorrow is written into the contract of life, Guttestreker, Oslo, Norway (2021); My family (the burden of having a memory is overwhelming), Guttestreker, Oslo, Norway (2021).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, FL (2026); Enter Art Fair with Høyersten Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025); Rift, Nils Aas Kunstverksted, Inderøy, Norway (2024); Shareponyz, Hos Arne, Oslo, Norway (2021); Fra det ene til det andre, Galleri Lysky, Oslo, Norway (2020); The 132nd Autumn Exhibition, Oslo, Norway (2019); The 124th Autumn Exhibition, Oslo, Norway (2011).

Highlights and Collections

Torgersen was named Artist of the Year at the Subjekt Awards in 2021 and received the Literature of the Year award in 2025. His work is held in the collections of Norges Bank and Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium.
Janet Vollebregt

Janet Vollebregt (b. 1970) is a Dutch artist whose practice lies at the intersection of architecture, philosophy and sensory experience. Drawing on a technical architectural background and studies in Eastern and Western therapeutic traditions–particularly the Japanese healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu–she creates interactive installations and spatial interventions that invite audiences to perceive subtle energy and cultivate embodied self-awareness. Her nurturing, harmonising environments aim to reconnect viewers with the “invisible but sensible,” offering tools for grounding, reflection and a renewed sense of belonging. Since acquiring 22 hectares of land in Brazil in 2006, Vollebregt has developed an ongoing reforestation project and a series of immersive works that explore the energetic dimensions of place. Her practice has since been presented in museums, galleries and institutions internationally.

Selected solo exhibitions include Spirit House / Na simples e Suave Coisa , Suave, Coisa Nenhuma , Luis Maluf Art Gallery, São Paulo (2024); Esférica , Museu Nacional da República, Brasília (2022); Nurturing Space , Marksteeg 10 Gallery, Leiden (2019); and earlier solo presentations and installations developed in Brazil and the Netherlands.
Selected group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, US (2026); Orbital , Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2026); repeated participation at SP-Arte and Art Rio with Galeria Luis Maluf (2023—25), Radar (São Paulo, 2022—23), Imagine Intuition at Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (2022), the group exhibition Helende Kracht / Healing Force at the Volkenkunde Museum, Leiden (2020), and a range of collaborative projects, performances and site works across Brazil and Europe.

Highlights and collections

Long-term reforestation, sustainable-landscape and installation project O.Sítio on 22 ha in Chapada dos Veadeiros, Brazil (2006—present); development of sustainable/nurturing habitation projects in natural reserves in Chapada dos Veadeiros (2019—present); permanent work Fragments installed at the Thermen Museum Heerlen (2019); recipient of the Habitable Spaces Prize and Creative Industries Fund support for the Museu Nacional da República presentation (2022), and further Creative Industries Fund support for an installation at Butantan Park, São Paulo (2024).
Rufai Zakari

Rufai Zakari (b.1990) is based between Accra and Bawku, Ghana. He completed his apprenticeship under Mozzay, a senior artist in Nima, Accra. In 2011, Rufai Zakari graduated from the Ghanatta College of Art and Design. In his work, Zakari examines consumerism, environmental pollution, labour, trade, and the perils of industrialization in contemporary Ghanian Society. The founder of Rujab Eco-Art Foundation in his hometown of Bawku, Zakari bases his practise on the recycling of waste in the streets of Ghana. After decades of tribal conflict which took countless lives and left the city in ruins, Zakari is now looking to the future with optimism and a strong ambition to rebuild what has been lost, while inspiring hope in his community.

Solo exhibitions include In The Viewing Room, Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH (2025); Girls Like Us, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2024); In Bold She Stands, Contemporary Matters, Ohio, USA (2023); Enigyee, San Luis Potosí Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico (2023); There is Still Tomorrow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2022); Gallery T293, Rome (2022); A New Dawn, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Summer Delight, Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, FL (2026); EXPO Chicago, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, IL (2025); A Gentle Seed, Mclennon Pen Co Gallery in Austin, Texas, US (2024); Emerging Echoes From Ghana: Reflecting Stories of Identity, Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, Ohio, US (2024); New Wave Art Wknd, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA (2023); 1-54 NYC, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York City, USA (2023); The Day I Saw You, Queretaro Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico (2023); Columbus Museum of Art, US (2023); 'Untitled Miami Beach', with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Miami , USA (2022); The Armory Show, The Breeder Gallery, New York (2022); Home is where the Art is, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL (2022); Global Positioning, Public Art Fund, New York, Boston and Chicago, US (2022); Intersecting Identities, Arushi, US (2022); Global Positioning, Public Art Fund, New York, Boston and Chicago (2022); Entre-acte, Selebe Yoon, Dakar, Senegal (2021); More is More: Visual Richness in Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum, US (2021); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (2021); Devil’s in the Detail, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); This Exhibition is Untitled, Nubuke Foundation, Accra (2020); "CirculArt" Sustainable Art Exhibition by Eco Reward, Casa Trasacco Accra (2019); World Behind the Horizon Exhibition, Gess Gallery, Dusseldorf (2019); Sustainable Art Workshop, Merck Foundation, Dubai (2019); Sustainable Art Workshop, British High Commission, Accra (2018); Violence Against Women Exhibition. Alliance Francaise Accra (2018); "Yoomo Be Ga" Recycle Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra (2017); Ghana Netherland Cultural Week Exhibition, Accra (2016); "African Champions" Mural in collaboration with (You Are For Africa), Lagos (2015).

Highlights and collections. Rufai Zakari’s work can be found in important private and public collections including Pizzuti Collection at Columbus Museum Of Art (US); Arthur Lewis Collection (US); Easton Capital/John Friedman Collection (US); Nubuke Foundation, (Ghana); The Bunker Artspace Museum (USA); The Ditau Collection (South Africa); Susan Goodman Collection; VG Collection; Akron Museum Collection (US); JOM Collection (Senegal); AMMA foundation (Mexico); The Africa Centre Collection, London, (UK).

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