Njideka Akunyili CROSBY (B 1983)

Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s work is a sophisticated exploration of "transcultural" identity, capturing the specific friction and harmony of living between her native Nigeria and her adopted home in the US. Her works often express the "In-Between Space", with the concept of liminality—the state of being between two cultures. She explores how immigrants carry their past into their present, creating a hybrid existence that is neither fully "here" nor "there," but a rich cultural multiplicity. She also describes Domesticity and Intimacy by depicting intimate, domestic scenes featuring herself and her husband. These quiet moments serve as a backdrop for larger socio-political narratives, grounding global themes in personal, private spaces. Her focus on Cultural Memory and Heritage is essential and she integrates on her works photo transfers of Nigerian pop stars, politicians and family members and then weaves collective history into her personal story. This layering acts as a literal and figurative representation of how memory and history inform current identity.
Range of artwork price: Between 500000 to 4800000 Usd.

Toyin ODUTOLA (B 1983)

Nigerian born Toyin Ojih Odutola works focus on how to transform the human figure into a complex "landscape" as it is a narrative built through texture. The most striking element is the way she renders skin not using flat colors but instead building the "topography" of the body by using dense, rhythmic marks "striated effect" with ballpoint pen, charcoal, pastel or pencils.
She often creates entire fictional worlds per example in her series "To Wander Determined"  that centers on two aristocratic Nigerian families.  She uses visual storytelling to imagine a world where Black identity is defined by wealth, leisure, and history rather than struggle or colonialism. Her work is also a constant investigation into how identity is formed and perceived and her migration reflects the feeling of being an "outsider" looking in. Thus she can explore the multiplicity of identity—the idea that a person is many things at once.
Range of artwork price: Between  400000 to 2200000 Usd.

Marcellina AKPOJOTOR (B 1989)

Marcellina's work is deeply rooted in themes of femininity, generational memory and the socio-political significance of education for women. Her mixed-media portraits blend Ankara fabric scrap collage with acrylic painting. From a distance, her works appear as vibrant, naturalistic portraits but upon closer inspection, they reveal an intricate, puzzle-like topography of motifs and patterns. She views the fabric as a cultural signifier of community and solidarity. The layering of these scraps symbolizes the "complexity of identity" and the shared energy of the people who wore them. Much of her work explores her own family tree. Her series Daughters of Esan chronicles five generations of women in her family, starting from her great-grandmother. Another recurring narrative is the "quest for education." Inspired by her great-grandmother, who was denied formal schooling, Akpojotor often depicts women and girls with books or in domestic spaces that emphasize intellectual growth.    
Range of artwork price: Between 25000 to 75000 Usd.

Emma PREMPEH (B 1996)

Prempeh art is characterized by a haunting, cinematic exploration of memory, time, and heritage. Her work often blends realistic figuration with expressive, atmospheric backgrounds to create "interior landscapes" that feel both intimate and vast. A signature of Prempeh’s work is her use of Schlag metal (a brass alloy of copper and zinc) that oxidizes over time. This means the painting literally changes as it ages, creating a "live" meta-narrative about the passage of time and the fading of memory. She often applies this metal to specific areas—like clothing, furniture, or skin—to create a shimmering contrast against more matte, dark backgrounds. Prempeh uses blackness not just as a color, but as a foundational "ground" that will evoke a cinematic or photographic quality and her work is deeply autobiographical, exploring her British, Ghanaian, and Vincentian heritage. She often depicts bedrooms or living spaces that look like they are dissolving or being consumed by light and shadow, representing how memories blur and shift over time.

Range of artwork price: Between 10000 to 30000 Usd.

Shaquelle WHYTE (B 2000)
Whyte’s art is defined by a blend of technical fluidity and psychological depth. He treats the canvas as a "stage," directing his subjects and motifs with a sense of theatricality and broad, loosely rendered brushstrokes. This fluid technique creates a sense of movement where time and space appear to "expand and contract" across the canvas.
While his work is not strictly representational of his own image, it's deeply personal carrying specific details from one painting to the next, creating a persistent, evolving world. Whyte uses paint to "give form to thought," acting as an explorer of subconscious and the ephemeral moments.

Ultimately, Whyte’s style is intentionally enigmatic. By leaving his "world" open-ended, he invites the viewer to bring their own interpretations to the non-linear stories he crafts.

Range of artwork price: Between 6000 to 18000 Usd.

Fiza KHATRI (B 1991)

Fiza Khatri is a Pakistani artist and her style is characterized by an intimate, soft-focus lens that bridges the gap between personal memory and physical reality. Khatri’s work often explores the concept of the "interior"—both as a physical domestic space and a psychological state. Her approach treats the private sphere as a site of radical vulnerability and comfort.  A central theme in her work is the subversion of traditional South Asian domesticity. She uses paint to document queer kinships and communities, moving away from the "formal" portrait and toward "informal" snapshots of lived experience. Her work often serves as an archive of a life lived outside conventional societal norms.

Range of artwork price: Between 8000 to 25000 Usd.

Louisa GAGLIARI (B 1989)

Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi is known for a "post-internet" composition that merges digital precision with traditional painterly textures. Her work explores the psychological tension of contemporary life, often focusing on the ways we navigate virtual and physical spaces. Gagliardi’s process is a unique blend of digital and analog methods. She does not use traditional canvas, instead her "paintings" are complex layers of Digital Foundations, Industrial Printing andTactile Interventions. Once printed, she applies a "last layer" by hand using unconventional materials like transparent gel medium, varnish, or nail polish. These additions create physical texture and a "shimmer" that changes as the viewer moves around the work.
Her work is characterized by this "Screen Glow" and often described surrealist or metaphysical situations with Androgynous Figures.

Range of artwork price: Between 5000 to 18000 Usd.

Nathalie BOUTTE (B 1967)

Nathalie Boutté is a French visual artist known for her unique paper collage technique that sits at the intersection of photography, sculpture and textile art. She reinterprets historical photographs by deconstructing them into thousands of physical fragments.
Her signature style integrate Layered Construction, an assemblage of thousands of hand-cut  made of Japanese paper, old novels, maps, or even banknotes .Typography is used as grayscale, instead of using paint, Nathalie prints text onto the paper, the whole process creating a "Pixel" Effect.

Her work is deeply rooted in archival research and a desire for "symbolic repair" focusing on historical reinterpretation, giving voice to the anonymous, materiality and time: Her style emphasizes the "slow" nature of creation. Unlike the instant capture of a photograph, her meticulous handiwork imbues the subjects with a physical presence and "body" that a flat image cannot achieve.

Range of artwork price: Between 10000 to 35000 Usd 

Laurent PROUX (B 1980)

In his painting and drawing, Laurent Proux produces powerful and original imagery that seeks through his formal choices to resolve the questions raised by his subjects. Described by some as a realist due to the subjects he depicts—industrial machinery, workstations, sexualized bodies...—his style finds its emancipation through his never-ending exploration of pictorial solutions, the integration of aberrations, bringing planes into collision, the use of artificial colors, all freeing his oeuvre from the opposition between figuration and abstraction. He approaches the human form through fragments, exaggeration and the use of silhouettes to create a kind of body-cum-machine, politicized and under assault, often disturbing and occasionally sentimental. His canvases take the form of a stage, in an altered perspective and the artist addresses the spectator with a visual and intellectual enigma running through the image.

Range of artwork price: Between 20000 to 60000 Usd.

Cathrin HOFFMANN (B 1984)

German painter Cathrin Hoffmann’s figures rendered in various shades of pink and blue oil painting, regularly contort into impossible poses. Her flat, graphic figurative style makes her figures look like avatars produced with software rather than a paintbrush. Questioning the effects of the digital age on the human psyche, Hoffman’s paintings reflect her work in advertising, where she often digitally enhanced images of models and consumer goods to resemble a certain physical ideal.
Her often solitary figures seem to expose themselves to the viewer, but in a detached, performative way reminiscent of social media.


Range of artwork price: Between 20000 to 45000 Usd.

Lorenzo AMOS (B 2002)

Lorenzo Amos is a self-taught American artist whose luminous paintings of friends, family and shared interiors transform everyday domestic space into a site of revelation, community and care. He creates figurative paintings in oil on linen/canvas that depict scenes into compressed, sometimes vertiginous spaces where bodies, furniture and architecture seem to share the same emotional charge. His work blends devotional intensity with everyday observations creating intimate, contemporary language of color, touch and gesture.

Range of artwork price: Between 30000 to 120000 Usd and rising fast!

Kye CHRISTENSEN-KNOWLES (B 1993)

Kye Christensen-Knowles dedicates his paintings into 2 distinctive directions.
In one series of paintings Knowles figurative artworks depict contemporary society portraits unnerving, chilling and his touch reminds me the great portraitures of Lucian Freud.
In other series, his futuristic works look like a fusion of classical tradition and modern dystopian imagery, focusing on bridge the gap between renaissance techniques and science-fiction fever dreams.

 
Range of artwork price: Between 15000 to 50000 Usd.

Gisela McDANIEL (B 1995)

Gisela McDaniel is a diasporic, indigenous CHamoru artist who explores the effects of trauma, displacement and colonization through portraiture and oral histories. Interweaving audio interviews, assemblage and oil painting, she intentionally incorporates the portrait sitters’ voices in order to subvert the traditional power relations of artist and sitter. Working primarily with women and nonbinary people who identify as Black, Micronesian, Indigenous to Turtle Island, Asian, Latinx, and/or mixed race, her work disrupts and responds to the systemic silencing of subjects in fine art, politics, and popular culture.
Range of artwork price: Between 25000 to 75000 Usd.

Cheyenne JULIEN (B 1994)

Cheyenne Julien paints colorful portraits of young figures with exasperated and exuberant facial expressions. Vibrant and full of emotion, these paintings reflect on Julien’s encounters with racism to serve as a response to larger societal issues. She also paints spaces where light through a window feels like a spooky presence and obscures the line between nature and surveillance. In images like Night Sun (2018) her figures’ exaggerated large eyes express emotion that can be read simultaneously as fearful, contemplative, or filled with love and gaiety. Her figures emit uneasy energy that could represent joy and jubilance or personal anxiety in narratives that are both poignant and exquisite.

Range of artwork price: Between 10000 to 35000 Usd.

Maria BERRIO (B 1982)

Well known artist but a discovery for me, María Berrío as Colombian painter works with monumental collage-paintings that use the fragility of Japanese paper to mirror the vulnerability and resilience of the human spirit, blending South American folklore with the pressing global realities of identity and migration. 

Range of artwork price: Between 300000 to 1600000 Usd.