After a view around the artistic world, we have compiled the TOP 15 artists we suggest you to follow during this year. We believe they’re the best selection to best 2015 artists.
1- Justin Adian – New York
Adian’s debut exhibition in October at Skarstedt Gallery—the Texas-born artist’s first solo show in the UK—was one of the most talked about items of Frieze Week. Adian’s wall-mounted abstract paintings, made by stretching canvas over shaped pieces of foam, will find themselves in a group show titled “Rascal House” in January 2015, followed by an installation at Lever House in New York.
2- Gabriele Beverage – London
Beveridge’s delicately constructed photo-based installations and assemblages have been gaining momentum since the artist was shortlisted for the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award in 2011. This year, the artist debuted new works at La Salle de Bains. But it’s her current show at Elizabeth Dee gallery in New York on view through January 10, 2015, named a critic’s pick in Artforum, that’s going to take her into 2015 on the next level.
3- Boychild – New York
The performance artist Boychild has begun hitting the museum circuit this year—most notably, touring her collaboration and performance with Korakrit Arunanondchai from MoMA PS1 to ICA London. In early 2015, her ongoing collaboration with artist Wu Tsang (which reached MCA Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum in 2014) will travel to the Migros Museum in Zürich—likely the first act in a year peppered with art world appearances.
4- Kerstin Bratsch – New York
Bratsch and known by her paintings and sculptures making appearances at DAS INSTITUT, Städtische Galerie, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (who represents the artist). Notably, Brätsch’s work is featured in the recently opened “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – on view through April 5, 2015 – alongside Joe Bradley, Oscar Murillo, Julie Mehretu, Michael Williams.
5- Luke Diiorio – New York
RCA grad Diiorio unveiled a much-talked-about solo exhibition at Robert Blumenthal Gallery, titled after a hardware store’s branding slogan (“Never Stop Improving”) where framed pieces of interior walls challenged American DIY aspirations. Recently, Diiorio opened his first solo show in Los Angeles, at Anat Ebgi Gallery, in which hand-folded canvas-and-linen paintings shared the space with collapsed, disassembled walls.
6- Genieve Figgis – Dublin
Figgis is amongst the wave of artists bringing painting back to figuration this year, perhaps the antidote to process-led abstraction that took serious hold in 2014. At 42, Figgis is not a newcomer, but with her first solo show in New York at Bill Powers’ Half Gallery this autumn, which received a glowing review from New York Times critic Roberta Smith.
7- Waqas Khan – Pakistan
Waqas hailing from Lahore, Pakistan, Khan is deemed one of the city’s rising stars. A former student of Imran Qureshi, Khan has begun to make a name of his own for his minimalist ink drawings, inspired by Sufi mysticism, that earned him a spot on the shortlist for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Jameel Prize in 2014. After wrapping up his first European solo exhibition at Sabrina Amrani in January, Khan’s February show with Galerie Krinzingerjumpstarts a busy year that includes exhibiting at ARCO Madrid and the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization.
8- Dwyer Kilcollin – Los Angeles
Manipulating 2D imagery via algorithm, Kilcollin has garnered attention for her hand-cast relief sculptures that fuse the virtual and material worlds—like her sculptures that recently graced a hillside of Los Angeles and M+B Gallery, where images of city views took the shape of a book, binoculars, and a sweater, or the backpacks she debuted at the Armory Show last spring. In started 2015 with a much hyped solo exhibition at American Contemporary in New York in January, followed by her first solo museum exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
9- Dean Levin – New York
The South African-born artist, who trained as an architect at Pratt, had solo exhibitions at Robert Blumenthal Gallery and Zach Feuer’s Retrospective Gallery in upstate New York, was featured in a two-person show at Rod Barton, and was included in a slew of the summer’s hottest group exhibitions—Sean Kelly Gallery’s and Roberts & Tilton’s among them. After finishing 2014 in a group show at TBD, Levin begins 2015 in a group exhibition Berthold Pott Gallery in Cologne in January.
10- Eric Nathaniel Mack – New York
With works included in the Rema Hort Mann Collection, a current residency at the prestigious Studio Museum of Harlem, and his inclusion in “to do as one would,” a 2014 summer group show organized by David Zwirner Gallery in New York, Mack (aka Eric N. Mack) is about to take off. The Yale MFA graduate’s practice turns manipulated textiles—whether bought or from his personal history—and found objects into delicately constructed two- and three-dimensional objects that are often hanging, draped, or hoisted.
11- Sebastian Lloyd Ress – London
Ali Eisa started the Lloyd Corporation, making site-specific installation, sculpture, and artists books. Since forming, the duo has had solo shows at London’s Carlos/Ishikawa, and the artists are prominently featured in the Hayward Gallery’s acclaimed 2014 show “MIRRORCITY” (on view through Jan. 4, 2015). More recently, Rees has broken out in his solo practice, with a well-received showing with London gallery Artuner at this year’s Artissima. With a museum inclusion (the Hayward) under his belt and a budding solo career, Rees is no doubt on the radar for 2015.
12- Rachel Rose – New York
One step closer winning the prestigious emerging artist award, the 2014 Illy Present Future Prize at Artissima, we expect that Rose’s name will be ubiquitous in 2015. The multimedia artist’s highly researched and produced and beautifully soundscaped short films play with sound and texture, science and history, mortality and immortality. She was included in the Taipei Biennial and her work was recently spotlighted in BAM’s “Migrating Forms” series.
13- Kate Steciw – Brooklyn
Steciw makes layered compositions, made using stock images culled from the internet, throughout 2014. With solo exhibitions at Neumeister Bar-Am in Berlin, annarumma in Naples, and Higher Pictures in New York—as well as group shows at Hauser & Wirth and Eyebeam—Steciw has kept busy this year. We’ll be watching for her work with LEVY.DELVAL at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair in January (she was among the hottest young artists at Artissima last fall) as well as in a solo exhibition at the gallery’s Brussels location later in 2015.
14- Amalia Ulman – Los Angeles
Ulman made a splash this year with her social media performance Excellences & Perfections, in which the artist underwent a physical alteration—both real (including plastic surgery) and fictionalized—to reinvent herself into the “Hot Babe,” a character she believes that both the media and social media demand of women; the startling transformation was documented on her Instagram account. The artist was included in group shows at the Swiss Institute and the New Museum.
15- Chris Wiley – New York
Since his inclusion in MoMA PS1’s “Taster’s Choice” exhibition in March—that spotlighted three emerging artists and one artist collective—the Goldsmiths grad has continued to crop up throughout the year, most notably when his solo show opened at Nicelle Beauchene, featuring close-up photographs inspired by housing in Southern California. In addition to participating in two group shows, at Hauser & Wirth and Marianne Boesky Gallery, the artist-writer-curator has been working toward a group show he’s curating at MOCCA in Toronto in 2015, during the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
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