lives and works in New York.  He studies at New York Academy of Art. Tim about his work: "My current work mixes personal narrative with humor. Very often my own distress is the butt of the joke. Collage is extremely important in the making of these works and allows me to combine personal imagery with contemporary and art historical ideas."
 

Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2007 she received a Diploma of art at Kunstakademie Kampen. From 2008 to 2009 she participated in the Residency Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

Lives and works in the USA.
Artist Statement: Without an open process, I believe my artwork is limited or obstructed.  I accommodate the immediate moment as well as a extended plan in the moment of making and believe this is as direct a process as possible in bridging the mind with the medium.  Free from obstructions, the process can express the vulnerability of the creator’s “now.”  This is important in my work because it allows my body to truly become unified with the paint: where the thought goes, the hand follows. Trying to maintain a clear connection between my state of mind and the work itself is a constant challenge. Ultimately, I attempt to project what is thought into paint in an effort to illustrate a “voice” or aspect of living. Giving a sense or better yet an expression of life is my ultimate goal.

A great piece of art reflects a full life based on its formal qualities. It does not only speak in narratives, it surpasses them. I see its function as awakening our interests in a fuller life, a life that transcends the literal and the immediate through the “now.”

Born 1974 in Paris, lives and works in Paris. 2005 Zonder received the Premier Prix Marin.

Lives and Works in the Western Australia. Dr Darryn Ansted is the Head of Painting in the School of Art and Design at Curtin University. He has exhibited internationally in over 30 projects and has taught art studio practice and art  history/theory at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University at the undergraduate and  postgraduate level. His practice involves experimentation with colour, perception, representation and painting’s relationship to ethics and society. He is particularly interested in both the history and contemporary potential of modernist strategies and processes. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree, a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with First Class Honours and holds a PhD from the University of Western Australia for research on the painting of Gerhard Richter. 

was born 1973 in Murska Sobota, Slovenia. During 1994-99 he had been studying painting arts on the Academi of Fine Arts in Ljubljna. He lives
and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is his second time in LIA-Programme.

born 1982 in Aichi Prefecture 2008, studied at the Department of Painting (Oil Painting), at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo (Japan) in 2004.  She lives and works in Tokyo.

Irene Wellms is working as a full time artist since 1999. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Wellms made a Bachelor of Education Secondary Art &  Craft at the Melbourne University, Carlton in 1986. In 1999 she made a Diploma of Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts and finally a Master of Fine Art in 2001.

Giulia Sagramola (Fabriano, Italy, 1985) studied graphic design and visual communication at ISIA in Urbino and illustration at Escola Massana in Barcelona. She's a cartoonist and a freelance illustrator, she also creates handmade objects like her monster pillows, purses, tote gabs, badges and t-shirts with her characters. She founded the indipendent zine label Teiera (Teapot), curated with Cristina Spanò and Sarah Mazzetti, in which she develops tiny handmade books or collective publishings. She collaborates with The New Yorker, Einaudi, Topipittori, Coconino Press, Mondadori, Giunti, Tunué and more. Her blog was published in a comic book called Milk and Mint (2008). For Topipittori she published "Bacio a cinque" (2011), a graphic novel on her childhood. She likes traveling, watching tv series, listening to the Best Coast, drinking tea, stalking dachshund dogs. She lives in Bologna (Italy) where she constantly eats gelato.

is an Italy-based illustrator born in Bologna in 1985. She holds a Bachelors degree in Communication (Bologna University 2008) and a diploma in Illustration (IED - Milan 2010), and has been working as a freelance illustrator since 2009. Her working experience covers a wide range of collaborations, from magazines such as GQ Italy, L'Europeo, Link, to independent project and poster design. Together with Giulia Sagramola and Cristina Spanò she takes care of Teiera, an illustration and comics self-publishing label. Her client list include Anorak Magazine, Strane Dizioni, Link Magazine, Locomotive Club, GQ Italy, L'Europeo, Kus!, Biancoenero Edizioni.

lives and work in Paris. He is graduated from the Fine art school of Paris since 2010. He is actually working about "studio landscapes", built as the result of an addition of pictoral, theorical and technicals rules. His landscapes paintings are not representation of existing landscape but codified representations of a certain idea of landscape picture. They are neither the copy or the model, but are presented to see as one of thepossible variations of a landscape's painting under a charter drawn up in advance. he is also working on argumentative prints, wich are usefull to reveals both the buiding tools and the result of his questioning. The artist question are both the théories of Nature rationalization such as its geometrization by the Gold Number or perspective system, but also the big symbolic clichés in the pictorial representation of landscape's history. In fact, the real nature of his paintings are illustrate and confirm our conviction that the subject questioned is more figurative representation, or representation itself, than the general idea of Nature.

Born 1978 in Aarhus, Denmark. Lives and works in Berlin. Influenced by theosophy, romanticism and fluxus Peter Rune Christiansen’s work decodes and creates new complex and unpredictable systems. Christiansen’s paintings can be seen as music scores or topographical landscapes that develop in vivid ways and contain deep layers of information in spite of their delicate appearance. Working also with electronic music and installation Christiansen forms a new suprematistic approach where vision, sound and mind create a complete whole.

Born in Bonheiden, Belgium, in 1982. Holds a Bachelors degree in Plastic Arts/Graphic Design since 2003 and a Masters degree in Visual Arts/Painting since 2008. Both diplomas obtained at St. Lucas Institute, Ghent. Did an exchange programme for four months at the Nottingham Trent University, Fine Arts Department, in 2006. Since graduation working as a freelance artist, curator, {illustrator and graphic designer} in Mechelen, Belgium.From 2008 onwards he runs a non-profit organisation (Opa Malyn vzw) in Mechelen, Belgium, to support young artists. So far he worked together with 80 young artists and several cultural organisations. He successfully organised and curated several artistic projects.

Lives and works in The Netherlands. After a master at VU University Amsterdam she started her career as Developmental Psychologist. She made a switch to Arts and graduated in 2000 at the NAU, New Academy Utrecht. In 2009 she attended residencies Artoll in Germany and Hudsonriver400 nearby New York. Before that,Künstlerhaus Ziegelhütte Darmstadt had invited her for a working period.