Best Contemporary Artists in Painting, Photography & more - Unframe

Alicja Dobrucka

London

London-based Polish artist Alicja Dobrucka’s interest focuses upon topics concerning cultural identity and cultural transfer. Rather intrigued by the point where cultures meet and merge Alicja’s artistic practice explores the new possibilities that come out of such encounters. As an…

Andy Cross

New York

Andy Cross is a visual artist based in New York. He layers sundry stylistic approaches and wide-ranging narrative themes in vibrant, zippy paintings that often defy categorisation. A self-proclaimed wanderer, Cross culls memories, objects and impressions from travels around the…

Caro Halford

London

Caro Halford’s work spans performance, video, sculpture, collage and photography. Much of her work examines social and political concerns of women and their sexuality. Halford’s focus is primarily in investigating the British women printmakers in the Long Eighteenth Century. In…

Eleonora Agostini

London

Italian artist Eleonora Agostini’s practice encompasses photography, performance and sculpture. It is driven by her interest in the reconsideration and redefinition of the every-day. Through the study of preconceived structures, whether physical or psychological, she aims to investigate the difficulties…

Emily Lazerwitz

London

London-based US artist and mathematician Emily Lazerwitz explores the intersection of art, craft, technology and language in her work. She creates intriguing pieces where language is broken down and transcribed, with the legibility present, yet seemingly abstract. In her work,…

Florence Lam

Reykjavík

Florence Lam is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist artist. Originally from Hong Kong, she now lives and works between Reykjavík, Iceland and Germany. Her practice is an exercise for herself to be hopeful in any situation she encounters. She achieves this…

Iasonas Kampanis

My interest is around the effect of the abstract visual experience, in the ambiance of an image operating above any narrative level. In a manner of painting, physically or digitally, I experiment on contemporary ideas with a traditional mindset. My…

Jaanika Peerna

New York

Jaanika Peerna is an Estonia-born artist who, since 1998, has lived and worked primarily in New York. Peerna’s work encompasses drawing, video, installation and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena.…

Janet Currier

London

Janet Currier’s work hovers on the intersection between abstraction and representation, narrative and non-narrative, thought and feeling. Her practice spans painting, sculpture and installation. These are all intricately connected. She uses found or imagined pattern to explore everyday experiences and…

Judith Stenneken

New York

Judith Stenneken is an artist working in photography, video and installation. She uses book-making, photo-prints, video-installations and interactive pieces as means of expression. Born and raised in Germany, today she bases herself in New York City and Berlin. At twenty…

Maria Carbonell

Madrid

Maria Carbonell’s artistic practice places focus on the study of the human figure. Her body of work develops into portraits that deal with the concept of identity and perception. Her work incorporates a reflection about the human condition with a…

Nikolas Ventourakis

Athens

Greek photographer Nikolas Ventourakis creates works that challenge the assumptions of his viewers. The central point of his work is the denial of a resolution. They are also an invitation to consider artworks that might have a documentary value as…

Philip Gurrey

York

Since starting out as a newly graduated, professional artist in 2007, Philip Gurrey’s work has been positioned around history and politics. Through his painted investigations he pays homage to specific historical movements and occurrences. Each of these points of interest…

Rachel Duckhouse

Glasgow

Rachel Duckhouse is a Glasgow based visual artist working primarily in printmaking and drawing. She works on research based projects which often culminate in process led experiments in the print workshop. Her research explores patterns, structures and flows in specific…

Samin Ahmadzadeh

London

Samin Ahmadzadeh is an Iran born artist based in London. Her background in street photography is combined with the passion of expressing her personal views on sociological and cultural matters of her country Iran. Her practice continues to evolve with…

Samuel Fordham

Bristol

Bristol-based artist Samuel Fordham (b.1987) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, text, video and sound. He has developed a research-based practice focused on telling intimate and often hidden stories highlighting issues surrounding childhood, family welfare and equality. Fordham’s…

Steph Choy

Steph Choy is a visual artist living and working between Singapore and London. In her artistic practice she investigates the bodily gestures through the complex layers of casting, the juxtaposition with found objects and the photographic gaze. These multiple processes…

Yan Gi Cheng

Berlin

Yan Gi Cheng’s artistic practice aims to bring together and create new contingencies between art, philosophy, religion, science and design. His work explores the disparate trajectories across these disciplines, often forcing contradictory gestures and relations to coexist as one. Coming…

Yuxin Su

Taipei

Taiwanese artist Yuxin Su’s body of work develops across different media from paintings, collages, photography and experimental hand-made artist books. She is concerned with the understanding of time within the static media emphasising on the way images hold time. Painting…