Best Contemporary Artists in Painting, Photography & more - Unframe

Alicja Dobrucka

London

Alicja Dobrucka is a London based Polish photographer, most of all, her interest focuses upon topics concerning cultural identity and cultural transfer. Initially, rather intrigued by the point where cultures meet and merge, first and foremost, Alicja’s artistic practice explores…

Andy Cross

New York

Andy Cross is an American visual artist based in New York. Predominantly, in his practice he layers sundry stylistic approaches and wide-ranging narrative themes in vibrant, zippy paintings that often defy categorisation. As well as this, he is a self-proclaimed…

Becca May Collins

London

Swansea born, London-based artist Becca May Collins’ practice explores the development of sentimentality towards a site, or a ‘sense of place’. She often works with specific sites over time, using image-making as a way to materialise hazy memories and strengthen…

Benedetta Panisson

Venice

Primarily, Venice born artist Benedetta Panisson works with photography, video installation, live performance and drawing in her varied art practice. Importantly, part of her research is dedicated to the aesthetics of sexuality. Furthermore, almost all of her projects are the…

Caro Halford

London

Predominantly, artist Caro Halford creates work that spans from performance, video, sculpture to collage and photography. Much of her work, crucially, examines social and political concerns of women and their sexuality. Primarily, the work of Caro Halford is focused on…

Eleonora Agostini

London

Italian artist Eleonora Agostini’s varied practice, ultimately, encompasses photography, performance and sculpture. Firstly, it is driven by her interest in the reconsideration and redefinition of the every-day. Secondly, through the study of preconceived structures, whether physical or psychological, she aims…

Emily Lazerwitz

London

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

Florence Lam

Reykjavík

Florence Lam is a multi-disciplinary conceptual 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. Firstly, she achieves this…

Iasonas Kampanis

Greek artist Iasonas Kampanis predominantly focuses his art practice around the effect of the abstract visual experience. Mostly, he examines the ambiance of an image operating above any narrative level. In a manner of painting, physically or digitally, he experiments…

Jaanika Peerna

New York

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

Janet Currier

London

Artist Janet Currier’s work hovers on the intersection between abstraction and representation, narrative and non-narrative, thought and feeling. Mostly, her practice spans painting, sculpture and installation, these are all intricately connected. To begin with, she uses found or imagined pattern…

Joonhong Min

London

Joonhong Min is a visual artist based in London and Seoul. The competition in major cities is fierce. Joonhong Min captures chronic feelings of anxiety–living with people obsessed with success, falling behind in the competition and being alienated from others.…

Judith Stenneken

New York

Judith Stenneken is an artist working in photography, video and installation. Predominantly, 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. Initially,…

Julie Rafalski

London

In her work, Rafalski re-examines the output of artists, architects and designers of the modernist era. At the core of Rafalski’s practice is a playfulness and deadpan humour which manifests itself in misquoting certain artists’ visual language or entering into…

Maria Carbonell

Madrid

Artist Maria Carbonell places focus on the study of the human figure in her artistic practice. Firstly, her body of work develops into portraits that deal with the concept of identity and perception. Secondly, her work incorporates a reflection about…

Mary Wintour

London

Mary Wintour is a visual artist based in London. Using paint to edit and fuse together images from interior design magazines, Mary Wintour imagines locations in which the margins of formal and psychological space are fluid. She is interested in…

Nikolas Ventourakis

Athens

Greek photographer Nikolas Ventourakis creates works that challenge the assumptions of his viewers. Fundamentally, the central point of his work is the denial of a resolution. As well as this, they are also an invitation to consider artworks that might…

Peter Spanjer

London

Peter Spanjer is a Nigerian artist, born in Bremen, Germany and currently working and living in London. His work is often framed around the idea of resistance; resisting the emotional stereotypes put on black men; resisting the need to perform…

Philip Gurrey

York

British artist Philip Gurrey, most of the time, explores history and politics in his art practice. He investigates through painting, initially, paying homage to specific historical movements and occurrences. Gurrey is influenced, importantly, by the contrast of the world we…

Rachel Duckhouse

Glasgow

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

Samin Ahmadzadeh

London

Artist Samin Ahmadzadeh is an Iran born artist based in London. Predominantly, 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…

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, primarily, a research-based practice focused on telling intimate and often hidden stories highlighting issues surrounding childhood, family welfare and equality.…

Steph Choy

Visual artist Steph Choy lives and works 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. Choy uses multiple processes of…

Yan Gi Cheng

Berlin

Berlin based artist Yan Gi Cheng explores the merging of new contingencies between art, philosophy, religion, science and design. He explores the disparate trajectories across these disciplines in his work. This often forces contradictory gestures and relations to coexist as…

Yuxin Su

Taipei

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