12 YOUNG CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW
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The art landscape in 2025 is alive with a new wave of visionary creators, reimagining what it means to make—and experience—art today. From bold conceptual gestures to deeply personal narratives, these next-gen voices are shaping a cultural moment that feels urgent, diverse, and unafraid to challenge convention.
Handpicked from Cultured magazine’s 2024 spotlight on 30 emerging names, these 12 standout artists have already proven their momentum, building on exhibitions, residencies, and critical acclaim that signal big things ahead. Whether they’re reframing painting, expanding sculpture into the digital realm, or forging entirely new visual languages, each is carving a distinct space in the global conversation.
Ready to meet the ones defining the future before it arrives? Here are 12 of the most compelling young artists to watch in 2025.
Let’s begin.
1. Catalina Ouyang
Catalina Ouyang crafts haunting sculptural and installation-based works that weave together mythology, personal history, and cultural memory, often confronting themes of violence, vulnerability, and transformation.
2. Ana Cláudia Almeida
Ana Cláudia Almeida’s delicate yet charged works—spanning drawing, painting, and mixed media—explore intimacy, identity, and the subtle poetics of everyday life through nuanced color and form.
3. Emil Sands
Emil Sands creates atmospheric, layered paintings that dissolve the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, evoking shifting landscapes of memory and emotion.
4. June Canedo de Souza
June Canedo de Souza’s photographic practice centers on migration, belonging, and heritage, blending documentary and poetic approaches to tell deeply human stories.
5. Kristin WalshKristin Walsh works across sculpture and installation, using industrial materials and organic forms to examine the fragility and resilience of both the body and the built environment.
6. Louis OsmosisLouis Osmosis merges conceptual rigor with playful irreverence, creating multimedia works that interrogate cultural archetypes, personal identity, and the absurdities of modern life.
7. Mika Horibuchi
Mika Horibuchi’s meticulously rendered paintings mimic photographs, textiles, and everyday objects, playing with perception, illusion, and the act of looking itself.
8. Shala Miller
Shala Miller fuses photography, performance, and video to explore the body as a site of vulnerability, desire, and storytelling, often drawing on personal archives and theatrical staging.
9. Dan HerschleinDan Herschlein constructs immersive, uncanny environments that blend sculpture, relief, and painting, evoking dreamlike narratives steeped in domestic unease.
10. Faye Wei WeiFaye Wei Wei’s large-scale paintings pulse with romantic symbolism, lyrical brushwork, and a palette that channels both tenderness and intensity, creating intimate worlds of myth and memory.
11. Jeffrey MerisJeffrey Meris’s sculptures and installations transform found materials into meditations on healing, labor, and the relationship between the human body and the natural world.
12. Qualeasha WoodQualeasha Wood’s vibrant, tapestry-like works fuse digital aesthetics with textile traditions, addressing Black identity, queerness, and the politics of representation in the internet age.
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Table of contents:
00:00 — Catalina Ouyang
01:25 — Ana Cláudia Almeida
03:03 — Emil Sands
04:38 — June Canedo de Souza
06:44 — Kristin Walsh
08:38 — Louis Osmosis
10:29 — Mika Horibuchi
11:58 — Shala Miller
13:27 — Dan Herschlein
15:14 — Faye Wei Wei
16:48 — Jeffrey Meris
18:18 — Qualeasha Wood
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