Acquired Artists

Brandon Morris was born in 2000 in San Diego, California. Brandon studied at Parsons School of Design, where he first began joining techniques from fashion construction into sculpture. His practice explores the boundaries between art, identity, and dressmaking, focusing on what he calls “the object of the clothing itself.”

His previous exhibitions include Actress at Europa Gallery (New York), Cathedral Junkie at Pangée (Montréal, 2024), and Cats Live in Loneliness then Die like Falling Rain at Gern en Regalia (New York, 2022). He has also exhibited at the Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University (Queens, NY), Storage Art Gallery (New York), and NADA Exhibition Space (New York).

His work has been shown at Esther New York, Material Fair (Mexico City), and NADA New York, where it received a mention in The New York Times.

He is a recent recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Grant and is currently preparing for his first museum show at The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Hasani Sahlehe (b. 1991, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR; MARCH, New York, NY; Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA; Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN; and Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX, among others. His work was included in the 2021 Atlanta Biennial at Atlanta Contemporary. He is a recipient of a 2023 Macdowell Fellowship. Sahlehe's work is in the permanent collections of The High Museum of Art and the Georgia Museum of Art. He received his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015.

Chris Oh is a contemporary visual artist, born in 1982 in Portland, Oregon, and currently lives and works in Queens, NY and Portland, OR.

 Appropriation has long been understood as one of the defining practices of modern art. This art of the copy, however, is not limited to that which came after the age of reproduction. The conscious duplication of preexisting artworks is as present in Warhol as it is in Ovid’s reconfigurations of Virgil. The push and pull between homage and authorship is central to an artist forming their own language; and just as Rubens copied and contorted the work of Titian, Chris Oh co-opts masterpieces from the Western canon in order to forge his own singular oeuvre. Altogether, Oh’s work is a resurrection of art history. To view these delicate paintings is to see the artist recall some of the most sublime reflections on 15th and 16th - century life and use them as mirrors through which to observe our own moment in time.

Leah Ying Lin (林瑛) is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist crafting kinetic sculptural spectacles through metallic ceramics, 3D-printed metal, creative coding, and performance art. Her practice evokes living sculptures in motion, where cosmic mythologies, cutting-edge technology, and human longing converge. Visually situated between the futuristic and the ancestral grounded in the concepts and strategies of future archaeology, her work bridges supernatural mythologies, traditional craft, and East Asian aesthetics and techniques. Lin’s sculptures balance the rigidity of aluminum and metallic ceramics with the ethereal softness of amorphous shapes—expressing a feminine force both steely and sensuous. Weaving breathable kinetic mechanisms with projection mapping, sound, scent, and exotic plants she cultivates, Lin creates immersive realms that challenge and expand how sculpture engages the viewer.

Shuai Yang (b.1998 Beijing, China) is an artist based in New York. She recently received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University School of The Arts and a BFA in printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. She has exhibited her work in a three-person exhibition at Eli Klein Gallery (New York) and has shown at Hudson River Museum (New York); Lenfest Center For The Arts (New York); Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston); Chambers Fine Arts (New York); Storage Gallery (New York); LATITUDE Gallery (New York); theBlanc (New York); DeCA Foundation (New York); Fredric Snitzer Gallery (Miami); Abigail Ogilvy (Los Angeles); Accent Sisters (Jersey City); among others. Her work is collected by the Hudson River Museum (New York) and the Artemizia Foundation (Bisbee, Arizona). Yang has received reviews and interviews from Impulse Magazine, White Hot Magazine, VENTI Journal and has given talks at Pratt Institute and Massachusetts College of Art. She is a recipient of the Glogauair Artist-in-Resident (Berlin, forthcoming), Vermont Studio Center Residency, Nars Foundation International Artist Residency, Rockella Artist Program fellowship, Morty Frank Travel Award, and Donald C. Kelley Travel Award.

Ben Tong (b. 1981, Toronto, Canada) received his M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 2012. The artist has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at galleries and museums including Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada; UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, CA; Jack Barrett, New York, NY; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA, and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. His work has been included in group shows at MOCA Geffen, Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany; K11, Hong Kong; Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China; and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, among other venues. His work belongs in the collections of TD Bank and The National Bank. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.

Jennifer Carvalho (b.1980) is a contemporary Canadian artist whose practice centers on reconstructing the past in the present. By reframing artworks from the Renaissance and medieval eras, she brings historical occurrences into contemporary focus—paying close attention to bodily gestures, architecture, jewelry, and garments. Her work is deeply research-based, often deconstructing inherited notions of femininity through painting, challenging the ways women were historically represented in art. Carvalho combs through history to trace ideas back to their origins and rearticulates them in a contemporary context. Her influences include the writings of Mark Fisher and Silvia Federici, and the works of artists such as Jan van Eyck, Piero della Francesca, Agnolo Bronzino, and Giotto.

She recently presented at CICA Vancouver from June 27 to August 10, 2025, where her exhibition, “An Archive of Gestures”, invites visitors to explore a space where time folds in on itself and echoes of the past linger in the present.

Sophia Heymans (b. 1989, Minneapolis, MN) grew up on her family's farm in Central Minnesota and gravitated towards art-making at an early age. She attempts to paint landscapes from a non-dominant perspective, confronting the weighted history of American landscape painting and challenging viewers’ sense of rank within the environment. Heymans received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited with The Valley (Taos, NM), Meyer Riegger (Berlin, Germany), 1969 (New York, NY), Nino Mier (Los Angeles, CA), and Fortnight Institute (New York, NY), among others.

Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe and French ancestry, originally from the Outaouais region, who lives and works in Mooniyang/Montreal. With a deep interest in communicating Indigenous identity through complex cultural narratives, her artistic and cinematographic work grapples with colonialism’s impact, updating outdated systems with anishinaabeg methodologies.

Her cinematographic work has been screened at numerous festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada), Sundance Film Festival (Utah, USA), Berlinale (Berlin, Germany), Gothenburg International Film Festival (Sweden) and Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands). Her work has also been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, United States and Europe, notably at the Whitney Biennial (New York, USA).

Maciej Kość graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2024 and is now continuing his studies at the prestigious London’s Royal College of Art.

Maciej Kość metabolizes many widely disparate styles from classic painting, Baroque, Mannerism, through postmodern maximalism, to children’s book illustrations. He draws energies from the sublime nineteenth-century landscape paintings (e.g., Hudson River School), the axiomatic beauty of pre-Raphaelites, and John James Audubon’s birds. Kość also admires contemporary artists such as British painter Peter Doig’s subtle poignancy that grows on you, Walton Ford’s neo-naturalistic illustrations of imagined zoological specimen, and more recently Thomas Woodruff’s baroquely ornate dinosaurs. Kość’s strange imagery sometimes seems to augur a resurgence of interest in literary mock epics, like Ignacy Krasicki’s Mouseiad, or the illustrations of Jean de La Fontaine's fables. But the artist deeply integrates those inspirations into a coherent, unique and contemporary style of his own.

Ben Cowan was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Indiana University. The artist can be spotted examining plants and buildings as he walks to and from his studio in Brooklyn, New York. Occupationally, Cowan has worked in the studio of Jeff Koons and presently as a Scenic Artist for motion pictures, both roles have increased Cowan’s resolve for refined painting techniques, experimentation with process, and a keen eye for illusions. In his work, Cowan draws inspiration from urban landscapes and gothic architecture, blending observed places, personal objects, and religious abstractions to create paintings that bridge reality and illusion, personifying the interpersonal and the supernatural.

Cowan’s work has been shown in solo and group shows throughout the United States including New York City’s Deanna Evans Projects, 550 Gallery, The Painting Center, and Spring Break Art Show. He has been featured by Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual and The Brooklyn Review, and also mentioned in articles from cultbytes.com, The Wall Street Journal, and Vice.com. Cowan’s work is in private and public collections including The University of Scranton, Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan, and The Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY.