Heesoo Kwon is a visual artist and anthropologist from South Korea currently based in the Bay Area, California. In 2017, Kwon initiated an autobiographical feminist religion Leymusoom, as an ever-evolving exploration of her family histories and feminist liberation.

Kwon received her Masters of Fine Art from UC Berkeley in 2019. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Et Al and Studio 2W, San Francisco; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley; and CICA Museum and Visual Space Gunmulsai, South Korea. She has participated in group exhibitions at the CICA Museum; BAMPFA, Berkeley; 47 Canal, New York; Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco; Slash Gallery, San Francisco; and Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, among others. In 2012 Kwon received the Female Inventor of the Year Award from the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Her other accolades include the Young Korean Artist Award from the CICA Museum, a finalist in the 20th Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, a finalist of the Sheffield DocFest Arts Programme, and the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for Photos and Art Practice from UC Berkeley.

Nibha Akireddy is a young artist from the South Bay Area. She loves creating art that honors her communities -- artistic, cultural, familial, and everything in between. She is interested in complicating what it means to be a multicultural artist and questioning what we expect from diasporic artists and creatives.

Juke Jose is an artist and architectural designer born and raised in Manila, Philippines and is currently based in San Francisco, CA. Juke uses his architectural research as a tool for his artistic expression by using (representations of) space, places, and objects as his primary medium. He examines the familiar yet unfamiliar spaces and objects that bear remnants and evidence of our living. His work weaves dialogues in migration, memory, the self, margins, and proximities.

Having immigrated from Japan, seeking freedom of self-expression, community and belonging, Midori is fascinated with memory, place, and disorientation. Self-taught, creating in the margins for two decades, her work shifts now, experimenting with larger, socially engaged experiences. Using materials and techniques of labor and Japanese folk craft, she builds interactive installations. She is proud of her sculpture "InVocation" (2020) where she received totemic objects of memory from queer sex workers, weaving them into a monument to labor.

Jane Kang is a Korean-American artist exploring themes related to the Korean Diaspora. She converges functional and sculptural pottery by incorporating traditional and narrative elements into contemporary forms. The body is a vessel, and, like clay, holds memory both consciously and unconsciously. Her work harnesses ancestral traditions and memories forgotten, channeling them through present experiences.

Kim Requesto is a Philippine born, Mission District raised cultural practitioner and multi-disciplinary artist based in Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory also recognized as San Francisco, California. She specializes in 35mm photography, filmmaking, and dance. At the heart of Kim Requesto’s diasporic work is the mantra, “Advocacy through art.” With an artistic foundation in Philippine folk dance, Requesto has dedicated herself to cultural expression and advocacy through movement, photography, and community outreach.

Takahiro Okubo is from Tokyo and learned art from Nobuhiko Utsumi, an artist who is descended from the Japanese postwar art movement Mono-ha. After he had spent some years in Tokyo art scene as his assistant, he decided to dive into San Francisco where his Japanese-American immigrant ancestors had lived. Now he’s studying art at San Francisco State University and trying to be a part of the Bay Area art scene which has a rich cultural diversity.

Ximaps Dong is a Queer Chinese-American interdisciplinary artist. Through their art, they seek to transform the everyday into abstracted patterned space through which others can map their own relationships to the quotidian. Ximaps received their BA in Art History with a concentration in Studio at San Francisco State University.

Marlene Yee was born, raised, and is currently living in San Francisco. Marlene enjoys combining various mediums such as pencil and ink illustrations and paper cut with X-Acto knife.

Wednesday is a Filipina American artist and designer born and raised in East Bay Area. She loves colors, doodling, and educating others on the wonders of art. She likes to illustrate a lot of fun and colorful things, reminding anyone that comes across her art that there is so much color and fun in the world we live in. She's currently a senior at SJSU, working on their BA in Design Studies.

C. Shen Yuan (he/they) is a musician from Huchiun, the unceded territories of the Lisjan Ohlone people. They make music as Yoezung using homemade field recordings.