Center for Contemporary Art in Italy. Her images have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the states and abroad, receiving favorable critical reviews. She has been granted numerous medals and awards including most recently, the NAWA Medal of Honor in 2008. K-SOUL Switzerland In a research lab in the Swiss Alps, K-Soul creates holokinetic light works which he refrs to as “cosmic gardens.” These works encompass various fields such as digital painting, sculpture, and jewelry. The primary element of the work is light, which reflects the living forces and evolutionary processes of metamorphosis. K-Soul has collaborated with the artist Ruben Nuñez, inventor of holokinetic technology. “To understand the poetic reality of the spiritual world, it is necessary to acquire knowledge and a delicate perception of living forces,” He has reinforced this philosophy by working as a mountain guide, therefore developing a unique artistic approach based on the experience of extreme situations. KATRIN ALVAREZ Germany She was born in 1944 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg and she now lives in Köln. As the daughter of an art tutor, she grew up surrounded by creativity and aesthetics, discovering the fascination of colors and shapes since childhood. Alvarez passed the German Legal State Exam, spent two years as a trainee with a daily newspaper and published satirical poems and a novel. But she never stopped creating her own world: “Painting – that means consciousness of limits. Painting - that means game, life, hope, fear, fight, provocation, challenge and love. Everything.” KICKI GRANHOLM Sweden “In my work I want to express unseen words, the image beneath the social surface which expresses the deep, often hidden character of human beings.” Kicki Granholm was born in Stockholm, Sweden, but now lives in Nossebro. Her studies include: Arthandicraft in Stockholm, and ceramic school in Lidköping, a member of the Swedish Art Union, founder and chairman of Nosan Art Union in Essunga commune. She exhibited at Folkets Hus, Trollhättan in 2007, Galleri Oliven, Gothenburg in 2007, and the Opera Gallery, Budapest in 2008. KIMBERLY BERG USA Kimberly resides in New York managing her online gallery “Isis Rising” and is a member of the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts in New York. Her work has been shown in the New York Art Expo in 2007 and has received awards in many national and international competitions. She has also had artwork published and reviewed in numerous magazines and newspapers. Her works of art attempt to encourage and inspire women to reconnect to their pre-historical roots: to woman’s ancient relationship with nature, to a pre-patriarchal, goddess-based spirituality, and to the once honored, sacred mystery of a woman’s body.
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LI HAIBING China Born in Shanxi province China, Li graduated from the China Academy of Art with an B.A. degree in oil painting and is now an artistic design teacher of the landscape department in the Beijing University of Agriculture. Exhibitions include: Chinese Avant-Garde Artists Documents Exhibition of the 1990s, Japan (2000), China in Images: 50th Anniversary of China Photography, Beijing (2006), Dreams in China, Reality in China: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Paris, France (2008), Ah! We: 30 Years Contemporary Art in China, National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing (2008). MAGGIE MAGEE Ireland Maggie Magee was born in Dublin, Ireland and received a BFA from N.C.A.D. and an MFA from The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and grants, including the Irish Arts Council Award, Illinois Artist Fellowship, and The Chicago Artist Association Award. Her past exhibitions include Contemporary Art Chicago, Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, Scan Gallery Sapporo, Japan. Magee is also the recipient of Grammy and Emmy Nominations for her commercial film and music dvd productions. She is currently living and working in Wicklow, Ireland. Malena Peón Mexico Malena Peón is a Mexican artist, with 60 joined exhibitions and 10 solo exhibitions. She represented México in Vienna in 2006 and donated her collection Chichén Itzá “World Wonder.” She also organizes and promotes national, international and Yucatecan artists. “Where is your brother? Socially responsible?” is primarily about her concern of human relationships amidst an increasingly globalized society that brings us closer through communication but is divisive through cultural and ideological conflict. The hardness, form and brightness of diamonds in the painting refer to a process that is formed under pressure. Furthermore, diamonds have a connotation of conflict when put in the context of Sierra Leone. Pink is the feminine presence whose sweetness and energy make the difference in today’s world. MARAH BROWN ROHOVIT USA Born in Kansas, Marah now lives and works in Utah. As a mixed media artist, she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She participated in Artprize 2010 and was invited to be a guest artist at the 86th Annual Spring Salon 2010, at Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah. She is listed in the Who’s Who in American Art, 2008 to 2010. The subject of black and white has had a strong presence in her work since 2005, originally inspired by a street performer in Barcelona, it has expanded to reflect her views on community, not “a” community in particular, but the idea of community as a whole.