AES Group was first formed in 1987 in the former Soviet Union by Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, and Evgeny Svyatsky. The art collective became AES+F in 1995 with the addition of Vladimir Fridkes. The collective works in photography, video, sculpture, and painting, creating large-scale narratives that explore our contemporary global landscape and its culture, vices, and values.

AES+F achieved worldwide recognition and acclaim in the Russian Pavilion at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia in 2007 with their provocative, other-worldly Last Riot (2007), the first in a trio of large-scale, multichannel video installations of striking originality that have come to define both the AES+F aesthetic and the cutting edge of the medium’s capacities. The second of the series, The Feast of Trimalchio (2009), appeared in Venice in 2009, and the third, Allegoria Sacra (2011), debuted at the 4th Moscow Biennale in 2011. United as The Liminal Space Trilogy, this tour-de-force series was premiered in September 2012 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and the Moscow Manege, the central exhibition hall of the artists’ home city, and has since been shown on many occasions at various museums and festivals. In 2015, AES+F premiered Inverso Mundus at the 56th Biennale di Venezia. Inverso Mundus was later shown at the Kochi-Muziris Biennial and a number of other museums and festivals all over the world.

Globally recognized and extensively lauded as masters of their craft, AES+F have been showcased in a myriad of festivals, museums, exhibitions, and collections, including the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, and the Gwangju Biennale, among others. They were also featured in the Lille3000 Festival in 2009, and now have a permanent installation at the Gare Saint-Sauveur in Lille (France). AES+F has been featured in exhibitions as well as permanent collections at locations such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Tate Britain (London, England), Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), Taguchi Art collection (Tokyo, Japan), SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah,GA), Gwangju Museum of Art (Gwangju, South Korea), Louis Vuitton Foundation (Paris, France), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea), The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia), Faena Art Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina) among other major international institutions. AES+F has also appeared in many popular publications, including Artforum, The New York Times, The Guardian, Wallpaper, KUNSTFORUM International, Frieze, Flash Art, Le Monde, Art Press, Corriere della Sera, and many others. The group’s newest monograph was published by Rizzoli in 2023 and catalogs the last twenty-five years of their work.

The group now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In April 2022, they released a statement to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, declaring, “We cannot represent a country that is undertaking a genocidal war of aggression, brainwashing its own population, and repressing and terrorizing its citizens for protesting even with blank placards.” The group also canceled upcoming exhibitions in Russia and refused to work on any projects in Russia until Putin’s government is no longer in power.

Alex Anderson (b. 1990, Seattle, WA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Anderson uses the delicate medium of ceramics as his main vehicle to explore the sublime experiences that make up both the man-made and natural worlds, as well as deeper, more complicated issues of race and cultural representation. His artworks combine a novel dexterity in his medium with histories of art and design from around the globe, including the Baroque, Surrealism, Pattern and Decoration, and Japanese pop art. Always irreverent, Anderson combines these references with idioms from African American vernacular and pop culture in order to probe the depths of reality, illusion and identity.

Anderson received his Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Chinese from Swarthmore College and his Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Anderson previously studied at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jingdezhen, China and was awarded a Fulbright Grant in affiliation with the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he continued his studies in ceramic art. His work has been exhibited across the United States, including at the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA), Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), The Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, CA), the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), Human Resources (Los Angeles, CA), The Hole (Los Angeles, CA), Venus Over Manhattan (New York, NY), Deli Gallery (New York, NY), Gavlak Gallery (Los Angeles, CA; Palm Beach, FL), and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY), as well as internationally, including at the Public Gallery (London, UK), Gallery COMMON (Tokyo, Japan), and Baik Art (Seoul, South Korea).

Anderson’s work has been reviewed by Artsy, Artforum, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Cultured, The Los Angeles Times, amongst others. He is represented by Sargent’s Daughters. His solo exhibition, “Everything is made of light,” was on view at Sargent’s Daughters Los Angeles from February 24 through April 6, 2024.

Will Cotton (b. 1965) lives and works in New York. He has a BFA from Cooper Union in New York City, and also studied at the Beaux Arts in Rouen, France and the New York Academy of Art. Will Cotton’s paintings have been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art (2000); Seattle Art Museum (2002); Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2004); Hudson River Museum, New York (2007);  and Virginia MOCA (2013). His work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; as well as many prominent private collections.

Scott Csoke (b.1993) received their BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. They have worked with Anthropologie, Christian Cowan, LAZOSCHMIDL, The Greenbrier, and more. Antiques, dogs, and pink gingham are their constant source of inspiration. Painting is their way of teaching the viewer about the ever-changing mystery of queerness. 

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent.

Cielo Félix-Hernández (b.1998, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto-Rican transdisciplinary artist, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Working primarily in oil paint, Félix-Hernández depicts figures who author their own narratives, constructed out of familiar Boricua and Caribbean iconographies.

Félix-Hernández received her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Recent group exhibitions include Puerto Rico Negrx, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico), “Pictures Girls Make:” Portraitures, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum Gallery, (Los Angeles, CA), Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA), DOMESTICANX, curated by Susanna Temkin, El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY), Ojos del Perro Azul, Marinaro (New York, NY), Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute (New York, NY), Visions and Nightmares, Simone Subal Gallery, curated by Baseera Khan (New York, NY), Flame Tree, REGULARNORMAL, curated by Bony Ramirez (New York, NY), documento, Embajada (San Juan, Puerto Rico), My Flannel Knickers, Sargent's Daughters (New York, NY), Dynasty, curated by Amy Goldrich, Christopher K. Ho, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, and Sara Reisman, PS122 Gallery (New York, NY). She had her first New York solo exhibition nieta at Sargent’s Daughters in January 2022, which was reviewed by Artnet, Artsy and Platform Art. In November 2023, she had her Los Angeles solo debut, sweet and sour, at Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA).

Félix-Hernández is in the permanent collection at El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY). In 2022, she was an Artist-in-Residence at Silver Arts Projects (New York, NY). She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Abrons Art Center, New York, NY. She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters.

Emily Furr (b. 1978, St. Louis, MO) is a New York based visual artist. Furr draws upon Precisionism, Surrealism, and Pop Art to make work that feels both timeless and profoundly timely. Her work examines human attempts to control the uncontrollable, producing disorienting images which insert intimately terrestrial objects into galactic star-scapes. Engaging themes of industrialism, transformation, and the cosmic void, Furr’s work speaks to the fragility of human exploits in comparison with the vastness of the universe.

Furr received her MFA from Hunter College, NY in 2018. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA) and the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO). She has recently exhibited at 12.26 Gallery (Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA), Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA), Rebecca Camacho (San Francisco, CA), Office Baroque (Antwerp, Belgium), O’Flaherty’s (New York, NY), Galerie Hussenot (New York, NY), amongst others; as well as being featured on the cover of New American Paintings’ 25th Anniversary Edition. She was an artist in residence at the Watermill Center (Watermill, NY) in 2019. In 2021, a solo exhibition of Furr’s work was presented at the SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA, curated by Ariella Wolens, assistant curator of SCAD exhibitions. Furr presented a solo booth of new works with Sargent’s Daughters at the Armory Show in 2022.

Her work has been reviewed in Artnet, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, The New York Times, Time Out New York, amongst others. Furr is represented by Sargent’s Daughters. Her recent solo exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters Los Angeles, “Bombshell,” marked her debut Los Angeles presentation and her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Joel Gaitan’s (b. 1995, Miami, Florida) work studies the matters of self-identity, sexuality, and ancestral lineage. From forgotten tongues, to erased cultures, Gaitan immerses into traditional hand building clay techniques, keeping a sacred tradition from Nicaragua & Central America alive in a colonized world. Raised within Pentecostalism, Gaitan still carries the music, verses, and The Holy Spirit with his own interpretation. Gaitan highlights Nicaragüense lifestyle and aesthetics with ceramics and other mediums depicting portraits, utilizing elements of poetry, colors, and storytelling.  Gaitan uses each work as an offering to the ancestors; those who have been encountered, and those who have not.


Nash Glynn (b.1992) is a trans-disciplinary artist currently working in New York City. Using painting, photography, video, and performance, she uses her body as a medium to illustrate ramifications of historical categories such as Nature, Female, and Human. Through visual metaphor she traces the binary logic of domination to the roots of our current ecological crisis and heterosexism. In 2014 she received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and in 2017 her MFA from Columbia University. She has had solo shows at Participant Inc. in 2019, OCD Chinatown in 2020, and an upcoming exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles in Fall 2021. Her work has been featured in publications such as Artforum, Candy Transversal Magazine, and New American Paintings. Glynn was the recipient of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship in 2017.

Clarity Haynes (b. 1971) is a queer feminist artist, writer, and educator, whose work spans painting, drawing, and social practice. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College and CFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, NY, presented by New Discretions; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.

Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Wearing mask and merkin, she works at the intersection of contemporary dance, visual art, and activism. She actively integrates her prior experience as a professional dancer and commercial artist with her art practice in a range of media including live performance, collage, sculpture, video, film, and experimental music. She has presented work worldwide at festivals, nightclubs, museums, and galleries. Her art video “Vaseline” won Best Use of a Sex Toy at The Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival. In 2013 she received a Bessie Award nomination for the theatrical performance of “Organ Player” and in 2015 she received Creative Capital and United States Artists Awards. Interested in troubling the popular entertainment and experimental art divide, she appeared on America’s Got Talent in 2011. Her first feature film “Narcissister Organ Player” premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2018; the European premiere was at the Locarno International Film Festival. Also in 2018 she had a solo exhibition at Participant Inc. gallery in New York. She is a Sundance Theatre Lab 2018 Fellow for the development of a new evening length performance commissioned by the Soho Rep in New York. She was nominated for the ArtPace Residency in San Antonio, Texas in Summer 2019 and her activist short art film "Narcissister Breast Work" premiered at Sundance 2020.

Jo Nigoghossian (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA) is a New York based artist. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art. Nigoghossian has recently had solo shows at Broadway (New York, NY), Team Gallery (New York, NY), and Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). Nigoghossian received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2013 and 2016. Nigoghossian’s work has been reviewed by Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Cultured Magazine, Observer, Wallpaper, and The New Yorker, among others.

mujero (b. 1996) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and director. Their work honors queer/Caribbean identity through painting, sculpture, video, and performance. Their practice engages in found object, image transfer, and embroidery to enact and deconstruct the histories that constitute the present. They’ve directed films, music videos, and content for clients including SYRO, Deli Gallery, and various independent artists in New York. They have exhibited in galleries and non-profit spaces including Sargent’s Daughters, The Latinx Project at NYU, and Osseous Matter. They hold a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. They are a proud child of Afro-Dominican Immigrants, and were born and raised in New York City.

Juan Arango Palacios (b. 1997, Pereira, Colombia) is an artist whose vibrant visual narratives build a world of sanctuary and celebration. Highlighting the experience of marginalized communities, the artist’s works are centered on uplifting the queer experience - while also exploring the artist’s experiences growing up in a post-colonial context in Colombia and the United States. Raised in a traditional Catholic community in Colombia, a series of migrations brought Arango Palacios and their family to the American South in search of a better life. Moving through Louisiana and Texas, their sense of identity and belonging began to be skewed by their lack of knowledge of the English language, their unfamiliarity with American culture, and their internal struggle with a queer identity. Arango Palacios graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020 and has developed an interdisciplinary artistic practice exploring drawing, painting, textile-making, and ceramic sculpture. Arango Palacios’ work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Gaa Gallery, New York, NY; Spinello Projects, Miami, FL; Selenas Mountain, Queens, NY; and New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA. They have participated in artist residencies at The Macedonia Institute in Chatham, NY; the Bed Stuy Art Residency in Brooklyn, NY; and the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art Residency at Yale University in Norfolk, CT. Arango Palacios lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Carlos Rosales-Silva (b. 1982, El Paso, TX) was born on the border of the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas. His studio practice considers the vernacular culture in the American Southwest, the western canon of art history, and the political and cultural connections and disparities between them. Carlos graduated from The School of Visual Arts (New York, NY) with a Masters in Fine Arts in 2020 and received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas Austin (Austin, TX) in 2010. He currently lives and works in New York, NY.

Rosales-Silva has exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico. He has been an artist-in-residence at Abrons Art Center in New York, NY (2021); Residency Unlimited in New York, NY (2020); Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (2018); and at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY (2017). Recent solo exhibitions include Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA) and Ruiz Healy Art (New York, NY), The School of Visual Arts (New York, NY), Sadie Halie Projects (Minneapolis, MN), amongst others. Rosales-Silva has participated in group shows at Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA), North Loop (Williamstown, MA), Seasons LA (Los Angeles, CA), Latinx Project at NYU (New York, NY), White Columns (New York, NY), Ruiz Healy Art (San Antonio, TX), Beverly’s (New York, NY), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), amongst others. His work has been reviewed by ARTnews, Artnet News, Artspace, Hyperallergic, Glasstire, Whitehot Magazine, amongst others. He is represented by Ruiz Healy Art in Texas and Sargent’s Daughters in Los Angeles and New York.

Alake Shilling (b. 1993, Los Angeles, CA) is a painter and sculptor of creatures, in a gelatinous rainbow style in debt to Lisa Frank as much as Peter Saul, bearing carefully coded emotions and driving rich narratives about companionship, risk and reward. In 2018, she presented the final exhibition at 356 Mission, an important artist-run space in Los Angeles, and her work is held in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, where it was showcased in the 2019 exhibition Dirty Protest. She participated in Fun House at Josh Lilley in the Summer of 2018, and represented the gallery at the inaugural Felix Fair in Los Angeles in February 2019.

Stanley Stellar (b. 1945, Brooklyn, NY) was educated at Parsons School of Design where he focused on graphic design and photography. Stellar’s photography has been exhibited in galleries in the U.S. and Europe, presented and discussed in over a dozen anthologies, and featured on the covers of 26 international magazines. The Beauty of All Men, Photographs 1976-2011, a monograph, was published by All Saints Press. Stellar photographs the visual culture of men, creating a depth and humanity in his photographs. One senses the person and not just the body. Being one of the photographers of the early period of gay liberation, many of his images from that time have become icons of that history. He lives and works in Manhattan.

Rachel Youn (b. 1994, Abington, PA) is an artist living and working in New Haven, CT, working across sculpture and installation.

Youn has recently exhibited at Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, Italy), Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis, MO), Soy Capitán (Berlin, Germany), Truman State University Art Gallery (Kirksville, MO), Linseed Gallery (London, UK), VSOP Projects (Greenport, NY), McClain Gallery (Houston, TX), Contemporary Arts Center (Columbus, OH), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy), The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s (Belfast, UK), Brutus (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), La Clinica (Oaxaca, México) HAIR + NAILS (Minneapolis, MN), and the Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, MO).

Youn is a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and the 2020 Great Rivers Biennial Award. They received their BFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Youn received their MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT in 2024. Youn’s work has been reviewed in the LA Review of Books, Artillery Magazine, Elephant, amongst others. They are represented by Sargent’s Daughters.

Zaldy (b. 1966) is a fashion designer based in New York City. Since launching his own namesake clothing line in 2002, Zaldy has designed both stagewear and one-of-a-kind looks for Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Cirque du Soleil, RuPaul, and others. He served as the head designer for Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B. collection. He has been nominated for five Emmy Awards in Costume Design for his work on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and has won three Emmy’s for his costuming on the show.

Sara Zapata (b. 1988, Corpus Christi, TX) employs weaving, tufting and traditional craft techniques to create loud, architecturally responsive installations that traverse themes of gender, colonialism and fantasy. Zapata’s site-specific works reflect her intersecting identities as a queer woman of Peruvian heritage raised in Evangelical South Texas and now based in New York.