Eleven Emerging Artists on the Rise

LVH Art presents a list of emerging artists to follow now. We’ve curated a selection of fresh voices who are reshaping the contemporary art scene through varied mediums, distinct perspectives, and diverse backgrounds.

Working across painting, photography, and installation, and often incorporating unconventional materials and techniques, these artists offer a fresh perspective on material, image, and form. From detailed portraits of Giangiacomo Rossetti, Magdalena Skupinska’s use of natural pigments and organic matter, to Nour Jaouda’s heavy, layered textiles, and many others — these artists represent a range of emerging approaches shaping the contemporary art scene.

Sonya Derviz (b. 1994, Moscow, Russia)

Sonya Derviz is a London-based artist known for atmospheric, psychologically charged compositions that blend figuration and abstraction. Her works evoke a dreamlike ambiguity, drawing from memory, literature, and emotional states to explore themes of interiority and transformation. Derviz has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad, with solo shows at Sherbet Green (‘Near and Far’, 2025; ‘Closer’, 2023) and a collaborative two-person exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ (‘Conditions’, 2025). A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art, Derviz is the recipient of the Stanbury Prize and UCL Art Museum Award.

Lorenzo Amos (b. 2002, New York City, USA)

Lorenzo Amos’s practice centres on capturing the immediacy of everyday life through figurative painting and drawing. His works often focusing on fleeting urban moments, dreams, and personal memory. His visual language draws from the legacies of figurative expressionism, Symbolist painters like Odilon Redon, and poets such as Arthur Rimbaud, infusing his work with both emotional urgency and poetic resonance. After spending some years in Milan, returning to New York has become both a creative sanctuary and an emotional homecoming, with the city itself serving as muse and backdrop for his work. Discover more about his work in our recent interview with the artist.

Filippo Antonello (b. 2002, Lugano, Switzerland)

Filippo Antonello is known for his mixed-media works using bleach and ink on unconventional supports like velvet, corduroy, and denim. In his first solo exhibition, ‘Aufheben’, held at the newly established permanent space of Kearsey & Gold on Cork Street, Antonello explored the interplay between realism and abstraction, and how materiality plays a role in this. As he put it: “the paintings are less about representation than about tuning: the viewer is not positioned in front of the work, but inside its wavelength, caught in the recursive motion of perception and loss.” He holds a BA in History and Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and an MA from the University of the Arts London. Antonello now lives and works in London.

Francesco Cima (b. 1990, Pietrasanta, Italy)

Based in Venice, Francesco Cima is a painter whose work has increasingly focused on landscape, which now plays a central role in his practice. His paintings rarely include the human figure, instead giving space to other life forms and imagined relics drawn from a personal mythology. Influenced by the landscape of Versilia in northwestern Tuscany, with its blend of sea, hills, and mountains, Cima grounds his work in a strong sense of place. His paintings also drift into deserts, dreamlike visions of Venice, and imagined terrains beyond time and geography. Often lit by a dim, transitional light, his works carry a quiet intensity, echoing the introspective spirit of Romanticism. Cima graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (2019) and also has an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art. He has exhibited widely across Italy and internationally, including solo and group presentations at Galleria A+A, Monitor, Marselleria, M+M Gallery, and most recently at Spazio Amanita.

Magdalena Skupinska (b. 1991, Warsaw, Poland)

Magdalena Skupinska is a London-based artist known for her use of natural pigments such as turmeric, chili, and corn to create organic, abstract compositions. Her practice draws from Arte Povera and Minimalism, resulting in tactile works that encourage sensory engagement and a renewed connection with the natural world. Often displayed flat on raised wooden platforms, the works remain physically grounded, inviting viewers to look down into their surfaces. Her solo exhibitions include ‘Blending Elements’ at Maximillian William in 2025 and ‘Fertile Plate’ at Blum & Poe in 2023. She has a degree from Central Saint Martins (BA) and the Royal College of Art (MA).

Gregory Olympio (b. 1986, Lomé, Togo)

Gregory Olympio lives and works between Besançon, France and Cape Town, South Africa. He is a self-taught artist who mostly paints portraits and character studies. His paintings are sensitive renderings: expressive, yet precise in their simplicity. Rooted in a life shaped by movement across Benin, Togo, and France, Olympio’s works explore the complexities of belonging. Rather than fixed categories, he sees culture and identity as ever-evolving, shaped by context and connection between places and people. Olympio has held five solo exhibitions to date, most recently ‘Ceux qui sont partis et ceux qui sont restés’ (2024) at Blank Projects, and he was featured at the Dakar Biennale in 2022.

Nour Jaouda (b. 1997, Libya)

Nour Jaouda is a Libyan artist based between London and Cairo whose practice fuses painting, textiles, and installation into sensorial meditations on memory, displacement, and cultural geography. Jaouda creates works that embody the tension between rootedness and rootlessness, often drawing from the emotional landscapes of migration and transience. Her hand-dyed, richly textured textiles crafted with vegetal pigments are central to her process, serving as vessels for memory and transformation. In Jaouda’s view, textiles embody a divine continuity without beginning or end, reflecting the ongoing process of becoming that shapes both identity and creative labour. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Painting, 2021) and Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art (BFA, 2018). Jaouda won the CAS Collections Fund at Frieze in 2024 and was commissioned to make a work Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Biennale this year.

Kate Spencer Stewart (b. 1984, Phoenix, USA)

Kate Spencer Stewart is a Los Angeles–based painter who typically works in oil and tempera on square linen canvases, which is an intentional choice that sidesteps traditional portrait or landscape formats. Her work explores archival memory and feminine narratives through abstraction and material layering. Her process involves repetitive mark-making, concealed underpaintings, and shifts between crushed pigment and iridescent oil, creating surfaces that oscillate between presence and erasure. Stewart’s work is non-representational, focusing instead on evoking a mood or atmosphere. Her work is currently on view in London as part of the exhibition ‘Nuit’ at Emalin Gallery, where her paintings are shown in conversation with Odilon Redon’s La Nuit (1886), creating a dialogue across time and sensibility.

Giangiacomo Rossetti (b. 1989, Milan, Italy)

Giangiacomo Rossetti is a figurative painter who lives and works in New York City. Rossetti’s work often features self-portraits, weaving his own image, or those of people close to him, into richly layered compositions. His paintings pay homage to Renaissance masters and the Pre-Raphaelites, blending personal narrative with art historical reference. His engagement with traditional models reflects both a profound respect for these artistic masters and a confident declaration of his own unique creativity and artistic voice. After initially working with conceptual art, Rossetti turned to painting later in his career, educating himself through an intensive study of art history and technical literature. Rossetti attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and in 2019 graduated from Die Institut Kunst FHNW in Basel.

Asemahle Ntlonti (b. 1993, Cape Town, South Africa)

Asemahle Ntlonti is a South African artist whose creations are both beautifully textured and deeply layered with meaning. Her painting method involves layering paint, paper, and stitched thread directly onto canvas. She works on the floor, fully engaging her body in the creative process, gradually building and peeling back layers through an intuitive rhythm. Ntlonti’s work is deeply influenced by the textures and colors found in the traditional architecture of her ancestral Eastern Cape in South Africa. Recently, her practice has been shaped by her experiences with the ruins of her mother’s homestead, particularly the weathered interior surfaces. Her works frequently evoke the essence of topographical maps — landscapes rich with memory, nostalgia, and longing. Ntlonti was awarded the Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize at Frieze London 2024. She graduated from the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2017.

Wang Ye (b. 1991, Changsha, China)

Wang Ye is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, video, and installation. His work delves into the psychological terrains of urban life, focusing particularly on the effects of rapid modernisation and cultural displacement in East Asia. Drawing inspiration from folk art, Ye highlights how cultural heritage shapes and transforms aesthetics and values over time. Recently, he was studying the traditional Hunan Embroidery technique, for which he has gained significant recognition. For Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, Ye developed these themes through a series inspired by the hair accessories worn by embroiderers. As Ye explains: “Since embroidery is done at a desk, I often notice how their hair is pinned up”. He graduated from the Design Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 in Beijing. In 2017, Wang Ye graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Sculpture Department of Yale University School of Art.