The Sphere Gallery bridges the historical significance of iconic names with the bold expressions of today's most compelling voices.
Founded with a vision to create a refined yet dynamic cultural destination, The Sphere Gallery offers an immersive experience for collectors, curators, and art connoisseurs.
The space embodies a modern architectural sensibility that echoes the gallery's name – the sphere, symbolizing wholeness, universality, and perpetual evolution in the arts.
ARTISTS
RETNA
RETNA (Marquis Lewis) is recognized for monumental works filled with intricate script-like symbols suggesting a hidden language. His visual style blends hieroglyphics, calligraphy, blackletter, and graffiti. Rising from Los Angeles graffiti roots, RETNA has exhibited internationally and collaborated with major brands including Louis Vuitton, Nike, and Chanel; created an album cover for Justin Bieber; and designed sets for a production of Aida at the Washington National Opera and San Francisco Opera.
ARTISTS
ALEXANDER YULISH
Alexander Yulish (b. 1975, New York) is a painter whose large-scale works merge improvisation and abstraction to probe the psychology of human and external forms. His layered impasto brushwork creates gestural compositions that balance harmony, discord, and lyrical rhythm, expressing the complexities of the human psyche.
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Yulish’s process emphasizes the tension between creation and dissolution, success and failure—mirroring the instability of human form and presence. Through abstraction, he reimagines the body and self as fluid, shifting states that evoke both physicality and emotional intensity.
ARTISTS
OUATTARA WATTS
Ouattara Watts, born in Abidjan in 1957, creates monumental mixed-media paintings layered with vibrant colors, symbols, textiles, photographs, and spiritual iconography that bridge West African heritage with Western avant-garde traditions. Soon after moving to Paris in the 1980s, Watts met Jean-Michel Basquiat, who became both friend and collaborator—introducing him to the New York art world and encouraging his first U.S. exhibitions. Watts has since shown at major institutions including the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, Documenta 11 in Kassel, the National Museum of African Art, and MoMA.
ARTISTS
JORDY KERWICK
Jordan Kerwick, a self-taught Australian painter now living in France, is known for his bold, heavily layered canvases that move between haunting figurative portraits, Cubist-inspired still lifes, and gestural abstractions reminiscent of Franz Kline and Cy Twombly. Picking up painting in 2016 on what he describes as a whim, Kerwick swiftly gained international recognition, exhibiting in Melbourne, London, New York, Tokyo, and Paris.
ARTISTS
RICHARD HAMBLETON
Richard Hambleton, often hailed as the “godfather of street art,” was a pivotal figure in New York’s downtown scene alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his haunting Shadowmen and Horse and Rider figures—violent black silhouettes that looked as if they were painted in mid-detonation. After tagging walls across the U.S. and Canada, he settled in New York in 1979, covering Lower Manhattan alleyways before shifting his focus to works on canvas and paper. Hambleton exhibited at the Venice Biennale during the 1980s, but by the ’90s and early 2000s, illness and addiction pushed him to the margins of the art world. Today, his work is held in major institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum, and MoMA.
ARTISTS
OLE AAKJÆR
Ole Aakjær creates striking watercolor portraits of powerful female figures, their bodies layered with geometric patterns, cryptic text, and embedded monochrome faces. The resulting compositions are dense and poetic, guided by an intimate visual logic. Using a vivid palette of reds, purples, and blues, Aakjær heightens the drama of her subjects, while intricate motifs—clocks, skulls, mazes—add symbolic weight and mystery. After a 25-year career in advertising, she turned fully to painting and has since exhibited internationally, with shows in New York, Paris, Oslo, Copenhagen, Montreal, and Quebec.
ARTISTS
LIU SHUISHI
Liu (b. 1962, Xi’an, China) came of age during a period of political upheaval, finding independence through drawing at an early age. After briefly studying at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, where he engaged with both Chinese traditions and Western masters, he left to pursue his own path. A turn to philosophy in 2007 shifted his work from figuration to abstraction, influenced by thinkers from Socrates to Freud. His international breakthrough came in 2009 with exhibitions at the Salon du Carrousel du Louvre and Art en Capital in Paris, where he won a silver prize from the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Moving to Beijing in 2010, Liu expanded his global reputation; his painting Existence was acquired by Henry Kissinger in 2014, and in 2015 he presented a solo exhibition in the Syrian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
ARTISTS
PETER BEARD
Peter Beard (b. 1938, New York; d. 2020, Montauk, NY) was celebrated for his fashion photography and evocative images of Africa, capturing both the wildlife of sub-Saharan landscapes and the nightlife of 1970s–80s New York. His fascination with Africa began during trips in the 1950s and ’60s, which he saw as escapes from the privileged society of his youth. By the ’70s, Beard was working for leading fashion magazines and became a fixture at Studio 54. Though separated by continents, his African and New York subjects shared a visceral energy and violence. In later years, he turned to photo-collage, layering images with diary pages, newsprint, and even his own blood to intensify themes of vitality and brutality.
ARTISTS
THE CONNOR BROTHERS
Mike Snelle and James Golding, working collaboratively as The Connor Brothers, are known for pairing pin-up style portraits of women with bold color fields and wry textual fragments. Their sleek paintings and works on paper probe themes of artifice, fiction, and storytelling—concepts first embodied in their invented personas as reclusive twins who had fled a California cult. Though they later revealed their true identities, the duo continues to play with narrative and illusion. The Connor Brothers have exhibited widely, with shows in London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, and Sydney.
ARTISTS
KOBRA
Eduardo Kobra (b. 1975, São Paulo, Brazil) is among the most recognized figures in contemporary street art, with hundreds of photorealistic murals spanning five continents, from Japan to Malawi to Norway. Known for his vibrant, kaleidoscopic style composed of repeating geometric forms, Kobra often reimagines cultural icons and celebrities at monumental scale. His best-known work, The Kiss (2002) in New York City, transforms Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famed V-J Day photograph into a towering rainbow-hued mural. Alongside his public projects, Kobra also creates large-scale mixed-media paintings in his signature style, drawing inspiration from pichação—Brazilian graffiti—and the street art traditions of his native São Paulo.
ARTISTS
DANA ARAWATANI
Dana Awartani (b. 1987, Saudi Arabia/Palestine) works across painting, sculpture, performance, and multimedia installation to infuse traditional Arab forms, techniques, and spatial logics with contemporary resonance. Central to her practice is the reinterpretation of geometric pattern—not as mere ornament, but as a philosophical and symbolic system—through which she explores themes of gender, healing, cultural erasure, and sustainability. Drawing on Middle Eastern and Islamic visual traditions. Awartani engages locally sourced materials tied to historic architecture and vernacular craft. Her art has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the Hirshhorn.
ARTISTS
DOMINGO ZAPATA
Domingo Zapata (b. Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a Spanish-American painter known for his vibrant, mixed-media works that blend oil, acrylic, collage, and graffiti. For over 25 years, he has explored themes of sexuality, opulence, and vitality in a style that fuses fantasy and reality, often incorporating poetic text and personal symbolism. Best known for his Polo series, Zapata has also created collections featuring rhinos, Hollywood icons, and Spanish cultural motifs. His large-scale public commissions include the historic Times Square vinyl mural (2019), the Colosseum in Rome, and New York’s Plaza Hotel. Exhibited internationally, his work is held in prominent collections, including those of George Soros, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Goldman Sachs.
ARTISTS
MARIE CHANG
Maria Chang (b. Seoul, South Korea) is a rising Korean artist whose richly textured canvases explore identity, emotion, and transformation through the idea of “rebirth out of destruction.” Evolving from figuration to abstraction, she draws on personal experience and her religious upbringing to investigate dualities of repair and deficiency, faith and doubt, belonging and displacement. Her vibrant, tactile abstractions—at once calming and deeply moving—have quickly brought her recognition as one of Korea’s most exciting voices. Recently named among the country’s hottest young artists, she set an auction record at Seoul Auction’s Winter Sale and continues to expand internationally.
THE SPHERE GALLERY IN NUMBERS
12
ARTISTS
30+
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
200M$
AUCTION
55+
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