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Episode 536 / Flora TemnoucheFlora Temnouche is an artist who lives and works between Paris and Berlin. She was born and raised in France, studying Modern Literature and Art History in Paris at the Sorbonne, then attending the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf until 2023 in the class of Katharina Wulff. Her works have been exhibited in group and solo shows both in Europe and the United States in galleries such as Galerie Elsa Meunier in Paris, Chilly Art Project in London, and Galerie Philia in New York. She has also exhibited in public spaces such as Ghetto Novo in Venice, the Kultur Bahnhof Eller and Kunstpalast Museum in Düsseldorf, Villa Maeterlinck Jean Nouvel in Nice, and has been selected for a residency at Palazzo Galli Talli in Florence. She just recently had a solo show in LA at Megan Mulrooney Gallery called A Room of One’s Own.
Episode 535 / Tyreek Morrison Tyreek Morrison is an Atlanta-based collage artist born in New Jersey and raised in Atlanta. Tyreek works with collage, found materials, paper, paint, and drawing to explore Black American life through memory, identity, and everyday moments. Tyreek also is an accomplished skateboarder and frequent collaborator with Lil’ Wayne. Shows and venues include Future Fair, Alday Hunken Gallery, Charley Palmer Fine Art, the Emma Darnell Aviation Museum, Scope Fair, and Atlanta Art Fair, with a forthcoming collaboration with his father next spring, among other projects.
Episode 534 / Nicole EconomidesNicole Economides (b.1992) is an Athens based artist born in New York. She received her BA/BFA from the Department of Fine Arts and Arts Sciences at the University of Ioannina Greece (2015). She is an MFA Fine Arts graduate at Parsons, The New School (2019). Economides has been an artist in residence at the Agora Collective: WHILE WE WORK in Berlin, Germany (2016) and at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece (2014). She was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Scholarship for Painters (2017) and the Artists’ Grant from the Gerondelis Foundation Inc (2018). She has shown her work in many group exhibitions and workshops in Crete, Ioannina, Athens, Thessaloniki, Paris, Berlin, and New York City. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Episode 533 / Rebecca Bonaci Rebecca Bonaci is an artist born and based in Malta who graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art in 2014, after which she pursued a career in tattooing alongside her visual arts practice. Her work is often shaped by immediate experiences, focusing on intimate emotions and personal moments. Bonaci explores how these individual experiences resonate on a broader human level, inviting connection and empathy.Her solo exhibition Ġuf (2023) explored contemporary motherhood through a deeply personal lens. In 2024, she was selected to participate in the Malta Biennale, followed by her solo exhibition Wens: Comfortable Silence at Valletta Contemporary in 2025. She was also a finalist for the Hopper Prize (USA) in Fall 2025. Her work has been featured in various group exhibitions in Malta and abroad.
Episode 532 / KoakKoak is an artist born in Lansing, MI who earned her BFA and MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2025, Koak was the subject of a solo exhibition at Charleston, Lewes, UK. She has participated in many institutional group shows, including at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Musées d’Angers, France; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao; and Rudolph Tegners Museum and Statue Park, Dronningmølle, Denmark, among others. In 2020, Koak received a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and completed residencies at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, NM, and at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, through the Liquitex Residency program. Koak’s work is part of the permanent collections of the de Young Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musées d’Angers. She lives and works in San Francisco and is represented by Perrotin, Union Pacific, and Jessica Silverman.
Episode 531 / Jo DennisJo Dennis (b. 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades,working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Dennis explores ourpsychological and emotional connection to place and memory, specifically in relation to ruination,surface, and decay, and how these themes link with notions of mortality.Dennis received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2022) and her BA inFine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory from Goldsmiths College, London (2002).Recent exhibitions: Never the Straightest Path (solo) Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden 2026: A Letterto my Daughter (solo) Carvalho New York 2025: The Long Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, curatedby Phillipa Adams 2025: David Zwirner PLATFORM (group) curated by Elisabeth Johs 2025, AGlass of Absinth (solo) at JO-HS, Mexico City 2025.A Hopper Prize grant winner (2025) and a recipient of an Arts Council England Grant (2023-24),Dennis is the co-founder of several artist lead projects in London; Pigeon Park (2021-22)Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016 - 2024) AMP Gallery (2015 - 2018) and Asylum Chapel (2010 -current) She has collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017-2023)including the launch of her artists book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’(2020) Dennis is a trustee and sits on the Artists’ council for the Artists’ General BenevolentInstitution.Her work was recently included in The Book Of Ladders, 100 Contemporary Art Works, edited byPaul Carey Kent and Adeline de Monseignat (2023), and Site Specific by Tall Poppy Press (2023).
Episode 530 / Raul De Lara(Born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México – 1991) Raul De Lara is a sculptor who explores the emotive and storytelling qualities of materials. He is interested in how social, cultural and spiritual qualities can be imbued into wood through the act of carving. He practices traditional hand carving and power carving techniques through the visual language of nature, humor, and magical realism. His research preserves, honors and propels forward traditional uses of wood while combining them with new developments in the global industry of woodworking. Raul immigrated from Mexico to the United States at the age of 12, and has been a DACA recipient since 2012. His work reflects on themes of belonging, queer identity, and his im migrant experience. He is currently living and working in Queens, NY. Raul received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Recent solo exhibition sites include The Contemporary Austin, SCAD Museum of Art and Gaa Gallery. His work has been included in exhibitions nationally and internationally at the Tucson Museum of Art, Wharton Esherick Museum, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, The Armory Show, Hermès Paris, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, The Hole, Honor Fraser Gallery, and Reynolds Gallery, among others. Raul ’s selected awards include the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft, the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture, and Art in America Magazine’s Top 20 Global New Talent, as well as residencies at Wendell Castle Workshop, Silver Art Projects, LMCC Governor’s Island, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Ox-Bow School of Art, Penland School of Craft, and Chicago Artists Coalition, among others.
Episode 529 / Gonçalo PretoGonçalo Preto (b. 1991, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese artist living and working in New York. In 2024, he completed his Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, having previously studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, USA, and at Kassel Kunsthochschule, Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.Recent solo exhibitions include The Ballads of a Sundial (2026), Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon; Phantom Limb (2024), Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, USA; A Cadência de uma Chama (2024), Middle Finger Pedestrians (2019) and FRAG-MEN-TO (2017), Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; and LIMBO (2019), Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada (São Miguel), Azores, Portugal, among others.Recent group exhibitions include Out of Frame (2025), Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, USA; what lovers do (2024), The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA; Prophetic Dreams (2024), Goldau, Switzerland; BIG OBJECTS (2023), Marvin Gardens, New York, USA; and Silvers in the Void (2023), MAMOTH, London, UK, among others. Gonçalo is the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright FCC Grant (2022-2024), a Rhode Island School of Design Fellowship (2022-2024), and a Hopper Prize Finalist (2023).
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