The Kollection's second annual art show invites artists of all mediums to consider rebellion and what it means to resist—socially, politically, culturally, or personally.

The show explores contemporary work created within the last 5 years and asks how rebellion operates today; whether its omnipresence—circulating endlessly across our screens—functions as lived action or simulacrum, and how this shapes the ways we see, feel, and create. We are thrilled to feature an incredible lineup of artists, and welcome all to come see their work displayed at 53 Scott in Brooklyn.

Tickets are FREE but limited - RSVP below for desired date, including the opening party & grant presentation on May 1st:

MEET THE FEATURED ARTISTS:

Bailey Storms

Bailey Storms is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her broader practice spans printmaking, painting, photography, and sound work. Originally from Durham County, North Carolina, her work is deeply rooted in the emotional and visual texture of the American South, often navigating identity, grief, and dispossession. She uses analog formats from the 1980s to early 2000s that distort imagery or allow it to be eroded over time, such as VHS and trail cameras. This aesthetic choice reinforces the emotional tone of the work, producing images and objects that resist permanence and collapse the distance between past and present. While the formal qualities of her work allude to personal memory, she aims to evoke broader questions about the nature of self, how time and place alter each other, and how nostalgia reframes our understanding of our pasts.

Website: baileystorms.com

Instagram: @baileystorms

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‍Bob Conge

American artist Bob Conge has built an extraordinary career rooted in the expressive power of drawing, sculpture, and mixed media. With degrees from RIT School of Art and Syracuse University, where he received the Lewis Comfort Tiffany Grant, Conge's path through the art world has included roles as gallery director, professor, and exhibiting artist. His works have been held in major museum collections across the globe - from MoMA Toyama to the Musee de la publicité in Paris. Despite his extensive pedigree, Conge remains committed to a deeply personal, intuitive practice. His artistic journey is less about arrival than perpetual movement - a discipline of daily reinvention, dialog with the past, and unflinching self-examination.

Website: bobconge.com

Instagram: @7conge7

Camille Gearhart

Camille Gearhart grew up in Arizona and Albuquerque NM.  She attended Eastern New Mexico University and the University of Arizona, majoring in fine art. During her years as an artist she has been successful with commissions with portraits, and also started an artist co-op as well as an art gallery. She's lived in Arizona, Wyoming, and New Mexico, and has displayed her art work in those states. She's now living in Flagstaff, AZ, and has work in Flagstaff, Sedona and Jerome AZ. She has been in juried shows in San Francisco, Denver, Ouray Co and Casper Wyoming and is now in a juried show in Sedona AZ.

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Cypress Hayunga

Instagram: @squigglewizard

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David Leitch

David Leitch is a contemporary artisan who works in geometric and organic forms of wood, animal parts, and other materials to create expressions of culture and form. These may represent personas, current technology, or pure form, and are primarily driven by intuition. He also enjoys producing functional art, and appreciates the fact that the pieces are more than decorations. This way, people can raise their quality of life by using objects they love on a daily basis.

His biggest influences are classical and minimalist in nature. Some of these are artists, while others are cultural movement driven. He started out working in flat work, went through sculpture, and now usually develops three dimensional wall pieces.

Instagram: @davidtleitch‍

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‍Elena Ketra

A graduate of the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, Elena Ketra is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works between Treviso and Rome whose research deals with social issues, above all female empowerment and gender inclusion.

Website: ketra.it

Instagram: @elenaketra

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JJ Hammond

JJ Hammond's work bridges the past and present, intertwining memory, nostalgia, and self-exploration. Born in Beverly Hills and shaped by life across Asia, she creates from studios in New York, Miami, and Düsseldorf.

Using repurposed toys, wood, and digital elements, she creates mixed-media works that bridge personal and collective experiences. Influenced by the psychological insights of Dora Kalff, her art delves into childhood upbringing and self-understanding, inviting viewers to reconnect with their inner child. In a world saturated with distractions, her work serves as a reminder to pause, reflect, and rediscover the joy of being authentically ourselves.

Website: jjhammond.art

Instagram: @_ jjhammond_

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Kelly Tsai

Kelly Tsai is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, performance, music, dance, film, and technology. Her persona portrait photo series “SKyGiRLS” has been exhibited by Rotterdam Photo Festival, Exposure Photo Festival, The Curated Fridge, Site: Brooklyn, Praxis Gallery, F-Stop Magazine, I Like Your Work, Create! Magazine, and selected as a Lensculture Emerging Talent Editor’s Pick, Passepartout Photo Prize Honorable Mention, and Curious Elixirs’ Curious Creators Finalist (top 3%). She has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Live Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and more.

Her multidisciplinary performances have been presented at venues worldwide including Fotografiska and Brooklyn Museum. As a dancer and choreographer (vogue, pole, burlesque, contemporary), her works and performances have been presented at Abrons Arts Center, Arts on Site, House of Yes, Princess Grace Awards Gala, Socrates Sculpture Park, and more. Tsai is an alum of NYU’s ITP Camp for creative technology and 5th Wall Forum’s live performance XR incubator.

Website: kellytsai.com

Instagram: @kellytsai_nyc

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‍Meghan Stanley

Meghan Stanley is a New York–based ceramic sculptor and B.F.A. graduate from Indiana University Bloomington. Her work explores the body as something that holds memory within flesh and beneath the skin. Working with clay alongside silicone, metal, fabric, and paint, she builds intuitively, wrapping the outside inward and pulling the inside out to create new amalgamated bodies to emphasize feminine organs and anatomy. Desire and repulsion exist at once.

Website: meghanstanley.net

Instagram: @porcelainndoll._

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Mia Hause

Mia Pauline Hause (b. 2000) is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is informed by collections and archives, and the role they play in forming cultural and personal memory. Her most recent body of work is an exploration of advocacy as it has become a form of domestic labor for many mothers impacted by the opioid epidemic.
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Hause focuses on creating claustrophobic, collapsed, and artificially real spaces that draw upon and bend customs of painting from antiquity, as well as folk art and arts and crafts movements. She received a BFA from Cornell University in 2022, and her professional work is in community arts programs in the harm reduction sphere. These works empower communities and individuals impacted by the opioid crisis with the tools to use artistic expression as a means for advocacy, healing, and community building.

Website: miapaulinehause.com

Instagram: @miahaws

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Mikhail Gubin

Mikhail Gubin was born in the Soviet Union in 1953. He studied at the Art and Technology College of Zagorsk, Moscow region, Russia, and in 1989 immigrated to the United States of America, settling in New York. His multimedia practice includes Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, Collage, Photography, and Video. Mikhail has participated in 38 solo shows and over 200 group exhibitions in the United States and internationally, receiving multiple awards and countless reviews, including from The New York Times among many others. He was awarded a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in the category of CRAFTS/SCULPTURE and is a member of the Audubon Artists inc., the National Collage Society, Sculpture Guild of New York, and Florida CraftArt Gallery.

Website: gubinart.com

Instagram: @mikhailgubin5171

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Mujero

Mujero (b. 1996) is a New York-born and based artist whose work honors queer/Caribbean identity through sculpture, video, and performance. Since obtaining a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2021, he has exhibited in galleries and institutions across the United States, including Sargent’s Daughters, Microscope Gallery, The New School, and Goucher College. He has been an Artist in Residence at the prestigious Smack Mellon residency, where he was awarded the New York Community Trust Van Lief Fellowship. This past June, his first museum group exhibition opened at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently a Bronx Museum AIM fellow.

Website link: studiomujero.com

Instagram link: @mujero_

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Nicholas Cordeiro

Website: nicholascordeiro.com

Instagram: @_nicholascordeiro

Pamela Jennings

Pamela was born in New York City and grew up in Harlem. She has an MFA in painting and drawing from Brooklyn College in New York (2012) and a PHD in Clinical Psychology from the George Washington University (1984) in Washington, DC where she was a practicing Clinical Psychologist and academician for 27 years before returning to New York. Currently, Pam lives in Brooklyn, NY where she has a private practice in Psychology. Pam’s art influences can be traced back to elementary school where her shop class in sewing introduced her to the world of fashion and design. It was her plan to pursue fashion as a career but her eighth grade science teacher convinced her to pursue an academic course of studies.

Pamela's interest in art was suppressed and did not re-emerge until she was in her thirties. She then decided to study art at the Art League in Alexandria Virginia with Richard Weaver and Robert Liberace. In 2008, she left DC to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art’s post-baccalaureate program in fine art. This helped to prepare her for admission to Brooklyn College’s MFA program and it was there that Pam discovered the Art Students League of New York. There she primarily studied with Russian master painter Leonid Gervits. Additional influences include Robin Smith and Jerry Weiss.

Website: pamjenningsart.com

Instagram: @pjenn41694

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Peach Soup

Peaches is a Brooklyn based artist who works with oil paint and airbrushed acrylic. Her influences shift constantly, drawing from things like memes, counterculture, sex work, and anime. She tries not to define exactly what her work means or why she makes it. What matters most is the feeling of creating and the connection that happens when someone else relates to it. Her primary goal is to make something interesting.

Instagram: @peach__soup

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Robert Morgan

Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Robert Morgan’s early interest in art was fueled by the rich traditions of the Berkshires/Hudson Valley region. After residing in Buenos Aires, London, Boston, and San Francisco among other places, he returned to the area of his youth. He now lives in the Taconic Mountains of Petersburgh, NY, with his artist wife Pennie Brantley.
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Bob utilizes traditional watercolor medium to lure the viewer into a sensual, surreal, and conflicting journey. While his work sprang from the delicate, sensitive watercolors abundant in this historical region, the paintings have grown into huge collaged pieces that invite a wide, participatory view. With dense pigment, textured treatment of the surfaces and off-beat compositional schemes, he stretches content, technique and scale, reversing the ‘precious’ attributes usually associated with the medium.

Website: bobmorganart.com

Instagram: @robert__morgan

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Samuel Fisch

Samuel Ezra Fisch is a New York based, participatory artist whose work moves beyond the objective world into the subjective. After receiving a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, Fisch co-founded Fat City Arts, an artist co-op in Chicago, and Ground Level Platform, a Chicago based interactive art venue. Fisch has participated in a number of residencies including: Open AIR Montana, Caumsett Foundation, Salem Art Works, and Art Farm. Fisch’s work has been exhibited and performed in Brattleboro Museum, the Woodstock Artist Association Museum, Chicago Sculpture exhibit, Public Sculpture Initiative, Invisible Dog Art Center, the ChaShaMa Gala and Art Party, The Human Impacts Initiative, and the Marin Museum Of Contemporary Art.

Website: samuel-ezra-fisch.com

Instagram: @samuelezrafisch

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‍Saul Shukman

Saul is a self-taught artist driven by a desire to build worlds where time, memory, and meaning collide. His work draws on spirituality, mythology, lived experiences, and the concepts of gravity and time to explore and juxtapose the tension between opposing elements—stillness and motion, permanence and decay, the sacred and the absurd, innocence and violence.
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Born in England but raised in the folk art hub of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Saul’s work is deeply influenced by his upbringing. Rooted in visual storytelling, Saul’s practice reflects his background in archaeology, his love of the fantastical and surreal, and a zen-centric upbringing that left plenty of room for spiritual ambiguity.

Website: saulshukman.com

Instagram: @saul_shukman

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Scott Keeley

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Seongmin Yoo

Seongmin Yoo is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, painting, installation, and performance. Her work is rooted in personal experience while engaging broader themes of identity, displacement, migration, belonging, and the social forces that shape human perception. Through immersive environments and figurative forms, Yoo examines how individuals navigate systems of power, memory, and place.

Website: seongminyoo.com

Instagram: @seong.min.yoo

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Sophia Nuñez

Sophia Nuñez was born in 2001 in New Jersey, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2022 with a BFA Collaborative Arts, and currently works as a studio assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Previous exhibitions include Royal Beef Gallery, “For the Time Being”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Staff Art Show”, Kaje Gallery, “Car World Museum”, and Textured Memos at Phillips Auction House, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”.

Website: sophiawongnunez.com

Instagram: @sophiawongnunez‍

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Sorrell Stone

Sorrel Stone is a sculptor who grew up in Connecticut’s dairy farming region. They currently live between Syracuse, New York, and Toledo, Ohio, where they are a professor of ceramics. Their work engages with identity politics rooted in the colonization of land and bodies throughout the Americas. Stone holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Stone is a co-founder of the Trans Inclusive Ceramics Collective, an awardee of The Center for Craft's Teaching Artist Cohort and Grant, and a Regina Brown Fellow through the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Their work has been exhibited widely across North America, from the Archie Bray Foundation to Art Basel Miami. In 2024, Stone was a Yasha Young Sculpture Award Finalist for the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. They have been recognized as one of the "Top 20 Sculptors to Follow" by Art is My Career, and one of “12 Contemporary Ceramic Artists Breathing New Life Into an Age-Old Tradition” by Munchies Art Club Magazine.

Website: sorrelstone.com

Instagram: @sorrellstoneceramics

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Tamara Wyndham

Tamara Wyndham has been making art all her life, encouraged by her mother, an artist. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, she studied traditional drawing and painting at California State University, Long Beach, and more experimental drawing, book works, and performance at the University of California at Irvine. Ms. Wyndham has been awarded artist residencies at the Henry Street Settlement, the Kate Millett Art Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Maříž Ceramic Workshop in the Czech Republic, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain, and an artist’s fellowship from Earthwatch to work in Orce, Spain. She received a grant from the Jenni Crain Foundation. She has exhibited at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, the International Fusionism Museum, Gallery GAIA, Artfront Galleries, Grace Exhibition Space, and has performed at ChaShaMa and Art in Odd Places.

Website: tamarawyndham.com

Instagram: @tamarawyndham

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Zoe Head

Zoe Head is an artist and model based in New York City, where she has lived for the past three years. She received her bachelor’s degree in studio art from the University of North Georgia. After graduating, she remained in the small rural town where she had studied, working as a freelance painter before unexpectedly being given the opportunity to model, which thrust her into urban centers. Much of her work arises from attempting to make sense of - and find moral congruency within - the dichotomy between rural and urban life, and between once caring little about her appearance and now being intensely perceived. The central themes of her work examine connection and representation, exploring the ways we view one another and ourselves while encouraging a deeper sense of connection to one’s fellow man.

Instagram: @z0ehead

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