“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.

Julia Jo

B. 1991, Seoul. Lives and works in New York.

Down on One Knee, 2025
Julia Jo

Charles Moffett

Catching Fire, 2025
Julia Jo

Charles Moffett

Figures emerge and dissolve within churning storms of crimson red, forest green, and electric blue in Julia Jo’s paintings. The Korean artist’s visual language feels simultaneously intimate and uncontainable, with whispers of flesh rendered in unruly, colorful brushstrokes. In Down on One Knee (2025)—featured in Jo’s solo presentation with Charles Moffett at New York art fair Independent earlier this month—fragments of torsos, faces, and limbs hover in a volatile state, their contours partially visible among flashes of lavender, umber, and acid yellow.

Jo’s frenetic brushwork is how she translates emotional intensity into her paintings. “I am always thinking about social relationships and the difficulty of putting certain emotions into words,” she told Galerie. These paintings evoke emotions ranging from contemplative sadness, as seen in Down on One Knee, to all-consuming love in Catching Fire (2025), where two faces kiss within a tangle of ochre and green foliage.

Through the Grapevine, 2024
Julia Jo

Charles Moffett

Essence, 2024
Julia Jo

Charles Moffett

No Damsel, 2025
Julia Jo

Charles Moffett

Stay, 2024
Julia Jo

Charles Moffett

Based in Brooklyn, Jo received her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2019. Her recent solo shows include “Torrent” at Charles Moffett in 2024, “Swoon” at Jessica Silverman in 2023, and “Point of No Return” at James Fuentes in 2023. Her work is held in the collections of ICA Miami and the Morgan Stanley Collection in New York.

—Maxwell Rabb

Raina Lee

B. 1976, Torrance, California. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Luna, sol y una estrella, Fundació Joan Miró, 2025
Raina Lee

LaiSun Keane

Postcards are a common sight at art fairs: Exhibitors often reproduce works from their booths as 4-by-6-inch mementos. By far the most covetable postcards at New York Art Week, though, weren’t bits of paper ephemera, but instead ceramic wall works by the Taiwanese American artist Raina Lee. At both NADA and Future Fair, Lee presented pocket-sized, glazed stoneware paintings inspired by her travels. L.A. gallery Stroll Garden’s selection at NADA captured scenes from a trip to Paris, like Lee’s partner snapping a photo of a Monet painting. Meanwhile, her presentation with LaiSun Keane at Future Fair documented her time in Spain.

The memories that Lee turns into ceramic keepsakes reflect her deep fascination with relics of cultural history. These include the Islamic pottery she saw at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, and sculptures from the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. This interest is reflected across Lee’s broader ceramic practice in works that reimagine Korean moon jars, Japanese raku pottery, and other traditional forms with gloopy, textural glazes and unexpected color palettes.

Nasrid Vessel of the Alhambra, 2025
Raina Lee

LaiSun Keane

Alhambra Vases, 2025
Raina Lee

LaiSun Keane

Lavender Cloud Forest: Moon, 2023
Raina Lee

LaiSun Keane

Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona , 2025
Raina Lee

LaiSun Keane

A former journalist, Lee holds an MA in media and film studies from the New School. While living in New York, she picked up ceramics at a studio near her home. Now based in Los Angeles, Lee has had solo exhibitions at local galleries Stroll Garden and Niche Gallery.

—Olivia Horn

Yaya Yajie Liang

B. 1995, Henan, China. Lives and works in London.

Falling Falling, 2025
Yaya Yajie Liang

Cob

One minus one equals eternity, 2025
Yaya Yajie Liang

Cob

Yaya Yajie Liang’s oil paintings come alive with fluid, gestural brushstrokes that ripple across her canvases. Her work is deeply concerned with bodily sensations and the interconnectedness of life forms, and draws on philosophical sources. Among these are Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, in which the protagonist is transformed into an insect, and the theory of agential realism, which proposes that nothing exists independently; rather, things come into being via their relationships and interactions.

This month, Liang presented a new series of works with Cob at NADA New York, including watercolors on Indian cotton paper alongside large- and small-scale oil paintings. In one such work, Falling Falling (2025), swirling biomorphic forms are rendered in earth tones and soft lilacs, taking inspiration from objects, like seaweed and shells, found on the artist’s coastal walks. Hovering between abstraction and figuration, Liang’s compositions suggest the instability of the natural world—a resonant theme in a time of environmental crisis. She completed the fair booth at NADA with a site-specific mural that underscored her paintings’ ecological visual motifs.

The House of the Weaver: Night, 2025
Yaya Yajie Liang

Cob

There was a sudden sunburst in my head. And then black night. That blackness was sublime. I felt distributed through space and time: One foot upon a mountaintop, one hand Under the pebbles of a panting strand, One ear in Italy, one eye in Spain, In caves, my blood, and in the stars, my brain. They were dull throbs in my Triassic; green Optical spots in Upper Pleistocene, An icy shiver down my Age of Stone, And all tomorrows in my funnybone., 2024
Yaya Yajie Liang

Galerie Kandlhofer

There shall be a ﬁre that knows the naming of you, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark ﬂame shall acquire every part of you that remains, 2024
Yaya Yajie Liang

Galerie Kandlhofer

The House of the Weaver: The Days to Come, 2025
Yaya Yajie Liang

Cob

Liang earned a BA in fine art from China Central Academy of Fine Arts and an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art, where she is currently pursuing a PhD. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Galerie Kandlhofer in Vienna, Lyles & King in New York, and Cob in London. Liang’s work has also been exhibited in group shows at London galleries including Thaddaeus Ropac, Gillian Jason Gallery, and others.

—Adeola Gay