Friend zone II, 2026
Marin Majić
NINO MIER GALLERY
“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.
Maya Seas
B. 1991. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Late May, 2026
Maya Seas
Rajiv Menon Contemporary
Artist Maya Seas creates dreamy worlds where women bathe, rest, and converse, lost in serene reveries. These scenes are inspired, in part, by Indian miniatures. Seas works across an unlikely mash-up of materials, including oil stick, acrylic, charcoal, 24-karat gold, and even molding paste, giving the surfaces of her work textural depth.
“The main emotion I’m always looking for is the feeling of safety,” the artist said in an interview about her work. “If I make something and I feel like it’s not giving me that feeling, or if any of the figures feel like they don’t feel safe, then I destroy it. I won’t let it exist.”
The Los Angeles–based artist’s works were recently included in “Imagining Elsewhere” at Rajiv Menon Contemporary in Los Angeles, a group show that brought together artists exploring landscapes through experiences of fantasy, memory, and desire. Her works were also recently on view in a group show at Half Gallery in New York. In 2023, Seas had a breakthrough debut solo show, “Currents,” at Anna Zorina Gallery in Los Angeles.
Marin Majić
B. 1979, Frankfurt, Germany. Lives and works in New York City.
Negative attention, 2026
Marin Majić
NINO MIER GALLERY
Brooklyn-based artist Marin Majić creates small, atmospheric paintings with iridescent surfaces. The Frankfurt-born Croatian artist layers colored pencil, wax, oil paint, and marble dust to build these luminous fields. Marble dust is employed almost sculpturally, giving the appearance of the traditional metalwork and enamel technique of cloisonné.
The artist’s solo exhibition, “discodisco” is now on view at Nino Mier Gallery in New York through June 13th, marking his third solo exhibition with the gallery. In these works, Majić delves into imagery from the ’70s. Disco balls, lounges, and dancers in the ecstatic release appear through hazy veils of light. In Moving me moving you (2026), for instance, the strobing lights and gyrating bodies on a dance floor are pictured from the perspective of a DJ booth.
Other paintings capture a fantastical natural world. In Negative Attention (2026), a spider web, seemingly made of crystals, glitters in a clearing between tropical-looking plants, against a colorful dawn sky. These sublime visions of nature are reminiscent of the great 19th-century Romantic artists such as Frederic Edwin Church and John Martin, whom Majić admires, and who sought transcendent divinity in the world around them.
Majić’s intimately scaled paintings can feel like portals between worlds, with motifs in one reappearing in others. In these new paintings, a recumbent nude figure, a pair of hands, a pigeon, and a string of pearls reemerge, creating a hypnotic sense of rhythm.
Elif Saydam
B. 1985, Calgary, Canada. Lives and works in Berlin.
Dagger, 2026
Elif Saydam
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Shield (Are you safe), 2026
Elif Saydam
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Artist Elif Saydam makes the mundane mystical. In the Berlin-based artist’s paintings, everyday objects (like wrenches or a candleholder) are rendered in gold leaf and silver leaf, or ornamented with chiffon or nylon, transforming them into precious objects. Saydam’s approaches draw from miniature painting and illuminated manuscript traditions.
Often, their works include snippets of text or comic book elements, and Saydam also experiments with nontraditional materials and bases, including antique bathroom stall doors, anti-shoplifting mirrors, and kitchen sponges. In their current show, “Glory,” on view at Munich’s Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle through July 31st, the artist presents miniature works alongside a new series of larger works in oil, collage, and silver leaf. These new works have a meditative quality, with circular forms acting like little mandalas at their centers.
Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕
B. 1991, Hualien, Taiwan. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Mountain Quakes and Crumbles in Green and Blue (Danda Mountain, Hualien), 2026
Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕
Albion Jeune
The Birth of a New Color (Mount St. Helens, Washington State), 2026
Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕
Albion Jeune
Los Angeles artist Su Yu-Xin believes painting is a witness to history, shaped by its wars, migrations, invasions, and trade routes. Her works specifically delve into the evolution of pigment from natural material to commercial product. The Taiwan-born artist collects, studies, and processes organic substances—including oyster shells, clam shells, lapis lazuli, and green soil—into pigments which she paints onto flax stretched over frames often formed to unusual shapes.
Her current exhibition, “Afterstone,” a pop-up in Venice during the Biennale hosted by Albion Jeune, features 19 new paintings. In one new work, The Birth of a New Color (Mount St. Helens, Washington State) (2026), the artist works with a pigment made from Helenite, an artificial glass, first made by accident when rock dust from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was superheated by salvage workers' torches. Helenite gemstones are now sold as souvenirs in the area and have a greenish hue.
Her materials become an almost geological layering of minerals, organic and synthetic, while her imagery evokes swirling, abstracted seascapes and horizons.
Jane Yang D’Haene
B. 1970, South Korea. Lives and works in New York City.
Untitled, 2026
Jane Yang D’Haene
Bienvenu Steinberg & C
Untitled, 2026
Jane Yang D’Haene
Bienvenu Steinberg & C
Brooklyn-based Korean artist Jane Yang D’Haene creates stoneware vessels that draw from Korean pottery forms, such as the dal hangari, or Korean moon jar. D’Haene melds these traditional forms with bright inflections of color and unexpected textures. Her most recent exhibition, “Love Letter,” her second at Bienvenu Steinberg & C included new porcelain wall works and vessels. In a poem accompanying the show, the artist wrote of her practice, “I don’t know if I chose clay, or if clay chose me. But we still write each other love letters.”
The artist’s fusion of tradition and invention has made her an influential force in the ceramics world. Recently, her works have been acquired by Harvard Art Museums, the Brooklyn Museum, and Sarmaya Arts Foundation, Mumbai. In February 2026, D’Haene was announced as a finalist for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
