Paco LaFarga

Paco LaFarga is a self-taught artist born in Zaragoza, Spain in 1977. As the Director of the Modigliani Studio of Drawing and Painting, he regularly teaches workshops throughout Spain. He regularly exhibits his work; most recently in Eros:Your Body as an Excuse at the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona, at the Murcia Museum of Fine Arts, a solo exhibition at the Pablo Serrano Museum in Zaragoza, and in Contemporary Spanish Realism at the Hoki Museum in Chiba, Japan. He is the winner of the 11th International Painting and Sculpture Competition, Figurativas 2021, and Modportrait 2014, along with an honorable mention in Figurativas 2017. In 2012 he received a painting scholarship with Antonio Lopéz García and Andrés García Ibáñez. In 2018 he illustrated the story The Palace of the Seven Doors. His works hangs in private and public collections such as the MEAM, Zaragoza City Hall, and the Ibañez Museum of Modern and Contemporary Painting.

Jorge Abbad

Jorge Abbad was born in 1987 in Spain. He received his MFA in Madrid. He has also studied with Antonio Lopéz García and was his assistant for several years. Abbad has received several mentions for his work, such as selections in the "BP Portrait Award", "Museo Casa Ibáñez" prize, "Antonio López García" prize in Tomelloso, acquisition prize in the "MEAM, del

Figurative Contest”, among other mentions .He has exhibited throughout Spain and internationally, including shows at the National Portrait Gallery, the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), and Hoki Museum in Japan. He was recently Chair at the University of CAFA, in Beijing.

Rocío Cano

Rocío Cano was born in Jerez de la Frontera (Spain). After studying Fine Arts in Seville and residing at the Antonio Gala Foundation (Córdoba) she dedicated herself completely to painting. She has enriched her career with numerous courses and workshops, but it is in the solitude of the studio and in the search for nature where she develops her work. She has received awards in various competitions and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, the most recent being Plein Aire Painting in Jerez de la Frontera and Meridional Passage in Madrid.

Carmen Mansilla

Born in Madrid, Mansilla received her Diploma in Design and Illustration from the ESSED Higher School of Design Madrid, and has trained in various artists’ workshops, including Sánchez Carralero, Antonio López, Golucho, Alex Kanevsky, Vincent Desiderio, and at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence. She has exhibited in national and international exhibitions such as Women Painting Women at the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art). Her work was awarded first prize for International Drawing at Reial Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. Mansilla’s work can be found in public and private collections in Spain, Amsterdam, France, Portugal, England, Italy, Mexico, China, Japan, and the United States.

Eduardo Millán Sañudo

Eduardo Millán Sañudo was born in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), Spain in 1979. He received his MFA and PhD (with honors) from Bellas Artes at Seville University, in addition to studying in workshops with Antonio López García and Andrés García Ibáñez. In 2018, he was the Artist in Residence at the Jerusalem Studio School in Civita Castellana, Italy. He has participated in more than 80 national and international group and solo exhibitions, and won 18 national and 7 international painting competitions. His work hangs in various collections throughout Europe and the United States. He currently lives and works in Jerez de la Frontera.

Irene Cuadrado

Irene Cuadrado was born in Madrid in 1979.She received her BFA from Complutense University in Madrid and has studied with Antonio Lopéz García, Vincent Desiderio, Golucho, and Alex Kanevsky. She has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the Los Angeles Art Fair, Figure This! in London, Berkeley University, Santa Clara University in California, the Twee Pauwen in the Hague, National Wetland Museum of China in Xixishidi, Hangzhou, the Sorolla Museum, and the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona. She has won numerous awards and her work hangs in private and public collections such as the Stanford Collectors Group USA, Provincial Council of Ciudad Real, Complutense University of Madrid, La Caixa Foundation, the NW Museum of China, and the Barcelona Foundation for Arts and Artists.

Nacho Vergara

Nacho Vergara is a Spanish artist based in Madrid. He is mainly a figurative painter, while exploring other ways of painting, like abstraction or glitch art. He has studied with international masters such as Antonio López García, Odd Nerdrum, and Golucho. In 2023 he received a grant from the Yu Hsiu Museum in Taiwan to study Chinese culture. His work has been included in exhibitions by internationally renowned curators such as Fernando Castro Florez. He has won awards from Albacete City, Andrés Ibañez and Antonio Lopez Workshop, Avila City, the Albacete Biennale, Mainel Painting Foundation, and the Alcazar de San Juan City Council.

Christopher Gallego

American painter and draftsman Christopher Gallego (b. New York 1959) pairs intense observation with direct technique to bring simple everyday objects and spaces to life. Gallego studied at the School of Visual Arts, the National Academy School of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League, all in New York. His work is influenced by Morandi, Dickenson, and Velazquez, the artist claiming his passion is not for the masters but for the poetry of the visual world itself. Fellowships include the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Rathbone Family of Art Historians. Notable exhibitions include OK Harris, Hirschl & Adler, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Arkansas Arts Center, and the Rockefeller Fund. The New York Times, Art in America, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New York Sun have acclaimed his work. Gallego teaches at the New York Academy of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and offers online classes. He lives and works in central New York State.

Josephine Sheridan Robinson

Robinson was born in London UK in 1962. She studied history, film, and 16mm filmmaking, and later turned her attention to painting. She lived in Spain for three years and currently lives and works in Connecticut, USA. Robinson has attended a workshop with Antonio López García. She regularly exhibits at Tregony Contemporary Gallery, UK and has exhibited over the years with George Billis Gallery, USA.

Dean Fisher

Dean Fisher studied at the America Academy of Art in Chicago and, since then, has exhibited nationally and internationally in prominent galleries for more than twenty-five years. He has shown in galleries such as; Hirschl & Adler Modern, NYC; The Tatistcheff Gallery, NYC; J. Cacciola Gallery, NYC; Prographica Drawings Gallery, Seattle, WA; and is currently exhibiting with Figure/Ground Gallery, Seattle, WA; George Billis Gallery, Westport, CT; Susan Calloway, Washington, DC; Tregony Gallery, Cornwall, UK; John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA; and Sugarlift Gallery, NYC.

After living in Spain, France and England for eight years and making master copies as a form of study at The Prado museum, The Louvre, and the National Gallery of Art, Fisher returned to the US and has been living in Connecticut with his wife, the artist Josephine Robinson. His paintings hang in many private and corporate art collections in the US and Europe. Fisher has been teaching painting at Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut and privately for the past 14 years.

Zoey Frank

Zoey Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1987.  She completed four years of classical atelier training under Juliette Aristides at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, and received an MFA in painting from Laguna College of Art and Design.

Frank has received numerous honors and awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields grants, the Avigdor Arikha Memorial International Residency Scholarship, the Artist’s Magazine All Media Competition Grand Prize of 2012, the Hudson River Fellowship in 2012, scholarships from the Albert K. Murray foundation, the Stacey Foundation and the Art Renewal Center.

Her work has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, the International Artist Magazine, Artist’s Magazine, and Southwest Art, and the Figurative Artists Handbook, among other publications, and is exhibited in galleries across the United States and Europe.

Adam Cohn

Born 1983 in Israel, Adam Cohn lives and works in Tel Aviv. He received his art education from the Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem, Israel (2004-2008), and the Arts Students League, New York, USA (2010-2011) studying sculpture with Jonathan Shan. Between 2007-2012,he taught drawing at various establishments; and since 2012 teaches at Hatahana School for Painting and Drawing, Avni Institute.

His solo exhibitions include two presentations at the Hatahana Gallery, Tel Aviv in 2013 and 2014, curated by Liza Gershuni; and a 2009 show at Hamila Gallery, Harduf, Israel. Between 2008 and 2016, Cohn has taken part in Tel Aviv group shows at Liza Gershuni Gallery, Hanina Gallery, Hatahana Gallery, and Gallery 33. His work is represented in the Dubbi Shiff Art Collection, Marina Hotel, Tel Aviv, and private collections in the UK, USA, and Israel.

Larine Chung

Larine Chung was born in Shanghai, China and raised in Hong Kong. After completing her BFA at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she trained in the Classical Atelier program under renowned painter Juliette Aristides. Chung’s work has received recognition nationally and internationally. She was the resident artist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015 and 2023. Her works are shown nationally and internationally. She is currently living and working in Seattle, Washington.