7 female artists to keep an eye on in 2022, collectors tip.

No matter which industry you are working in, we all love to see other creators work. From tiny struggles of everyday life to a Nike collaboration. Dark humor, psychedelic dreams, identity, bread bags, the year ahead looks to be a strong one for women artists generally. We curated a list of our age defining female artists to keep an eye on in 2022.

1. Celebs with exorbitant eyes and dazed kids. It’s Claudia Maté’s odd, futuristic, pixellated world where everything is possible

Paris based, originally from Madrid, multi media artist Claudia Maté works in a large area of new media and online based works. Working in formats programming such as 3D, videogames, moving images, VR and sound.

Mate’s work is more based on the experience during making then only translate fixed ideas. Combined with dark humor and wry criticism. Series like ‘New Faces‘ with celebrities like Paris Hilton with exorbitant eyes and sick aesthetics, ‘Moody Vibes’ with countless emoticons.

Animations with Doraemon and Hello Kitty in a psychedelic dream, GIFS from the Kardashian-West or the Mona Lisa smiling, diabolical girls, babies riding on cats, clowns, bloody models or multiple dark finals are just some of the brushstrokes that make up Maté’s global work: the provocation of art in version 3018.

2. Combining magazine stories, advertisements and painting to guide us through lost worlds

Ellen Gallagher is an American artist who lives and works in New York and Rotterdam, Holland. Her media includes painting, prints, film and video. Gallaghers work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of various major museum such as MoMa and Tate.

Some of her pieces refers to issues of race, and may combine formality with racial stereotypes and depicts "ordering principles" society imposes. Repetition and revision are central to Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines like Ebony, Our World, and Sepia and uses in projects like ‘DeLuxe’.

Later, she realized that it was the accompanying language that attracted her, and she began to bring these stories into her painting, making them function through the characters of the advertisements, as a kind of grid of lost worlds.

3. Tossed- out retro technology blew a new life in to artworks of Hanne Zaruma

Hanne Zaruma is an artists and a law student from Ukraine. Zaruma has an artistry for combining images of everyday consumerist gadgets and technology with nature and life: picture a seashell squashed by a takeaway cup lid, earbuds sprouting plant life, or a USB stick made of an actual, human tongue.

In one video she pokes fun at Instagram-driven narcissism by grooming herself to excess.Using discarded retro technology, she shapes them into a new life to contribute in her efforts to a trans humanist future. For a long time she was only involved in painting, but in the course of time Zaruma experimented with graffiti, poetry and took pictures on film cameras. After that she started doing what we see on her instagram and how we actually know her today.

4. The surreal, goth- romance designs of fashion designer Dilara Findikoglu

Based in London Dilara Findikoglu is a Turkish fashion designer and conceptual artists. She is known for her almost, angelic, goth- romance mixed designs.

Findikoglu co-organized with other students a guerrilla show for Central Saint Martins students who weren’t accepted to the school’s high coveted graduate press show and became renowned. It’s truly visible in her work that Findikoglu gets inspired by her Turkish roots and her own Anatolian experiences and combining it with European elements.

Not only in her designs she gets inspired by her roots but also with the stories she wants to tell and her perspective of how woman should be portrayed.

5. A whole taxi bus covered in artwork that’s questioning the forming of ‘Cape Malay’ and ‘Colored’ identity

Thania Petersen is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses photography, performance and installation to address the aspects and complexities of her identity in contemporary South Africa.

Petersen attempts to unpack contemporary trends of Islamophobia through her analysis of the continuing impact of colonialism, American and European imperialism and the influences of the right-wing ideologies. Threads in her work include the history of colonialist imperialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as the social and cultural impact of Westernised consumer culture. 

Her reference points include the history of African colonial imperialism, contemporary westernized consumer culture, her deeply personal Cape Malay heritage, and the legend and myths of Sufi Islamic religious ceremonies.

6. Taboos around diversity, empathy and togetherness all in one simple message created by Esra Gülmen

Esra Gülmen lives and works in Berlin as an artists, designer and art-director. She invites the viewer to an experimental research in the psychology of reading and image perception.

Gülmen uses the the simplest words to create impactful sentences about serious issues such as racism and human rights. Recently, Gülmen collaborated with Nike for a exhibition space (named HOPE Alkazar), to give hope to the young community who dream of making the world better together. Gülmen who aims to break down social taboos such as gender norms.

Created by the artist inspired by concepts such as diversity, equality, empathy, togetherness, freedom and tolerance, has a character that reflects the new face of sports.

7. Oil- painted food, handbags from baguettes and pancakes made by Chloe Wise

Canadian artists based in New York, Chloe Wise is know for her humorous oil- painted portraits. In 2014 Wise gained acclaim on a wide scale when she started making her “bread Bags: series of oil-painted, urethane castings of baguettes, bagels, and pancakes embellished with high-fashion designer logo’s.

Since then, Wise has painted vibrant portraits of women and made sculptures that resemble food. Sex and consumption are frequent themes, and the artist is particularly interested in the framing and commodification of the female body. Wise has enjoyed solo shows in London, New York, Paris, Geneva, and Montreal, among other cities. She has also worked with a number of fashion brands.

In 2019, she painted the spring/summer campaign images for Jacquemus and, the next year, collaborated on a 2020 collection with French label Études.