Abdelkader Benchamma (born 1975, Mazamet) lives and works between Paris and Montpellier, and studied Fine art at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier and Paris. He imposes constraints upon his process to create delicately executed and dynamic drawings of states of matter. Events explode off the page and are animated by fusing graphic techniques from printing, engraving, landscape and scientific drawing. In his scenes he reveals the purity and intensity of lines to express powerful and ambiguous atmospheres, which probe notions of a stable reality. Benchamma uses these varied techniques and media to explore the constructed aspect of reality, inspired by cosmology, science fiction, existentialist theatre and literature. He has created in-situ wall drawings for Sharjah Biennial 13. The Drawing Centre in New York, Turbulences II at the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels and a group show at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. His works were included in Future of a Promise, a Pan Arab exhibition during the 54th Venice Biennale, Told / Untold / Retold at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, and Constantine, Capital of Arab Culture festival in Algeria. Recipient of the Paris-based The Drawing Now Prize, he was also nominated for the Le Meurice Prize in 2015. Benchamma’s works are housed in several collections such as the FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, the Musée de Beaux Arts-Orleans and Artotheque de Pessac in France, among others.

Zon Ito was born in 1971 in Osaka. He graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1996 and currently lives and works in Kyoto. He held a solo exhibition “The End of the Neighborhood”, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo in 2003. His work has been featured in multiple international exhibitions including; “Ways of Worldmaking”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011); “Primary Field II”, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama (2010); “Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2009); “When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with The Future Brazil / Japan”, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (2008). His works are included in the permanent collections of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa; and The National Museum of Art, Osaka.

Hiraku Suzuki was born in 1978 in Miyagi, Japan. He obtained MFA at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo amd Currently lives works in Tokyo. Focusing on the act of drawing, Hiraku Suzuki’s practice encompasses a large variety of media, including two-dimensional works, installations, murals, video, performance, and sculpture.
Recent solo exhibitions have included those held at ACAC (Aomori, 2015); Daiwa Foundation (London, 2013); Wimbledon Space (London, 2011); Galerie du Jour (Paris, 2010).  Group exhibitions include; “Very Addictive” at Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (Yinchuan, China) “Vancouver Biennale” (Canada, 2014); “Nissan Art Award” (Yokohama, 2013);  “Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, 2013); and “Roppongi Crossing” Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2010). He has also been taking part in interdisciplinary projects that involve sound, architecture, and fashion such as his collaborations with Agnes b. and Rei Kawakubo (COMME des GARÇONS).
http://hirakusuzuki.com/

Gozo Yoshimasu
born in Tokyo, 1939 . Since his debut with “出発 / Departure” in 1964 he continues to drive forward the cutting edge of contemporary poetry. His major poetry books include, “黄金詩篇 / Golden Collection of Poems”(1970), “オシリス、石ノ神 / Osiris, God of Stone”(1984), “花火の家の入り口で / At the entrance of the house of fireworks”(1995), “「雪の島」あるいは「エミリーの幽霊」 / ’Island of Snow’ or ‘Ghost of Emily’ ”(1998), “怪物君 / Kaibutsukun” (2016) and many more. He is a member of The Japan Art Academy, and received The Imperial Prize in 2015. Has been exhibiting, “Gozo Ciné” a series of film work, since 2006. Is known as a pioneer of poetry reading performance, and has performed in every region of Japan as well as places including France, Italy, the US, Brazil, Korea. In 2016 his retrospective exhibition “The Voice Between, The Art and Poetry of Yoshimasu Gozo” was held.

Kyohei Sakaguchi (坂口 恭平, born 13 April 1978) is a Japanese artist and architect who was born in Kumamoto. He graduated from Waseda University’s department of architecture in 2001. He is most known for his Zero Yen Project, which involves studying structures built at no cost, such as shanties made by the homeless.