BERTO HERRERA
Berto is an artist from Los Angeles, California, based in Germany and is represented by Carrie- Scott ( season 2 ). This is Berto’s second episode with HYPE A. You may wish to tune in to our previous conversation (2023). This live session was made by possible thanks to Ghost Gallery, Los Angeles.
Berto makes collages and uses words and imagery that juxtapose against each other, opposite an urban and natural landscape.
Berto lived in Japan, has worked for the American Airforce, was a fashion designer and graphic designer for Adidas and is now living in Germany working full time as an artist. Follow Berto on Instagram @_berto_herrera_ contact @carriescottcurates and @officialxghost for his available works.
www.bertoherrera.com
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Images courtesy of the artist @_berto_herrera_
BRYLNEY ODU DAVIES
Brynley is a photographer based in London. His increasing rise to notoriety is due to him capturing the lives of young emerging artists in their studios throughout the United Kingdom. This is our second episode with Brynley. Tune in and enjoy. Check out Brynley’s work @brynley.odu.davies on Instagram and preorder his book at TrollyBooks.com @trolleybooks
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Image courtesy of @brynley.odu.davies
YUMA RADNÉ
Yuma Radné (b. 2001, Ulaan Ude, Mongolia) is a painter based in London. She studied at
the Slade School of Fine Art in London, having previously been enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Shtiglitz Academy in St. Petersburg.
Radné has presented solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions including: the National Museum of Art of the Republic Buryatia (2018), Bloom Galerie, Saint-Tropez (2023) and Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2023). Her work was presented at Art Fair Bordeaux with Bloom Galerie (2023); Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen and Vienna Contemporary with Steve Turner (both 2023), Untitled Miami with Steve Turner (2024) and Future Fair in New York with Newcube (2024).
Her work has work has been included in group exhibitions with galleries internationally, including: Fiumano Clase, London (2023); STUDIO WEST, London (2023); Hilger Next Gallery, Vienna (2022); Ars Pro Dono Gallery, Berlin (2021); Zaluu Centre, Ulaan Ude,Russia (2021); Exhibit Studio, Vienna (2021); Semperdepot Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2021) and Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan (2020) among others.
Check out Yuma’s work: @yumaradne on instagram and her website: Yumaradne.com
Image courtesy of @ulrich_zinell
HK ZAMANI
HK Zamani was born in 1958 in Tehran-Iran studied Studio Arts and Design at California State University, Dominguez Hills and El Camino Community College. He received his Master’s of Fine Art in Painting from Claremont Graduate University. Selected regional exhibitions include Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, A+DMuseum, PRJCTLA, LA Louver, Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall. He has also exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Berlin, Prague, Seoul, Saigon, and Bangkok.
He is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and founder of PØST, an alternative exhibition space in Los Angeles (1995-2018), where more than five hundred exhibits were hosted. He has taught at University of California Los Angeles, University of California Santa Barbara, California State University at Long Beach, California State University at Dominguez Hills, Woodbury University, and has been a Visiting Artist at numerous national and international institutions.
He is a recipient of The City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Project
(COLA-IMAP) and California Community Foundation grants, his work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, and Lancaster Museum of Art and History.
Check out HK Zamani’s instagram page and website for more: @hkzamani_studio & www.hkzamani.com
Image courtesy of @hkzamani_studio 📸 @wayne_shimabukuro
NOËL ELIE
Noël Elie, a dynamic force in entertainment and spiritual wellness, effortlessly balances her roles as an acclaimed actress, visionary producer, and empowering CEO of Noel Elie Productions. Her journey began with performances that left audiences spellbound, earning accolades for her raw authenticity. Beyond the glitz, she fearlessly explores spirituality as a revered teacher & speaker guiding many to embrace their true selves with gusto. Noel lights up screens and stages alike, driven not just by entertainment but also by a mission to help women embrace an audaciously liberated and sensual life through practices like embodiment, sacred sexuality, and profound shadow work with plant medicine integration.
Based in LA, her impact spans major platforms from @abc , @nbc , CBS, @nypost, @yogajournal and beyond. Dubbed “the meme queen” online (@noel_elie ), she fearlessly injects empowering and wild humor, inspiring a global community with her visionary insight and infectious spirit.
Find out more about Noel on IMDB, www.noelelie.com, on Instagram: noel_elie Tune into this episode. Be inspired.
Music by Epidemic Sound @epidemicsound , Soundwelt, Vicate Studio and by Ivan Ryzhko from Pixabay Music
Image courtesy of Noël Elie
M3CCA
M3CCA is a versatile vocalist and performer who kick-started her music career at the age
of four. She’s graced international platforms like The Royal Albert Hall @royalalberthall and The Orpheum
Theatre @orpheumtheatrela .
Her achievements include featuring on American Idol and performing as a Pussycat Doll @pussycatdolls under Robin Antin @robinantin in Las Vegas. Her music reflects her personal journey and her love for storytelling. She’s toured with UK pop sensation Matt Goss @mattgoss and headlined at Virgin Hotels’ Shag Room.
Presently, she’s performing live at top-tier LA and Las Vegas locations such as Delilah and Vibrato Jazz. She excels in delivering performances across diverse genres.
M3CCA is slated to appear on a major network show on FOX @fox in 2024 and holds two residencies, one at Easy’s Speakeasy Lounge in Aria Casino & Resort and another at Rouge Room @rougeroomlv in Red Rock Casino @redrockcasino & Resort with her live band.
Shout out to @theartistsprojectla for the introduction.
Image courtesy of @m3ccaofficial
ISIS INDRIYA
Isis Indriya @isis_indriya Born in Mesa, Arizona, Indigenous to and raised on the island of Guam, Isis Indriya dedicates her life in service to prayer, education, and community activism. She is an educator and founder of The Academy of Oracle Arts and Imaginal Community where she teaches many classes alongside other luminaries.
She offers classes in Ritual, The Art of Offering, Divination, Egyptian Cosmology, and Hermeticism, as well as a 9-month Apprenticeship program in Oracular Arts.
With the loss of her Mother, Deborah, at age of 4, her desire to commune with the Unseen, the Ancestors, and those on the other side has been at the forefront of her life and what led her to Ritual as a way of Life. At the age of 17 she moved to the US and began her studies in mythology & breathwork which led to the focus of Ancient Mystery studies, Sacred Sciences, and Earth Wisdom Traditions.
With cultivation of community at the heart of her offering, she has spent over 20 years in event production, ritual, and education as a way to create culture and share her passion for the sacred sciences of the Ancients, Indigenous wisdom, cultural exchange, and inner transformation.
Isis is also lead producer of The Compass at Lightning in a Bottle Festival, where she has hosted hundreds of thought leaders and entertainers from around the world.
As a community builder, Isis also leads powerful annual pilgrimages to Egypt and hosts community gatherings at her Temple in Northern California.
Check out academyoforaclearts.com for more.
Image courtesy of @isis_indriya ©️
Credit & gratitude for the introduction goes to @noel_elie & @autumn_reeser
MILLY ABURROW
Milly Aburrow (b.2001, Chichester, UK) @portfolio.milly is a 2023 graduate of Bath Spa University, completing a BA in Fine Art (Hons). Through a playful colour palette and a comical stylisation, her work characterises the parameters of commercialisation, consumerist society, and particularly our contemporary food culture that defines a part of everyone’s life. Depicted through mixed media sculpture (materials and techniques dependent on the subject) and installation, she explores food’s social commentary, whether it associates with certain symbolisation, power, memory or societal acceptance. Aburrow’ was recipient of the ‘Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize 2023’ for her degree show installation ‘Fill Me In’ Sandwich Counter. Since she has exhibited in galleries across the UK, and is the graduate resident at 44AD Artspace, Bath, where she occupies her studio.
Her statement reads:
Milly Aburrow’s uncanny sculptures and installations of the everyday encapsulates the correlation between connotations of food and its language. Exploring foods social commentary, whether it associates to certain symbolisation, power, memory or societal acceptance. For instance, the stereotypical parallels and relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and the plant based diet.
Scrutinising whether food needs to identify with superfluous associations and the person who eats it.
She fabricates artworks engrossed in the sphere of consumerism, equating and analysing the substances value both materialistically and nutritionally. The transformative, creation of a faux commercial space and mixed media sculptures, create posed connotations of irony with these notions and objects, challenging the overarching patriarchy of Western society and breaking down outdated stereotypes.
Find out more about Milly and her work by following her on socials: @portfolio.milly on Instagram and Tiktok and Millyaburrow.com
Shout out to @thegitajoshi & @brynley.odu.davies
Image courtesy of the artist.
KASIMIIRA KONTIO
Kasimiira Kontio is a PR and Comms director running Kontio Comms launched in 2024 after four years at the helm of Atelier Public Relations and with 10 years of experience working across music, culture, arts, publishing, events and creative technology. Kasimiira is a multidisciplinary cultural publicist and strategist having previously worked across high profile clients internationally including @slystoneofficial@anohni @wu_tsang , WePresent, SAINT HERON, Saatchi Gallery @saatchi_gallery , Mogwai @mogwaiband , rave architecture collective Temporary Pleasure @temporary.pleasure , Artes Mundi @artesmundi , White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks , @ze__books , Tame Impala, XL Recordings, Doc n Roll Film Festival and more. Kasimiira’s previous experience spans across leading global agencies including @purplepr , @huxley and more. Kasimiira’s communications practice is centred around an interdisciplinary approach to public relations and deep interest in culture in its various forms.
Find out more here on Instagram: @kontiocomms
Shout out to Leighanne Murray @lee_mur of @ateliercomms , Meg Molly @meg.molloy_ of Working Arts Club @workingartsclub and Kaia Charles @kaiacharles_ of Now Gallery @nowgalleryse10
Image courtesy of Kasimiira.
KRISTI SALERNO
Kristi Salerno @kristisalerno_ is an artist who stepped into somatic counseling “by accident.” An actor, singer & dancer since age 8, she moved from Columbus, Ohio to LA in 2002. There, she began performing in independent films, tv and theater, while starting to ‘gig’ her original music on some of LA’s most famous independent stages, as well as the renowned 12th & Porter in Nashville, TN.
In 2012, she was invited to teach Movement for Actors which led to coaching hundreds of aspiring actors, including celebrities & Oscar winners, and in 2016 Kristi was named in BACKSTAGE WEST as one of “LA’s Best Dance Instructors.” While teaching actors, Kristi discovered the healing benefits of movement & embodiment, while simultaneously finding herself in her own health crisis. Kristi’s healing journey led her to a certification in energy healing & somatic counseling which was the start of the healing practice she has today.
In 2012 she launched her own healing modality, KRIA Method, combining dance & somatic movement for deep transformation whether it be through her healing practice or her music.
Kristi is passionate about empowering her community to embrace their worthiness & embody their own inner healer.
Follow Kristi on instagram @kristi_salerno_ and check out her website: www.kristisalerno.com and new EP OOYAYEH on @spotify and wherever available.
Image courtesy of Kristi
CELINE DESSBERG
Celine Dessberg is a musician with mixed Mongolian and French Heritage. She writes songs that touch the soul with her mongolian harp, piano or guitar. Her lyrics in French and English create an intimate and comforting art form.
The young multi-instrumentalist has been programmed in numerous French and Mongolian venues and festivals, this year she performed several times in London at Reference Point.’
For those interested in getting into music, this episode is not to be missed.
Follow Celine on Instagram: @celinedessberg
Image courtesy of Celine Dessberg and Helene Tchen @helenetchen
Shout out to @yumaradne and @brynley.odu.davies for the intro.
Image courtesy of the artist
KAIA CHARLES
Kaia Charles @kaiacharles_ is a cultural projects commissioner and curator whose work is rooted in contemporary art practice. She is based in London, England.
She has commissioned projects that explore urbanism, digital and cross-cultural visual culture. Before joining Greenwich Peninsula @greenwich.peninsula cultural team in 2014, she worked with the Victoria and Albert Museum @vamuseum , in London, curating a variety of arts commissions. These included an architectural intervention, Seasons Through the Looking Glass by C.J. Lim, Studio A Architects and a digital commission, Bit.Code by Julius Pop.
In 2013, she also co-chaired the V & A’s, Friday Late in Dalston and Peckham takeovers tor the V & A and MasterCard @mastercard . Kaia co-chaired the V & A’s African Caribbean Steering Group which worked towards incorporating Afro-Caribbean contemporary arts in the V & A’s collection.
Shout out and gratitude to @kasimiira for@the intro.
An episode not to be missed.
Image courtesy of the Kaia Charles
ALEXANDRA LEIGH
Alexandra from @alexandraleighdesign is an intuitive brand designer. She creates brand identities for people in the wellness and spiritual space. The brands are built from the deep connection she holds with clients, where together they uncover their unique Essence. She designs custom brands, using techniques like hand-lettering and illustrating to create one-of-a-kind identities, that embody that Essence they uncover together, so that they feel so authentically them as they show up for their business.
If you are into wellness, holistic and spiritually conscious living, tune into this episode. Make sure to follow Alexandra Leigh on: @alexandraleighdesign and alexandra-leigh.com for more.
Image courtesy of Alexandra Leigh
FERG COOPER
Ferg Cooper @fergcooper is a visual artist working primarily in painting and drawing. His ‘Queer Pop Art’ is rooted in queer theory mashed with comic book tropes and aesthetics. Many of his works use imagery inspired by strangers’ social media posts, or models discovered online. Ferg graduated from Central Saint Martins @csm_news in 2017 with an MA in Fine Art. He has participated in residencies including the Florence Trust @florencetrust and ‘Plop’ @plop.residency . He joined the inaugural panel of Artory @artorycom , a fund giving fast answers on funding for political work, and has mentored for NPA Labs.
Ferg has exhibited with several galleries across London and the UK, including Tate Exchange @tate , Menier Gallery, San Mei, Mall Galleries @mallgalleries , and Islington Arts Factory @islingtonartsfactory . He has worked with several collectives including Bad Art Presents @badartpresents and Raw Art Forum @rawartforum , and made commissions for The Unicorn Theatre @unicorn_theatre and Artcry @artcry20 , as well as designs for club nights and record sleeves. He is currently based at @bowarts Camden in London
Image courtesy of Ferg Cooper