Untitled Art Houston 2026
Emma Beatrez (b. 1995, New Prague, MN) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. They graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020 with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art and received their BFA with an emphasis in painting at North Dakota State University in 2018. Beatrez is the co-founder/curator at Night Club gallery in St. Paul alongside artist Lee Noble. Solo shows include “Polyester” (HAIR+NAILS NY, 2025), “Device of Love” (Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN, 2024), “TECHNOLUST 3000” (HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis, 2022), and “Quarter Turn” (Fierman Gallery, NYC, 2022). Other recent shows include a two-person show at LVL3 (Chicago), andgroup shows at Nathalie Karg Gallery (NYC), Swivel Gallery (Brooklyn), Anthony Gallery (Chicago), Soho Revue (London), and in collaboration with Lee Noble at the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis).
Emma’s work is in the permanent collection of Walker Art Center and many prominent private collections.
Emma Beatrez is represented by HAIR+NAILS Gallery, Minneapolis/NYC.
Instagram: @emma.beatrez
Julia García (b. 1992, Pompano Beach, FL) uses a collage-like application of acrylic and ink onto wet raw canvas, a process which reflects her childhood growing up near the Everglades, where the natural flow of the wetlands has been slowly corralled and shaped by urban development. This relationship between time, permeability, and the flow of matter, is underpinned by the dominance of water’s role in García’s process. Water acts as a collaborator, introducing an unpredictable external force which determines the outcome alongside the artist’s hand. With a practice that moves across painting and drawing, García’s work is unified by the compositional relationship between material and visible substrate, which proposes a state of tension between openness and resolution, information and exposure. Julia received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 2014 and her MFA in 2016 from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art. García had her first institutional solo exhibition in 2023 at NW9 in Cologne, Germany. Other solo exhibitions have been held at Night Club Gallery, St.Paul, MN; Galerie Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; KDR Gallery, Miami; Gaa Gallery, New York, NY, HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; and HAIR+NAILS NYC.
Instagram: @__joolz
Christina Attié Ballantyne (b. 1990, Houston, TX) is a Los Angeles-based artist. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Hair & Nails (New York City, NY), Untitled Fair (Houston, TX), Julius Caesar (Chicago), Hair & Nails (Minneapolis, MN and NYC), Sulk (Chicago, IL), and Martha’s Contemporary (Austin, TX). Group exhibitions include NADA Miami, Felix Art Fair (Los Angeles, CA), Chez Max et Dorothea (Los Angeles), Ivory Gate Gallery (Shanghai, China), Make Room LA (Los Angeles, CA), and Andrew Raefacz (Chicago, IL). Christina has served as an adjunct professor at East Los Angeles Community College and Minneapolis Institute of Design. She has been a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Award (2021) and lectured at the Brand Art Library in Los Angeles (2025). Alongside artist Ishmael Lipman, she founded Ouroboros, an online educational platform focused on providing affordable graduate-level education to emerging artists.
http://www.christinaballantyne.com
Instagram: @xtinaballantyne2.0
Ish Lipman (b. 1995, San Francisco, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist. He graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2018 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing in 2019. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Harpers (NYC, NY), Harpers (East Hampton, NY), Long Story Short (Paris, FR), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago, IL), Praz-Delavallade (Los Angeles, CA). Group exhibitions include NADA Miami, Nada New York, Make Room LA (Los Angeles, CA), Hair and Nails at Easy Does It (Los Angeles, CA) and HAIR+NAILS NY.
Instagram: @ish_lipman
