After growing up in China, the artist traded legal aspirations for painting.

The artist's kinetic sculptures append artificial flora to machines like massagers and baby rockers.

The artist works with organic materials including soil and corn dough.

The Romanian artist works with materials sourced from an automotive factory near her hometown.

DeLuna paints from photographs of '70s pin-up girls, zooming in on their faces and removing them from context.

The annual list has roots dating back to 1954.

The LA-based painter approaches color theory as a matter of both feeling and science.

"I just want it to feel bizarre and intriguing," says Nguyen.

Her key preoccupation is the trans body, meaning at once transgender, transhuman, and trans-species,