Daggi Wallace Born and raised in Berlin, Germany (b. 1962), and currently living near Los Angeles, CA, Daggi is a self-taught award-winning painter specializing in contemporary figurative realism and portraiture. She has reached the level of Eminent Pastelist of the International Association of Pastel Societies and Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America as well as Signature Membership in several pastel societies.

Graziella Mura is an Italian figurative artist who holds a degree in the Academy of Fine Arts of Sassari in Italy. In her career, oil color is the technique that she has chosen for the representation of her works. She has participated in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad and presented various solo exhibitions.

Scott French was born in Atlanta, GA. At fourteen, he began to travel while playing in jazz bands between New Orleans and Detroit. On the road, he experienced many cities and was exposed to the nightlife and its diverse range of characters. Fascinated by human emotion and relationships, Scott began to draw between musical sets, recording the scenes around him.

Eva Evangelesta is primarily a figurative artist whose work features realistic subjects in somewhat magical moments. She was born in Poland and moved to the United States at the age of thirteen.

Karen Bradley Wilharm is a contemporary realist oil painter based in Savannah, GA. Her paintings focus mainly on portraits and figurative subject matter. Karen's inspiration comes primarily from people she encounters, their expressive qualities and patterns of light and shadow that reveal them. Her works are honest visual interpretations of her experiences as she perceives them.

Terri Symington draws upon a lifetime of passion and experience with the arts ...  from being a dancer with a Houston ballet/jazz company, fashion illustrator, art director with a well-known fashion/home furnishings company ... and an award-winning interior designer and Professional member of ASID.

Colleen Stapleton is an award-winning contemporary realist artist in Sydney, Australia. With a passion for figurative art, she paints to try to depict the beauty and complexity of the human form.

Viktoria Savenkova Belarusian, b. 1979 Her artistic journey began in the childhood in an art studio, continued at an art school, then the art college and the Academy of Art (Minsk, Belarus). After a period as an art director at the national film studio "Belarusfilm", she worked as a tattoo artist. In 2014 Viktoria realized that she was meant to express her creativity differently.

Manu Saluja is an American painter. Her work fuses the urban landscape of New York City with narratives of it's complex and diverse people, reflecting on themes of identity, control and freedom.

David E Morris was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1969 and received undergraduate and graduate education at Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University respectively. He uses charcoal, graphite and oil paint to describe his experience of having been in the presence of another person.

Debra Lott creates oil paintings and drawings that empower women and reflect upon the human experience. Her large-scale paintings are created in richly colored palettes and the alla prima style. Lott’s techniques include naturalism, expressionism, semi-abstraction and figurative distortion.

Freymuth-Frazier’s work has been exhibited internationally with galleries in Barcelona, Sydney, Amsterdam and across the United States from New York City and Chicago to Seattle and Los Angeles. Her work can be found in private collections internationally, including The Seven Bridges Foundation in Connecticut and the John and Diane Marek Collection in Tennessee. She has received attention and reviews from numerous publications including Playboy Magazine.

Anita Dewitt American, b. 1977 was born and raised in and throughout Colorado. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine art and her minor degree in Psychology from Colorado State University in 2006. Anita has since dedicated her life to being a figurative painter and sculptor.

Elena Degenhardt is a German representational painter, specializing in soft pastels but also working in other dry media, acrylics, and oils. She is dividing her time between the city of Düsseldorf and the North Sea coast, Germany, painting both en plein air and in her studio.

Judith Mroski-Gonzalez was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1966, but has lived in Texas since 1973. Inspired by her grandfather, who was a painter, she decided to pursue art as a career.

Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of beauty and silver screen-era romance.

WMOCA International Biennial Portrait Competition 2019 Curators David Hummer Margaret Bowland Awarded: Honorable Mention

Junyi Liu is a New York City based visual artist. She was born and raised in China. Painting has been her passion since a young age. She came to the U.S. for art education first at University of Illinois at Springfield, and then received her BFA in painting at Maryland Institute College of Art.

I am a husband and father of six children and live in the small rural town of Meridian which is located deep in the heart of Texas. Often, I use my children and my wife to model for my paintings as well as people I know in this same small town or the towns surrounding it.

  Holly Siniscal is a signature member and CIPPY award recipient of the Color Pencil Society of America (CPSA). Primarily working with wax-based media such as Prismacolor & Verithin pencils, her masterful technique incorporates solvents to acheive glazed layers and painterly effects.