“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.
Alejandro Asensio
B. 1993, Spain. Lives and works in Paris.
Azul, Amarillo y Cerveza, 2025
Alejandro Asensio
sobering
Lunch Time, 2025
Alejandro Asensio
sobering
Cama de Rosas, 2025
Alejandro Asensio
sobering
Au Bouillon, 2025
Alejandro Asensio
sobering
Spiderman, Mami y Verano, 2025
Alejandro Asensio
sobering
Cubiertos y cuadrados, 2026
Alejandro Asensio
sobering
For Spanish artist Alejandro Asensio, mundane moments such as riding an elevator or having a quiet afternoon drink become cinematic scenes suspended in time. Working primarily with colored pencils on paper, Asensio captures elements of the everyday—checkered diner tablecloths, shared meals, picnics—and elevates them into richly realized meditations on memory.
In contrast to the sharpness of photorealism, Asensio’s drawings carry a hazy, dreamlike quality. In Azul, Amarillo y Cerveza (2025), for instance, a fleeting moment of respite is captured. A cropped figure is depicted with a sunsoaked glass of beer, their hand resting near the edge of the frame. It’s a moment that feels intimate and anonymous, the heat almost palpable through the grain of the colored pencil.
Asensio, who is also a film photographer, had his first gallery show last December with sobering in Paris as part of the group show “On the Road.” Earlier this month, his work was featured as part of the gallery’s booth at Intersect Palm Springs.
Sander Coers
B. 1997, Terneuzen, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
POST no. 72, 2023-2025
Sander Coers
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
POST no. 57, 2023-2025
Sander Coers
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
A Dinner No. 05, 2025
Sander Coers
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
The Gathering 05, 2025
Sander Coers
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
POST no.71, 2025
Sander Coers
Open Doors Gallery
The Gathering 01, 2025
Sander Coers
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
A Dinner No. 06, 2025
Sander Coers
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
Sander Coers’s photographs elicit an off-kilter nostalgia. Saturated palettes, tight croppings, wood and ceramic substrates, and a focus on objects and sartorial details from the recent past suggest a contemporary approach to archival images. In fact, the Dutch artist uses AI to reinterpret moments from his family’s history. Memory, ever fallible, gains another layer of fiction. Coers approaches his inheritance like a novelist, using invention to get at something that feels more true.
The artist graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam in 2021, and galleries and institutions swiftly embraced his work. Coers recently opened a solo exhibition, “Eulogy,” at PhMuseum Lab in Bologna, Italy. This year, London’s Open Doors Gallery and Amsterdam’s Galerie Caroline O’Breen will bring his work to fairs in London, Cape Town, and Rotterdam.
—Alina Cohen
Zoe Schweiger
B. 2000, Miami. Lives and works in Miami.
Cici at Floyd, 1:09 AM, 2025
Zoe Schweiger
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Night at Club Deuce, 2025
Zoe Schweiger
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Twist and Shout, 2025
Zoe Schweiger
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Last Dance at Willy's Wynwood, 2025
Zoe Schweiger
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Lip liner at Pastis, 2025
Zoe Schweiger
LATITUDE Gallery New York
Last Friday Night, 2025
Zoe Schweiger
LATITUDE Gallery New York
Zoe Schweiger’s smoky scenes appear to be melting, like sweat running down a wall. Her paintings take place in the intimate surroundings of Miami’s queer nightlife, centering those spaces and friendships. Working from her own experience, she captures the sensory overload of late nights—heavy bass, bumping hips, and moisture gathering in basement air. Her figures blur and overlap in embraces beneath saturated reds and oranges, evoking the cozy euphoria of the dance floor.
Her current solo exhibition, “Sun-Kissed,” at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, draws from significant venues in the community, including Twist on South Beach and the recently closed Willy’s in Wynwood. As Miami continues to transform, Schweiger’s paintings depict the warmth and vitality of a city in flux. Schweiger has exhibited at several other Miami galleries (Zilberman, Spinello Projects) as well as further afield (she exhibited in Shanghai for a group show with Latitude and Long Story Short). In 2022, she earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
—Josie Thaddeus-Johns
Harry Spike
B. 1996, United Kingdom.
Tying Knots, 2024
Harry Spike
Cob
Icarus' Wheel, 2025
Harry Spike
Cob
Car park, 2023
Harry Spike
Cob
Anyone's Will But Your Own, 2023
Harry Spike
Cob
SB 7, 2024
Harry Spike
Cob
Halve it, Then Halve it Again, 2024
Harry Spike
Cob
In Harry Spike’s enigmatic paintings, anonymous figures emerge from fragmented scenes like misty memories. Through fleeting encounters and lingering kisses, Spike’s male subjects share an intimacy defined by queer love. In his current solo exhibition, “Dig,” on view at Cob, the British artist looks inward to unearth personal memories and a sense of place set against the sweeping valleys of the Peak District in the U.K., where he grew up.
Spike’s visual language draws from Neoclassical and Renaissance motifs, creating works that are rooted in art history and reimagined through a contemporary lens. In Icarus’ Wheel (2025), Spike depicts the titular character in warm, harmonious layers of acrylic. The cropped composition places Icarus in an almost dreamlike state, offering a peaceful interpretation of the classical Greek tragedy.
After completing a BFA in painting and printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art, Spike continued his studies at the Royal Drawing School, which informs his current practice. His work has been exhibited at the French House, Mothflower Gallery, the Royal Scottish Academy, and is held in the Royal Collection.
—Adeola Gay
Liu Xin
B. 1996, Weifang, China. Lives and works in Xi’an, China.
Three Moons, 20025
Liu Xin
Luce Gallery
Where Does the Dust Collect Itself, 2025
Liu Xin
Luce Gallery
Moon Light, 2026
Liu Xin
Luce Gallery
The Bridges of Madison County, 2025
Liu Xin
Luce Gallery
Waltz of Love, 2025
Liu Xin
Luce Gallery
The Pillow Poem of Erebus, 2025
Liu Xin
Luce Gallery
Nightmare I , 2025
Liu Xin
Luce Gallery
In her first solo exhibition, “I Had the Same Dream as Freud,” now on view at Luce Gallery, Liu Xin mines Surrealist tradition as she taps her own dreams to envision the unconscious.
Her smooth, moody canvases feel like they’re draped in dark veils: Soft blues and greens contrast with velvety browns and tans. Women slumber by pools, lounge lustfully in bed, and dance for men who sit at the piano—they’re restless, charged, and hungry for something more.
In Where Does the Dust Collect Itself (2025), a woman sits poolside in a gauzy white dress. She gazes upward, perhaps in desperation. A flaming playing card, a three of diamonds, appears to levitate from her fingertips. Liu’s approach to the figure recalls the spindly, searching characters of Lenz Geerk while her recurring symbols—moons, playing cards, cats, pianos—evoke undersung American Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie.
Liu received her degree from the Experimental Art Department of the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 2021 and earned a Diploma from the school’s Intermedia Art Department in 2024.
—Casey Lesser
