Rising Stars

Emerging Artists to Collect Now

Each year, Saatchi Art’s curators publish their annual Rising Stars report, introducing recent graduates from the best art schools to collectors around the globe. These artists are garnering international acclaim, expanding their collector base, and getting featured in solo and group exhibitions.

We hope you enjoy discovering these talented artists and their outstanding works, and this report helps guide your next art purchase. 

Meet The Artists

Explore Some of Our Alumnus’s Portfolios Today

C/O 2018

Miss Aniela

Award-winning British artist Miss Aniela is at the forefront of avant-garde photography. Known for her stylized portraits of women in couture, she fuses traditional imagery and digitally enhanced motifs to create elaborate, Surreal compositions. Her work has been exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery, Houses of Parliament, and Waldermarsudde Museum Sweden and is regularly featured in worldwide media outlets.

C/O 2014

David Fredrik Moussallem

Influenced by the street art movement and a background in advertising, mixed media artist David Fredrik Moussallem blends chaos and harmony in raw, deconstructed carved collage paintings. David’s work is inspired by his world travels and his interpretation of different cultures and people. He has garnered a worldwide following of private collectors, with work residing in 15 countries, and has exhibited in the US, Canada, and Paris.

C/O 2018

Christian Hetzel

German artist Christian Hetzel creates minimal texture and abstract compositions inspired by nature. Influenced by color field artists and the attitude of “less is more,” the self-taught painter’s work can be reduced to two main focuses: color and form. Christian’s work is held in private collections across the globe and has been exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions in Germany, London, and Belgium.

C/O 2014

Zaria Forman

Through Hyperrealistic pastel drawings of the world’s most remote areas, Zaria Forman celebrates the beauty and fragility of Earth and documents climate change. She has flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions, and in 2016 she was awarded the artist-in-residence aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica. Zarai’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US, UK, and Europe.

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