June 2026’s Artists on Our Radar points to five painters worth watching
A monthly survey of artists gaining momentum has turned up a striking range of practices, from gold-leafed domestic objects to atmospheric scenes of disco culture and dreamlike landscapes. ’s June 2026 installment of Artists on Our Radar highlights Maya Seas, Marin Majić, Elif Saydam, Su Yu-Xin, and Jane Yang D’Haene, using recent exhibitions, gallery representation, and new work to track where attention is building.
Los Angeles-based artist Maya Seas (b. 1991) has been included in Imagining Elsewhere at Rajiv Menon Contemporary in Los Angeles and in a group show at Half Gallery in New York. Her paintings often depict women bathing, resting, or conversing in states of calm suspension. Seas works with an unusual mix of oil stick, acrylic, charcoal, 24-karat gold, and molding paste, building surfaces that feel tactile and hushed rather than polished. In a recent interview, she said safety is the feeling she is always trying to reach in her work, and that she destroys images that do not hold it.
Marin Majić (b. 1979), who was born in Frankfurt and lives in New York City, is currently showing discodisco at Nino Mier Gallery in New York through June 13, 2026. His small paintings layer colored pencil, wax, oil paint, and marble dust into iridescent fields that shift between nightclub imagery and Romantic landscape traditions. Disco balls, dancers, and lounge interiors appear through veils of light, while other works move toward a more fantastical natural world. In Negative Attention, a crystalline spider web glitters between tropical plants beneath a dawn sky, recalling the transcendence sought by Frederic Edwin Church and John Martin.
The series also includes Elif Saydam (b. 1985), whose Glory is on view at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle in Munich through July 31, and Su Yu-Xin, whose Afterstone is installed as a pop-up exhibition at Albion Jeune in Venice during the Biennale and includes 19 new paintings. Jane Yang D’Haene is the fifth artist named in the June selection.
Taken together, the group suggests a field increasingly interested in material surprise, intimate scale, and images that hover between the familiar and the imagined.
