Naomi Mishkin

Age: 30

Hometowns: Manhattan and Tenafly, N.J.

Now lives: In a garden apartment on a brownstone-lined block in Harlem.

Claim to fame: Naomi Mishkin is an artist and budding fashion designer, whose work frequently takes everyday objects and subverts them with a clever, feminist-skewed twist. In a 2017 piece called “Pedestal (Dress Form),” she took a traditional dress form and remodeled it after her own torso, complete with a slight paunch and sagging shoulders.

Her artwork has been shown at the Nunnery Gallery in London and the Edmond Rostand Media Library in Paris.

Big break: In 2014, after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, a college friend introduced her to Ed Romer, the founder of Xpozure, a contemporary art gallery in Wilton, Conn. They immediately bonded over a shared passion for German artists like Otto Dix and Christian Schad, and he commissioned her first solo show, which opened the following year.