Zatara McIntyre is a Black visual artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Master’s in Fine Arts from Hunter College and has been awarded the Evelyn Kossak Travel Grant & apexart International Fellowship. Zatara has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, & The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions 2018-20. She recently exhibited in galleries in New York, London, and Miami.
Zatara McIntyre’s oil paintings and works on paper originate from an impulse to create a mythological world where black women achieve self actualization. Using saturated colors and exaggerating scale, she depicts larger than life, full bodied black women embracing, expressing kinship, and exhibiting desire. Classical mythology is upended, as these figures whirl & caress. These women exist in their own inner world, where their imperfections can be exalted and they are unbothered by everyday concerns. In this space, these women are free to act on their own desires, express vulnerability, and exhibit strength. Situated in this vividly saturated, otherworldly realm, their agency is not contingent on the world around them; they are centered in their own inner universe.