Zachary Sitrin
Zachary Sitrin (b. 1992) is a painter in Brooklyn. His paintings depict fictional and poetic versions of his personal history.
Grounded in figuration, Sitrin’s paintings approach aesthetic values of expressionism and abstraction, bolstered by the artist’s observational experience, echoing memories and unfolding fantasies. They live on the edge of abstraction, hovering somewhere between reality and fantasy, between coherence and incoherence, filled with figures imbued with uncertainty and inseparability that mirror their surroundings. Realized through various paths of discovery and evolving over time, Sitrin’s paintings rely on risk taking. His works remain open to interpretation, resisting the temptation to become fully identifiable and homogenized and rather existing as venues for intuition and improvisation both for the artist and the viewer.
Sitrin has been an artist-in-residence at Altos de Chavon, Vermont Studio Center, and Viafarini. He was the recipient of the 2020 Chubb Fellowship at New York Academy of Art. Sitrin debuted his NYC solo exhibition at Massey Klein Gallery in 2023 and has previously exhibited at Sotheby’s NY, Di Donna Gallery, New York Academy of Art, Paddle8 and ArtMiami. The artist and his work have appeared in numerous publications, notably The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter and Shoutout LA. Work by the artist is in private collections in Europe and the United States.
