ABOUT

Zach Zono (b. 1999, Cape Town, South Africa) lives and works in London.

Zach Zono is known internationally for painting, Zono’s painting practice is rooted in fluidity, intuition, and discovery, navigating the intersections of memory, abstraction, and lived experience. Working primarily on large-scale canvases, he constructs immersive compositions that bridge the tangible and the imagined, blurring distinctions between past and present, landscape and figuration. His distinctive visual language unfolds through vivid hues, gestural mark-making, and layered surfaces that evoke a sense of timelessness and introspection.

Drawing from the light, colour, and organic forms of his South African upbringing, Zono translates memory into an abstract vocabulary that is both visceral and poetic. His paintings operate as meditations on movement and recollection, exploring the passage of time through shifting realities and geographies. The dynamic interplay of colour, form, and rhythm within his work decodes emotional states and lived experiences, inviting viewers to engage with the hidden currents embedded in each composition.

Balancing spontaneity with intention, Zono layers textures and gestures that guide the viewer through metaphorical and literal landscapes. Each work captures the emotional weight of memory alongside the vitality of the present, offering moments of tension, serenity, and quiet revelation. For Zono, painting is a way of seeing and understanding the world, with his titles functioning as open-ended invitations rather than fixed explanations.

Zono has exhibited internationally in London, Madrid, Beijing, Cape Town, Copenhagen, New York, and Bangkok. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and Africa, creating immersive environments that expand the dialogue between abstraction, memory, and identity. Through his evolving practice, he continues to explore the fluid connections between personal history and collective experience, positioning painting as a site of reflection, transformation, and continual becoming.

His works are held in notable private collections worldwide.