Zack Zublena Selected by Singulart: A North American Artist to Follow in Miami
Singulart has selected Zack Zublena among its curated North American Artists to Follow.
The French artist and fine art photographer brings a distinctive visual language built around gold, light, movement and the human figure.
Based in Los Angeles, Zublena works at the intersection of fine art photography, performance and contemporary sculpture. For Miami, the city that every December becomes the meeting point of the international art world, his golden figures find a natural home under the brightest light in America.
Golden Yoga Prayer explores the human body as a sculptural and contemplative form. The golden figure is transformed by light, creating an image that exists somewhere between photography, sculpture and symbolic portraiture.
In a Miami interior, from a Brickell penthouse overlooking Biscayne Bay to a Coral Gables villa or an oceanfront residence in Bal Harbour, the work becomes a point of stillness within the vibrant energy of the city: an artwork, a sculptural presence and a quiet visual anchor.
Our Curation of North American Artists to Follow
Discover Zack Zublena featured by Singulart alongside selected contemporary artists from North America.
Miami: Where the International Art World Meets Every December
Miami has become one of the most dynamic centers of contemporary art in the Americas. From the murals of Wynwood and the galleries of the Miami Design District to the museums of downtown's Museum Park and the Art Deco facades of Miami Beach, the city brings together collectors, artists and designers from across the world.
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami), The Bass and the Rubell Museum shape a cultural landscape in which photography, painting and sculpture are in constant dialogue. Each December, Art Basel Miami Beach turns the city into the center of the global art market, a season followed closely by the arts pages of the Miami Herald.
Within this wider North American art landscape, Singulart's selection of Zack Zublena highlights a practice that connects photography with the physicality of sculpture and performance.
Since Art Basel Miami Beach opened its first edition in 2002, Miami has grown into a year-round art capital. From PAMM on Biscayne Bay to ICA Miami in the Design District and the Rubell Museum in Allapattah, the city offers a natural context for Zack Zublena's hybrid language of photography, performance and sculptural form.
Gold as a Visual Language
Gold is one of the defining elements of Zack Zublena's artistic vocabulary. Throughout art history, gold has been associated with light, value, power, spirituality and the timeless, from Renaissance gilding to the ornate gilded rooms of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens on Biscayne Bay.
Zublena brings these historical associations into contemporary fine art photography by applying reflective gold directly to the human figure. Skin becomes reflective, movement becomes sculptural and the body appears to move beyond ordinary representation.
In Miami, where tropical sunlight bounces off the Atlantic and floods through floor-to-ceiling windows, gold behaves like a mirror for the city itself: it catches light, holds it and returns it to the room.
From Bowing to Freedom: Performance and Sculpture
In Silent Power: The Bowing Shadow in Gold, the body becomes an instrument for expressing an idea rather than an identity.
The gesture of bowing can suggest submission, respect, introspection or surrender. Yet within Zublena's wider visual language, physical restraint can also become a metaphor for freedom. This ambiguity gives the work its power: a single gesture holds several meanings, and the viewer takes part in the interpretation.
Miami knows this territory well. From the Miami City Ballet to the stages of the Adrienne Arsht Center and the Frank Gehry–designed New World Center in Miami Beach, the city has long celebrated the body in movement as a form of art.
The Bow Is Mine answers the same gesture from another angle. Folded into himself, the golden male figure turns a bow into an act of ownership rather than submission: a moment of inner strength, chosen and held. Light gathers along the spine and shoulders, and the body becomes a single sculptural curve.
Golden Yoga Duo expands Zublena's exploration of the human body through the relationship between two golden figures.
The poses create a visual balance between stillness and movement. Yoga introduces a vocabulary of concentration, balance and inner movement, qualities that feel at home in a city where sunrise yoga on South Beach is part of daily life.
With the Golden Male & Female Diptych, the dialogue between two figures becomes a dialogue between the masculine and the feminine. Hung side by side on a white wall facing the ocean, the two panels answer each other: strength and grace, line and curve, two presences that are complete on their own and even stronger together.
From the Human Figure to the Cosmic
In Supernova / Genesis / Before the First Leaf, the relationship between the human figure and the cosmic becomes particularly pronounced.
The title suggests origins, expansion and the emergence of life. The golden figure can be read simultaneously as a human body and as something larger: a fragment of a celestial landscape, a symbolic form emerging from darkness.
Miamians know this sense of scale. Beneath the dome of the Frost Planetarium at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, or watching a rocket launch light up the Florida sky from the coast, the human figure meets the vastness of the universe. Here, the body becomes a point of departure for imagining another state of being.
Axis of Freedom — Golden Balance extends this exploration through a triptych composition in which balance, symmetry and bodily control become central visual elements.
Presented on a long villa wall or in the lobby of a Miami Beach hotel, the triptych creates a visual rhythm that changes with the viewer's position. The three photographic moments function almost like a contemporary sequence of movement frozen in space.
After movement comes stillness. In Sacred Devotion, a single golden figure gathers into a pose of quiet devotion, hands joined, body still. It is the most intimate image of the series: a pilgrim at rest, holding light rather than reflecting it, and a calm, contemplative presence for a Key Biscayne bedroom, a private library or a quiet room above the bay.
Zack Zublena: Fine Art Photography in the Miami Landscape
Miami's photography culture has grown alongside its art scene, from the photography holdings of the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Wynwood to the exhibition programs of PAMM and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU.
For photography collectors, the city's private collections, museums and galleries treat photographic prints as collectible fine art rather than commercial imagery, a culture that comes fully alive each December during Miami Art Week.
Zublena's work enters this conversation from a distinctive position. His photographs begin with the physical body, but the final image is constructed through performance, gold body paint, sculptural lighting and careful composition. Rooted in Fine Art Photography Los Angeles and created as Exclusive Art for Los Angeles Interiors, his work now finds a natural place in Miami residences, galleries and hotels.
Miami is also home to photography-focused galleries such as Dina Mitrani Gallery and major private collections such as the Margulies Collection, reinforcing the city's growing relationship with fine art photography and collectible photographic prints.
Zack Zublena and the Miami Art Experience
In Miami, art lives everywhere: in museums and galleries, but also in hotel lobbies, private residences, rooftop restaurants and the lush gardens of Coconut Grove. An artwork can move naturally between a private collection, a boutique hotel, a wellness space and a gallery wall.
This fluidity is central to Zack Zublena's practice. His gold figures can appear monumental and intimate at the same time, making them particularly suited to contemporary interiors and architectural environments, from a Brickell high-rise to a Fisher Island residence or a hotel in the Faena District.
For Miami collectors, the work offers another way of experiencing photography: not simply as an image on a wall, but as a luminous physical presence within a space.
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Zack Zublena — French Artist & Fine Art Photographer · Los Angeles
