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Ally Zlatar

Artist member since 2020
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St Charles, Ontario

Ally Zlatar is an artist and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiative that utilizes creative voices as a way to create advocacy and systemic reform. She also founded The Starving Artist Scholarship Fund which helps people access inpatient treatment for eating disorders. Her "This Body of Mine" campaign explores migrant experiences through creative voices and has helped support individuals and artists from refugee-seeking backgrounds globally.

Ally Zlatar has received the highest accolade a young person can achieve for their humanitarian work; winner of The Princess Diana Legacy Award 2021, King Hamad Award for Youth Empowerment 2022, Y20 Award Finalist for Diversity and Inclusion (Youth 20 by G20 Summit) and also special recognition from The British Citizen Award 2022.

Exploring art-making as a methodology that suggests the human condition is more complex than it is currently understood. Zlatar examines, instigates and provokes notions of the individual experience by focusing on the themes of illness, vulnerability, and authenticity of one’s lived-in experience. Zlatar explores her personal narratives and life experiences to guide her exploration of self-identity and self-perception in our modern discourse. She utilizes auto-ethnographic experiences and art as a catalyst for change-making.

She holds a BFA in Visual Art & Art History from Queen's University & an MLitt Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Art from the Glasgow School of Art. Her Doctorate of Creative Arts is with the University of Southern Queensland focusing on embodied experiences of eating disorders in contemporary art.

Ally acknowledges power within the un-well body and believes there is tremendous value and potency by examining it through the contemporary art lens. Zlatar uses her work as a form of art activism to continuously interpret, communicate and facilitate discourse to make a difference in society.

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Work

2024
2023
You Can't Cuddle a Nuke
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $65 buy — $25 try
My Bomb Shelter is Weak (2)
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $65 buy — $25 try
My Bomb Shelter is Weak
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $65 buy — $25 try
We Need a New One
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $65 buy — $25 try
The Minotaur Came and I Lost
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $75 buy — $25 try
I Surrender
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $75 buy — $25 try
I Surrender
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $75 buy — $25 try
The Harming Artist
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $90 buy — $25 try
Spanish Bearquisition
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 6" x 4"
  • $60 buy — $25 try
The Strings That Bind Us
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $75 buy — $25 try
A Bear In A Bunny Suit
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $55 buy — $25 try
Rainbow Coat
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • Unavailable
Skirt Man
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • Unavailable
2023- The Passions of Self
Between Self and Other
Between Self and Other
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $90 buy — $25 try
Between Self and Other
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $90 buy — $25 try
Between Self and Other
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $90 buy — $25 try
Other
Leaf Man
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $75 buy — $39 try
Hay Man
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $50 buy
Wood Man
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $50 buy — $39 try
A Serbian Renaissance 5
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $75 buy — $39 try
I cannot sew my sorrows
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $50 buy — $39 try
I cannot sew my sorrows 2
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 6" x 4"
  • $75 buy — $39 try
cut me up 2
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 6" x 4"
  • $35 buy — $39 try
devour
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 6" x 4"
  • $100 buy — $39 try
A Serbian Renaissance 4
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $75 buy — $39 try
A Serbian Renaissance
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 4" x 6"
  • $95 buy — $39 try
sunday service 4
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 6" x 4"
  • $100 buy — $39 try
sunday service 3
  • Ally Zlatar
  • 6" x 4"
  • $100 buy — $39 try

Inside the Studio


Q+A

Favourite medium

Acrylic painting

Favourite movie

The Graduate

Favourite artist(s) right now

David Shrigley

Which piece of art you've created is your favourite, and why?

The Bones of Paradise

When did you start making art, and why?

At an art summer camp when I was 7

Why is art important to you?

It speaks in ways when words cannot

Accolades
2021

Diana Legacy Award
Honour presented by his Royal Highness Prince William for Young Humanitarians

Residencies
2020

London, UK
Artsdream Foundation

2020

Leiden, Netherlands
Art House Holland

2021

North Lousiana, USA
RCFL Louisana Artist Residency

2021

Jersey, UK
Art House Jersery

2021

Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade Artist Residency

2021

Glasgow, Scotland
British Council: Articulate: UK-ASEAN Cross-Cultural Programme for Young Artis

2021

Nanjing, China
Writer's Residency UNESCO

2021

Look-Up Residency Portsmouth, UK
Art-Reach Trust

2021

African Digital Innovation Festival, Johannesburg
Superpower: Fak’ugesi

2021

United Kingdom
100 Agents of Change , In Place of War

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