A painting practice exploring states of consciousness
Zahira Barneto (b. Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-American painter based in Madrid. Her work explores human states of consciousness through abstraction, focusing on energy, frequency, and perception as pictorial experience.
Her practice has been shaped by a multidisciplinary background spanning Fine Arts studies in Madrid and a career in film production design in Madrid and New York. This experience continues to inform her approach to composition, atmosphere, and spatial construction.
While living in New York, she was part of the Bushwick art scene (2012–2015), participating in Bushwick Open Studios and working within a collective studio environment.
A significant shift in her work took place during the years she lived in Maui, Hawaii, where the intensity of color, vegetation, light, and atmospheric conditions deeply transformed her visual language. This influence continues to resonate in her work.
Her current body of work, Frequencies, develops through an intuitive process, creating abstract compositions that function as perceptual fields where structure, color, and energy converge.
