ZT Tosha
(born 1961) is a contemporary Dutch-Yugoslavian artist and thinker known for his multidisciplinary approach that blends abstract painting, sound, and philosophical inquiry. Using the pseudonym Zoran Tosic, his work explores themes of human perception, the subconscious, and the impact of the environment on behavior.

The Perceptual Apparatus

ZT Tosha’s practice investigates the conditions of perception, examining how meaning is constructed, mediated, and unsettled. Across painting, installation, and writing, he interrogates the tension between consciousness and reality, refusing immediate legibility in favor of sustained engagement.

His signature technique—a conceptual blur—disrupts conventional visual hierarchies, abolishing focal points to render all elements equally charged yet elusive. In works such as Christ (2025), sacred iconography is reframed as a field of potential, where presence and absence collapse into a space of interpretive possibility. Paintings on aluminum Dibond, rendered in Ultra HD, balance hyper-presence with material elusiveness, reflecting the duality of empirical reality and the shifting nature of consciousness.

Tosha extends these inquiries into installation with Archive of Breath (2026), creating environments that render the viewer’s spatial perception provisional. In his literary projects, including A Garden for Orpheus (2024) and The Assembler, Disassembled (2026), he examines consciousness through structured, forensic methods, mirroring the disorientation and rigor of his visual practice.

Recurring across Tosha’s work is the principle of “information conservation”—the persistence and transformation of meaning across mediums and contexts. His practice positions the viewer not as passive observer but as participant in a cognitive event, encountering the gaps between perception and representation, self and experience.

ZT Tosha’s work has been shown internationally, including at Fortezza da Basso, Florence (2025). He continues to work across painting, installation, literature, and philosophical inquiry, constructing a unified field of perception that challenges and expands the ways we see and understand the world.