Jaime Zapata lives and works between Paris and Quito. His work appears as unique in the Latin American media characterized by an outrageous modernist or indigenous production. 

Zapata is a figurative painter, attached to the realist technique, author of the only oil canvas that portrays Chimbacalle—his childhood neighborhood in the south of Quito—and many other canvases that, using a classical technique, try to tell what has not been told before in painting: the daily life of the Quito middle classes between the 1970s and 90s. 

After he got  established in Paris at the end of the eighties, this took a new dimension: the appearance of a tormented subjectivity that produces beautiful neurotic canvases and later, chromatic and material explosions of a shocking sensuality and darkness.