So, lets be clear. If you want the name of the person who uploaded the image you use the plugin. That is NOT the `EXIFartist` field. The name is appended to the description (like I said in my original post!)
If you want some other filed, like the `EXIFArtist` or `IPTCByLine` (they are different, by the way, but some software does not show you the distinction) the field from the metadata, then that field MUST exist in the image metadata and Zenphoto MUST have supported the field when you last imported the image metadata.
So, if you have refreshed your metadata and do not see that field, it is not present in your images metadata.