Drawn Negatives by Balint Zsako

Brooklyn-based artist Balint Zsako was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1979 and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1988. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ryerson University in Toronto, he has exhibited his sculptures and works on paper in solo exhibitions at a number of venues in Canada and internationally, including The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto; the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo; and The Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago. His works have been featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine, and included in Phaidon’s Vitamin D2 drawing anthology, as well as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, Canadian Art, Maclean’s, The Walrus, and Poetry. Zsako’s works reside in private Canadian and international collections and in the permanent collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; and the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. Zsako is represented by The Proposition Gallery in New York City.