Balint Zsako
Untitled (Physical Comedy) 56

Balint Zsako was born in Budapest, Hungary to a textile artist mother and a sculptor father. The  family immigrated to Canada when he was 10 years old. Balint received his BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art organized a traveling exhibition of his works entitled Drawings from the Bernardi Collection that was also accompanied by the artist’s first monograph. Balint’s works were featured in Sarah Polley’s film Take This Waltz, and also appear in Phaidon’s Vitamin D2 drawing anthology. He was long listed for The Sobey Award, Canada’s largest art prize & is featured in Jason Schmidt’s Artists 2 photographic survey published by Steidl. Most recently, his 2023 book Bunny & Tree, was named as one of “The Best Picture Books of  2023” by The New York Times and Mickalene Thomas selected him to participate in The Brooklyn Museum’s Brooklyn Artist Exhibition.