Nicholas Zirk, born in Vancouver, currently lives and paints in Toronto. His object oriented paintings create portraits of imagined individuals through the things they keep. His paintings tell stories with a sense of humour, while implicitly examining the coping strategies we use to exist in the modern world. Zirk earned a BFA from OCADU in 2017. He has had solo exhibitions in Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria, and participated in group shows internationally, in Vancouver, Toronto, Hamilton, Los Angeles and New York. Zirk also occasionally curates, both independently and as a group, having organized shows in Vancouver and Toronto.