Balint zsako

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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, where Balint would later receive his BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University. Zsako works across painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, often using distorted bodies, flowers, and modular compositions to explore connection, transformation, and the complexity of human relationships. His recent watercolours and gouaches extend an interest that began in his Modern Dance series, where forms could connect across separate panels and be rearranged into new compositions. In his current work, flowers become stand-ins for bodies, carrying emotional and psychological states through gesture, tension, proximity, and movement.

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. Balint currently resides in Rome with his family.

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