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Zach Atticus is a Toronto-based realist painter whose work uses light, colour, and atmosphere to create contemplative scenes of solitude and stillness. After graduating from the Ontario Collage of Art & Design University in 2015 with a focus in illustration, Atticus switched to oil painting. He completed his first residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2020, leaving during the pandemic, which informed a series of paintings that captured Toronto’s eerie calm, balancing emotional tension with peace. In 2024, his residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, broadened his exploration of landscape and technique, while continuing his pursuit of mood and atmosphere in representational painting.