Zach McLean is a painter based in Vancouver, BC. His work asks what it means to live within a post-truth culture, drawing on a religious upbringing to interrogate belief, ritual, and certainty itself. The paintings are often unsettling — pushing viewers past comfortable conviction and into the discomfort of questioning their own philosophical ideas. He likes to bring to light the corruption of religion and how it relates to our modern world.

He works primarily in large-scale acrylic on canvas and wood, blending the traditional influences of Goya with a contemporary aesthetic shaped by travel through Taiwan. His work has extended into wood objects — pieces built by hand with integrated paintings, turning the work into something encountered daily: a quiet, ritual object, a reminder to question your every day and live for a bigger purpose.