David Nicholson, born in Montreal in 1970, is a Canadian painter who lives and works between New York City and Berlin. Self taught, he develops oil paintings and drawings that adopt the technique and atmosphere of the Old Masters while remaining distinctly contemporary. His work often sets tradition against the present, drawing on art history and today’s image culture, with references ranging from Peter Paul Rubens to Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Shown with Galerie Michael Haas and Aeroplastics, Nicholson’s paintings frequently probe contemporary ideals of beauty and sexuality through the lens of classical composition and modern subject matter.