Zach Pearl is an artist, designer, educator, fashion stylist and aspiring curator. Originally from Des Moines, IA, Zach moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2002 to attend the Minneapolis College of Art & Design where he received his BFA with honors in illustration. As of 2010, Zach is pursuing his MFA in Art Criticism and Curatorial Practice at the OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario. Zach remains a freelancer for illustration, print and web design projects.

Trained in a variety of Fine Arts from a young age, Zach's work incorporates elements of traditional painting, drawing, and printmaking into a style that is bold, colorful, highly-detailed, often strange and occasionally cuddly.

In the past, Zach has interned as a curatorial assistant at the Textile Museum of Canada, served as Lead Instructor for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Youth Programs, as a visual merchandiser for the J. Crew corporation, and as Assistant Coordinator for Susan Hensel Gallery in Minneapolis. Throughout the past 4 years Zach has also been involved in the Minneapolis fashion community, filling a variety roles from choreographer to stylist to accessory designer. Minneapolis fashion designers that Zach has worked with include: Laura Fulk, Max Lohrbach, Emma Berg, Christine Carmichael & Kevin Kramp.

Other accomplishments include: co-curating an exhibition and symposium in 2011 for the Art Gallery of Ontario, entitled 9 to 5: Canadian Artists at Work, curating an international group exhibition for Susan Hensel Gallery In 2008, entitled "Revisions of the American Dream"; receiving the 2009 Golden Paintbrush Award in the business journal category, and service in 2007 as gallery coordinator for the Tonnage Artist Collective in Northeast Minneapolis.