Aidan Barker-Hill is a figurative painter from Reno, Nevada, living and working in Brooklyn, NY.  He earned his BFA from Laguna College of Art and Design and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art, where he currently teaches portrait painting.  His work takes great influence from the academic painters of the 19th century, repurposing their techniques to make pictures about masculinity, relationships, and how the two interact.