Jeremiah Birnbaum is a practicing artist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. He originally studied at the Victoria College of Art's (2001-2003) before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Art from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2006. Since graduating Jeremiah has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries across Canada most notably in Vancouver, British Columbia as well as Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia. Jeremiah has been selected to and is currently exhibiting in this year's Kingston National Portrait Competition. Jeremiah’s work is pro-dominantly black and white iconographic figurative drawings exhibited within an installation format. His work deconstructs and explores social constructs of hegemonic masculinity. Jeremiah is also a current and founding member of Phantoms in the Front Yard. Phantoms in the Front Yard is a touring art collective that boldly challenges the contemporary Canadian art scene, to revive the human subject as muse. Figurative art has become the phantom of the fine art world, haunting both Modernism and Postmodernism with its ties to a classical tradition, refusing to be dismissed, ignored or forgotten.