Balint Zsako was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1979 to a sculptor father and a textile artist mother.  The family immigrated to Canada in 1988 after spending two years living in West Germany. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Balint Zsako received his B.A. in fine arts (photography) from Ryerson University, Toronto. His works in mixed media, painting, drawing, photography and sculpture have been exhibited in Hungary, England, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and the US.

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto organized a traveling exhibition of his watercolors entitled Drawings from the Bernardi Collection that is also accompanied by the artist's first monograph.