Nicholas Cairns, born in 1976 and raised in Haverford,
Pennsylvania attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he graduated
with a BA in
Religion in 1998. His artistic pursuits developed after college
when he studied sculpture and drawing at the New York Studio
School under
the tutelage of the Canadian painter/sculptor Bruce Gagnier and
the sculptor Christopher Cairns (his father). He subsequently
studied painting under the Dutch painter and professor Charles
Stegeman at Haverford College. He has lived, worked, and shown
his work
in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas and Baltimore, where he
currently resides.