Mike Picos is an artist and educator living and working in New Haven, CT. He was born in New York, NY in 1991 and grew up in Fishkill, NY. He received a BFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and an MAT in Art Education from Queens College, CUNY. After completing his MAT, Picos worked as an art teacher at a public high school in NYC. In 2019, he co-founded RAD Group, an artist reading and discussion group, with artist Dan Fig, organizing monthly meetings and critiques. Currently, he is a second-year MFA candidate in the Painting and Printmaking department at the Yale School of Art. He is also a Gallery Teaching Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery, working primarily with K-12 students from New Haven and the surrounding area.