Colin Prahl is a painter and illustrator currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Potsdam, New York, he studied illustration at Rhode Island School of Design, receiving his BFA in 2012, relocating to New York City soon afterwards. Working primarily in two dimensional work, his pieces are influenced by architectural renderings, perceptual effects, optical illusions, logical puzzles, scientific, medical, and futurist illustration.

These visual themes are incorporated into densely detailed and colorful environments, often utilizing isometric grids to allow for repeated tiling patterns to create game-like maps. Initially working in a purely abstract geometric space, the focus of the paintings has shifted towards more research driven illustration, specifically of a series of neuroanatomical functional diagrams as a means of self instruction into perceptual sciences of vision, audition and motor functions, while still experimenting with open-ended geometric landscapes.