Brad Necyk is a visual artist and writer on Vancouver Island, Canada, whose practice focuses on mental illness, psychedelics, consciousness, and flourishing. In 2019, he completed a Ph.D. in Psychiatry at the University of Alberta, and his doctoral research was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. Brad founded a Position on Retreat Artist Residency as a creative experience for international artists to immerse themselves in the natural beauty of the island landscape and find creative inspiration. Brad was a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University with VISTA (Vision: Science to Applications) and Cinema & Media Arts (2021-24), where he created works on organ transplantation, mental illness, and psychedelic science and history. He works primarily in 3D animation and AI video to create films and artworks that explore these topics with cutting-edge vision technologies.In 2023, Brad co-founded the Psychedelic Puppet Show Non-Profit, which creates fun and accessible educational content for psychedelic science, therapy, history, and spirituality. His first book on mental illness, art, and healing will be published in January 2023 with the University of Alberta Press.