Jack Zajac (born December 13, 1929) is a Californian West Coast artist who has been concerned with the “Romantic Surrealist tradition”.

This employment helped finance his study of art at Scripps College in Claremont, California, from 1949 to 1953.

In 1948, Zajac won a scholarship at a California State Fair student exhibition in Sacramento.

He was named recipient of the Purchase Prize at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1950, which led to his first one-man exhibit.

He has been an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, Dartmouth College and the University of California, Santa Cruz.