About Victor Fota

Victor Fota is a visual artist born in 1989, from Bucharest, Romania. He's been studying arts formally since 4th grade. He is a graduate of the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Has a Bachelor's degree (2012) and a Masters's degree (2014) in Art History, specialising in Conservation and Restoration of fine art and cultural heritage works of art. After his University years, Victor focused mainly on oil painting, generating most of his ideas on the canvas with the help of digital tools for conceiving the designs. For his paintings, he uses a clean technique that resembles the old Flemish and Venetian methods of rigid forms and successive glazes of paint. With this technique, he creates allegorical surreal images, almost digital like, that impress with the use of photorealism and rich details.

Recently, he began the journey of Digital Art, recreating some of his best analogue works into digital-enhanced versions of the original oil paintings. The digital augmentation of the paintings is executed using digital software to improve or animate the still image.

Victor Fota’s works describe his inner reality through an eclectic approach to aesthetics. Through a mix of a surrealistic style, combining introspection, reason and a pinch of the subconscious, his works are a handful of maximalism. His images focus on the contemporary man and his inner struggles, his relationship with the technology around him and the effects within. His oil paintings are augmented through digital means, either pure raster editing or animation, to enhance their message and final aesthetics.

His approach is one of generating a different perspective. A visual narration of the artist’s inner feelings and thoughts about human nature and his connections with the environment. From an aesthetic point of view, his aim is to make the viewer wonder about the details and the clean execution of forms through oil paints.

Victor Fota has exhibited all over the world in galleries like Jonathan LeVine - NY, Corey Helford - LA, Ryan Joseph - Denver, Hauch - Prague and Galateca - Bucharest. Some of his paintings were featured in international magazines such as WIRED, Vice, Hi-Fructose and Juxtapoz.

Exhibitions

Solo and Dual exhibitions:

  • 2018 August                      “Victor Fota, Art and Tech District” by One Night gallery at Globalworth, Bucharest, Romania

  • 2018 July                            “Love, Victor Fota” at One Night Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

  • 2017 July                            Victor Fota & Elvira Bozga - Hauch Gallery, Prague, Cehia.

  • 2017 March                         “Human Extension” Galateca gallery, Bucharest.

  • 2016 October                     “Retrospective Mindscape” -  Point Hub, Bucharest.

  • 2016 September                 Victor Fota & Opie Platon „Symbiosis”, the University of Transilvania in Brasov, Romania. The exhibition was part of the visual arts festival, Amural.

  • 2014 October                      “Cosmogony, reality through reason” – Imbold Gallery in Bucharest.

  • 2013 April – Mai                  “Two Grounds” at Imbold Gallery in Bucharest


Collective Exhibitions (selected):

  • 2021 Decebmber “Endings and Continuations”, Ryan Joseph Gallery, Denver USA

  • 2021 September “Art Safari” art fair in Bucharest 2021

  • 2020 January                  “Awakening” – Knew Conscious Gallery, Denver Colorado

  • 2018 August  “Delusional Art Competition” finals at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Jersey City, USA.

  • 2018 May                          “Art Safari”- Elite art Gallery - Bucharest.

  • 2017 November                “Post-Belic and contemporary art #267/2017” at Artmark Gallery in Bucharest.

  • 2017 March                       Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.

  • 2017 March                       “Post-Belic and contemporary art #239/2017” at Artmark Gallery in Bucharest.

  • 2015 September                 Amural festival of visual arts in Brasov, Romania. 

  • 2015 March                        „Reflexivity” at Art Yourself Gallery in Bucharest

  • 2015 Mai                            “Intersection” at Halele Carol, Bucharest.

  • 2015 April                           “Post-Belic and contemporary art #185/2015” at Artmark Gallery in Bucharest.

  • 2015 March                          Museum of Contemporary Art, Sicily, Italy.

  • 2015 January                       “That Hug” at Imbold Gallery in Bucharest.

  • 2014 July                             „Imago Mundi – L’Arte dell’Umanità”, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italia. Benneton Catalogue Project.

  • 2014 June                            „București Optimixed 2” at Imbold gallery, Bucharest

  • 2013 December                  ”The Gathering 2” at Imbold Gallery, Bucharest

  • 2013 November                  “Pop-up”  in Bucharest’s Historic Center.

  • 2013 November                  “Tripoteca” at Eforie Cinema in Bucharest.

  • 2013 October                      „Imbold Nativ” at Imbold Gallery, Bucharest.

  • 2013 Mai                              „București Optimixed” at Imbold gallery, Bucharest

  • 2013 Mai                              „Redbull curates the canvas cooler” in Bucharest at the National Bank of Romania.

  • 2012 December                 “The Gathering” at Imbold Gallery in Bucharest.