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Victor Victori (a.k.a) Victolee Victori, (a.k.a) Victor Ri Victori, was born on August 16, 1943 as one of two boys in a family of six children. He grew up outside of Seoul, South Korea and began painting portraits as a child. His father was a mayor of a small town during the Korean War and was also a peach farmer. He hoped Victori would grow up to take over the farm, but Victori dreamed of becoming an artist and enrolled in the art academy instead. He left Korea and traveled through Europe to study its art from famous masters such as Rembrant, Van Gough, and Michaelangelo. During these travels Victori slowly developed his own techniques in Paris. He moved to America in 1972 and took on his first project, his presidential mural of all the American presidents which is now in the White House Collection. After completing the Presidential Mural Victori travelled the country doing shows and exhibitions for 20 years. He married Maria Victori (born 1954), and opened an Art gallery on 230 Park avenue New York, NY. 1981~ 2000. Currently Victor Victori is retired, and lives in Rutherford, New Jersey. He has five grown sons.[1]

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Work

Over the course of forty years, Victor Victori [2], painted portraits for Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, and Senator Ted Kennedy among others and offered live sittings at his Park Avenue gallery. After creating approximately 30,000 oil paintings, Victori retired from portraits in order to experiment with a style of painting he had been developing since 1979, which he termed "multiplism".[1][3] Unlike portraits, which portray a single moment, Victori's multiplist works combined the subject in many different positions and expressions in order to show change over time.[1]

In 2010, Victor completed a lifelong dream to paint 10 Mona Lisas[4] in the span of 24 hours. The Leader newspaper, a publication in the Meadowlands of New Jersey, documented the artistic ordeal.

The artist also released a book entitled "God and I"[5].