Victor Victori (born August 15, 1943) is a portraitist, painter, sculptor, author and ordained minister from South Korea.

Victori immigrated to the U.S. in 1972 and took on his first project, a mural of all the past and up to date (1972) American presidents which currently resides in the White House Collection.

He married Maria Victori (born 1954) in 1981, and opened an Art gallery on 230 Park Avenue, New York City, NY.

When Victori left Korea he traveled through Europe to study its art from famous masters such as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Picasso and Michelangelo.

The speed Victori brought to his profession allowed him to set up a shop, gain clients in the double digits, produce finished portrait work, pack up and move onto a new city within a matter of days.

Once Victori decided some energy had to be shifted back towards his original work, he returned to the Northeast and opened a gallery on Park Avenue in New York City.

The Park Avenue gallery, located in the east walkway of the Helmsley Building underpass, was home to private sittings, instructional painting classes, networking soirees as well as the birth of a few of Victori's original prized pieces.

He married Maria Victori (born 1954), and opened an Art gallery on 230 Park avenue New York City, NY.

[3] Over the course of forty years, Victori,[4] painted portraits for Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, and Senator Ted Kennedy among others and offered live sittings at his Park Avenue gallery.

[3][5] 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.

[3] Trained at the Art Academy of Korea and community college in the US, Victori, emigrated to the United States in 1972 and became well known for his presidential portraits in the White House.

He cites favorite painters including Rembrandt because of his "depth and technique" and mastery for portraits, and Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens for his scale.

Having gazed upon so many thousands of faces during his career, Victori realized that a single instance of time frozen in a portrait hides the multiple moods, emotions, and states of mind concealed behind stationary, fixed expressions.

Victori began developing this style of art in the 1970s and continues to evolve its meaning and composition, not just through painting, but mural and sculpture work as well.

The White House has a mural depicting all the nation's presidents from Washington to Nixon—presented to the federal government one year after Victori moved to the United States from Paris in 1972.

"This impressive work of art and the individual portraits you did of me and the Vice President are welcome additions to my collection of special memorabilia," Nixon said.

Source: North Jersey Media Group Mobsters Al Capone, Frank Costello, Sam Giancano, Tommy Lucchese, John Gotti, Lucky Luciano, Paul Castellano, Carlo Gambino, Carmine Galante, Giuseppe Profaci and Vito Genevese portraits immortalize the crime bosses.

Source: North Jersey Media Group Science and Astronomy From the Big Bang to planet formations, Victori has traced the origins of the Universe and marveled at the infiniteness in his paintings.

The statue pays homage to Victori's appreciation of history of religion and philosophy, interspersed with astronomy—including small planets, the Earth and moon.

A career portrait painter who has made his living in American malls, Korean born Victor is determined to share 'Multiplism,' a form of post-modern art he claims is wholly original.

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He currently works out of two private studios located in northern New Jersey where he focuses on expanding his anthology of paintings, murals, and sculpture of varying scale.

These paintings, which often must be assembled from multiple panels, convey a sense of solitude of and infinitely small presence of man within something more vast than we can ever truly know.