Victor Soma

Visual artist, pop surrealist — illustrator, drawer, graphic designer, filmmaker, motion designer, painter, instalation artist. Member of Locus Solus Group — creators of narrative exhibitions in museums.

STYLE: mix of aesthetics, suggestive visual metaphors, bold and bizarre associations with surreal flavour as important addition.

Victor Soma creates imaginative worlds mixing various areas of culture such as pop surrealism, vaporwave, punk zines, underground comics, minimalism, op art, cyberpunk, retrofuturism, Polish School of Posters, '60s psychodelia, art brut, deconstructivism and many more. This imaginarium powers his carefully constructed architecture of information.

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Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technical University of Krakow (Poland)

EXHIBITIONS:

2023 — 14th Plaster International Festival of Graphic Design — Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń (Poland)
2022 — Reinterpretations. Contemporary Polish Poster Art — School of Design and Architecture in Nagoya City (Japan)
2022 — Moliere 2022 — Siemaszkowa Theatre in Rzeszów (Poland)
2022 — 18th Biennale of Theatre Poster — Siemaszkowa Theatre in Rzeszów (Poland) + Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)
2022 — UA Zine — Dom Literatury in Łódź (Poland)
2019 — Information Superpower (during Graphic Matters festival) — Breda (Netherlands)
2018 — Posterized. Posters from Poland — PMQ, Qube (Hong Kong)
2017 — Soma posters 1 — MOMU, Warsaw (Poland)
2016 — Obraz + słowo = sztuka (Image + word = art) — Dom Literatury, Łódź (Poland)
2016 — Type + text — Guilin Huaqiao Arts Museum (China)
2016 — 2. Ogólnopolska Wystawa Znaków Graficznych (2nd National Logotype Exhibition) — Centrum Designu Gdynia (Poland) + Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warszawa (Poland) + BWA Wrocław (Poland) + Zamek Cieszyn (Poland) + BWA Tarnów (Poland) + Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków (Poland) + Arka Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2015 — 24th Polish Poster Biennal — BWA Katowice (Poland)
2013 — Katalog wypadków (Catalog of accidents) — Zderzak Gallery, Kraków (Poland...