Victor Man
Victor Man’s psychologically layered, resolutely enigmatic paintings collapse reality and fiction, past and present. Marked by an elegant spareness and often painted in a palette of dark and atmospheric tones, the artist’s work encompasses portraits of individuals from his milieu, as well as symbolically laden scenes that are cloaked in a shadowed melancholia and suspended in a transitory, dreamlike psychical state.
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Victor Man Solo Exhibition at Museo Novecento
Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
September 26, 2026–March 7, 2027
David Zwirner Books
Victor Man: The Absence That We Are
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Exhibitions
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Victor Man Solo Exhibition at Museo Novecento
Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
September 26, 2026–March 7, 2027
Victor Man Included in Clair-obscur
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France
March 4–August 24, 2026
Victor Man Cover Story in Blau International
"The Trials and Triumphs of Victor Man" by Cornelius Tittel
2025
Victor Man: How to Paint Death
ArtReview, feature by Alessandro Rabottini
September 2025
David Zwirner Now Represents Victor Man
October 2, 2024
Victor Man: The Lines of Life
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
October 14, 2023–February 4, 2024
Victor Man: Eyelids, Towards Evening
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
November 3, 2022–April 23, 2023
Victor Man: El candelero
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
June 27–October 7, 2018
Biography
Victor Man, Self-Portrait at Father's Death, 2016
Victor Man was born in 1974 in Cluj, Romania. His work has been the subject of various solo exhibitions at museums and institutions such as the Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2023); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2022); Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome (2021); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2018); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2014); Villa Medici, Rome (2013); and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2009).
Work by Man is held in international institutional collections, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Pinault Collection, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; and Tate, United Kingdom.
Man lives in Europe.
Selected Press
Victor Man Reviewed in the Financial Times
'Clair-obscur — visions of light amid the darkness at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce' by Jackie Wullschläger
2026
Victor Man Cover Story in Blau International
"The Trials and Triumphs of Victor Man" by Cornelius Tittel
2025
Victor Man Reviewed in ShadowPlay
"Victor Man Future Shadow" by Martin Germann
2025
Victor Man Reviewed in Frieze
"Victor Man Keeps His Secrets" by Thomas McMullan
2025
Victor Man Reviewed in Contemporary Art Issue
"Victor Man: The Absence That We Are" by Maxime Foucquet
2025
Victor Man Featured in ArtReview
"Victor Man: How to Paint Death" by Alessandro Rabottini
2025