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| Victor Schiro - biography |
| Victor Schiro International Salon of Traditional Art |
Victor grew up in the north San Fernando Valley in the l950s-60s.
Granada Hills and Northridge were very rural and undeveloped Southern California communities then;
beautiful hills of chaparral and oak, farmland with eucalyptus, sycamores and cottonwoods flanking the
endless orchards of citrus and avocado.
Like most artists, Victor seriously persued painting since childhood, and has always enjoyed exploring the
varied landscapes of Southern California, the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Owens Valley.
He was classically trained at UCLA, CSUN. After earning a B.A. from CSUN with a major in fine arts and a
minor in philosophy Victor continued his education with more of a focus on modern art in the M.F.A. program at
the California Institute of the Arts. He then went on to take the position of head curator of Gemini G.E.L. It was
at Gemini were he collaborated with many of today's modern masters; Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Robert
Rauschenberg and others.
Victor exhibited his modern paintings exclusively in the early years of his career; winning awards in a number
of prestigious juried shows for contemporary painting such as the Barnsdall Museum Annual. However, he still
continued to do his traditional representational landscape paintings through out his on going explorations of
California never considering them for exhibition.
In time, Schiro became disenchanted with modern art, and began working in television and film as a
producer/writer through out the late 1980's and 90's. He brought a painter's sensibility to the filmmaker's art
using dramatic locations such as the stark California desert, Southern High Sierras, the primitive Mexican Baja
coast and rain forests of Thailand and Burma.
It was not until 1999 that Victor finally decided to begin exhibiting his traditional landscape paintings by having
his watercolors accepted into international exhibitions beginning with the Salmagundi's American Watercolor
Society 137th Exhibition. He continues to exhibit and enters his landscapes in many international and national
competitions with considerable success.
Victor has also been commissioned to paint the Engadin Valley, Swiss Alps most recently; as well as other
uniquely beautiful places such as the Cojo Ranch, north of Santa Barbara, California.
Recent exhibitions and publications:
2011
Silvana Gallery-
International Salon of Traditional Art from America, Europe and Asia
July 30-September 10, 2011
2011
RayMar Art Contest
Finalist Award for the month of June-2011 Juror- Aaron Westerberg
Painting: Owens Valley Evening, oil/canvas
2011
Paint the Forests
Gualala Arts Center
Gualala, California
August 19-September 18, 2011
2011
California Art Club
Fresh: Landscapes of California
Fremont Gallery, Pasadena California
July 2-31, 2011
2011
Lone Pine Museum
Watercolor Paintings of the Eastern Sierra Nevada's and the Owens Valley
May 1, 2011 through July 31, 2011
2011
Bold Brush Juried Competition- January Finalist
Awarded: Outstanding Watercolor
Painting: North Owens Valley watercolor/paper
2010-2011
Paint the Forest 2010 National Exhibit and Tour-
Edgewater Gallery, Fort Bragg, California, December 3 - 31, 2010
painting: Lower Kern River Turn...oil/canvas
2010-
Ray Mar Art Contest-April Finalist
painting: Lower Kern River Cyn.. oil/canvas
2010-
California Art Club Artist Celebrate The Ring Cycle- a collaboration with the Los Angeles Opera's presentation
of
Richard Wagner's opera, The Ring of Nibelung.
painting: Piz Bernina, Switzerland- o/c * May 16 - July 16, 2010
2010-
Oil Painters of America 19th Annual National Exhibition
Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona * April 30-May 30, 2010
Granada Hills and Northridge were very rural and undeveloped Southern California communities then;
beautiful hills of chaparral and oak, farmland with eucalyptus, sycamores and cottonwoods flanking the
endless orchards of citrus and avocado.
Like most artists, Victor seriously persued painting since childhood, and has always enjoyed exploring the
varied landscapes of Southern California, the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Owens Valley.
He was classically trained at UCLA, CSUN. After earning a B.A. from CSUN with a major in fine arts and a
minor in philosophy Victor continued his education with more of a focus on modern art in the M.F.A. program at
the California Institute of the Arts. He then went on to take the position of head curator of Gemini G.E.L. It was
at Gemini were he collaborated with many of today's modern masters; Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Robert
Rauschenberg and others.
Victor exhibited his modern paintings exclusively in the early years of his career; winning awards in a number
of prestigious juried shows for contemporary painting such as the Barnsdall Museum Annual. However, he still
continued to do his traditional representational landscape paintings through out his on going explorations of
California never considering them for exhibition.
In time, Schiro became disenchanted with modern art, and began working in television and film as a
producer/writer through out the late 1980's and 90's. He brought a painter's sensibility to the filmmaker's art
using dramatic locations such as the stark California desert, Southern High Sierras, the primitive Mexican Baja
coast and rain forests of Thailand and Burma.
It was not until 1999 that Victor finally decided to begin exhibiting his traditional landscape paintings by having
his watercolors accepted into international exhibitions beginning with the Salmagundi's American Watercolor
Society 137th Exhibition. He continues to exhibit and enters his landscapes in many international and national
competitions with considerable success.
Victor has also been commissioned to paint the Engadin Valley, Swiss Alps most recently; as well as other
uniquely beautiful places such as the Cojo Ranch, north of Santa Barbara, California.
Recent exhibitions and publications:
2011
Silvana Gallery-
International Salon of Traditional Art from America, Europe and Asia
July 30-September 10, 2011
2011
RayMar Art Contest
Finalist Award for the month of June-2011 Juror- Aaron Westerberg
Painting: Owens Valley Evening, oil/canvas
2011
Paint the Forests
Gualala Arts Center
Gualala, California
August 19-September 18, 2011
2011
California Art Club
Fresh: Landscapes of California
Fremont Gallery, Pasadena California
July 2-31, 2011
2011
Lone Pine Museum
Watercolor Paintings of the Eastern Sierra Nevada's and the Owens Valley
May 1, 2011 through July 31, 2011
2011
Bold Brush Juried Competition- January Finalist
Awarded: Outstanding Watercolor
Painting: North Owens Valley watercolor/paper
2010-2011
Paint the Forest 2010 National Exhibit and Tour-
Edgewater Gallery, Fort Bragg, California, December 3 - 31, 2010
painting: Lower Kern River Turn...oil/canvas
2010-
Ray Mar Art Contest-April Finalist
painting: Lower Kern River Cyn.. oil/canvas
2010-
California Art Club Artist Celebrate The Ring Cycle- a collaboration with the Los Angeles Opera's presentation
of
Richard Wagner's opera, The Ring of Nibelung.
painting: Piz Bernina, Switzerland- o/c * May 16 - July 16, 2010
2010-
Oil Painters of America 19th Annual National Exhibition
Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona * April 30-May 30, 2010