1990 BFA in Graphic Design, Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem
1992 MFA of Illustration, with honors, School of Visual Arts, New York City
1995 - present Faculty of the Illustration department, Parsons School of Design, New York
1999 - present Masters Thesis Advisor, School of Visual Arts, New York

Viktor Koen was born in 1967 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem and an MFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Mr. Koen serves on the faculty of Parsons School of Design and the MFA program of the School of Visual Arts. His images are regularly published in the NYTimes Book Review, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Money and Forbes. His clients include: Atlantic Records, Delta Airlines, IBM, Penguin Putnam, Random House, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Reader�s Digest, New York, Man�s Journal, Bloomberg Personal, Fortune, Smart Money, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

Awards

May 2004 SPD Merit Award, New York City
March 2004 EVGE Merit Award, Athens, Greece
March 2004 Digital Hall of Fame nomination, Stockholm, Sweden
March 2003 EVGE Award, Athens, Greece
February 2003 First Prize - Digital Hall of Fame, Stockholm, Sweden
January 2003 4th place International Digital Art Awards, Melbourne, Australia
October 2001 Digital Hall of Fame nomination, Stockholm, Sweden
September 2001 Artoconecto featured artist, Washington, DC
August 2001 Limner Gallery Recent Work Showcase Exhibition Award, New York
June 2001 First Prize - Papp Gallery Contemporary Art Competition, New York
February 2001 Kounio/Hasselblad Award, Thessaloniki, Greece
May 2000 First Prize - Viridian Gallery Eleventh National Juried Exhibition, New York
February 1999 New York Festivals Award, New York
April 1999 American Design Magazine Award for excellence, New York
May 1996 Paula Rhodes Award, New York

Selected One Man Shows

April 2005 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown D.C.
January 2004 Paratiritis Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
November 2003 Slovak National Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
September 2003 Photography Center of Athens, Greece
January 2004 Paratiritis Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
May 2003 LeVall Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia
May 2003 Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, Greece
February 2003 Eirmos Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
October 2002 International Month of Photography, Fillipoupolis, Bulgaria
April 2002 Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
March 2002 The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens, Greece
January 2002 Gallery 402, New York City
May 2001 Paratiritis Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
February 2001 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
December 2001 Viridian Artists, Inc., New York City
September 2000 Gazi Exhibition Complex, Athens, Greece
May 2000 Artower Galleries, Athens, Greece
January 2000 Paratiritis Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
July 1999 The Chapel Gallery, New York City
June 1998 Mary Anthony Galleries, New York City

Selected Group Shows

October 2005 DeVos Art Museum, Michigan
February 2005 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
December 2004 Museum of American Illustration, New York City
December 2004 Paratiritis Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
December 2004 Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York City
October 2004 Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
September 2004 Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY
August 2004 Siggraph Gallery, Los Angeles
July 2004 Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
July 2004 Photography Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
June 2004 Fraser Gallery, Maryland
May 2004 Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
May 2004 International Festival of Photography, Sydney, Australia
April 2004 The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens, Greece
February 2004 Museum of Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
November 2003 Citta Della Scienza, Naples, Italy
November 2003 Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
October 2003 Dabora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
September 2003 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
September 2003 Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY
September 2003 Hawthorn Gallery, Woodstock, NY
July 2003 Siggraph Gallery, San Diego
April 2003 Arcade IV, Hull, United Kingdom
March 2003 Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
March 2003 Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
February 2003 Visual Arts Museum, New York City
December 2002 International Digital Biennale, St.Petersberg, Russia
October 2002 Digital Hall of Fame, Milan, Italy
October 2002 Fine Arts Center Galleries, Kingston, Rhode Island
July 2002 Siggraph Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
June 2002 Rocky Mountain Digital Arts Center, Denver
May 2002 Academy of the Arts, Tasmania, Australia
May 2002 Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
April 2002 Ceiba Records Gallery, San Francisco
March 2002 Artlink Gallery, New York City
February 2002 Wethersfield Museum, Hartford, Connecticut
February 2002 Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
January 2002 Museum of American Illustration, New York City
December 2001 Visual Arts Museum, New York City
October 2001 Oksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
October 2001 Affinity Lab, Washington, DC
September 2001 Gazi Exhibition Complex, Athens, Greece
September 2001 Limner Gallery, New York City
August 2001 Papp Gallery, New York City
May 2001 Rethimnon Center for Contemporary Art, Crete, Greece
February 2001 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
September 2000 Paratiritis Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
June 2000 Viridian Artists, Inc., New York City
February 2000 Hellenic American Union Galleries, Athens, Greece
January 2000 New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
December 1999 Mary Anthony Galleries, New York City
September 1998 Parsons School of Design, New York City
July 1997 Foundation for Hellenic Culture, New York City
June 1997 Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
November 1996 Design Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
September 1996 Parsons School of Design, New York City
May 1993 Visual Arts Museum, New York City
November 1992 Art Directors Club, New York City
May 1990 Jerusalem Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel.