| 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: |
| March 2006 EVGE Merit Award, Athens, Greece |
| November 2005 Folio Awards - 2 Gold Medals, New York City |
| April 2005 EVGE Awards - First Prize, Athens, Greece |
| June 2004 First Prize - Bethesda International Photography Competition |
| 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: |
| October 2007 Angelon Vima, Athens, Greece |
| November 2006 Strychnin Gallery, Berlin |
| 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: |
| January 2008 Art District 798, Beijing, China |
| January 2008 CPop Gallery, Detroit, Michigan |
| January 2008 Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece |
| January 2008 Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas |
| December 2007 Graphite Gallery, Perth, Australia |
| December 2007 Neapoli Print Center, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| November 2007 Athens International Airport, Greece |
| October 2007 Hall of Science, University of Graz, Austria |
| October 2007 Strychnin Gallery, London |
| November 2007 CPop Gallery, Detroit, Michigan |
| October 2007 Hall of Science, University of Graz, Austria |
| October 2007 Strychnin Gallery, London |
| September 2007 Dodo Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| August 2007 Siggraph Gallery, San Diego |
| July 2007 Visual Arts Museum, New York City |
| March 2007 Hellenic American Union Gallery, Athens Greece |
| February 2007 The dirty Show, Detroit, Michigan |
| February 2007 Strychnin Gallery, New York City |
| January 2007 Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Florida |
| January 2008 Saginaw Art Museum, Michigan |
| October 2007 Hall of Science, University of Graz, Austria |
| September 2007 CPop Gallery, Detroit, Michigan |
| August 2007 Visual Arts Museum, New York City |
| August 2007 Siggraph Gallery, San Diego |
| June 2007 Dodo Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| March 2007 Hellenic American Union Gallery, Athens, Greece |
| February 2007 Strychnin Gallery, New York City |
| January 2007 Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Florida |
| December 2006 Palazzo della Ragione, Mantua, Italy |
| November 2006 Teloglio Foundation for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| October 2006 Strychnin Gallery, New York City |
| October 2006 The Filipos Tsihritzis Foundation for the Visual Arts, Athens, Greece |
| October 2006 Space Gallery, San Francisco |
| September 2006 Athens International Airport, Greece |
| September 2006 Visual Arts Gallery, New York City |
| July 2006 Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| July 2006 Skopelos Center for Photography, Greece |
| July 2006 Siggraph Gallery, Boston |
| June 2006 Bodenburg Castle, Germany |
| June 2006 National Museum, Canberra, Australia |
| June 2006 Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece |
| March 2006 Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Siberia |
| March 2006 Neapoli Print Center, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 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 |