VICTOR REYES
b. 1978
Victor Reyes (b. 1978) is a San Francisco-based contemporary artist with a three-decade commercial practice rooted in the Mission District. Since arriving from Los Angeles in 1998, Reyes has built one of the Bay Area's most distinctive bodies of work — spanning studio paintings, large-scale murals, and site-specific corporate installations shown internationally.
His process layers opaque and translucent pigments through screens and molds, building surfaces where hard-edge structure and gestural spontaneity compete for attention. The paintings move between control and chance, creating depth that shifts as you stand with them. It's a visual language developed through thirty years of daily studio practice and an unflinching belief that the acceptance of failure is what keeps art alive.
Reyes has exhibited across the United States, Europe, and Asia — including presentations at Beyond the Streets (New York and Los Angeles), Modernism Gallery (San Francisco), Jonathan LeVine Projects (New York), and Mini Galerie (Amsterdam). His corporate portfolio includes projects for Apple, Adobe, Anthropic, Google, HBO, Meta, LinkedIn, Nike, Salesforce, SFO, and Louis Vuitton, among others.
Reyes operates as an independent commercial artist — working directly with art consultants, interior designers, and corporate art programs rather than through gallery representation. His studio is open for commissions, consultant inquiries, and studio visits by appointment.
He lives with his wife and children, and works in San Francisco.
CV
Memory Only Modernism West (2024) San Francisco
100 Errors Curated by Elysia Bowery, Prince Concepts (2024) Detroit
Humbaba Foreign Objects (2024) San Francisco
Poetics of Form + Color + Space Curated by Elysia Bowery, Caterpillar (2024) Detroit
Mother Tongue Curated by Jason Revok, Mini Galerie (2020) Amsterdam
Weight (2019) Sonoma CA
Beyond the Streets NYC Exhibition curated by Roger Gastman (2019)
Beyond the Streets LA Exhibition curated by Roger Gastman (2018)
Out of Body Curated by Rema Ghuloum, Launch Gallery (2017) Los Angeles
Bold Notion Curated by Roger Gastman, Core Club (2015) New York City
Painters Painting Golden Hands Gallery (2015) Hamburg Germany
Cruel Summer Jonathan Levine Projects (2014) New York City
At Home With Guerrero Gallery (2014) San Francisco
Out with The Old Library Street Collective (2013) Detroit
Down for You Known Gallery (2013) Los Angeles
Nudes Guerrero Gallery (2013) San Francisco
The Jungle Known Gallery (2012) Los Angeles
Misspelled Robert Berman Gallery (2010) San Francsico
Fresh Produce Primary Projects (2010) Miami
War Paint Known Gallery (2010) Los Angeles
Public Provocation Carhartt Gallery (2008) Germany
Will Rise Robert Berman Gallery (2008) Los Angeles
Letters First Known Gallery (2006) Tokyo and Taipei
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Adidas, Adobe, Apple, CaliforniosSF, Cohn & Wolfe, Converse, Facebook, Google, Heroku, HSH Interiors, Louis Vuitton, Jay Jeffers Interiors, LinkedIn, Nike, Realm Cellars, Salesforce, Silver Lake Kraftwerk, SynapseNYC, HBO, Anthropic, SFO, 7x7 and Twitter.