Victoria Suppan
Pencil, Paper, Ink, Skin
Working as an independent artist and tattoo artist Victoria uses mainly traditional mediums.
Tattoo studios
Victoria works at this studio in Switzerland :
AlkaLine Tattoo Studio, La Chaux-de-Fonds
BornAgainTattoo Studio, St-Imier
Artist Bio
Victoria Suppan (England, 1978) grew up in Switzerland and lived in France before moving to Geneva to study Landscape Architecture. She is now living in Switzerland, in St-Imier.
From a young age Victoria followed art courses in Switzerland and France before completing a technical degree in textile design at the Ecole de Tissage in Lyons.
After working in one of the R&D studios for Hermes France creating luxury fabrics for apparel and interior design, she chose to return to college to further her education in Landscape Architecture.
She spent a life-changing year in Dublin, Ireland on an exchange course in UCD.
Some of her main inspirations are Tolkien, John Howe, HR Giger, Leonora Carrington, Robin Hobb, José Roosevelt ...
Today she is working as freelance artist and tattoo artist and has a wide variety of projects in illustration, tattooing, graphic design, as well developing a personal style mixing multiple traditional mediums.
“Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them”
Victoria in her studio in Switzerland, January 2016
Photos by T. Fankhauser
Shows and publications
2022
October 2022 : Bon Pied Bon Art, La Chaux-de-Fonds
2021
December 2021 : Artyshow, La Chaux-de-Fonds, at Le Cachalot boutique
2020
February - March : Encres et Aquarelles, group show, CCL, St-Imier, CH
2019
November 28th - January 5th 2020 : MERISTEM II, CCAP, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH
November 24th - December 29th : Art Incognito, Saignelégier, CH
November 16th-17th : FAMA, Espace Gruyère, Bulle, CH
November 9th-10th : Japan Cosplay, Palexpo, Geneva
November 9th - November 23rd : group show with Le Porte-Rêves, Little Nemo, Carouge, CH
October 31st - November 11th : group show Vanitas 3, Next Door Gallery, Geneva, CH
September 27th - October 10th : group show Nature Humaine, Espace Noir, St-Imier
September 13th - 16th : group show Le Porte-Rêves, Espace Microédition, BD Fil Lausanne, CH
June 15th - 16th : group show at Delémont BD with Le Porte-Rêves - Switzerland
May 24th - 26th : 4th Tattoo Convention Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
May 2019 : Fantasy Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2018
November 30th - December 2nd : marché CuirFerOs, Les Verrières, Switzerland
November 19th-20th : Japan Cosplay, Geneva, Switzerland
November 1st - 17th : group show Vanitas II, Next Door Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
September 4th - October 4th : solo show MERISTEM, Espace Noir, St Imier, Switzerland
September 30th : Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, Neuchâtel
September 16th - 17th : micro-édition Le Porte-Rêves, BD Fil, Lausanne, Switzerland
June 4th - 21st : group show Freak Show, Cabinet Curieux, Next Door Gallery, Geneva, CH
May 2018 : publication in Le Porte-Rêves (N°2/2018)
March 22nd - April 7th : group show “I want your skull”, Next Door Gallery, Geneva, CH
2017
November 25th - December 15th : group show CHATS, La Grange, Romainmôtier, CH
November 18-19th : Japan Cosplay, Geneva, CH
September : group show Le Porte-Rêves, micro-édition, BD Fil Lausanne, CH
June - September 2017 : group show CORPS/MOUVEMENT (Dahu Lacustre and Le Lokart) - Neuchâtel, Switzerland
19 - 21 May 2017 : group show at Delémont BD with Le Porte-Rêves - Switzerland
May 2017 : published in Le Porte-Rêves (N°1/2017) - Switzerland
Courses and workshops
June 2018 : Illustration Master Class, Amherst, USA
from June 2017 : Schoolism online course (Oils with Thomas Fluharty)
February 2017 : Schoolism Live in Florence
May - September 2016 : Art Camp 3: Landscapes
May - September 2014 : Art Camp 2
2011-2015 : Landscape architecture, hepia, Switzerland
2002 -2004 : textile design, Lyons, France
Ressources
Muddy Colors
Imaginary Worlds
Clarkesworld Magazine
...
Websites and galleries
Krum
José Roosevelt
Alveoh
Jean Devost
Delémont BD
BD Fil Lausanne
