Victor Sparrow (b. 1967) is a 4th generation Washingtonian. He attended Georgetown Day School when the High School and Lower School were located on MacArthur Blvd.
After GDS, he attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island where he earned honors in Art-Semiotics – Studio Art, Art History and Communication Studies.
During his junior year he attended Bernard Pfreim’s Lacoste School of the Arts in Provence, France where he returned as a Sculpture Assistant in 1989 and Drawing Instructor in 1995.
Prior to graduation from Brown, he was an inaugural recipient of the Visual Art Department’s Hugh Townley Traveling Fellowship. In the Fall of 989, he returned to Lacoste as the Sculpture Assistant to Prof. Subrata Lahiri.
In 1990, he was awarded AT&T’s Museum Profession for Minorities fellowship which enabled hum to work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington as a Production Assistant for one year in their Design and Installation Department (DID).
Victor attended Skwhegan in 1992, while a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He receiving his MFA in 1993. Shortly thereafter, he received the Harriet Hale Wooley Fellowship from the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris to study Antique Painting Techniques with Abraham Pincus at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts Superieure in Paris (’94).
Victor taught drawing at the Lacoste School of the Arts in 1995 and the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1996.
He currently resides in Washington, D.C.