Victor Gordon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Victor Gordon
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Sep 20, 1953(1953-09-20)
Age	71
Birthplace	Alberton
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Virgo

Victor Gordon Biography

Victor Gordon is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on September 20, 1953 in Alberton, Gauteng, South Africa.

Gordon was born during the Apartheid era in South Africa. He grew up in Alberton, a satellite township near Johannesburg before his family relocated to Hillbrow. He attended the whites-only Germiston High School (1966–1968) and then Parktown Boys High School (1968–1970). He was arrested at age fifteen when he attacked a white Policeman for setting his dog on a black man in Hillbrow. This resulted in his incarceration and appearance in Juvenile court, where he was convicted of assault. He was conscripted into the South African Air Force Gymnasium Valhalla (SAAF) 1971–1972. After spending some time in London and continental Europe, he returned to Johannesburg where he co-founded a commune at 30 Wellington Road in Parktown. In 1975 he moved to Cape Town, returning to Johannesburg in 1977 to study Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was taught by artists Judith Mason, Robert Hodgins, Giuseppe Cattaneo and Paul Stopforth. After University he stood unsuccessfully for the Progressive Party in the 1982 election to the Johannesburg Metropolitan City Council in the Vrededorp/Mayfair Ward.

By that time he was a supporter of the struggle against Apartheid. Privately he continued making resistance art. Gordon was employed by University of Witwatersrand (WITS) Students Representative Council (SRC) 1982–1987 as Head of Student Administration. He managed the University SRC Administration from 1982 to 1987 in a highly politicized capacity as an administrative ombudsman, ameliorating the effects of South African Police and the SAP Security Branch intimidation, violence and oppression on WITS students. During the second declared South African State of Emergency in 1985/6 he was used, among other things, as the messenger between the senior university administration and their legal representation to deliver documents by hand to Brigadier Jan Coetzee, the head of police at Protea Police Station in Soweto, on behalf of the many dozens of detained students. This was when the whole of Soweto and thirty-five Townships countrywide were occupied by white SA security forces.

Victor Gordon Net Worth

Victor Gordon is one of the richest Artist from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Victor Gordon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Victor Gordon (born 1953) is a visual artist born in South Africa. Gordon is primarily a painter and sculptor. He also creates installations assemblages, collages, drawings and photographs.

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Facts & Trivia

Vital Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Victor Gordon celebrates birthday on September 20 of every year.