Victor Moscoso was born in 1936 in Oleiros, Spain. He is a well known artist who for being able to make psychedelic rock posters and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s.
Moscoso was the first of the rock poster artists of the 1960s with formal academic training and experience. After studying art at Cooper Union in New York City and at Yale University, he moved to San Francisco in 1959. There, he went to the San Francisco Art Institute. After his studies there he soon became an instructor.
Moscoso's use of vibrating colors was influenced by painter Josef Albers, one of his teachers at Yale. He was the first of the rock poster artists to use photographic collage in many of his posters.
Moscoso's work was again and agian received international attention. Moscoso's comix and poster work has continued up to the present and includes album covers for musicians. He also created art for use on T-shirts, billboards and animated commercials for radio stations, for which he received two Clio awards.
He also still lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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