Tom Solty was born in Aachen, Germany in 1992. He studied Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, Netherlands between 2012 and 2015. Later on in 2018 Tom Solty moved to Lisbon, Portugal to explore the field of contemporary painting and succeeded his Master of painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon in 2021. Eversince his studies he focuses on figurative painting with a great interest in oil painting. Meanwhile he lives and works in between Berlin and Lisbon since he started his PhD program in painting at the Faculty in Lisbon.