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, Solty moved to Lisbon, Portugal, to explore the field of contemporary painting and succeeded in his Master of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon in 2021. Ever since his studies, he has focused 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.