He studied two years at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice, a branch of the J. Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, which he completed in 1979 in the atelier of Professor Leszek Holdanowicz. In Poland, Wiktor Zajkowski became known as a graphic artist, painter, poster designer, book illustrator and creator of several board games. In 1984, he moved to Canada. In Toronto, with his wife Margaret, he opened the studio Elephant Works Inc. The studio deals with graphic design and book and press illustration. The artist has collaborated with the Toronto Center for Contemporary Art founded by Kazimierz Glaz. VictoR gad has become a contributor to a number of Canadian newspapers and magazines, the 'Globe and Mail' and the 'Toronto Star' to the fore, and American magazines: "Newsday", "Byte Magazine", "MacWorld", "Internet World", "Enterpreneur", "HR Magazine", "Network World", "Utne Reader", "Guitar Player Magazine", "Windows NT Magazine".

He has illustrated and designed children's and school books for leading Canadian publishers. His prints, as well as his drawings, which are satirical commentaries on reality, have taken part in many solo and group exhibitions - and have won numerous awards.

In the 1980s, the artist was artistic director of the Midway Forum gallery in Toronto. In the 1990s, he also began to focus more on individual work by realising his own drawing projects. The artist divides his work into a 'classical' and a 'computer' period - the former was dominated by works created with pencil and brush, while the latter now uses computer media. The works of victorA gada are bold, unconventional, expressive, often contain black humour, the artist's witty and hilarious approach to people and reality. The artist says of his work: "I love linguistic ambiguities, interlocking meanings, overly literal interpretations, deconstructed but not yet tired metaphors, whimsical nonsense. Humour and absurdity are my means of expression. They are also a means of survival."

The artist has participated in the 12th International Poster Biennale at the Wilanów Poster Museum, as well as the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the Children's Book Fair in Japan. Gad's work has been recognised and awarded many times. The artist has received an Ontario Arts Council Creative Fellowship, an Honour Award from the Toronto Star newspaper, a Society of Newspaper Design silver medal for illustrations for The Globe and Mail, an award for illustrations for National Magazine, CIO Canada Magazine, and an award from The Art Director's Club of Toronto for illustrations for Canadian Business Magazine. The book Mischief City by Tim Wynn Jones, with illustrations by Gad, was included in the 'White Ravens - Children's Books' collection by the International Youth Library in Munich.

The artist is currently working on solo exhibitions of the series of drawings and says the best is ahead of him.

A selection of books illustrated by victoR reptile: High wire Spider: Poems for Children, George Swede, Paperback, Toronto, 1986; Mischief City, Tim Wynne-Jones, Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 1986; Left behind in Squabble Bay, Jack Hodgins, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1988; Renovated Rhymes, John Hicks; Douglas & McIntyre, Groundwood, 1997.

Selected exhibitions in Poland in the early 1980s: Drawings for Laughter, Hybrid Gallery, Warsaw; Boutique - Joke in 40 Images, Repassage Gallery, Warsaw; 13 Grim Portraits for Sale, Portrait Gallery, Warsaw; Indescribable Need to Hang, BWA Gallery, Warsaw and Torun. Selected solo exhibitions in Canada: VICTOR GAD of FAX, From a portfolio of newspaper illustration, Pekao Gallery, Toronto; Walk-in Portfolio, PAAS Gallery, New York, 1993; A Subtle Art of Scavenging, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, 1999; When Cynic Meets Skeptic (with Andrew Pawlowski - sculpture), Art Square Gallery, Toronto, 2009; Roughlines, Sidelines and Confession Roads, Sticks Gallery, Yarker/Ontario, 2011; Egg Benedict, SWPS Humanities and Social Sciences University, Katowice, Katowice, 2015; Acid Free on Archival Paper, Art Square Gallery, Toronto, 2017; In Search of an Expression Alive with a Title, Bielsko-Biała - Wrocław - Warsaw, 2018; Splash, Marchfifteen, Toronto, 2019.

Selected group exhibitions: Canadian Art by Polish Artists, Toronto City Hall, 1992; Art Polonica One, Art Square Gallery, Toronto, 2009; Art Polonica Two, Art Square Gallery, Toronto 2010; Speakeasy's Illustration Show, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, 2011; Eco Art Show, Gallery 1313, Toronto 2012; Drawing 2012 - 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto 2013; 6x6 Fund Raising Exhibition, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA, 2012; Shared Places - Shared Spaces, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, 2014; Live Longer, Piss off Your Heirs, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, 2017.