Wimar van Ommen was born in Rome on June 20, 1994. In 2013 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and attended the three-year course of Painting during which he won the first prize in the exhibition Artclash at Palazzo Vecchio (Florence). Since his early years at the academy he ranges between sculpture and painting and in 2017 he held an internship in Carrara at the Corsanini workshop, where he explores working with marble and semi-precious stones. In 2018 he received his bachelor's degree in Visual Arts, and enrolled the sculpture course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. In 2019 he collaborates as an assistant for artist Costas Varotsos in the realization of the monument La Totalità in Turin. In 2020, after completing the academy, he wins the prize special mention of the jury for the Love-eye Sculpture Park competition in the city of Tsingtao in China. In 2021, he participates in international symposia of monumental sculpture in different Italian regions such as Tuscany, Piedmont and Abbruzzo. In 2022 he was invited to create a public work in white Carrara marble for the centennial of the city of Manta in Ecuador. He currently works as a sculptor in Carrara and teaches Sculpture in Rome.