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EDUCATION

October 1st, 2016 –

June 28th, 2021                    

PhD in fine arts at the University of Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint Denis, at the Doctoral School of Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts, under the supervision of Professor Jérôme Glicenstein.

„The Aesthetics of Deception” is a parallel between participatory contemporary art performances and certain social psychology experiments; deception and „metis” as socially engaged participatory artistic strategies; the genealogy of the hoax in the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, from the futuristic and dadaist theater to the Fluxus concerts.

September 1st, 2012

- August 1st, 2014                

Postgraduate scholarship in the field of visual arts at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice.

Research in contemporary art and artistic production scholarship: „The Aesthetics of Deception” is an analysis of contemporary participatory art and social psychology experiments. The artistic creation projects were materialized by three personal exhibitions and a work presented in a contemporary art festival: participatory performance on the relationship between cognitive dissonance, the condition of the immigrant and the labor market: Locust (Disonance).

October 1st, 2010 –

July 2nd, 2012                        

MA Research in Art Theory at George Enescu University of Iasi - Interdisciplinary research

Contemporary art theory (postmodern aesthetics, hermeneutics of works of art, semiotics, politics of identity in eastern European art). Dissertation about participatory contemporary art and social psychology experiments.

October 1st, 2007 –

July 2nd, 2010

BA  Fine Arts at George Enescu University of Iasi

Drawing, composition, color studies, illustration, engraving, artistic anatomy, art history, photography, digital image manipulation, etc. Bachelor thesis about „Art as a form of social criticism in the modern and postmodern context”.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO SHOWS

Glow in the Dark – Etaj Artist-run Space, Bucharest, January-February, 2025;

Forest Creatures – curator Simona Vilau, Art Hub, Bucharest, February 2024;

Forest Creatures – curator Simona Vilau, Borderline Art Space, Iasi, April 2023;

Sfratto / Eviction - Accademia di Romania in Rome, Rome, February 19-29, 2020;

Taking Off - curator Cristian Nae, Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice - February 2014;

Locust (Dissonance) - Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice - June 2013;

Anxociety - Phoenix Iasi - February 2012, Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice Venice - May 2014.

GROUP SHOWS

Until Death Do us Part – The Institute, Bucharest- July 2024

DDessin Paris - Atelier Richelieu - March 2019

Drawing salon 2018 - Traveling exhibition - Victoria Gallery, Iasi, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest and the Romanian Academy in Rome, June-November 2018

Imago Mundi - L’Arte dell’Umanita, curator - Claudio Scoretti, Ca'dei Cararesi, Treviso, July 2014

Morphos-Pixels of Identities, contemporary art festival, curator Luca Curci, Palazzo Albrizzi Venice - June 2014

Architecture per un possibile sviluppo, coordinated by Maya Nagy, Tomori Pal Foiskola, Budapest May-June, 2013

Undertone - Phoenix - November 2011, Iasi

Drawing Salon - Iasi, October 2011 - curator D. Patrascu

GRANTS

Aripa Arte Grant – 2024

WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Forest Creatures #10, private collection, Paris

Forest Creatures #33, private collection, Bucharest

Forest Creatures #42, private collection, Bucharest

Forest Creatures #61, private collection, Bucharest

Forest Creatures #69, private collection, Bucharest

Forest Creatures #40, private collection, Iași

Forest Creatures #50, private collection, Houston