Education:
MFA 2005 Painting San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA
MFA 2002 Printmaking University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
BFA 2000 Graphic Arts National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2000 Studies Abroad L’Association Culturelle Roumaine-Francaise, Saint-Remis de Provence, France
1998 Studies Abroad: Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, Italy
Instituto Rumeno di Roma, Rome, Italy
Solo Exhibitions –Selected:
2022 Untitled: Touch, The Forth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA
How to Explain Physics to a Barista, Art Arc Gallery, San Jose, CA
2019 Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2018 Once, twice-Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2016 Every Object is Modified by One's Look, Museum of Art, Arad, Romania,
Panta Rei, Artyself Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Alb pe negru, Timisoara, Romania
2014 Frames, ProArt, Oakland, CA
2013 College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI
2012 Maximalism Utopia: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Silicon Valley Arts Council: Artist Fellowship 2010, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2009 One for Every Day of the Year: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Drawings: Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Stop Editing Me: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 The World of Images: KALEID Project, San Jose, CA
2006 Foreshadowing XYX, , Works Gallery-P2 Installation Space, San Jose, CA
Travels Through Hyper Reality, Lavinia Center, Milton, DE
2005 Savage Garden; Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
How Could I Live without Ads, Open Studio, Works –San Jose Gallery, San Jose, CA
Group Exhibitions-Selected:
2021
Saturation, Cultivated Gallery, London, UK
Flux Review, FLUX Gallery, London, UK
2020
Sunny Art Prize, Sunny Art Center, London, United Kingdom
Expo39, BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
2019
Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
Mills Building, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
AIR Kala-Printmaking, Kala Art Institute, Berkley, CA
Lobster Dinner-Small Works, Tristle Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Badford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2017
Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2016
Bombay Saphar, Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
International Art Camp Gernik XII, Pygmalion Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Lucrari din tabara, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Six Eastern European Artists-Artik, San Jose, CA
2015
Bay Area Artists, MOCA Marin, Navato, CA
2014
Ape, Ape, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Constanta, Romania
My castle is my home, Triade Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Printmaking Group Show, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA
Artists who inspire artists, ProArts, Oakland, CA
Group, Unframed Gallery, New Mexico
2013
20th Annual, Artik, San Jose, CA
Creatives Rising, See.Me Exhibition Space, Long Island City, NY
The Story of the Creative, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
The Story of the Creative, See Exhibition Space, New York, NY
2012
From the Golden Gate Bridge to Oakland: Trade and Tourism, organized/curated by Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland Airport, Oakland,
2012
Collector's Choice, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
In Other Words, Intersection for The Arts, San Francisco, CA
Momentum, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Belly of the Beast, ArtObject Gallery, San Jose, CA
Everything is in motion, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2011
54th Venice Biennale: digital production: VIP Opening Reception, Boston Online Project, Venice, Italy
“Lobby Project”- finalists YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Boston Online Biennial 2011, http://www.biennialproject.com/ContestWinners.aspx
Shattered: 6th Annual MarinMOCA National Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
No Dead Artist, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
California, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Depth of Meaning, (June 10/August 31st) Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Expo 30, B.J.Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
West Coast Biennial, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA
Annual 2011, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
2010
Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
United Cultures, TravelGallery, Vienna, Austria
Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
Scope Miami 2010, finalist: digital display, Miami, FL
2010Bay Area Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
New Directions ’10, Barret Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Secret Drawing, Palo Alto Center for the Arts, Palo Alto, CA
2009
Little Works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
This is not a Poster, Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose CA
2008
Gertrude Herbert-Institute of Art, “ A Sense of Place”, Augusta, GE
Sobrato Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Group Show: Niklas Belenius Gallery , Stockholm, Sweden;
Drawing: Vision, Surfaces and Beyond, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Ripples, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Little Works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Juried Annual 2007, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 2006 Storm, Swarm Gallery, Oakland CA,
New Vision: Introduction 2006, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
Theory of Relativity, Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Eat Me, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Connections-National Juried Exhibition, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Crossovers: Crafts- Art- Design, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington,
6th Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2005
New Visions: Introductions 2005, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Annual Small Works, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Big Deal-Visual Aid, SOMA Art, San Francisco, CA
Glim Glum Glam, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Say What? ArtSF, San Francisco, CA
Awards:
2021 Leigh Weimers Art Award, Roary Club, San Jose, CA
2020 Artist Fellowship: Arts Council/CVCreates, San Jose, CA
2018 Golden Foundation Fellowship, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2014 Emergency Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2013 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2012 Nomination SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award
2011 Djerassi Alumni Artists’ Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2010 Lawren Harris Award/Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, Canada
Silicon Valley Arts Council: Artist Fellowship 2010, San Jose, CA
2008 Award of Excellence- ACGI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
ArtShift Award, ARTShift Magazine, San Jose CA
2006 Fellowship: Artist’ s Grant— Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT
2005 Nomination SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award
Fellowship: Artist’s Grant— Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT
AIR Program Fellowship Works-San Jose Gallery—Works, San Jose, CA
Residency-selected:
2018 Golden Foundation AIR Program, New Berlin, NY
AIR KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2016 AIR KREMS, Krems au der Donau, Austria
2015 Bata, Romania
2014 Art House Woslfberg, Garana, Romania
2013 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI
2012 WARP Contemporary Art Platform Artist Village Residency, Genk, Belgium
2010 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2007 Artist in Residency, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2006 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont
2005 Works, San Jose, San Jose, CA
Workshops, Lectures, and Gallery Talks-selected:
2014 History of Prints and Printmaking, Ecole Nationale des Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2012 WARP-Artist Village, Genk, Belgium
In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
White Drawings: guest speaker, University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2010 Playing with Time and Memory: The Palo Alto Art Center and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program; Palo Alto, CA
2008 Artist Talk: Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2005 New Vision: Intro-Behind the Curtains, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Art Fairs:
2017 In Other Words , New York (declined)
2016 Spring Break, New York
2015 Red Dot Miami –Jack Fischer Gallery
2014 Red Dot Miami-Jack Fischer Gallery
2013 Art Market San Francisco-Jack Fischer Gallery
Projects-Street Art
2014 FisArt2014, Timisoara, Romania
Public Film Projections and Multimedia Exhibitions
2010 Art Ark/”Inainte de Inceput” movie projection, collaboration with Valerie Raps,
SubZero/Zero1 Biennale, San Jose, CA
2004 Planetarium: McBean Theatre, San Francisco, CA
2003 Anno Domini/Phantom Gallery-San Jose, CA
Works, San Jose, CA
MFA 2005 Painting San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA
MFA 2002 Printmaking University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
BFA 2000 Graphic Arts National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2000 Studies Abroad L’Association Culturelle Roumaine-Francaise, Saint-Remis de Provence, France
1998 Studies Abroad: Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, Italy
Instituto Rumeno di Roma, Rome, Italy
Solo Exhibitions –Selected:
2022 Untitled: Touch, The Forth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA
How to Explain Physics to a Barista, Art Arc Gallery, San Jose, CA
2019 Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2018 Once, twice-Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2016 Every Object is Modified by One's Look, Museum of Art, Arad, Romania,
Panta Rei, Artyself Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Alb pe negru, Timisoara, Romania
2014 Frames, ProArt, Oakland, CA
2013 College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI
2012 Maximalism Utopia: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Silicon Valley Arts Council: Artist Fellowship 2010, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2009 One for Every Day of the Year: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Drawings: Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Stop Editing Me: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 The World of Images: KALEID Project, San Jose, CA
2006 Foreshadowing XYX, , Works Gallery-P2 Installation Space, San Jose, CA
Travels Through Hyper Reality, Lavinia Center, Milton, DE
2005 Savage Garden; Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
How Could I Live without Ads, Open Studio, Works –San Jose Gallery, San Jose, CA
Group Exhibitions-Selected:
2021
Saturation, Cultivated Gallery, London, UK
Flux Review, FLUX Gallery, London, UK
2020
Sunny Art Prize, Sunny Art Center, London, United Kingdom
Expo39, BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
2019
Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
Mills Building, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
AIR Kala-Printmaking, Kala Art Institute, Berkley, CA
Lobster Dinner-Small Works, Tristle Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Badford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2017
Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2016
Bombay Saphar, Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
International Art Camp Gernik XII, Pygmalion Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Lucrari din tabara, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Six Eastern European Artists-Artik, San Jose, CA
2015
Bay Area Artists, MOCA Marin, Navato, CA
2014
Ape, Ape, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Constanta, Romania
My castle is my home, Triade Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Printmaking Group Show, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA
Artists who inspire artists, ProArts, Oakland, CA
Group, Unframed Gallery, New Mexico
2013
20th Annual, Artik, San Jose, CA
Creatives Rising, See.Me Exhibition Space, Long Island City, NY
The Story of the Creative, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
The Story of the Creative, See Exhibition Space, New York, NY
2012
From the Golden Gate Bridge to Oakland: Trade and Tourism, organized/curated by Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland Airport, Oakland,
2012
Collector's Choice, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
In Other Words, Intersection for The Arts, San Francisco, CA
Momentum, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Belly of the Beast, ArtObject Gallery, San Jose, CA
Everything is in motion, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2011
54th Venice Biennale: digital production: VIP Opening Reception, Boston Online Project, Venice, Italy
“Lobby Project”- finalists YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Boston Online Biennial 2011, http://www.biennialproject.com/ContestWinners.aspx
Shattered: 6th Annual MarinMOCA National Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
No Dead Artist, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
California, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Depth of Meaning, (June 10/August 31st) Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Expo 30, B.J.Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
West Coast Biennial, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA
Annual 2011, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
2010
Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
United Cultures, TravelGallery, Vienna, Austria
Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
Scope Miami 2010, finalist: digital display, Miami, FL
2010Bay Area Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
New Directions ’10, Barret Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Secret Drawing, Palo Alto Center for the Arts, Palo Alto, CA
2009
Little Works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
This is not a Poster, Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose CA
2008
Gertrude Herbert-Institute of Art, “ A Sense of Place”, Augusta, GE
Sobrato Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Group Show: Niklas Belenius Gallery , Stockholm, Sweden;
Drawing: Vision, Surfaces and Beyond, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Ripples, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Little Works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Juried Annual 2007, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 2006 Storm, Swarm Gallery, Oakland CA,
New Vision: Introduction 2006, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
Theory of Relativity, Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Eat Me, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Connections-National Juried Exhibition, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Crossovers: Crafts- Art- Design, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington,
6th Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2005
New Visions: Introductions 2005, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Annual Small Works, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Big Deal-Visual Aid, SOMA Art, San Francisco, CA
Glim Glum Glam, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Say What? ArtSF, San Francisco, CA
Awards:
2021 Leigh Weimers Art Award, Roary Club, San Jose, CA
2020 Artist Fellowship: Arts Council/CVCreates, San Jose, CA
2018 Golden Foundation Fellowship, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2014 Emergency Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2013 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2012 Nomination SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award
2011 Djerassi Alumni Artists’ Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2010 Lawren Harris Award/Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, Canada
Silicon Valley Arts Council: Artist Fellowship 2010, San Jose, CA
2008 Award of Excellence- ACGI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
ArtShift Award, ARTShift Magazine, San Jose CA
2006 Fellowship: Artist’ s Grant— Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT
2005 Nomination SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award
Fellowship: Artist’s Grant— Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT
AIR Program Fellowship Works-San Jose Gallery—Works, San Jose, CA
Residency-selected:
2018 Golden Foundation AIR Program, New Berlin, NY
AIR KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2016 AIR KREMS, Krems au der Donau, Austria
2015 Bata, Romania
2014 Art House Woslfberg, Garana, Romania
2013 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI
2012 WARP Contemporary Art Platform Artist Village Residency, Genk, Belgium
2010 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2007 Artist in Residency, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2006 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont
2005 Works, San Jose, San Jose, CA
Workshops, Lectures, and Gallery Talks-selected:
2014 History of Prints and Printmaking, Ecole Nationale des Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2012 WARP-Artist Village, Genk, Belgium
In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
White Drawings: guest speaker, University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2010 Playing with Time and Memory: The Palo Alto Art Center and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program; Palo Alto, CA
2008 Artist Talk: Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2005 New Vision: Intro-Behind the Curtains, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Art Fairs:
2017 In Other Words , New York (declined)
2016 Spring Break, New York
2015 Red Dot Miami –Jack Fischer Gallery
2014 Red Dot Miami-Jack Fischer Gallery
2013 Art Market San Francisco-Jack Fischer Gallery
Projects-Street Art
2014 FisArt2014, Timisoara, Romania
Public Film Projections and Multimedia Exhibitions
2010 Art Ark/”Inainte de Inceput” movie projection, collaboration with Valerie Raps,
SubZero/Zero1 Biennale, San Jose, CA
2004 Planetarium: McBean Theatre, San Francisco, CA
2003 Anno Domini/Phantom Gallery-San Jose, CA
Works, San Jose, CA