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, BFA, 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
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
2018 Abstraction: Bay Area Womena Painters, Badford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2017 Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2016 Bombay Saphar, Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
CamArt, Cluj Napoca, Romania
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
Abstract, Essntl Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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, CA
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
2010 Bay 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
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 AIR KALA Art Institute
Golden Foundation AIR Program, New Berlin, NY
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
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
Bibliography / Publications
2017 The Mercury News, Abstract art gets a modern, feminist touch in, by Lou Fancher, Oct 3, 2017
2016 Interview: Romanian Artists Abroad / Radio Romania Cultural , August, 2016
2016 *Particule subatomice pe vârf de pensulă, June 17, http://specialarad.ro/particule-subatomice-pe- varf-de-pensula/
* Arad Culture, Subatomic ColorWheel, Tomkat; http://aradculture.ro/subatomiccolorwhole/
2016: Catalog -solo exhibition Panta Rei, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
*http://gazetadestiri.com/category/cultura/
2016 Periferal Vision: http://www.peripheralvisionarts.org/sintamarian-profile/
2016 Marin MOCA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnxome0zLoE
2012: *Kunstenaars uit de hele werld kameren op C-Mine, Het Belang van Limburg #186,by Chris Nelis, 22 August
*Genk kunstenaarsdorp op C Mine, Dag Limburg, Kunstenaarsdorp / TVL Belgium, reporter Nele Postelmans
*“Maximalism: Utopia”-Ema Harris-Sintamarian at Jack Fischer Gallery, by Greg Flood, The Examiner, April 12, 2012 http://www.examiner.com/article/maximalism-utopia-ema-harrissintamarian- at-the-jack-fischer-gallery
*http://myartcontest.com/2012-ABSTRACTS/harris.html
*ARTSLANT San Francisco: Artist Profile: http://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/31194 *Catalogue: Art Takes Miami
*Catalogue, Momenutum WAC, Gallery 825, LA
“* In Other Words” at the Intersection for the Arts, by Nancy Ewart, SF Museum Examiner,
March 28, 2012, http://www.examiner.com/museum-in-san-francisco/in-other-words-at-theintersection- for-the-arts-review
2012: January / Finalist round 1 ArtSlant
2011
Juxtapoz, December 29th, http://www.juxtapoz.com/Illustration/emanuela-harris-sintamarian
*The annual "No Dead Artists" show opens at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans By:
Eric Bookhardt, 09/09/2011 http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50288 *http://www.escapeintolife.com/art-news/art-news-headlines-september-19-2011/
*“Bay Area galleries dish up a bevy of eclectic offerings”, By Jennifer Modenessi , San Jose
Mercury News, 09/08/2011
*2011: Catalog: Studio Visit Magazine, vol 13-14
*Catalog: Harvests of New Millennium, February, published by Cyberwit Kalindipuram, India
*2010: Catalog: 8th Annual Open International Juried Exhibition: Painting on the Edge,
Vancouver, Canada
*2010: “Secret Drawings, Dream Sequences & Surreal Reinventions” http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/csd/activities_and_recreation/attractions/art_center/news/d etails.asp?NewsID=1587&TargetID=27,248,28,249
*“A woman’s art traces dad’s disappearance”, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle,April, 18, 2009
*Art notes: SFMOMA, Kentridge, Shettar, First Thursday, April 6, 2009 http://www.ptank.com/blog/tag/ema-h-sintamarian/
*KQVA-TV: Artist Portrait: Ema Harris-Sintamarian; - producer Mark Potter
*Stories Real and Vividly Imagined, KulturStan,Oct. 13, 2007 http://www.kulturstan.se
*You Should Stop Editing, by Johnny Ray Huston , San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct.. 3, 2007
*SJICA Launches Residency Program In South Bay, ArtDaily
*NextNew 2007 and Mitra Fabian at the San Jose ICA, by David Buuk, ArtWeek Nov. 2007, vol.38, issue 9
*QKUD-Spark TV, interview with Naill McKay, produced by QKUD –Spark TV, 2007 *Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian at Rosenfeld Gallery: (http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/search/label/emanuela%20harris-sintamarian) 2007 *Charlotte Kruk n' Kempken et Ema Sintamarian, Les cahiers Truong, (http://alaintruong.canalblog.com/archives/2007/03/27/index.html) 2007
*Charlotte Kruk n’Kempken and Ema Sintamarian, ArtDaily, 2007 (http://www.artdaily.com/section/lastweek/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=19718&int_modo=2 *“Advertising, stock phrases and real estate come under the microscope in Pro Arts show”, San Francisco Chronicle, August.27, 2005 by Kenneth Baker
*Santa Clara Review, Fall/Winter, 2005, Volume 93 No 1-full page coverage art work
*“New Visions at Pro Arts” by Renny Pritikin, Shotgun Review, September 10, 2005 http://www.delpesco.com/shotgun/archives/000182.html
*“Works Tonight”- commentaries, http://www.village savant.com
*“Fly Energy”, Philadelphia Weekly, March.7.2005 by Roberta Fallon
*“Exuberance and restrain,”, http://www.fallonandrosof.com/2005/03/exuberance-andrestraint. html, 03/08/2005 by Libby Rosof
*“Momentum”-South Bay Art Momentum Exhibition, fall 2004-catalogue exhibition
*“Direct Art”-full page coverage of art work, Vol.7, Fall and Winter, 2002-3