Maia Oprea's Artist Profile
Maia Oprea
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Artist's Statement
I am an young independent fine artist, with a Bachelor's degree in Painting from the Bucharest National University of Arts in Romania. I have had 16 personal exhibitions up to today, in Romania, Italy and Great Britain, many national and international group shows and my works belong to private and public collections in many countries. I use very diverse materials, ranging from pencil, charcoal, pastels, tempera, gouache, acrylics, oils, to modelling clay, textiles, wood and metal .Aiming for a spiritual experience, my painting is governed by feeling, asking from the viewer as much intensity of inner life as I submit myself.
Artist's Statement
I am an young independent fine artist, with a Bachelor's degree in Painting from the Bucharest National University of Arts in Romania. I have had 16 personal exhibitions up to today, in Romania, Italy and Great Britain, many national and international group shows and my works belong to private and public collections in many countries. I use very diverse materials, ranging from pencil, charcoal, pastels, tempera, gouache, acrylics, oils, to modelling clay, textiles, wood and metal .Aiming for a spiritual experience, my painting is governed by feeling, asking from the viewer as much intensity of inner life as I submit myself.
MAIA ŞTEFANA OPREA born 1987, Bucharest, Romania www.maiaoprea.ro/en [email protected] EDUCATION 2012 B.F.A, Bucharest National Arts University , Bucharest Romania 2010-2011 Ecole Superieure d'art et design de Grenoble-Valence, Grenoble, France 2007- 2008 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA 2002-2006 Nicolae Tonitza Fine Arts High School, Bucharest, Romania SOLO FOREIGN EXHIBITIONS 2005 Romanian Cultural Institute of London, "Through the Looking Glass”, London, UK 2005 Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2005 Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK 2005 Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, IT SOLO EXHIBITIONS IN BUCHAREST 2013 U-ART Gallery, CADMIUM 2012 Melenia Art Gallery, DUST 2011 Melenia Art Gallery, two person exhibition Ladies and Gentlement " 2011 Orizont Gallery 2010 National Bucharest Opera House, Design Youself project 2010 Melenia Art Gallery 2009 Hard Rock Cafe Restaurant 2009 Leads center, opened by master Viorel Marginean, Running in Circles 2008 Orizont Gallery 2007 Baku Art Gallery 2006 Romanian National Theatre Hall, Book Festival 4th edition 2006 Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) 2005 Romanian National Theatre Hall, Book Festival 3rd edition 2004 Metropolitan Center for Youth 1998 Ţăndărică Theatre FOREIGN GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Ciminiere di Catania,Stop allo 048 degli oggetti 2ed, Catania, Sicilia, Italy 2012 Galeria A Pedja Acimovic, Second International Watercolor Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia 2012 Underwater Art Elsahara, Dahab, Egipt 2011 La Boîte Noire de Saint- Priest, Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyon, Lyon, France 2011 Young Art Show, V-edition, Trebatice, Slovakia 2011 Hungarian Cultural Institute of Sofia, The Old School , Sofia, Bulgaria 2010 Grenoble Town Hall, Urban Mountains, Rhone Alpes, France 2008 Goslarer Museum, Romanians in Goslar, Goslar, Germany 2006 London Internation Gallery of Children Art, co-organiser, A Window onto Romania, London, UK 2004 Nicolae Tonitza” students , Bratislava 2003 Nicolae Tonitza students, Vienna SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS IN ROMANIA 2013 South Danube Museum, Seasons of trees with stories, Calaraşi 2012 The National Museum of Unification in Alba Iulia, Imaginary and illusion, Alba Iulia 2012 Romanian Peasant's Museum, How was it possible ?, Bucharest 2010 Museum of Art in Ploieşti, Dan Platon, Ploieşti 2010 The Ark-Center for Contemporary Art, RIVER-independent expressions, Bucharest 2010 Museum of Art in Constanţa, Art Embodiment, Constanţa 2010 Bucharest Municipal Museum Simboluri, a Journey in Time, Bucharest 2009 Cotroceni National Museum, Balkanic Art Inspirations, Bucharest 2009 Anaid Art Gallery, October, Remember, December, Bucharest 2009 Vernescu House, Pay it Forward, Bucharest PUBLICATIONS 2012: Toma, Florin, Maia Ştefana Oprea – Serious Games on Terror, Viaţa Românească 9-10-2012 2011: Stan, Liviu G., My Motivation Remains the Intense Curiosity, Obiectiv Cultural nr. 5 SELECTED AWARDS / HONORS 2007 American Association of University Women, Best Artist Statement, Women Equity, Georgia, US 2006 International Festival Caragiale, Excellency prize, Ploieşti 2006 XXIV-th International Painting Competition in Macedonia, Single Creations, 2002 Spring of New Allies, NATO campaign in Romania