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Ana Maria Micu is a Romanian visual artist born in 1979, living and working in Botoșani.
education 2002 / 2004 - M.A., Visual Arts, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, RO 2004 - Socrates-Erasmus Program, 23 January – 23 April, Athens School of Fine Arts, GR 1997 / 2002 - B.A., Fine Arts/ Painting, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, RO solo exhibitions 2018 - A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW 2015 - Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW 2012 - Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, CN 2007 - Ideal Spleen, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO 2006 - Bloom, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO collective exhibitions 2019 - Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW 2017 - Self-Portrait, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW 2016 - The Road Not Taken II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW, (catalogue) 2015 - The New Wave of Realism, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg, DK 2012 - A Conscious Choice For Temporary Blindness, a duo show by Ana Maria Micu & Cătălin Petrişor, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW, (catalogue) 2011 - Colouring the Grey – The State of Mind, curator Cosmin Năsui, Artists’ House Tel Aviv, ISR, (catalogue) - Post-Humanism, curator Cosmin Năsui, V-Art Gallery, Moscow, RU - Colouring the Grey. The Second Wave of the Contemporary Romanian Artists, curator Cosmin Năsui, Special Projects Section of The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Art Play, RU, (catalogue) 2010 - Impermanence, Hendershot Gallery, New York, USA - Tales of the Unexpected, off-side show Art Rotterdam, curated by Maria Rus Bojan & Radek Váňa, Dek 22, Rotterdam, NL 2009 - Fast Forward, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Projects, The Hague, NL - Understatement (together with Cătălin Petrişor), curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space, Beijing, CN - ....Expectations, curator Maria Rus Bojan, temporary space, Dé is Ka & de Verzameling, Barbara Strozzilaan 314-316, Amsterdam, NL 2008 - Strategies for Concealing, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, CN, (catalogue) - Urban Art, architectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO 2007 - Urban Art, architectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalogue) 2006 - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalogue) 2005 - I Love Pictura, under construction space, Hotel Continental, Cluj-Napoca, RO 2004 - Airbag, National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, RO - DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO 2003 - Urban Emotion, Galeria Gallery, Bucharest, RO - Skin, Ataş Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO 2002 - Ana Maria Micu & Cătălin Petrişor, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, RO residencies 2016 - Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, ES 2014 - my art, ( finissage project: How to Mend Unbroken Things, Work-in-Progress Duo Show with Cătălin Petrişor), Vienna, AU 2012 - my art, ( finissage project: Production as Tableau Vivant, co-signed with Cătălin Petrişor), Vienna, AU 2008 - În construcţie – 2, International Centre of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO workshops 2014 - Abstract Circle, A Mobile Painting Workshop 22 – 29 July, daily 8 – 11 and 17 – 20, held together with Cătălin Petrişor in different areas of Brestei neighborhood, Craiova, RO 2012 - 5. ART:aussee workshop, Altaussee, AU performance 2014 - Installing the Image, 20 – 23 May, curator Igor Mocanu, Allegra Nomad Gallery, Sala Tipografia, Bucharest, RO artist talk 2015 - Start with Ana Maria Micu - A brief introduction on Romanian contemporary art, 3 April, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW art fairs 2019 - Mind Set Art Center, Art Fair Philippines, PH 2018 - Mind Set Art Center, Art Düsseldorf, DE 2011 - Exotic East, Jecza Gallery, Art.Fair Köln, DE 2010 - C-Space, Art Beijing, CN - C-Space and MB Art Agency, Art Rotterdam, NL 2006 - Anaid Art Gallery, Art.Fair Köln, DE works in public collections "Reasons why humans must be" (2008) - Fontys Art Collection, Tilburg, NL selected catalogues Ana Maria Micu, Mind Set Art Center, 2019, Taipei, TW
A Conscious Choice For Temporary Blindness, Mind Set Art Center, 2013, Taipei, TW Strategies for Concealing, C-Space Gallery, 2008, Beijing, CN, selected bibliography Cheng Nai-Ming, 小日子，大認真 - 讀安娜‧瑪瑞亞‧米庫 [牆上的圖像], CANS no. 168, p. 26, 11 January 2019
Jake Chen, "Ana Maria Micu Pt.3 -- Thoughts behind the self-portraits", Stroke of Light, Radio Taiwan International, 10 January 2019 Jake Chen, "Ana Maria Micu Pt.2 -- Paintings and Inspiration", Stroke of Light, Radio Taiwan International, 03 January 2019 Fei-Hao Chen, "Exhibition Review: Ana Maria Micu, A Picture on the Wall", ARTCO no. 316, p.193, January 2019 Jake Chen, "Ana Maria Micu Pt.1 -- Paintings and Inspiration", Stroke of Light, Radio Taiwan International, 27 December 2018 W. L. Guzmans, Group Show Featuring Self-Portraits from Artists of Diverse Backgrounds, Art in Taipei Blog, 14 April 2017 曾傑 and 楊之瑜, Self Revealing: Artists’ Eternal Search of Identity and Inner World (CN), The News Lens, 3 May 2017 Dana Ter, Art Exhibition Listings - Taipei Times, Taipei Times , 22 Apr. 2016 500 Portraits: 25 Years of the BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2015, p. 155, 169, Self-portrait (2007) 163 Alina Petrescu, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Revista Arta, 30 Apr. 2015 Ana Maria Micu’s “Self-portrait with Indoor Plant” at MSAC, Total Taipei, 20 Mar. 2015 Dana Ter, Art Exhibition Listings - Taipei Times, Taipei Times , 06 Mar. 2015 Mihaela Velea, Atelier Mobil De Picturã, Mozaicul no. 9, 2014, p. 14 Marius Dobrin, Cercul abstract, Pravalia culturala, 06.2014 Basak Malone, The New Collectors Book 2013 Edition, p.17 ArtCo 01.2013 Artitude 01.2013 La Vie 12.2012 C'est si bon No 8, 12.2012 Expoziţie Ana Maria Micu La Beijing, Până Pe 15 Aprilie, bewhere.ro, 12 Mar. 2012 Daniel Nicolescu, Alba-ca-Zapada (pentru ca e nevoie si de un pic de alb) si cei sapte emergenti, Igloo. habitat & arhitectura No 122, 17.02.2012 Victoria Anghelescu, Tineri Artişti Români La Bucureşti, La Moscova şi Tel Aviv, Cotidianul.ro. 1 Dec. 2011 Cosmin Năsui, Ana Maria Micu. Pictura care ocupă spaţiul şi timpul, Arta. Revistă de arte vizuale, no. 1, 2011, p.120 Mike Brennan, The rise and rise of Romanian art, modernedition.com, 2009 Andra Matzal, Tablouri care fac “afirmaţii moderate” la Beijing, Cotidianul, 31.05.2009 Andra Matzal, Arta pe ruinele nou-nouţe ale capitalismului, Cotidianul, 22.05.2009 Cosmin Năsui, Picturi crepusculare, Observator Cultural No 485, 2009 BP Portrait Prize 2007, theguardian.com, 15 June 2007 Judith Amanthis, Tale of three portraits, Morning Star Online, 18 June 2007 |