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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 2021 - Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW 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 2022 - The Aftermath of a Losing Battle (within Romanian Creative Week) , curated by Anca Bodea and Ioana Olăhuț, Braunstein Palace, Iași, RO - The Artist’s Workshop, curator Sorina Jecza, Roman Catholic Episcopal Palace of Oradea, RO - Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW 2021 - The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, TW, (catalogue) 2020 - 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO and on tour as Heartbeat 20 - new entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, 14 May - 11 July 2021, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, RO - And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW 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 2014 - Shortsighted. Presbyopic. Blindfolded, Allegra Nomad Gallery, Bucharest, RO 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 2019 - În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, RO 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 talks 2021 - Artist talk - Ana Maria Micu, 29 March, hosted online by The Painting Departement of University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, RO 2019 - Întâlniri în atelier: despre practici artistice în arta contemporană #8, host Aurora Király, SwitchLab, 18 October, Bucharest, RO 2015 - Start with Ana Maria Micu - A brief introduction on Romanian contemporary art, 3 April, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW art fairs 2020 - Mind Set Art Center, Taipei Connections, hosted online on Ocula - Mind Set Art Center, Art Fair Philippines, Makati, PH - Mind Set Art Center, Taipei Dangdai, TW 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 "daylight apertures, ... system consists of systems" (2021) - CMC Art Collection TW "workers, will still be ... to stay" (2020) - The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO "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 media references Sorina Jecza, Atelierul Artistului (II), Observator Cultural no. 1114, 22 - 28 June 2022 Maria Manaila, Ana Maria Micu, Contemporary Art Friday, 27 May 2022 Daria Ghiu, Arte Frumoase, Radio Romania Cultural, 16 October 2021 Visit From Home, Art Emperor, 17 June 2021 Julien Delagrange, Artist Spotlights - Ana Maria Micu, published online by Contemporary Art Issue, 30 April 2021 Julien Delagrange, Contemporary Art in Cluj - A Critical Overview, published online by Contemporary Art Issue, 18 January 2021 Ioana Olăhuț, Quarantine Projects -Ana Maria Micu, hassium.ro, English and Romanian versions, 4 November 2020 Jake Chen, "Behind the Art Ep 3: Ana Maria Micu", Jake Chen YouTube channel, 13 January 2020 Ciprian Măceșaru, "O întâlnire cu Ana Maria Micu", Accente Magazine no. 42, cover and p. 6 - 7, 2019 Cătălin Davidescu, “Ana Maria Micu. Album pe perete”, România literară no. 43, p. 20, 4 October 2019 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, The News Lens, 3 May 2017 Dana Ter, Art Exhibition Listings - Taipei Times, Taipei Times, 22 April 2016 500 Portraits: 25 Years of the BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, p. 155, 169, Self-portrait (2007) 163, 2015 Alina Petrescu, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Arta. Revistă de arte vizuale, 30 April 2015 Ana Maria Micu’s “Self-portrait with Indoor Plant” at MSAC, Total Taipei, 20 March 2015 Dana Ter, Art Exhibition Listings - Taipei Times, Taipei Times , 06 March 2015 Mihaela Velea, Atelier Mobil De Picturã, Mozaicul no. 9, p. 14, 2014 Marius Dobrin, Cercul abstract, Prăvălia culturală, June 2014 Basak Malone, The New Collectors Book, p. 17, 2013 ArtCo no. 244, January 2013 Artitude, p. 106 - 107, January 2013 La Vie, December 2012 C'est si bon no. 8, p. 96, December 2012 Expoziţie Ana Maria Micu La Beijing, Până Pe 15 Aprilie, bewhere.ro, 12 March 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 February 2012 Victoria Anghelescu, Tineri Artişti Români La Bucureşti, La Moscova şi Tel Aviv, cotidianul.ro, 1 December 2011 Cosmin Năsui, Ana Maria Micu. Pictura care ocupă spaţiul şi timpul, Arta. Revistă de arte vizuale no. 1, p. 120, 2011 Mike Brennan, The rise and rise of Romanian art, modernedition.com, 2009 Andra Matzal, Tablouri care fac “afirmaţii moderate” la Beijing, Cotidianul, 31 May 2009 Andra Matzal, Arta pe ruinele nou-nouţe ale capitalismului, Cotidianul, 22 May 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 |