Ana Maria Micu is a Romanian visual artist born in 1979, based in Botoșani, exclusively represented globally since 2018 by Mind Set Art Center Taipei. She mostly paints, but sometimes switches to other mediums, such as drawing and animation. She refrences ideas and images that she observes in relation to changes in her living space, in which she also works, or negotiations on resources required by an ambition to garden in inappropriate conditions. ​In 2024 Mind Set Art Center presents her solo show "Woman, Scaffolding". Another major solo exhibition of her is "Left Hand To Distant View" at the 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest in 2022, preceded by "Objects Must Be Comfortable" at Mind Set Art Center. Significant group museum exhibitions are "The Poetic Realm" at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Taiwan and "12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works" at The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Romania. In 2004, Micu graduated with a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

EDUCATION
2002 / 2004 - Master's Degree in Visual Arts, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, RO
2004 - Socrates Erasmus Program, from 23 January to 23 April, Athens School of Fine Arts, GR
1997 / 2002 - Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts / Painting, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, RO
​1993 / 1997 - Art High School "Ştefan Luchian", Botoșani, RO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW​
2023 - This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, RO
2022 - Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO, (brochure)
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

DUO EXHIBITIONS
2019 - Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW​
2012 - A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness, (together with Cătălin Petrişor), Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW, (catalogue)
2009 - Understatement, (together with Cătălin Petrişor), curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space, Beijing, CN
2003 - Skin, (together with Cătălin Petrişor), Ataş Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2002 - Ana Maria Micu & Cătălin Petrişor, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, RO

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2024 - The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Ground Floor & Marble Hall of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
2024 - Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, RO
2024 - Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, RO
2024 - Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner and Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, RO
2023 - Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
2023 - The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, RO​, (catalogue)
2023 - Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, collaboratively curated by Gabriela Mateescu, together with researchers Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2023 - Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, RO
2022 - Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, RO
2022 - Studies for a Burning Silence, curator Ada Muntean, Hangar F artist-run space, Alba Iulia, RO
2022 - Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, (touring of the exhibition 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works 2020), curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, RO
2022 - ​​The Aftermath of a Losing Battle, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Anca Bodea and Ioana Olăhuț, Braunstein Palace, Iași, RO
2022 - The Artist’s Workshop, curator Sorina Jecza, Roman Catholic Episcopal Palace, Oradea, RO
2022 - Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TW​
2021 - The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, TW​, (catalogue)
2021 - Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, (touring of the exhibition 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works 2020), curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, RO
2020 - 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
2020 - And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, 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
2011 - Colouring the Grey – The State of Mind, curator Cosmin Năsui, Artists’ House Tel Aviv, ISR, (catalogue)
2011 - Post-Humanism, curator Cosmin Năsui, V-Art Gallery, Moscow, RU
2011 - 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
2010 - Tales of the Unexpected, 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
2009 - ....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)
2008 - Urban Art, architectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO
2007 - Urban Art, architectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO
2007 - 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
2004 - DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
2003 - Urban Emotions, The Gallery of The National University of Arts, Bucharest, RO

VISITING ARTIST
2024 - from 1 September to 30 November, under Fine Art Professor Hong-Juin SHIEH, Department of Arts and Design, College of Arts, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, TW

ARTISTIC COLLABORATION
2023 - Ana Maria Micu's animation "A State of Blindness" (2021) is part of the artistic project and the multimedia publication "(C)ovid's Metamorphoses", idea by Bernd Herzogenrath, curated by Bernd Herzogenrath & Lasse-Marc Riek, with contributions of 133 artists from film, sound art and music, writing, visual art, and photography, released on 15 December under Meakusma label, BE

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
2023 - Animation Exercise - Near / Far, 18 March, 11.00 - 13.00, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
Selfie Practice - Self Representation, 18 March, 15.00 - 17.00, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
2014 - Abstract Circle, A Mobile Painting Workshop 22 - 29 July, daily 8.00 - 11.00 and 17.00 - 20.00, 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
2023 - Ana Maria Micu, Simona Vilău, Călin Dan, MNAC Live Online | Întâlniri artist-curator. Ana Maria Micu, 13 April 2023, MNAC Bucharest ​Facebook Page
2023 - MNAC International Academy, following speakers Frances Morris - Director, Tate Modern and Dr. Zoran Erić - independent curator, former Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, March 16, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
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
2024 - Mind Set Art Center, Frieze Seoul, KR
​2023 - Mind Set Art Center, Art Taipei, TW
2022 - Mind Set Art Center, Art Taipei, TW
2021 - Mind Set Art Center, Art Taipei, TW
​2020 - Mind Set Art Center, Taipei Connections, hosted online on Ocula
​2020 ​- Mind Set Art Center, Art Fair Philippines, Makati, PH
​2020 - 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
2010 ​- 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
Roxana Ajder, Anca Brânzaș, Anca Bodea, Ioana Iacob, Ana Maria Micu, Mirela Moscu, Oana Năstăsache, Ioana Olăhuț, Andrea Tivadar, Cealaltă față a lumii / The other face of the world, Hassium Cultural Association, 2023, Cluj-Napoca​, RO
​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
Florentina Toniță, INVITATUL DE LA ȘTIRI: Ana Maria MICU, Video/Editing: Florin Timofte, 28 August 2024, 18:00, stiri.botosani.ro
Liviu Șoptelea, Despre simplitate și modestie. Studiu de caz: Ana Maria Micu, Acta Musei Tutovensis – Memorialistică, no. IX year 2024, publication of the Museum "Vasile Pârvan" Bârlad, RO
​Florentina Toniță, ”O țesătoare de viață și lumină” - Artista din Botoșani care expune la cel mai mare eveniment dedicat industriilor creative!, 19 May 2024, stiri.botosani.ro
​“Disegno: Drafting on a Figure of Thought” | A dialogue essay between the artist Ana Maria Micu and Vlad Ionescu, 6 March 2024, Empower Artists
​Daria Ghiu, Arte Frumoase - 17 February 2024, Radio România Cultural
Vladimir Bulat, Artele vizuale în 2023 - Un bilanț entuziast, Observator Cultural no. 1190, 2024
​Roxana Păsculescu, Născut în România: Din inconveniente, energie și din stări tensionate, lucrări de artă, 23 September 2023, 16:00, Radio România Cultural
Evantia Barca, Ana Maria Micu at Strata. “Art, among the non-invasive ways to experience the miracle of nature.”, Empower Artists, published online on 31 August 2023 
Valentina Iancu, How Near is Far Away?, Revista Arta no. 60-61, 2023
​Ciprian Măceșaru, O formă de îmbrățișare a lumii, Matca Literară, 13 April 2023
Maria Mănăilă, Ana Maria Micu – Left Hand to Distant View, Contemporary Art Friday, 14 April 2023
Cristian Iftode, Filosoful Peter Sloterdijk: „Până la urmă, am devenit şi noi nişte şobolani alergători”, ilustration by Fernando Diaconu, Scena 9, published online on 3 April 2023
​Parkour sonor / Ana Maria Micu, The Institute of the Present Podcast, 27 March 2023
Bogdan Ghiu, de-clic(k) / atelier deschis. Parerga la/ cu Ana Maria Micu, Observator Cultural no. 1150, 16 March 2023
Florentina Toniță, Interviuri. Ana Maria Micu, Botoșăneanul, 19 February 2023
Cristina Moraru, "Unlimited Visuality" at Aparte Gallery Iași, Arta Magazine printed issue 58-59, p. 171-172, 2022
​Mihaela Dedeoglu, Zebra: Cu Călin Dan despre actualul sezon MNAC, RFI Romania, 23 January 2023
Maria Munteanu, Ana Maria Micu: „E foarte limpede pentru mine că arta e ceva esențial, obligatoriu, suficient, absolut”, Propagarta.ro, 21 December 2022
Maria Munteanu, Ghidul sezonului expozițional de iarnă de la MNAC, Propagarta.ro, 14 December 2022
Daria Ghiu, Arte Frumoase -10 December 2022, Radio România Cultural
​Veronica Kirchner, ARTFel De Jurnal #56 - ANA MARIA MICU Despre plante și artă, Veronica Kirchner YouTube channel, 16 October 2022
Sorina Jecza, Atelierul Artistului (II), Observator Cultural no. 1114, 22 - 28 June 2022
Maria Mănăilă, Ana Maria Micu, Contemporary Art Friday, 27 May 2022
Daria Ghiu, Arte Frumoase -16 October 2021 & Arte Frumoase -18 December 2021, Radio România Cultural
​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) p. 163, 2015
Susanne Holtedahl, Den nye realismebølge, Magasinet Kunst Blog, 11 September 2015
Alina Petrescu, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Arta. Revistă de arte vizuale, 30 April 2015
Matthew Lubin, 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, 6 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 2007PULS 21