Maia Stefana Oprea
born 1987, Bucharest, Romania

I am interested in the interplay between my personal life with the public one, within the dynamic interaction between painting, sculpture, photography, video, animation and performance; in the diversity of explorations whose convergence is drawn progressively, as an organism in continuous evolution. In the creative I approach abstraction, disguised narrations, the dissolution of time, consumerism, nomadism, the exile in nature and the aesthetics of co-presence – which I transpose into reality in the form of behavioral fixtures and ritualistic acts.
Education
2009-2015
Master of Fine Arts- strategies of creation in painting, National Arts University, Bucharest, Romania
2014
Erasmus at Haute École d'Art de Strasbourg, France
2010-2011
Ecole Superieure d'art et design de Grenoble-Valence, Grenoble, France
2007-2008
Savannah College of Art and Design,Savannah,GA, USA
Awards (selection)
2018
Mention at the Biennial of Bibliophile Book and Object-Book, National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest
2017
Matei Brâncoveanu Award for Fine Arts 2017, offered by the Alexandrion Foundation
2016
AnnArt Prize 2016, offered by AnnArt Foundation for excelency in a visual arts domain
2007
American Association of University Women,Best Artist Statement, Women Equity, Georgia, US
Exhibitions
Solo in Bucharest, Romania
2019
NEST(s) ,Cultural Center Brâncovenesti Palaces, Mogosoaia, Foisor Gallery
2018
Locus Neminis II, AnnArt Gallery
2017
Locus Neminis I, Seabam Gallery
2016
Stacking, AnnArt Gallery
2014
After Zaercs, Signum Gallery
2013
Trans/ Figuration, Metropolis Center
2013
Cadmium, U-Art Gallery
2012
Dust, Melenia Art Gallery
Solo International
2014
Cap Marina Gallery, Monastir, Tunisia
2013
Waste - first Stage , Ruse Art Gallery, Ruse, Bulgaria
2005
Through the Looking Glass, Romanian Cultural Institute of London, London, UK
2005
Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2005
Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK
2005
Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, IT
Group International
2015
International Painting Biennial of Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
2014
3rd Kalanirvana Internation Art Residence , Lalit Kala Academy, Bhubaneswar,
2014
We are lying on the beach and dreaming from far about Aubette, National Superior Architecture School of Strasbourg, France
2013
Open Doors, Forum Eugenio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal
2014
Cap Marina Gallery, Monastir, Tunisia
2013
Waste - first Stage , Ruse Art Gallery, Ruse, Bulgaria
2005
Through the Looking Glass, Romanian Cultural Institute of London, London, UK
2005
Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2014
Cap Marina Gallery, Monastir, Tunisia
2013
Waste - first Stage , Ruse Art Gallery, Ruse, Bulgaria
2005
Through the Looking Glass, Romanian Cultural Institute of London, London, UK
2005
Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2014
Cap Marina Gallery, Monastir, Tunisia
2013
Waste - first Stage , Ruse Art Gallery, Ruse, Bulgaria
2005
Through the Looking Glass, Romanian Cultural Institute of London, London, UK
2005