Eduard Andrei
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Eduard Andrei






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Born in Constanta, Romania
Visual artist & Art historian

Education 

2006-2011 National University of Arts – Bucharest, Romania
- Doctor of Philosophy in Art History. Late 19th century and early 20th century European art. Neo-Byzantine mural painting and architecture. Romanian modern painting and architecture.   

2002-2004 Tunis University, Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Tunis, Tunisia
- Master of Arts in Sciences et Techniques des Arts. Graduated with Honors- Mention Très Bien. 

1996 Program of Art History Study and Research - Venice, Florence, and Rome, Italy
- Program coordinated by the National Academy of Art in Bucharest, L’Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica in Venice, and L’Accademia di Romania in Rome. 

1991-1997 National Academy of Art – Bucharest, Romania
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. Graduated with Honors.

Solo Exhibitions 

2011    Massachusetts Poetry Festival (with Sonia Coman), Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA

2008    Palace Art Gallery (with Gabriela Gheorghe), Constanta, Romania 

2007    Novotel City Centre, Bucharest, Romania 

2003    Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts, Tunis, Tunisia 

2000    Gallery of the Romanian Fine Artists’ Union, Mamaia, Romania 

1999    Interarte Center, Constanta, Romania 

1995    “Friedrich Schiller” Cultural Institute, Bucharest, Romania 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 "Visual Carols", The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania

2019 "Dobrudjan Identities", Gallery of the Romanian Fine Artists’ Union - Braila, Romania

2019 "Expressions in Dialogue", The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania

2019  “Erotic Drawers”, The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania
 
2019 "Sacred and Profane", The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania
 
2019 “Nichita, the Poet of the Future”, The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania
 
2019 “The Small Art Salon”, The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania
 
2019 "Dobrudja - the stories of the land between the waters", The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania
 
2018 “Contrasts”, “Căminul Artei” Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
 
2018 “The Winter Salon”, The Museum of National History and Archeology, Constanta, Romania
 
2018 Group Show of Constanta 1 Branch of the Romanian Fine Artists’ Union,  Art Gallery Constanta, Tomis Mall, Romania

2016 "Dialogues", Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2015 "The 23rd Ecumenical Theological and Interdisciplinary Symposium", The General Theological Seminary, Seabury Building, New York, NY, USA

2015 The Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality, Queens, NY, USA

2013 Saatchionline collection curated by Rebecca Wilson - Director of Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2011 Peter Louis Gallery, New York, NY, USA 

2011 Chelsea Room, Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY, USA

2010 “Living Painting – Ovid’s Epistolae ExPonto”, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania

2010 “4Heart”, Exhibition Center, Mamaia, Romania

2009 “Visual Poetics in the Divine Comedy”, Ovidius University, Romania

2009 Fine Artists’ Union of Constanta, Trojan, Bulgaria 

2008 Rotary District Conference, Southport, UK

2008 Constanta Art Gallery, Romania 

2006 National Art Salon – Parliament House, “Constantin Brâncuşi” Hall, Bucharest, Romania 

2003 Galerie Mille Feuilles - La Marsa, Tunisia

2003 Palais Essaâda - La Marsa, Tunisia

2002 “Erotica” Festival - Constanta Museum of Art, Romania 

2000-2001 International Salon of Small Engravings - Carbunari, Romania

1998-2000 Atelier ’35 Exhibitions - Constanta Museum of Art, Romania

1997 “Lucian Grigorescu” Art Festival / Residency - Constanta Museum of Art, Romania

1996 Romanian Cultural Institute - Venice, Italy

1995, 1996 Young Artists’ Competition, “Dominus” Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

1994, 1997 “StudentFest”, Huniade Museum, Timisoara Museum of Art, Romania

1994-1996 “City Art Salon”, Artexpo Gallery, National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania

Artist Residency

2010 The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Dervent, Romania

Professional Experience

Since 2019 Researcher at the “G. Oprescu” Art History Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, within the Department of Modern Visual Arts and Architecture 
 
2014-2018 Programs Manager at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, USA
 
2018-2022 & 2008-2012 Lecturer in Art History, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Department of Visual Arts, Constanta, Romania

1997-2008 Professor of Art History and Painting, “Queen Marie” National Art College, Constanta, Romania

Internships 

2013 Romanian Cultural Institute – New York, NY

2013 Emmanuel Fremin Gallery – New York, NY

2012 Gallery Nine5 – New York, NY 

2011 Gallery 263 – Cambridge, MA

2010 "Danart" Restoration and Conservation LLC - Bucharest, Romania

Other Activities 

2012 – Co-author and interpret (with Sonia Coman) of the performance show The Tip of the Compass, Hot Springs, AR, USA

2011 – Set Designer (with Sonia Coman), Take Her, She’s Mine, Adams Pool Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

2010, 2011 – Member of the Jury, Artensive International Festival of Film and Installation Art, Constanta, Romania

2008 – Coordinator and organizer, Black Sea University Network Project Conference, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania and Pedagogical and Technical University, Simferopol, Ukraine

2006-2008 –  Contributing writer and illustrator for the magazines Hermitage (Romania), Reeds (USA), and Chrysanthemum (Austria) 

1998-2006 – Founding Member and Secretary of Atelier 35 Art Group, Constanta, Romania

2003-2004 – Member of the Art History Research Team Itinérrances, Tunisia

2003 – Member of the artists’ association Tendencies, Tunisia

2001-2002 – Consultant for the documentary film series “The Marvels of Dobrogea”, Neptun TV, Constanta, Romania

Papers / Conferences

2019 "The Unknown Identity of a Painter: Marin Gherasim, a Researcher at the „G. Oprescu” Institute of Art History" – The National Conference 70 Years since the Foundation of "G. Oprescu" Institute of Art History, Bucharest, Romania

2019 “Post-Byzantine Travels in Space and Time: The Icon’s Gold Leaf Defies The Golden Age. Marin Gherasim & Corneliu Petrescu in The Tyler Collection” –  within the International Conference Cultural Identity, Geography of Encounter & the Politics of Space / Time. A Reflection on the Tyler Collection of Romanian and Modern Art – Low Library, Columbia University, New York, USA
 
2019 “Costin Petrescu and the project of an ample exhibition of Romanian art in the US” – The National Colloquium of History, Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest, Romania

2011 “New York, 2011: Trends in Contemporary Art” – Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania

2008 “The Turkish-Tartar Community in Dobrudjan Romanian Painting” – International Cooperation Project, Technical and Pedagogical University of Simferopol, Ukraine and Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania 

2008 “The Symbolic Apparatus of Brancusi’s Art” – Session of Scientific Papers on the Visual Arts, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania

2007 “Poetry and Pictorial Sign: René Char and Victor Brauner” – International Festival “Les Printemps des Poètes,” Spiru Haret University, Constanta, Romania

2006 “Victor Brauner and Romanian Surrealism” – "Queen Marie" National Art College, Constanta, Romania

Selected Publications 

Books:

2022 Risipitorul de talent: Ilie Cristoloveanu, pictor și filolog în România și SUA (The prodigal prodigy: Ilie Cristoloveanu, painter and philologist in Romania and the US), Paideia Publ. House, Bucharest (co-author, with Mona Momescu) 

2021 Dimitrie Grigoraș. Ordinea clasică a privirii (Dimitrie Grigoraș. The classical order of gaze), Paideia Publ. House, Bucharest

2019 Pictorul Costin Petrescu la New York, 1919-1920 (Painter Costin Petrescu in New York, 1919-1920), Paideia Publ. House, Bucharest
https://www.paideia.ro/arte-arhitecturi/2021-pictorul-costin-petrescu-la-new-york-1919-1920-eduard-andrei-9786067482829.html

2019 Revisited Cultural Heritage. Ceramics Symposium Medgidia 1971-1977, published by UMA ED ROMANIA Association, Master Print, Bucharest (co-editor, with Rodica Buzoianu and Oana Florică)

2018 The „Costel Badea” Symposium of Monumental Ceramics, Constanța 2018, published by UMA ED ROMANIA Association, Art Press (co-editor, with Rodica Buzoianu)
 
Articles & Catalog Texts
 
2019 Elvezia Paini - une artiste italo-française méconnue et ses œuvres en Roumanie, in „Revue Roumaine d’Histoire de l’Art. Série Beaux-Arts”, tome 56, 2019, The “G. Oprescu” Art History Institute / The Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest

2019 Group Portrait of an Almost Lost Heritage, in "Revisited Cultural Heritage. Ceramics Symposium Medgidia 1971-1977", published by UMA ED ROMANIA Association, Master Print, Bucharest 
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2019 Costin Petrescu in New York: in the service of his country and of art (II), in "Studies and Research in Art History. Fine Arts, New Series", tome 9 (53) / 2019, The “G. Oprescu” Art History Institute / The Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest

2019 Catalog text of “Erotic Drawers” group show, Constanta
 
2018 Catalog text of The „Costel Badea” Symposium of Monumental Ceramics, Constanța 2018, Art Press
 
2018 Costin Petrescu in New York: in the service of his country and of art (I), in "Studies and Research in Art History. Fine Arts, New Series", tome 8 (52) / 2018, The “G. Oprescu” Art History Institute / The Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest
 
2018 Contemporary Imprints on a Millennium-Old City, in "Studies and Research in Art History. Fine Arts, New Series", tome 8 (52) / 2018, The “G. Oprescu” Art History Institute / The Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest

2016 Facets of Modernity in the 20th Century Dobrudjan Religious Painting: Nicolae Tonitza, Nina Arbore, Costin Ioanid, in "Studies and Research in Art History. Fine Arts, New Series", tome 6 (50) / 2016

2014 Viorica Coplacci - Religious Signs in Light and Metal, in "Gracious Light", no. 4 / 2014, New York

2014 Christophe Pouget – As Time Goes By – Catalog text of the solo show of Christophe Pouget, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York, January 2014
 
2013 Drew Tal – Worlds Apart – Catalog text of the solo show of Drew Tal, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York, October 2013
 
2013 Drew Tal – Facing East – Catalog text of the solo show of Drew Tal, Rezan Has Museum, Istanbul Biennial, September 2013
 
2013 Young Sam Kim – A World in the City IV – Catalog text of the solo show of Young Sam Kim, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York, April-May 2013
 
2013 Françoise Ben Arous – Zen – Catalog text of the solo show of Françoise Ben Arous, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York, February-April 2013
 
2013 Antoine Rose – Up in the Air – Catalog text of the solo show of Antoine Rose, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York, November 2012-January 2013

2013 The Metamorphoses of Eve: Ted Lawson, in "NY Arts Magazine", Winter Issue, vol. 20, New York

2012 Rembrandt and Degas. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in "Antiquities-Romania", no. 50-51, Bucharest

2011 Ştefan Luchian and Georges de Feure. Notes on original, replica, and interpretation in Art Nouveau, in "Antiquities-Romania", no. 45-46, Bucharest

2011 A Forgotten Artist: On the Lay and Religious Oeuvre of Dimitrie Marinescu, in "Pastoral Guide of the Episcopate of Tulcea", no. 3, Tulcea

2008 Poetry and Pictorial Sign: René Char and Victor Brauner, in "Universitaria", no. 5, Constanta

2003 A Symphonic Painting: the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt, in "Ex Ponto", no. 1, Constanta 

2001 Cross-Section through Atelier’35, in "Tomis", no. 5, Constanta

2001 New Painting at the Poets’ Café, in "Tomis", no. 3, Constanta

2000 Fauvism – the Fire Test (I-IV), in "Tomis", no. 5-8, Constanta​

Fellowships and Awards

2019 Prize for Art Criticism, awarded by the Romanian Fine Artists’ Union - Constanta 1 

2014 ArtSlant Winner, 2nd Showcase Contest, Abstract Category

2013 ArtSlant Winner, 8th Showcase Contest, Abstract Category

1997 UNESCO Prize, Romanian Commission Poster Contest, Costineşti, Romania

1996-1997 Mattis-Teutsch Scholarship, National Art Academy, Bucharest, Romania

1997 Selected Member of the Romanian Fine Artists’ Union

​1995 The Award of the Fine Artists’ Union - Bucharest at the Dominus Young Artists’ Competition, Bucharest, Romania

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