Email: studio@cpaula.com / studio@paulacraioveanu.com
Biography:
Paula Craioveanu is a Romanian artist, born in 1976. She grew up surrounded by art and inspiration, in a family of artists. Trained in Bucharest and New York as an architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist.
At the age of 16, Paula Craioveanu moved to New York, where she came in contact with New York’s vibrant art scene, she graduated from high school and then studied at Parsons School of Design. Then she moved back to Romania where she studied for the next 6 years at the Architecture University in Bucharest and graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2000. In 2013 she earned a Ph.D in Visual Arts at the University of Arts in Bucharest with the theme “Geometry of Space in 17th century Dutch painting”. After this, she dedicated her full time to art, and showed her talent to the art world.
Paula Craioveanu works in acrylic and oil paints, but also pen and ink or tempera works on paper. She regularly participates in shows and exhibitions in galleries along the East and West Coast of the United States, like bG Gallery Santa Monica, Dacia Gallery and Perseus Gallery in New York.
Paula Craioveanu’s work is featured on the two most exclusive online art marketplaces, 1stDibs and Artsy.
Over the course of 20 years, Paula Craioveanu has created several painting series: “Abstract”, “Interiors”, “Nude in Interior”, “NeoMythology”. Paula Craioveanu’s work has been placed in private collection around the world, both in Europe and in the United States.
Today, Paula Craioveanu has set up studios and works in Bucharest and New York.
Next: Works on display – December 2024, Context Art Miami.
Education:
- Ph D in Visual Arts, University of Arts Bucharest, with thesis “Geometry of Interior Space in Dutch Painting of the 17th century”, 2013
- University of Architecture Bucharest, 1994-2000
- Parsons School of Design, New York, 1993-1994
- Arts Student League, New York, 1992-1993
Professional affiliations:
- Member of Romanian Artists Union (UAP).
- Member of National Association of Women Artists, NAWA, NY, the oldest professional women’s fine arts organization in the United States, founded in 1889, since 2017
Publications:
Book “ Bucharest – Portrait of a City”, art and architecture photography, 2 editions -2010, 2011
Solo Shows
-2024 Visul Reginei, Muzeul Peles, Sinaia, Romania
-2023 Mitologii Subiective, Muzeul Mogosoaia, Romania
-2022 Under the Sea, Galeria El Deco, Bucharest, Romania
-2022 Nude in Interior, Galeria Orizont, Bucharest, Romania-2020, Neo Mitologie, Galeria Dizainar, Bucharest, Romania
-2020 Incontri Urbani, Paula Craioveanu & Nicola Darco, Galeria Occidentului, Bucharest, Romania
-2018-2019, Perspective mitologice, IQOS space, Bucharest, Romania
-2015, Introspecții, Paula si Emil Craioveanu, Galeria UAP, Ploiești,
-2014, Între două lumi, Librăria Cărturești, Bucharest, Romania
-2012, Bucureștiul vechi în detalii, Institutul Cultural Român, Bucharest, Romania|
-2010, București – Portretul unui oraș, Galeria Gold Art, Bucharest, Romania
-2009-2010, Spații, Paula și Vasile Craioveanu, Galeria Gold Art, Bucharest, Romania
-2009, Interioare, Galeria Galateea, (UAP), Bucharest, Romania
-2008, Interioare, Galeria Gold Art, Bucharest, Romania
-2007, Veneţia şi Verona, Anticariatul Sigma, Bucharest, Romania
-2005, Nuduri, Sanoma Hearst Romania, Bucharest, Romania
-2000, Fotografie, National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania
Group Shows
-2023, 134th Annual Members Exhibition, NAWA, New York, One Art Space, Tribeca, June 16 – July 1
-2023, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, Spectrum Gestalt 2023, June 10 – July 5
-2023, Informationary, May 27 – June 23, 2023, LAAA, Los Angeles, online show
-2023 MOBU art fair, May 19-28, Bucharest
-2023 Los Angeles Art Show Modern + Contemporary, with bG Gallery, LA Convention Center, February 15 – 19, CA, USA
-2022 133rd Annual NAWA Members Exhibition, October 14-29, One Art Space, Tribeca, New York, NY, USA
-2022 Los Angeles Art Show Modern + Contemporary, with bG Gallery, LA Convention Center, January 19 – 23, CA, USA
-2021 Ceremonial, Gallery 825, online show, Los Angeles, CA, USA
-2021 NAWA, 132nd Annual Members Exhibition, Open Art Space, Tribeca NY, USA
-2021 Portrete, Muzeul Literaturii Romane, Bucuresti, Romania-2021, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, – Rising Stars of 2021, June 5th- 26th
-2021, bG Gallery Santa Monica, – NFT Art: Fresh Mint, Genesis Collection of first time drops by NFT Artists, April 4th
-2020, Aurora, online, Los Angeles Art Association, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
-2020, Touch, bG Gallery, online, Santa Monica, CA
-2020, Grafica Romaneasca 2020, Galeria Caminul Artei (UAP), Bucharest
-2020, New Nude 2, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
-2020, 131st Annual Members Online Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
-2020, Non-Sequitur, online, Los Angeles Art Association, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
-2020, Field of Vision, online, Los Angeles Art Association, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
-2020, Gleaming Apollo, online, Los Angeles Art Association, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
-2020, Seclusion Art Show, online, Los Angeles Art Association, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
-2020, Small Works Winter 2020, 2020, NAWA Gallery, New York, NY
-2020, Fresh Honey & Rising Stars, 2020, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
-2020 Reflectii, U Art Gallery, Bucharest
-2019, Salonul Național de Pictură, Galeria Căminul Artei, Bucharest
-2019, Grafica Romanească 2019, Galeria Căminul Artei, Bucharest
-2019, Sinteze, Muzeul Municipiului București, Palatul Sutu, Bucharest
-2019, Portal, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
-2019, Body Parts, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
-2019, Generations, National Theatre, Bucharest
-2019, Human Image, Broward Art Guild, Fort Lauderdale, FL
-2019, Spring Fling Salon, Broward Art Guild, Fort Lauderdale, FL
-2019, Women Power in Art, Castelul Cantacuzino, Bușteni, RO
-2019, Nude Art LA, Cooper Design Space, Los Angeles, CA
-2018-2019, Open, Gallery 825, LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
-2018, Grafica Romaneasca 2018, Galeria Caminul Artei, Bucharest
-2018, Salonul Medieval, Biblioteca Națională, Bucharest
-2018, 129th Annual Members’ Exhibition, 2018, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
-2018, Nude Art LA, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
-2018, Inter Portrait Show – Gestalt Project Space/ bG Gallery Santa Monica, CA
-2018, Circular, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
-2018, Mostra d’Arte Contemporanea, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italia
-2018, Filoli Unlocked, Black & White Photography Exhibition, Filoli Estate, Woodside, CA
-2017, New Members’ Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
-2017, Grafica Romaneasca 2017, Căminul Artei, Bucharest
-2017, Salonul National de Artă Medievala, Biblioteca Națională, Bucharest
-2017, Spiritu Vivae, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
-2016, Ward Nasse Gallery, Soho, New York, NY
-2015, Grafica Romanească 2015, Căminul Artei, Bucharest
-2015, Salonul Temeiuri, Parliament, Bucharest
-2013-2014, Frânturi de lume, U-Art Gallery, Bucharest
-2013, Casa în pictura românească, Museum of the City of Bucharest
-2013, Salonul artelor – Temeiuri, Palatul Parlamentului, Bucharest
-2013, Bucureștiul vechi în detalii – White Night of Photography 2013
-2013, Francofonia 2013, National Library, Bucharest architecture photography
-2012, Balcic. Repere ale spiritualității românești, Museum of Old Books and Maps, Bucharest
-2011, Salonul mic – Fantasme, Galeria Căminul Artei,(UAP) Bucharest
-2010, Salonul municipal de artă medievală, Curtea Veche, Old Court, Bucharest
-2010, Salonul național de artă decorativă, Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest
-2007, Tineri pictori români la Balcic, Museum of the City of Bucharest, Șuțu Palace, , Bucharest
-2006, Balcic – Inima reginei Maria, Biblioteca Centrală Universitară, Bucharest
-2006, Why We Gather, Time Square Gallery, New York
-2004, World Trade Center, Bucharest
-2002, Works on Paper, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York
-2001, Photo 2001, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York
For architectural projects, see my other website:
www.paulacraioveanu.com
Artist Statement
“I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in colour and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings.”
Paula Craioveanu