
About
I am an artist driven by the intricate interplay of text and image in our media-saturated world. My work, influenced by a diverse range of cultures experienced through global exhibitions and residencies, delves into the complexities of human experience. Through various mediums, I aim to explore the essence of the female artist, weaving a narrative that transcends boundaries.
As the co-founder and editor-in-chief of ETAJ magazine, I advocate for artists to shape their own narratives. My book, "The Field. IL Y A," now housed in the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania, exemplifies my commitment to pushing artistic boundaries. I am dedicated to furthering my exploration through a Ph.D. thesis on text-image relationships. Each project I undertake is a piece of a larger puzzle, expanding and enriching the artistic universe I have crafted.
Contact Details
ioana.niculescu.aron@gmail.com
Horia Macelariu 26, Bucharest, Romania
+40 722 657 999
Education
Ph.D. in Visual Arts
"Text - Image in Media Environment"
The National University of Arts
Bucharest, Romania
- present (expected to end in )
Ph.D. Erasmus Scholarship
Faculty of Fine Arts - Brno University of Technology
Brno, Czech Republic
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Masters in Creative Strategies in Painting
The National University of Arts
Bucharest, Romania
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Masters Erasmus Scholarship
HEAR Strasbourg-Mulhouse (Haute Ecole des arts du Rhin)
France
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Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, Painting Department
The National University of Arts
Bucharest, Romania
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Bachelor's Erasmus Scholarship
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
Milan, Italy
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Selected Exhibitions
A House, A Home
2Meta Museum, Slon,
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
MNTRplusC, Bucharest,
Confession
ETAJ artist-run space, Bucharest,
Transversal
1001 Arte Gallery, Bucharest,
Notes of a Painter
Europe Gallery, Brasov,
IELE 2
Sun Plaza Atrium, Bucharest,
3D HOTEL (The Third)
Alina Buga Art Studio, Regensburg,
IELE
The Art of Living Gallery, Bucharest,
November
Romanian Cultural Institute, New York,
Equilibrium
Artifact Gallery, New York,
MEREU: 8 Rue Seveste, 75018 Paris
Europe Gallery, Brasov,
MEREU: 8 Rue Seveste, 75018 Paris
Go Contemporary Gallery, Bucharest,
Solo Exhibitions
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Tower of Strength
WASP Gallery, Bucharest,
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Sibiu Contemporary Art Festival
Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu,
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Neo Art Connect
BRD Rezidenta 9, Bucharest,
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Young Blood 2.0
Art Safari, Bucharest,
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SNAC
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MANC), Bucharest,
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Doctoral research exhibition
UNAgaleria, Bucharest,
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Art Safari
Superheroes/Antiheroes, Bucharest,
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Art in Progress
The Institute, Bucharest,
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Ne cheamă lele. E un cuvânt fără singular
Manasia Hub, Bucharest,
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Book as Revolution
European International Book Art Biennale, Carei,
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Museum of Broken Relationships
Scena9, Bucharest,
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Remembering Rembrandt
1001 Arte Gallery, Bucharest,
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From Painting to Life
Chaosoms Art Space, Athens,
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Laborna & Friends
Laborna Gallery, Bucharest,
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Artrooms Fair
Melia White House, London,
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Squares
CICA Museum, Seoul,
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Present Perfect Continuous
Zverev Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow,
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Cold Cases
Old Police Cells Museum, Brighton,
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Measures
The Art Vacancy Gallery, New York City,
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Bosom Bodies: An Exhibition in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
SIA Gallery, Peekskill (NY),
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New Artists
ARCUB Gallery, Bucharest,
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Help Hope Nepal Mural
Contemporary Art Projects USA, SPECTRUM Miami, Booth 315, Miami,
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ABSTRACT
Zero Gallery, Barcelona,
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Dream Art - Salvador Dali' Museum
Berlin,
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International Contemporary Art
Centrale ENEL Taccani, Trezzo sull'Adda, Milan,
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Peoples
Sebastopol Centre for the Arts, Galleria Il, California,
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Does the power seduce the soul?!
City Business Centre, Building C, Timisoara,
Group Exhibitions
Editorial Projects
ETAJ MAGAZINE
- present
Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the ETAJ magazine, the first art magazine from Romania coordinated and written by the artists themselves. Graphic Concept of the ETAJ magazine.
5 ARTISTS INTERVIEWS: THE OPEN CALL #2
One of the artists selected for this book project, initiated by Kim Egnelen, independently published, ISBN 979-8714886768
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Published by the Triade Foundation, Timisoara, now part of the Collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania
LOVE & POLITICS The Chapter "February 2017. Art is Life"
Published in this collective volume, Freigeist Publishing House, ISBN: 978-3-947764-00-6
Awards
Neo Art Connect
Bucharest,
Exhibition Prize
JUXTA Foundation,
Mother artist sponsorship provided monthly by the JUXTA Foundation
- present
Brâncuși Award
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris,
Collections
JUXTFoundation
Bucharest, Romania
Fortunescu Collection
Bucharest, Romania
Bertrand Klein Collection
Mulhouse, France
Jacques Deguille Collection
Mulhouse, France
Beth Campbell Collection
Miami, USA
The Museum of The National University of Arts Collection
Bucharest, Romania
Selected Articles and Interviews
Timpul Magazine
Illustrated with the artworks of loana Aron, text by the art historian Magda Carneci
Timpul Online Magazine
Article written by the curator Mălina Lonescu
Article written by Alexandra Nistoroiu about loana Aron's solo exhibition, Confession
Vice magazine
Interview by Ruxandra Maian
Observatorul Cultural nr. 1069,7
Interview
Not Random Art nr. 08
Interview
References
The project titled Dans Ma Rue that loana Aron develops is a complex artistic process that becomes gradually a site-specific art place. The artist researches, in a feminist key, issues related to emigration, multiculturalism, gender, and the presence of the female artist in the cultural destiny of a center of European / Universal culture, Paris. Her works of painting, drawing, object, and video live in a coherently thought architecture, and capture, holistically, and poetically, with a lot of plastic virtuosity, accompanied by artistic maturity, existential, inner/outer cityscape, an etat d'ame of the city.
In her ambitious installation project, Dans Ma Rue, Ms. Aron invites us to consider just that - which Paris belongs to which immigrants whose Parisian experience became their homes, and ineluctably influenced their art, their lives, and their place in art history. She has focused on only immigrant women artists, as she too is a woman artist shaped by her Parisian sojourns, short and long. In essence, she hopes we can appreciate the sense of community that develops as the artist finds friends and establishes Parisian bonds. These localized environments characterize a specificity that becomes the Paris of one's consciousness, the Paris that germinates and develops from within.
What I found interesting in her approach is the fact that, without completely renouncing the figurative, she incorporates it in tense abstract structures, where the collage with elements apparently taken from outwardly, refers to an unfettered and courageous self. introspection. Her works are a kind of assemblage of various techniques, which work together to give the impression of an assumed drama honest and intelligently displayed. Besides, loana Aron is also an interesting writer of a journal, in which the research of one's own psyche and the exploration of its formulation is as close as possible to the real intensity and as expressive as possible manifests an impressive self-search for a man young man.
When talking about loana Aron's persona, the first thing to notice is her young age, seen in contraposition with her utterly long resumé. She started as a prodigy and, during her university years, she was constantly traveling, exploring, visiting schools and studios. Her unsettled spirit and nomadic character make her art complicated, and aerial, yet unfinished.
She uses herself in relation to daily experiences, trying to absorb everything that makes her senses vibrate. Sometimes, from too much enthusiasm, she blends everything in the same pot, making the discourse hard to decipher. Nevertheless, she delivers a lot - paintings, drawings, objects, installations, collages, letters, videos, and poetry. Her gaze towards the others is surprised and innocent, even when she explores mature sides of womanliness, sexuality, or light psychoanalysis. She drives her ideas towards a romantic duality, transcribed in common keywords, such as the Good and the Bad, the Fairy and the Slut, the Seen and the Unseen, etc.
Paintings of the artist loana Aron reveal her great interest in the connection between art and society in rare creativity and in fascinating artistic combinations of clarity with abstract areas that blur places or identities. Ioana Aron enlists her passion, professionalism, and experience through palette of colours and black and white that are translated into stains and lines that create tension and interactions between them. Her works are original and mesmerize the viewer because they manage to convey emotion and interest.