Oana Farcas born in 1981 in Romania, lives and works in Cluj-Napoca and New York
Education
2010
Ph.D., University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2003-2005
MA, University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1999-2003
BA, University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Painting Department
Solo Exhibitions
2011
“Already Made” LARMgalleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Leurre”, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Volta7 Basel, LARMgalleri, Basel, Switzerland
Volta NY, LARMgalleri, New York, USA
2010
“Realism”, Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca
2009
“Since Then/Till Now” LARMgallery, Copenhagen
2008
“Just a glimpse” IVAN Gallery , Bucharest
2007
Preview Gallery, Cluj
2006
Kunstagenten Gallery, Berlin
2004
“Confusion” ,Atas Gallery, Cluj
2003
“Play” Bulgakov Gallery, Cluj
Group Exhibitions
2011
“The Cutting Edge” Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece
“Con Amore” (Works from Leif Djurhuus Collection) AROS, Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
“The Cutting Edge” Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
“Berlin Show #3″ Plan B Gallery, Berlin, Gemany
“New Acquisitions of the AFM Collection”, CCA Kunsthalle, Mallorca, Spain
Art Copenhagen with LARMgalleri
2010
“2 artists/2 women/ 2 visions”, Oana Farcas and Geta Bratescu, Espace Tajan, Paris
“Enrages”, Fondation Frances, Senlis, France
“Girls Just Want to Have Funds” (in Cooperation with Rema Hort Mann Foundation) P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, USA
“In The Eyes Of My Brother”, LARMgallery, Copenhagen
Art Copenhagen, with Larm Gallery
Art Brusseles , with Larm Gallery
Market, with Larm Gallery
2009
Fast Forward/ Romanian Painting Today, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Projects, Hague
Heroes and Fears, with Veres Szabolcs, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
Prague Bienal, “Staging the Grey”, curated by Jane Neal and Mihai Pop
“Commune”, curated by Dominique Nahas, Black and White Gallery, New York (USA)
“Le mirroir brise”, Viena Art Fair, with Ivan Gallery
2008
Romanian Art Today, Espace Tajan, Paris
15 Romanian and Hungarian Painters, curated by Jane Neal and Plan-B, Plan-B, Cluj Napoca
Preview Berlin, with Ivan Gallery
Show Off , with Ivan Gallery
2007
“Here/There”, Opaq Gallery, Jacksonville/Florida(USA)
2006
…A la Cluj / Galeria UNA Bucharest(RO)
“Retinal/Seduction”, Brukhental Museum, Sibiu /Museum of Contemporary Art, Miercurea-Ciuc/Casa Matei,Cluj-Napoca/ Anaid Art Gallery Bucharest
“Europa Artium”, Under Construction Space, Cluj-Napoca
2005
Love / Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Nantes
Images of You / “L.O.V.E.”, Nantes
I Love pictura / Under Costruction Space, Cluj-Napoca
2004
Brilliant / University of Arts and Design Cluj,Painting Department
Shoe Polish / Atas Gallery Cluj-Napoca
Intercrossed Workshop / Espace Cosmopolis, Nantes (F)
2003
University of Art and Design Cluj / Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana (SLO)
Black Underground / Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca
Untitled / National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca
Bibliography
Paul Lester, “Armory Art Week; day 5,6 and 7”, Flavorwire, march 10, 2009
Joao Ribas “Being Alive: Susan and Michael Hort’, FlashArtonline, February 2009
Modernedition.com, Romanian Contemporary Art:The Cluj School Of Painting, 2010
Carola Rosca, “Ona Farcas”, Timeout Bucharest, nr 55, 8-14.02.2008
“Atelier Deschis”, 2006
“Figurativ si figura in arta romaneasca tanara” catalogue for “Retinal/Seduction” exhibition, 2006
“Paintings “1999-2004”, catalogue published by University of Arts and Design Cluj,Painting Department, 2004
Public Collections
Museum 21C Louisville Kentucky, USA
Taubmann Museum of Art, Virginia, USA
Fondation Frances, Senlis, Paris, France
Susan and Michael Hort Collection, New York
Art Foundation Mallorca (AFM), Spain
Private collections
Ole Faarup Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
Aegidius Collection, Luxembourg and Denmark
Rodica Seward, Paris, France
Detlefs Collection, Denmark
Leif Djuurhus Collection, Denmark