Available Works
Biography
Ioana Băltan (b. Dragomirești, Dâmbovița) lives and works în London. She attended The National University of Arts, Bucharest, where she obtained a BA in painting in 2015. The same year, Băltan obtained the Teaching Training Department's BA degree issued by the same institution. She continued her studies at The Brera Fine Arts Academy Milan with a scholarship and got an MA Degree in Strategies of Creation in Painting released by the National University of Arts Bucharest.
Băltan's paintings reveal her strong preoccupation with contemporary approaches to the female figure. Her large-scale compositions are thought of as a body of visual research on portraying feminine archetypes with a strong focus on how these subjects were depicted over time as angelic beauty icons, grotesque monsters, or recently as animated plastic simulacra. Ioana's urban goddesses are surrounded by fantastic landscapes decorated with cosmic elements, and wild fauna all of them surrounded by artificial lights.
Education
MA, Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, 2016-2017
Press
2023, Women: From Unicorns to Pets, Artmajeur Magazine
2022, Issue no 2 Tendencies in Painting, London Paint Club
Exhibitions
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts Painting, National University of Arts, Bucharest - 2012-2015
Bachelor’s Degree in Teaching Training Department, National University of Arts Bucharest - 2012-2015
Master’s Degree Scholarship in Fine Arts, Brera Fine Arts Academy Milan - 2016-2017
Master’s Degree in Strategies of Creation in Painting, National University of Arts Bucharest -2015-2017
Postgraduate Scholarship - Gallery Assistant in Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London - 2018
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Fantastyfrolia - A Painted Tale with Tints of Marzipan, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest 2024
Feast of the Immortals, Maggio Art Consultancy x Artsy, online, 2023
Anima Damnata, Go Contemporary Gallery, solo show, Bucharest, 2015
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The passerby who stays, group show, Koppel X, London, 2023.
Selected vol 2, London Paint Club, group show, Koppel X, London, 2022.
Arte Vi.Ve, Biennale of Viterbo, group show, Venice, 2022.
Tendencies in Painting, London Paint Club, group show, online, 2022.
Metaverse x Maggio Art Consultancy, London, 2022.
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2020-2021
Look at me for the last time, Elite Art Gallery, Bucharest, 2019.
Alpha-Theta, Art number 23, group show, London, 2019.
Group exhibition, Candid Art Trust, London, 2018.
Art Safari Exhibition, Go Contemporary Gallery pavilion, Dacia Palace, group show, Bucharest, 2016.
Art Safari Go Contemporary Gallery Dacia Palace, Artist Presentation Bucharest, 2016.