Eduard Andrei

Eduard Andrei is a visual artist and art historian with a cross-cultural life experience. Born in Romania, he lived in New York for six years (2012-2018) and in Tunis for two years (2002-2004).

Work Experience:
2014-2018: Programs Manager at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, NY (USA);
2013: Gallery Assistant at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in New York, NY (USA);
2007-2012: Lecturer in European Art History, Romanian Art History, and Painting Techniques at Ovidius University of Constanta (Romania), Department of Visual Arts.
Member of the Romanian Fine Artists' Association (since 1997).

I consider my paintings to be on the edge between tradition and post-modernity: operating with the traditional means of painting, I often use two types of collage: in a postmodern key, the collage of citations from previous art, on the one hand, and the collage of various materials, on the other hand, but avoiding the excesses which sometimes characterize contemporary art.

One of the recurrent motifs of my work is the tower, seen from various perspectives, but with the same symbolic value: the artists secluded tower in a world which seems both uninhabited and inhospitable; a vertical bridge between sky and earth with religious ...

2006-2011 National University of Arts - Bucharest, Romania - Ph.D. in Art History. Late 19th century and early 20th century Christian mural painting and architecture in the Dobrudjan, Romanian, and European contexts – between identity and alterity;
2002-2004 Université de Tunis, Institut Supérieur de Beaux-Arts - Tunisia - M.A. in Sciences et Techniques des Arts;
1991-1997 National Academy of Art - Bucharest, Romania - B.A. from the Visual Arts Department / Painting.

Solo Art Shows: 2011-Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA (haiga exhibition with Sonia Coman; 2008-Palace Art Gallery, Constantza, Romania; 2007-Novotel City Centre, Bucharest, Romania; 2000-Romanian Fine Artists' Association Gallery, Mamaia, Romania; 1999-Interarte Center, Constantza, Romania; 1995-Friedrich Schiller Cultural Institute, Bucharest, Romania.

Selected Group Art Shows: 2016-Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY, USA; 2011-Peter Louis Gallery, New York, NY, USA; Chelsea Room, New York, NY, USA; 2009-Exhibition of the Fine Artists' Association of Constanta, Trojan, Bulgaria; 2008-Exhibition of Romanian Artists, Rotary District Conference, Southport, UK; Constanta Art Gallery, Romania; Exhibition-installation "Sourcebook", Carpenter Center, Harvard College, MA, USA; 2006-National Art Salon-Parliament, "Constantin Brancusi" Hall, Bucharest, Romania; 2003-Galerie Mille Feuilles-La Marsa, Tunisia; Palais Essaada-La Marsa, Tunisia; 2000-International Salon of Small Engravings-Carbunari, Romania.
Awards: 1997-UNESCO Prize, Romanian Commission's Poster Contest, Costinesti, Romania; 1996-1997-Mattis-Teutsch Scholarship, the National Academy of Art, Bucharest, Romania; 1995-The Award of the Fine Artists' Association, the Young Arti...