Alice Helen Zigman

•About Me – Personal Statement
My practice is a form of breathing.
I grew up drawing before I learned how to explain myself in words. Long before I understood language, I understood line, shape, rhythm, sound, and silence. Drawing became my first way of listening to life, of translating inner movement into visible form. Since then, every work has been a continuation of this dialogue between what is felt and what can be seen. I create because this is how I exist in the world.
My work explores the intersection of realism, surrealism, abstraction, figuration, and symbolic language, searching for spaces where meaning is not fixed, but fluid. I am interested in the moment when perception shifts — when the eye hesitates, when the image becomes a threshold between the visible and the invisible. Through layered forms, depth volumes, anamorphoses, and optical tensions, I invite the viewer to question what seems stable and to enter a state of quiet awareness.
My works carry fragments of inner landscapes: emotions, states of mind, memories, psychological meanings, social aspects, awareness, introspection, and unspoken questions. I see art as a sensory language — a way of making sound visible and color audible, of translating feeling into stru...

•Specialized studies at the National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Design and Decorative Arts
-Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Graphic Design, and Marketing
-Master’s Degree in Visual Communication and Graphic Design

•Specialized studies at Académie des Beaux-Arts, Tournai, Belgium
Master’s Degree in Animation Film, Video, and Media

•High School of Fine Arts, Hans Mattis Teutsch Of Brasov, Romania

Personal and family exhibitions:
• 2025 – Apollonia Cultural Centre, Brașov, Romania
• 2024 – Apollonia Cultural Centre, Brașov, Romania
• 2017–2025 – Europe Gallery, UAP, Brașov, Romania
• 2011-2012, "Corona" complex, Brașov, Romania
• 2010, "Ochian Gallery", Brașov, Romania
• 2009, Europe gallery, UAP, Brașov
• 2008, Reduta Cultural Center, Brașov
• 1992,”Arici Pogonici”,TVS, TV Channel, Brașov

Group exhibitions:
• 2008–2026 – Europe Gallery, UAP, Brașov, Romania
• 2024 Cotroceni Museum, Bucharest, Romania
• 2023 Museum of Art, Brasov, Romania
• 2019, Blue Biennial, Brașov
• 2018 Salon Gallery ”Europe” U.A.P Brașov
• 2017 ”Blue„ Gallery, Brașov
• 2015 ”Animation Exhibition”, Tournai, Belgium
• 2014 ”Animation Exhibition”, Tournai, Belgium
• 2015, Europe Refresh, Inovative Design Convention, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
• 2015, Europe Refresh, Innovative Design Convention, Les Halles, Brussels,Belgium
(“Reflect” project-concept selected and presented at Europe Refresh International Contest, Innovative Design Convention, Brussels and Paris)
• 2014 ”Art in White Tower”, Brașov
• 2013 ”UNArte” student exhibition on a national tour
• 2012 ”Atelier 15”, ”Europe Gallery”, UAP,2012 ”Donaris Fest”, Giurgiu
• 2011, 2008, "Europe Gal...