Cristian Stefanescu

Cristian Stefanescu is a British multidisciplinary artist whose practice centres on photography and investigates the unstable territory between perception and what we consider to be reality. Working across photography and other visual forms, he considers how images are constructed, how meaning is projected onto them, and what they might reveal about the nature of consciousness and existence.

Stefanescu’s approach to image-making has developed alongside an unusual professional trajectory. Trained in engineering and having spent more than a decade in academia as a Senior Lecturer before moving into information technology and consultancy, he came to art through a sustained engagement with systems, structures and ways of understanding the world. Art and photography have been part of his life since his teenage years, gradually becoming the central means through which these questions could be pursued.

His work moves between the visible and what the mind brings to it. An image can begin with something recognisable and become a way of asking what it means to recognise anything at all. Perception becomes both subject and method: what we see, what we expect to see, and what we unconsciously add to what is in front of us. His photographs an...

2020 - 'Sand and Water', Solo Exhibition, Romanian Cultural Institute in London, United Kingdom (upcoming)
2020 - Arsenale of Venice, 'Arte Laguna Art Prize', Venice, Italy (upcoming)
2019 - ’Summer Exhibition', New Artist Fair London, The Old Truman Brewery, London, United Kingdom
2019 - 'The Other Art Fair London', Art Fair by Saatchi Art, London, United Kingdom
2019 - ‘In Between’, Open Studio Solo Exhibition, Stanmore, Greater London, United Kingdom
2019 - 'Black and White', The Motif Collective Photography Gallery Online, Florida, FL, USA
2019 - '3rd Annual Black & White' Art Exhibition, Fusion Art Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, USA
2019 - 'Reflexions' Art Exhibition, The Motif Collective Photography Gallery Online, Florida, FL, USA
2019 - '2nd Black & White' Art Exhibition, Art Room Online Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019 - '4th Annual Artist's Choice' Art Exhibition, Fusion Art Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, USA
2019 - 'Cityscape Photography x Filter', Marumi Photo Contest & Online Exhibition, Nagano, Japan
2019 - '10th Annual Abstracts Art' Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Jupiter, FL, USA
2019 - 'All Cityscape' Art Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, Annapolis, MD, USA
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