Diana Roman

I am an art critic, M.A in art history at The National University of Arts, Bucharest. I had graduated in 1995, and had worked as a curator at the National Museum of Art, Romania. Besides that, I also curate contemporary art exhibits and I am very interested in contemporary art, mainly painting, sculpture, graphic arts and photography.
I was the curator of the Crinul Group, the first group of young painters formed after the Revolution in 1989.

1990-1995 Art History, UNARTE
1993-1995 - Modern and Contemporary American Art course held by professor Ann Albritton, within the program Civic Education Project, Soros Foundation for Open Society
1997 - Study scholarship offered by the Italian Government in Rome, July
1998 - international workshop on “Contemporary Art in the International Context of Museums and Exhibitions” organized by Kultur Kontakt Austria and Institut fur Kulturwiessenschaft Viena, Austria

Professional Activity:
-1994 – the opening of the Painting class students’ exhibition (professor Vladimir Zamfirescu);
- 1995 – participating to the curatorial team of the exhibition „Out of surface” – Petru Lucaci, MNAR
- 1996 – curator of the exhibition “Contemporary South Korean Art”, MNAR
- 1996 – participating to the curatorial team of the exhibition “Contemporary Art from South of France”, MNAR
- 1996 – participating to the curatorial team of the Ingo Glass solo show, MNAR
- 1996 – participating to the curatorial team of the Ion Bitzan solo show, MNAR
-1996 – curator of the “Crinul” Group painting exhibition, Curtea Veche, Bucharest –
-1997 – participating to the curatorial team of the retrospective exhibition of the painter Horia Bernea, MNAR;
-1997 – the opening of a group exhibition of glass art and graphic art, “Căminul Artei / Parter” Gallery, Bucharest
-1997 – curator of the “Crinul” Group painting exhibition, “Cuhnia” Gallery, The National Center Mogoşoaia
- 1997 – co-curator of the exhibition “Concrete Results” / Concrete Art, MNAR
- 1997 – participating to the curatorial team of the Diet Sayler exhibition, MNAR
-1998 – curator of the “Crinul” Group painting exhibition, The “Archaeus” International Mu...