Dorian Radu

Dorian Radu is a professional artist from London with over 16 years of experience. His paintings have been displayed in multiple major exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Wallace Collection, Mall Galleries, Royal Scottish Academy, or the Compton Verney Gallery. Some of his works currently sit in prestigious collections acknowledged and appraised by Sotheby’s.
Dorian also is specialised in corporate and private portrait commissions, with a vast portfolio that includes eminent figures such as Art Dealer Philip Mould OBE, Actors Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Matthew Goode and Ray Winstone, cricket legend Brian Lara, Prince Nicholas de Medforth-Mills of Romania, Trevor Nelson MBE, amongst others.
Even though most of his oil paintings are either medium or large-sized, Dorian is also the winner of The Gold Memorial Bowl, the most prestigious award in the world for miniature painting, which can be won by an artist only once in a lifetime and which is given during the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Annual Exhibition. As a result, Dorian became a member of the aforementioned society, which is under the patronage of HM King Charles III.
Media appearances include the Portrait...

Kingston University London

TV APPEARANCES

2020: Sky Artist of the Week (Invited artist- Broadcasted on Sky Arts)
2020: Sky Portrait Artist of the Year TV Show, on Sky Arts and Channel 4
2019: Sky Portrait Artist of the Year TV Show, on Sky Arts and Channel 4

EXHIBITIONS

2025
- Green and Stone Summer Exhibition, Chelsea, London, UK
- London Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK

2024
- Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2023
- Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
- Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, Banskide Gallery, London, UK

2022
- Best of Sky Portrait Artist of the Year - 10 year Anniversary Exhibition, Compton Verney Gallery, UK

2020
- Royal Society of Miniature Painters Exhibition
- Sky Portrait Artist of the Year Exhibition, Battersea Arts Centre, London

2019
- Royal Society of Miniature Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
- Sky Portrait Artist of the Year TV Show, on Sky Arts and Channel 4
- Sky Portrait Artist of the Year Exhibition, Wallace Collection, London
- Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA), RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
- Signature Art Prize Exhibition, The Bankside Hotel (Autograph Collection), London
- Signature Art Pr...