Maria Oancea

Maria I. Oancea is an artist who simply adores playing with the sensorial quality of art. Suggestion is both her mastery and one of her greater joys. Another is the human form, the organic lines and structures of motion and of life. The irresistible irrepressible feeling of life pulsating within.
Her works dwell on the fragile and voluptuous tension between content and form. Her main purpose, wish and challenge is to test art's possibility to produce enthusiasm - a brutal and tempestuous desire to live. It is therefore a Dionysian art that captures and merges and draws on one aspect that is Apollonian: the figurative.
Maria I. Oancea's works and style have been associated with those of Francis Bacon, Toulouse Lautrec and Ernst Kirchner, influences that she finds extremely honoring.

Currently PhD candidate at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, with a thesis on the immersive quality of art regarded through a parallel between literature and visual art and their respective techniques and captatio strategies (The Spiral and the Mirror. Means of Bridging the Distance Between Art and Public)
2018 Master's Degree in Graphic Art at the UNArte National University of Art in Bucharest
2016 Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Art at the UNArte National University of Art in Bucharest
2019 Master's Degree in Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest
2016 Bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest

May - June 2021 - "Joie de vivre" Solo Art Show at the „Casa Simian” Museum of Art, Râmnicu Vâlcea


1 Aug – 30 Sept 2022 – Bienala internațională de Arte Grafice „Constantin Brâncuși”, Muzeul Național „Constantin Brâncuși”, Târgu Jiu
1 July – 30 July 2022 – Salon internațional ediția IX „Semn Mocnit. Însemn Mocnit. Însemn Mocnit. Mocnit” Organizat de UAPR Filiala Satu Mare și Muzeul de Artă Satu Mare
28 mai – Premiul II la Concursul internațional de arte plastice „Martha Bibescu” organizat de Asociatia Pro Valores și Centrul Cultural Palatele Brâncovenești
3 nov – 1 dec 2021– Salonul Național de Artă Contemporană (SNAC), Galeria Simeza
5 – 14 iulie 2021 – Grafica tânără, Galeria Simeza, București
12 dec 2020 - 30 ian 2021 - Expoziția „What’s next ?”, Neoart center, galeria Galateca, București, cu lucrarea „Reversibil-Ireversibil”
27 oct - 22 nov 2020 - Salonul anual „Artiști Plastici sătmareni și invitații lor ”, ediția a VIIa „Semn fereastră, în semn fereastră, ferestra semn, fereastra în semn”, Muzeul de Artă, Satu Mare
10 oct - 30 nov 2020 - Bienala internațională de artă contemporană „Ion Andreescu”,
ediția a XII-a, Buzău
14 iul 2020 – Expoziția aniversară „MICUL PRINȚ”, ediția a XXV-a, Muzeul de Artă, Satu...