George Dragomir

My art emerges directly from my own experience of oppression and displacement. I have always been interested in the dynamics between the notion of personal narrative, on the one hand, and generic concepts such as human nature, on the other. Two questions are always at the forefront of my consciousness: “What does it mean to be human?” and “What makes an event historical?” Violence and vulnerability, desire and refusal/rejection, stability and discontinuity, the conflict between reality and imagination and the desperate and often failed attempts to make sense of events are all fundamental concerns and inevitable themes. I also constantly probe the relationship between the material and the experiential to reflect on the nature and role of sculpture and of artwork’s relationship with its surrounding environment. To that extent, in my more recent work I draw on my experience with decorativism to subvert a purely aesthetic function of art and to question totalizing cultural and historical narratives

1997 - National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 - Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011 - The Slatina Art Museum, Romania
2010 - Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
2008 - Jacob Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2003 - Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2001 - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1999 - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1998 - The World Bank, Bucharest, Romania
1995 - The French Institute, Bucharest, Romania
1993 - The Slatina Art Museum, Romania

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2004 - Varley Art Gallery, Unionville, Ontario, Canada
2000 - The 5th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics, National Centre of Fine Arts, Giza, Egypt
1999 - The Municipal Art Exhibition, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
, Romania
1997 - The National Art Exhibition of Ceramics, Glass, and Metal, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1996 - The National Art Museum of Craiova, Romania
1995 - The Assos Art Foundation Exhibition, Galla Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1995 - The National Theatre Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 - T-ART Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 - Towne Square Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
2008 - Towne Square Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
2006 - John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, O...