Iustina Banu

Using oil panting with elements of embroidery, printmaking, drawing, and a performative aspect, Iustina Banu’s art pieces together a poetic collage of her Romanian roots brushing against a western aesthetic backdrop. Autobiographical in nature, yet with an abstracted finish, Banu’s work is decorated with folkloric visions of her cultural heritage. Her figures transition elusively between the sensual and the soulful. Beneath this moving surface there lies evidence that she expects her art to offer an honest look beyond the veil of inauthenticity and into the realms of raw human emotion, universality, and the seen yet unspoken. Her art strips away all reference to the impermanence of politics and momentary preoccupations to give a naked glimpse of what it is to be human.
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​Née à Bucarest en Roumanie, Iustina Banu demeure présentement à Vancouver, au Canada. Elle détient un baccalauréat en Arts visuels de l'Université Concordia à Montréal. Durant ses études, elle a passé un an en échange international à l'Université de Hertfordshire en Angleterre.
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2017 * * Bachelor of Fine Arts – Painting & Drawing (With distinction)
* Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
* University of Hertfordshire (England, UK)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 * * Kawaii – Picaresque (Tokyo, Japan)
2019 * * Transitions トランジションズ– ICA Space (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 * * IASD Juried Dream Art Exhibition (California, USA)

OTHER ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE

2019 * * Semi-honorable mention – Art Olympia International Art Competition
(Tokyo, Japan)
2019 * * Artist Talk – Transitions トランジションズ – ICA Space
(Tokyo, Japan)
2016 * * Velvet Sisters – Public Mural
(St Albans, United Kingdom)
2014 * * Street Art
(Melbourne, Australia)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019 * * AJET Connect Magazine. C- The Art Issue 2019 #83
2017 * * International Association for the Study of Dreams. “Art Show”
2015 * * Turrill, Katrina. “Hemingway Coffee Co. leads community street art project to revamp Waddington Road, St Albans”. St Albans Review. 2nd December 2015.