Sasha Meret

Award winning multi-media artist Sasha Meret was born in Romania in 1955, of Romanian and Russian parents. In his early years he lived in Moscow, Russia and later mostly in Bucharest, Romania. Since February 1987 he lives and works in New York City. From the very beginnings in his career as an artist he was ready to experiment with a wide range of materials and techniques. Painting, drawing, photography intersected with printmaking techniques like: intaglio, woodcut, aquatint or mono-type. Working in a variety of styles, from representational to abstract his imagery reflected his spiritual explorations, blending European, African, Asian, and esoteric symbolism in a highly personal visual language. He alternates figuration with abstraction in search for a balance between ideas and emotions. His main sources are his extensive readings on a wide variety of subjects as history, mythology, philosophy, literature and physics.

In 2003 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. After the initial shock he rallied, refocused and sorted out his priorities and his work took a very different and surprising turn. Realizing that when he is in creative mode his PD symptoms practically disappeared, he became a workaholic. A combination of a larg...

He started his art education at an early age, in Bucharest, Romania enrolled in a special program for the gifted continuing his studies at the Fine Arts Lyceum "N. Tonitza". After graduating with a BA he got a master in Economics, while continuing his art studies privately. After his arrival in New York in 1987 he studied printmaking at Columbia University while working as an illustrator for The New York Times and other major publications.

Selected group and solo shows

http://madmuseum.org/sites/default/files/static/ed/SweptAway%20TRP_0.pdf

http://manacontemporary.com/exhibitions-2012-cynthia-reeves

http://www.icrny.org/466-SASHA_MERET_Domestic_Ceremonial_Artifact.html

http://sashameret.com/art/newwork/shows.html

http://artdaily.com/news/90714/The-Lehman-College-Art-Gallery-presents--Bedazzled-#.WcqGlciGMZU


newyorkarts-exchange.blogspot.com/2017/06/...fountain-sasha-
meret.html

2018 May/June - Artist in Residence/Center for research in creativity and cultural innovation (Transilvania University)

2018 June/July - Processions for Vanishing Parts (sculpture/assemblage/instalations) Multicultural Center (TU) Gallery / Brasov/ Romania

2018 October - Neonlitic (sculpture /assemblages/installatons) - Romanian Cultural Institute /Bucharest / Romania

2018 December - 2019 January - "Meta - Mythical Fusions" - IF Museum, Easton Pa.

Artist in Residence at IF Museum/Academy, Easton, PA