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Delia POPA is one of the most relevant contemporary Romanian artists of her generation. Her feminist art includes painting, drawing and prints, installation, video and performance. Her current research focuses on the representation of landscape and local topography in relation to ecological awareness, rurality and agriculture.
She is the co-founder and leader of ArtCrowd – Artists in Education, an arts organization committed since 2013 to creating positive change in society via art education. In 2024 she co-founded the duo ART ROSA with fellow Romanian artist Nita Mocanu.
POPA received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and both a Master in Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Painting from The National University of Arts Bucharest. She also expanded her research into the field of Arts Management and obtained a Doctor in Philosphy in Arts Management from Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania.
Her involvement with education activism and her commitment to social justice have been informing her activity as an art educator, cultural mediator, as well as her studio practice. She has been awarded international residencies including artist in residence at AFAR Residency, Maramureș, Romania (2024), Q21/MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria (2018), index Freiraum, Zurich, Switzerland (2015), Bains Connective, Brussels, Belgium (2012), Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, Italy (2010) and in Paris, France (2009).
Delia POPA's work has been shown in prestigious national and international group exhibitions, screening and performance events, including at Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest (2025), at The National Museum of Contemporary Art/MNAC, Bucharest (2023, 2020, 2014, 2013), at Pragovka Gallery, Prague (2024), at the Toplocentrala, Sofia, Bulgaria (2022), at The Cologne Biennial, Germany (2022), at the Occupy Art Festival New York City, USA (2022), at Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, Romania (2021), at WASP Studios, (2018), at Sandwich Gallery (2019/2017), at Lateral ArtSpace, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania (2017/2016), at Salonul de Proiecte (2013), at Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies/a.pass, Brussels, Belgium (2012).
In 2020 some of POPA's works have been included, by public acquisition, in the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania (MNAC). Represented by at Anca Poterașu Gallery Bucharest
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Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 Loc de acțiune Crețești (Crețești- Place for Action), Anca Poterașu Gallery, curated by Julie Crenn, Bucharest, Romania
2024 The Portrait of the Artist as a Teacher ( ART ROSA duo, with Nita Mocanu)
Casa Artelor, Timișoara, Romania
2019 The Beach (An Erotic Fantasy), GrawBöckler Garage, curated by GrawBöckler, Berlin, Germany
2017 The Girl with Tentacles, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Growing Up and Staying Young- Stories about Heidi, curated by Anca Sînpălean, Haus zum Palmbaum/index Freiraum, Zürich, Switzerland
2014 Unfinished Sympathy-Vampire Diaries, Performance part of Chelen Amenca, with Ellen Rothenberg, UNA Galeria, Bucharest
2013 Anca Munteanu Rimnic and Delia Popa at Salonul de Proiecte, Salonul de Proiecte, MNAC Annex, Bucharest
2012 Chelen Amenca/Dance with Us, with Ellen Rothenberg, curated by Anca Mihulet, National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania
Selected Group Exhibtions
2025 RAD Art Fair 3rd Edition, Anca Poterașu Booth, Caro Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
Săcel Residency Exhibition, Repedea School, organized by ARAC, Săcel, Maramureș, Romania
The Connections between Art and Gardening, Video Screening & Event, part of Cultivators of
Life Project, curated by Adelina Luft, tranzit.ro, Crețești Studio Garden, Vidra, Ilfov, Romania
NAG Cluj, White Night of Galleries, Unirea Open Studios, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2024 The Line of the Valley , Săcel Cultural Center, Maramureș, Romania
The Line of the Valley II, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The Ecology of the After Life, curated by Rafaela Bîrlădeanu, Anca Poterașu Gallery, București A Spring of Hope, A Winter of Dispair, curated by Olivia Nițiș, Asociația Contrasens| Faber,
Timișoara, România, Pragovka, Praga, Czech Republic
Symptomatic/Asymptomatic, curated by Luciana Tamaș, Magma Medium, Sfântul Gheorghe, Romania
2023 Puls 21, Aquisitions 2020 x 2022| Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, București, România Now the Impulse is to live! Timișoara Edition, curated by Adelina Luft| Pavilionul Riverside, Minitremu, Timișoara, România
Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages, curated by Alina Andrei, Magdalena Pelmuș, Luciana Tămaș, Silvia Trăistaru| SAC Malmaison/Dyptich Art Space, București, România
2022 Now the Impulse is to live! Sofia Edition, curated by Raluca Voinea, Adelina Luft| Toplocentrala, Sofia, Bulgaria
Now the Impulse is to live! , curated by Raluca Voinea, Adelina Luft| Ordinul Arhitecților din România, București, România
Virus Diary, Occupy Art Festival| Occupy #3 Networks, New York City, SUA| B5, Târgu Mureș| Institutul Cultural Român Viena, Austria| Cologne Biennial, Köln, Germania, Nuit blanche Heraklion, Greece
Delia Popa Full CV
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