Delia POPA is an artist, curator, cultural manager and art educator currently living in Bucharest, Romania. 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 and education.

 

She received a Master of Fine Arts 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 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.

 

In recent years POPA has embarked on an artistic exploration of feminist sexuality in a post-gender Utopia. Her involvement with animal rights activism and her commitment to social justice have been informing her activity as an art educator, cultural mediator, as well as her studio practice. Her main medium has become painting-drawing, a merger of the two mediums, as large scale works that are both paintings and drawings, as well as potential tools for social intervention. The choice of allegorical characters, as well as the drive to explore cross-disciplinary methods and various Western and Eastern modes of representation, testify to the unique blend of artistic, social, and diplomatic roles POPA is assuming in her work.

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She has been awarded numerous international residencies including artist in residence at 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 numerous national and international group exhibitions, screening and performance events, including at WASP, Bucharest (2018), at Lateral ArtSpace, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania (2017/2016), at The National Museum of Contemporary Art/MNAC, Bucharest (2015/2013/2005), at Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies/a.pass, Brussels, Belgium (2012), at General Public, Berlin, Germany (2011), at The 5th Video Art Biennial in Tel Aviv, Israel (2010), and at Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, USA (2008).

 

Her solo and duo exhibitions include The Girl with Tentacles at Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest (2017), Chelen Amenca (with Ellen Rothenberg) at The National Bruckenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania (2012), and I am Gustav von Aschenbach at The Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, Italy (2010).

 

She has lectured widely on topics such as collaboration, cultural mediation, art in education, language-through-art teaching methodology, art history for children, art management, museum education, public art, contemporary art and her art practice at universities, museums and cultural institutions across Romania, as well as in Madrid, Venice, Vienna, Sarasota and Chicago.

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To request a lecture please write to  delianapopa@gmail.com

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