2010 - 2017    PhD, National Arts University, Bucharest;

Thesis: The Crossroads of Contemporary Art with Buddhist Thought- Mindfulness and Selflessness

2010-2012     Certificate of Completion - Foundation of Buddhist Thought,Jamyang Buddhist Center, London, part of Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition

online /corespondence course

2000- 2002 MFA. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Major: Fine Arts

1998- 2000     LAUREATE. Jan van Eyck Academy; Maastricht; The Netherlands;, Post-graduate Theory Program

1996-1997  MA. University of Bucharest; British Cultural Studies

1990-1996 BA.. Academy of Art, Bucharest, Romania, Major- Sculpture

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2020 Social Innovation in Education -Teach for Romania and RAF Foundation grant

2002 Mark Diamond Research Fund Grant

2001 Video Production Grant of the Niagara Council of the Arts

1999-2000 Jan van Eyck Academy Grant, Maastricht, The Netherlands

1998-1999 UNESCO-Aschberg Grant, Maastricht, The Netherlands

1996-1997 British Council Grant

EXHIBITIONS

2023 CONDITIONED SELF, installation composed from embroidered works on salvaged domestic fabric pieces, exhibited at WASP as part of the show Tower of Strength- Instances of Sensibility; curator: Andreea Căpitănescu

2023 PUNGENT, INTRUSIVE AND ASTRINGENT, assemblage from a found traditional rug and wooden cut-outs and drawings that include crochet inserts, exhibited at Sibiu Contemporary Art Festival, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu; curator: Ana Negoiță, Alexandra Runcan

2022 - A DAY SUCH AS A PINK PLASTIC TOY, in the exhibition Flowers and People, Contemporan Hair Space; curator: Raluca Demetrescu

2021 There Is No Way to Still the Attraction, Dacia- Romania Palace, part of the exhibition Superheroes/Antiheroes – Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Art Safari, curator: Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu –

2019 Story to See a Star, Cuhnia, Mogosoaia Palaces,
curator: Ana Negoita
2019 When You Are Away from the Light, Halucinarium art space, curator: Ana Negoita
2019, Threaded: A Fine Art Collective - Envision Arts Show, curator : Ginger Cohran, (online show)

2019 Stories from a Non -Existing Tea-House, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Bucharest 2018- A Peculiar Tiny Drop, Artera Gallery, Bucharest
2014 John Murphy Prefers White Wine to Black Pepper, Natural History Museum - part of the Botanical Garden, Bucharest- part of NAG/ curator- Anca Mihulet
2009 Traces-Contemporary Romanian Art, UNA Gallery, Bucharest
2008 Traces-Contemporary Romanian Art, CIAC at Pont Aven,France, Else Gallery at Sacramento, California, Selby Gallery at Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, US, curator: Ann Allbritton, Carmen Iovitu, Mirela Ivanciu

2006 Urban Feeling, Puzzle Project, National Theater, Romania
2006 Account -First decade, Mogosoaia Palace and Pogany Gallery, Romania 2006 Narcissus, Bradford Gallery, Bradford UK
2004 Beyond Recall and Desire, Imagine Gallery, Beijing
2004 Ar-T and Francophonie, Yan Club , Beijing
2002 Close Up, Upton Gallery, Buffalo State College, NY, US
2002 A Tenderness for Everything that is Thought to be Lost, Buffalo; NY 2002 8 , Capen Hall, University at Buffalo
2002 Oversight, New Art for the City Hall, City Hall, Buffalo
2002 UB GRAD 2, Art Department Gallery at University at Buffalo
2001 Art Made to Order, a CAM group event, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY 2001 UB GRAD, Art Department Gallery, University at Buffalo
2001 Love and Sex, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
2000 The Red-Light Room, site specific work, Jan van Eyck Academy, The Netherlands
1999 Light as Usual, All in its Place, site specific work, Dominican Church, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1999 Security Project, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
1998 10 Days, Ceramic Avenue, HEDAH Gallery, Maastricht
1996 Laboratorio Artistico, Instituto Roameno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, Italy

PUBLISHED PAPERS AND CURATORIAL TEXTS

The Measure of Things (Măsura lucrurilor), curatorial text for the exhibition of Florin Bută at Centrul Multicultural al Universității Transilvania, 2019

Intense Yellow and Other Color Stains that are Resisting to Sense (Galbenul Intens și alte pete de culoare rezistente la sens) - Complexul Muzeal Bistrita Năsăud, 2018
Curatorial texts for : Dan Badea; Dragoș Burlacu; Marius Crăita Mândră; Ramon Sadic; Maria Pop Timaru; Zoltan Bela

Rambo, Political Propaganda and the Visual Art of Storytelling, (Rambo, propaganda politică și arta vizuală a povestirii)
Galeria Tipografia, București 2016, curatorial text for the exhibition Reshaping Memories, exhibition of Ramon Sadîc, 2016

Fără de casă, acasă, în revista Arta, #8-9, Sculptura 2013 www.revistaarta.ro/fara-de-casa-acasa/
Sibiu, Curator’s Network - Powerless or Powerful encounter / www.curators-network.eu/database/db_item/id/mirelaivanciu, 2012

Note despre caracterul eluziv al memoriei colective , în revista Arta # 1, Arta în spațiul public www.revistaarta.ro/note-despre-caracterul-eluziv-al-memorieicolective/ 2011

Space and Light as Tools for Shaping the Immaterial and the Problem of Paying Attention to the Finger Instead of the Moon"- in Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
Notes on the Nature and Purpose of the Contemporary Museum" and "Museums are for People, not for Objects" - 1/1999 Martor, the review of the Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest