Ada Muntean (b.1987) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

She is a graduate of the University of Art and Design Cluj, with a BA and MA in Fine Arts, major Graphic Arts, and a PhD in Visual Arts completed in 2019 at the same institution. She received cultural exchange grants at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK), Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts Kracow (Poland), Peckham Platform Art Gallery London and Plan B Gallery, Berlin. Her works were featured in solo shows: Corporealities.Uncertain Bodies, Estopia Art Gallery Bucharest (2020), Blackout.[Follow The White Rabbit], NEW NOW art space Frankfurt (2018), SABOTAGE. Deconstructing The Unforeseen, Camera, Centrul de Interes Cluj (2018), Fluid Identity,FIVE PLUS Art Gallery, Viena (2017), Self. Perceive/Deceive, Nano Gallery, Cluj (2017), Soft Hollow, Atelier Patru Cluj (2015), Black Fire, Museum of Art Brașov (2015), Interfaces, Visual Kontakt Ulm (2013). She took part in group shows, such as: Blurred Is The New ID, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest (2020), Process Terminus, Sandwich Gallery project, presented at ArtEncounters Timișoara (2017), Resurrected, FIVE PLUS Art Gallery, during Vienna Art Week (2016), Small Graphic ExhibitionRomanian Cultural Institute New York (2015), Agency of Unrealized Projectsdaadgalerie, Berlin (2012), POPPick me up Fair – Somerset House, Londra (2012). She contributed with a series of photos included in SUPERBIA Suburbia Project at Romanian Cultural Institute Venice, part of Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010.

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EDUCATION
2014 - 2019: PhD Studies in Visual Arts, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca
2009 - 2011: MA in Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2010: CEEPUS exchange student for 3 months in Cracow, Poland, Jan Matejko Academy of Art and Design, Graphic Arts: Litography, Drawing, Poster Design
2009: ERASMUS exchange student for 3 months, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, UK
2006 - 2009: BA in Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

SOLO SHOWS
2020 Corporealities. Uncertain Bodies, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest
2018 Relativity, duo show with Andreea Anghel, Nano Gallery, Centre of Interest, Cluj-Napoca
2018 Blackout. [Follow The White Rabbit], NEW NOW art space Frankfurt
2018 SABOTAGE: Deconstructing The Unforeseen, Camera, Centre of Interest Cluj-Napoca
2017 Dot Fever. Future Memories, duo show with Mathias Bar, Open Studio, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 Fluid Identity, FIVE PLUS Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2017 Self. Perceive/Deceive, Nano Gallery, Centre of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2015 Soft Hollow, Atelier Patru, Artist-run space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2015 Black Fire, Museum of Art, Brașov, Romania
2013 Dream Traces, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Oradea, Romania
2013 Interfaces, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Ulm, Germany
2012 Coordinates for You to Dream, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
2010 Open Heart Surgery, Casa Matei Gallery, Ro, Gallery of Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UK

Works

Corporealities (13), 2020
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Corporealities (17), 2020
Oil on canvas
25 x 35 cm

Corporealities (18), 2020
Oil on canvas
90 x 90 cm

Corporealities (23), 2020
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm

Exhibitions

Lugano

Palazzo Elvezia, Corso Elvezia 9/a

Bucharest

Estopia Art Gallery, 5 Bocsa Street
February 11th – April 3rd, 2021

Innocence

Bucharest

Estopia Art Gallery, 5 Bocsa Street
October 22nd – November 21st, 2020

Corporealities. Uncertain Bodies

Bucharest

Estopia Art Gallery, 5 Bocsa Street
January 23rd – March 7th, 2020

Blurred Is the New ID

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