Edith Torony was born in 1988 in Timișoara, where she lives and works.
She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara. She earned her MA in the same field from the same institution in 2012. She has been a member of the Romanian Union of Artists, Timisoara branch, since 2011. She has presented her works in solo shows at Forma Gallery, Deva, in 2019; Pygmalion Gallery in 2018 and Calpe Gallery, in 2014, Timișoara, among others. She has participated in numerous group shows at Triade Gallery and Helios Gallery in Timișoara; Museum of Art, Arad; Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; European Parliament, Brussels; Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin etc. She has won the first prize for Painting at the Meeting Point International Biennial in Arad in 2017. In 2019 Estopia Art Gallery showcased her solo show, Hybrid Playground, in 2019.
While experimenting at the crossroads between abstract and figurative painting, Edith Torony undertakes a journey in the bizarre universe of urban periphery, in the attempt to allegorically recompose the devastating effects of junk invasion and consumerism on our living space.
EDUCATION
2010 – 2012 West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, MA
2007 – 2012 West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, BA
SOLO SHOWS
2019 Hybrid Playground, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest
2019 Personal Mythologies, Forma Gallery, Deva, Romania
2018 The Waste Land, Pygmalion Gallery, Timișoara
2017 Junkyard Symphony, Senso Gallery, Bucharest
2016 Playing Emptiness, Zid Gallery, Timișoara
Synthetic Future II, 2020
Acrylic and spray on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Hybrid Playground, 2019
Acrylic and spray on canvas
200 x 150 cm
Nocturne no. 2, 2017
Acrylic and spray on canvas
130 x 150 cm
Toxic Desire II, 2019
Acrylic and spray on canvas
80 x 70 cm
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