Mircea Roman

Mircea Roman is one of the most important contemporary Romanian sculptors. Roman has studied in Cluj in the ’80s and is renowned for his iconic works, distinctive on account of his hybrid human characters, archaic and modern at the same time, and of his specific working technique in wood and bronze. He took part in the Venice Biennale in 1995 and had one-man shows at the Riverside Studios in London and urban installations on the river Thames or in the courtyard of the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest. His works have been shown in important museums and galleries all over the world, from Bucharest to Kobe, from London to Perugia and Bochum. Awarded the Grand Prize of the Osaka Sculpture Triennale in Japan, the prestigious Delfina Grant in London, as well as the Order for Loyal Serviceby the President of Romania and the Gold Medal of the Union of Fine Arts in Chişinău, Moldova. He lives and works in Bucharest and since 2011 has worked with AnnArt Gallery, where he took part in six group exhibitions and had a personal one in 2011 (Body and Face).