OANA STANCIU
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    • The Iron Pour
    • Searamics
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    • !EU (!ME) - Part 1
    • Mură-n gură
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I’m a visual artist from Romania currently living in Edinburgh. My recent work involves photography and moving image in which I use myself as a model, experimenting with my body and everyday objects to improvise scenes and create unnatural or subtly distorted images. (Oana Stanciu, b.1988)
AWARDS 
- Stills Award 2023
- Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Knight - for contribution to Romanian culture in the UK, Awarded by the President of Romania, 2022 
- RSA Morton Award 2021
​- Hope Scott Trust Grant, 2020
- RSA Residencies for Scotland 2019
- Royal Scottish Academy Meyer Oppenheim Prize - for a work in any medium by an artist under 35, 2017
- Ingleby Award - Award offered by Ingleby Gallery, 2016
- Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award - for meritorious work by artists under 35, 2016
- Bucharest National University of Arts Award - for best project in Graphic Arts Department, 2013
- Contempora2 - 3rd prize,  2011

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- Twenty-Five, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, ongoing
- Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) 130 years | Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2022-2023

- British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, Sept — Oct, 2022
- Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, 2022
- Iron: Translating Territories, Royal Scottish Academy, 2022

- Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, (invited artist) Edinburgh, 2021
- Instalments, Ingleby Gallery, 2020-2021
- The Unseen Masterpiece, Ingleby Gallery, 2020
- Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, 2020
- Contemporary Young Artist Award, Newcastle, 2020
- One Project Messe group exhibition, London, 2020

- Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, 2019
- Amural Art Festival, Brasov Romania, 2019
​- Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, 2019
​- Sometimes I disappear, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2019
- Inner, outer and physical landscapes, Mottaket, Alesund Norway, 2019

- Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh, 2018

- Left Bank Leeds Art Prize 2018, Leeds
- Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, 2018
​- Nucleu 0006 - Alert Studio, Bucharest, 2018


- Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh 2017
- Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, 2017

- Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, 2016
- Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, 2015/16

- Tinderbox Fest, Edinburgh 2015
- Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, 2015

- Nucleu 0001, Tipografia Gallery, Bucharest, 2014
- The Art Cooperative, Imbold Gallery, Bucharest, 2014

- M.A. Degree Exhibition, Visual Arts Centre, Bucharest, 2013

- Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation Exhibition, Romanian National Library, Bucharest, 2012
- Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation Exhibition, Metropolitan Library, Bucharest, 2012
- E.G.G., Casa Arte, Bucharest, 2012

- University Degree Show - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, 2011
- Contempora2, Palace Hall, 2011
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- EBienale, Palace Hall, Bucharest, 2011

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Scottish Collection

RESIDENCIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop residency (RSA), 2019
- An Talla Solais residency (RSA), Ullapool, 2019 
- Invited Artist at Hidden Door Festival, 2017
- Tinderbox: Room to Play - Interdisciplinary programme for musicians, artists and game developers, Edinburgh, 2016 
- Princess Margarita of Romania Scholarship for young talents, 2012-2013
- Erasmus Scholarship - Jean Monnet University, Saint Etienne, France, 2011

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Photography Down the Line Podcast, Stills Gallery, 2022
- Arta Magazine, Romania, 2021
- Review Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, The Times, 2021
- Source Photographic Review, Autumn edition: The Unsayable - beyond words, Ireland 2020
- Studies in Photography - Winter Edition, Edinburgh 2019 
- Exhibition review: Sometimes I disappear at Ingleby Gallery, The Scotsman 2019

EDUCATION
- MA in Fine Arts, National University of Arts Bucharest, 2011-2013
- BA in Fine Arts, National University of Arts Bucharest, 2008-2011


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  • Work
    • The Iron Pour
    • Searamics
    • Mamaie Mie
    • The raw
    • #makingascene >
      • Day 0
      • Day 1
      • Day 2
      • Day 3
      • Day 4
      • Day 5
      • Day 6
      • Day 7
      • Day 8
      • Day 9
      • Day 10
      • Moving Image
      • Timelapse Videos
    • Rituals and repetition
    • !EU (!ME) - Part 2
    • !EU (!ME) - Part 1
    • Mură-n gură
    • Self-portrait with long neck
    • Showreel
  • Collaborations
  • Bio/CV
  • Contact