OANA STANCIU
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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)
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AWARDS 
- 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
- Instalments, Ingleby Gallery, Feast Room, ongoing
- The Unseen Masterpiece, Ingleby Gallery, online, 2020
- Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, online, 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
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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
- 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
 
FILM
- Ecce Homo, short film, Art Director, 2014. Featured at 17 international film festivals, Awarded Best Short Film 
award at the Golden Rose Film Festival (Bulgaria, 2015)
- Mother, nature, short film, Art Director, 2014. Featured at: Blow Up film festival (Chicago, USA), Visionaria 
International Film Festival (Siena, Italy), China Women's Film Festival (Beijing, China).
- Ruah, short film, Production Assistant, 2014
- Elegy for the Lost Time, short film, Actress & Art Director, 2013

GRAPHIC DESIGN
- Graphic Design for National Geographic Romania magazine, 2010-2013
- Graphic Design for history magazine at IRIR (Romanian Institute of Recent History) 2011-2012


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
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      • Day 3
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      • Day 6
      • Day 7
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      • 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