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BIOGRAPHY

(Brașov, 1963)

Academic studies:
1982 - 1986 - „George Enescu” Academy of Art, Sculpture Department, class of professor Vasile Condurache, Iași.

2004 - 2006 – he specializes in pouring bronze at the workshop of sculptor Eduardo Soriano in Madrid, Spanin.

1987 – Republican Scholarship, Plastic Artists Union.

Member of the Plastic Artists Union, Satu Mare branch (since 1987)
Member of the Plastic Artists Union in Romania (since 1993)
Member of the Plastic Artists Union, Brașov branch (since 1993)
Member of the Plastic Artists Union, Baia Mare branch (since 2006)

PROJECTS

Solo exhibitions:
1986 – Trianon Gallery, Iași;
1987 – Art Gallery, Satu Mare;
1991 – Art Museum, Satu Mare;
1993 – Art Museum, Satu Mare;
1995 – County Museum, Satu Mare;
1995 – Romanian Cultural Centre, Budapest, Hungary;
1997 – Art Museum, Cluj Napoca;
2000 – Stadelmaier Gallery, Kevelaer, Germany;
         - Art Museum, Satu Mare;
2001 – Kormendi Gallery, Sopron, Hungary;
         - County Museum, Satu Mare;
2003 – County Museum, Satu Mare;
2004 - Art’s on King Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
2006 – Art Museum, Satu Mare;
         - Heller Collection with other works by Radu Ciobanu, Germany;
2007 – Cultural Centre, Ulm, Germany;
2009 - Imago mundi, Academia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
2013 - Radu Ciobanu - 50 (retrospective exhibition), Art Museum, Satu Mare.

Group exhibitions*:
1986 – Biennale of painting and sculpture, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
1987 – Biennale of Youth, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
1988 - Biennale of painting and sculpture, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
1992 – Interior Essay, Art Museum, Satu Mare;
1993 – Biennale of Small Sculpture Dantesca, Ravenna, Italy;
1995 – Biennal National Salon of Drawing, Arad;
1996 - Biannual National Salon of Small Sculpture, Arad;
         - G. Petrașcu Biennale, Târgoviște, Dâmbovița;
         - Radu Ciobanu - Ion Sasu Exhibition, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca;
1997 - Interior Essay, Art Museum, Satu Mare;
         - Biannual National Salon of Drawing, Arad;
1998 – Annual Salon of Graphics, Art Museum, Satu Mare;
         - 30 years of fine arts at Satu Mare, Art Museum, Satu Mare;
         - National Biannual Salon of Small Sculpture, Arad;
2003 - Interart 2 Exhibition, Satu Mare - Nyiregyhaza, Art Museum, Satu Mare;
2004 – The Annunciation, Art Gallery, Negrești-Oaș, Satu Mare;
2006 – Painters Colony, Day of the Baia Mare Artist, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - with Fontana group, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;
         - Painters Colony, Annual of Arts, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
2007 - Painters Colony, Day of the Baia Mare Artist, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - Painters Colony, Annual of Arts, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
2008 - Painters Colony, Day of the Baia Mare Artist, Baia Mare, Maramureș:
         - Painters Colony, Annual of Arts, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - The Nude, Plastic Artists Union Gallery, Baia Mare branch, Maramureș;
         - The Annunciation, Art Gallery Negrești-Oaș, Satu Mare;
2009 - Painters Colony, Day of the Baia Mare Artist, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - Painters Colony, Annual of Arts, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - White and Black, Satu Mare;
2010 - Painters Colony, Day of the Baia Mare Artist, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - Connections, Baia Mare, Szentendre, Kecsemet - Romania, Hungary;
         - Exhibition of the Plastic Artists Union, Satu Mare branch, Reszow, Polland;
         - Landscape as a state of mind, Plastic Artists Union Gallery, Satu Mare;
         - Exhibition with Plastic Artists Union, Satu Mare, Reszow, Polland;
         - Painters Colony, Annual of Arts, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - Exhibition with Plastic Artists Union Baia Mare branch (dedicated to holidays), Plastic Artists Union Gallery, Baia Mare;
         - 60 years of plastic art from Brasov, Plastic Artists Union, Brașov;
2011 - Constantin Brâncuși International Biennale Târgu Jiu, Gorj;
         - Day of the Baia Mare Artist, Painters Colony, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - Painters Colony, Annual of Arts, Baia Mare, Maramureș;
         - Târgul de Iarnă, Art Gallery, Baia Mare, Maramureș.

Bronze monumental works:
 - Lucian Blaga, Satu Mare;
 - Corneliu Coposu, Satu Mare;
 - Iuliu Maniu, Satu Mare;
 - Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Satu Mare;
 - Mihai Viteazul, Satu Mare;
 - Taras Șevcenko, Satu Mare;
 - Painter Aurel Popp, Satu Mare;
 - Publicist Viorel Sălăgean, Satu Mare;
 - Dr. Mihai Pop, Negrești-Oaș, Satu Mare;
 - Groful Sándor Károly, Ardud, Satu Mare;
 - Baba Novac, Baba Novac, Satu Mare;  
 - Coriolan Ster, Tășnad, Satu Mare;
 - Greek-Catholic Bishop Grigore Maior, Tășnad, Satu Mare;
 - Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Ardud, Satu Mare;
 - Decebal, Gherta Mică, Satu Mare;
 - Lawyer Iuliu Coroianu, Craidorolț, Satu Mare;
 - Obelisk Mihai Viteazul, Moftinul Mic, Satu Mare;  
 - Greek-Catholic Bishop Grigore Maior, Sărăuad, Satu Mare;
  - Patriot Atanasie Doros, Tarna Mare, Satu Mare;
 - Toma T. Socolescu (2010), Ploiești, Prahova.
 - Ion Luca Caragiale and characters from his works (monumental ensemble, 2012), Ploiești Town Hall, Prahova.
 
Symposia:
1986 - Săliște, Sibiu;
1987 - Oarba de Mureș, Mureș;
1988 - Străulești, București;
1990 - Satu-Mare;
2004 - Vama Buzăului, Brașov;
2006 - Hărman, Brașov;
2008 - Hărman, Brașov.
 
Distinctions:
1996 – Prize of the Ministry of Culture, G. Petrașcu Biennale, Târgoviște, Dâmbovița;
2011 – Prize of the Ploiești Town Hall for the execution of the monumental bust Toma T.Socolescu.

* since 1990 he takes part in all the county exhibitions organized by the Brasov branch of the Plastic Artists Union;
since 1986 he takes part in all the county exhibitions organized by the Satu-Mare branch of the Plastic Artists Union;
since 2006 he takes part in all the county exhibitions organized by the Baia-Mare branch of the Plastic Artists Union.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fundația Culturală META, Un secol de sculptură românească. Dicționar A-D, Colecția SINTEZE, Editura META, 2001, pp. 122 - 123.