​Otilia Gruneantu Scriuba​
Otilia's art orients images within collages. Parts of her paintings juxtapose original disparate fragments with origins drawn from different historic epochs and through different geographical spaces. Throughout her work she employs important cultural symbols such as: the water, the wave, the horizontal line, the square, the horse, the butterfly, the fish, the egg, the shell and the feather. In addition, she uses other symbols from some of the most important artistic periods: Victoria by Samotrace, human figures by Fidias Metopes, and Venus by Botticelli. Otilia Gruneantu Scriuba creates complex compositions while managing to harmonize her found elements in a unitary image.”
( Prof. Dr. Ioan Iovan, art critic – „Concords with artists and exhibitions”, Brumar Publishing House, 2006, Romania, Europe).​​
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“The graphic experiments and the mixed media help Otilia Gruneantu Scriuba create an experimental surface, forcible and complex, which varies in ideal modulations. The symbolic coordinates are fixed on some precise elements such as: the water, the sky, the stone, the mineral structures, and the primordial signs of the archaic world. Moving on from this universe, we find ourselves traveling on an imaginary journey, with maximum freedom, on a poetic and oneiric road, down to the depth of the unconscious. The structures of the artistic message are complicated and filled in by a world where the artist takes her exclusive privilege for being our guide.”
( Conf. univ. Dr. Viorel Cosor, visual artist)
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I was born in Lugoj, Romania, in 1981. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts & Pedagogy of Art from the Art & Design Faculty, West University, Timisoara, Romania. In 2006 I obtained a Master's Degree (bilingual French & Romanian) in Coordinating European Cultural Projects, from the same university. ​I debuted as an artist in 1995 and as a teacher in 2004. My husband and I moved to Canada in 2008. I am an Ontario qualified Visual Arts, French, ELS and Special Education teacher, as well as a Romanian qualified Visual Arts teacher. Currently, I live and create my art in Toronto and teach at Halton DSB.
Prizes
2017: ​III Prize Graphics @ The VIth International Art Biennial" Meeting Point, Arad, Romania
2012 Roncy Rocks Art Festival, Toronto, On, "The most favoured Artist" prize
Selected international group juried art shows
2017: ​III Prize Graphics @ The VIth International Art Biennial " Meeting Point, Arad, Romania
2016: BIPB, International Print Biennale Bucharest, Brancovenesti Palace, Bucharest, Romania
2005 & 2009 25th Mini Print International of Cadaques, Barcelona,Spain
2008 “Cyclism”, Ex- Libris International Exhibition, Bodio Lomnago, Italy
2008 International Art Show, Art Museum, Birlad, Romania
2006 “Le Lointin”, Ingre, France
2006 “l’Etang d’Art”, Bages, France
2005 Wingfield, Arts Music Festival, Wingfield, Great Britain
2005 “Artists Books”, Art University of Philadelphia, USA
2005 “Artists Books”, Arts, Media and Design University of Bristol, Great Britain
2005 Juried International Etching Show, Baia Mare, Romania
2004 “The Butterfly” Juried International Ex- Libris , Mexico
2003 Juried International Etching Show, Cluj, Romania
Solo art shows in Canada
2016 “Introspection”, Oakville Town Hall, Oakville, On
2013 " Genuine" Seven Grams Art Café Yorkville, Toronto,
2011 "Sky. Water. Birds", Gallery Celine Allard, Toronto
​ ( with photographer Octavian Scriuba )
2010 "The sun & the moon, symbol & mixed media"
Gallery Celine Allard, Toronto
2010 Solo art exhibition, Pape& Danforth Public Library,
Toronto
2010 "Little Children- Drawing", Little Owl Kindergarten & Elementary School, Toronto
2009 "Dreams", LucSculpture Gallery, School & Studios, Toronto
2009 "Together", Romanian Park, Hamilton
2008 “Mythology”, "The Homeway" Restaurant, Toronto
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Canadian juried and non juried group art shows
2018 Artusiam Art Gallery, Toronto -various Art shows: "Abstraction in Action", "Expressions", "Spectrum"
2015/2016/2017/2018 "Annual HDSB Secondary Visual Arts Faculty Show, "Front of the class", Oakville Town Hall
2017/2018 "Annual Juried Show", ArtWorks Oakville Art Association, QEPCCC Gallery Oakville
2016 International Art Show: Chinese & Canadian Artists @ Oakville Town Hall, Artworks Oakville Art Association
2016 ArtWorks Art Association Group Art Show, Oakville Town Hall
2015 Canadian Landscape Traditional & Nontraditional,
Oakville Town Hall
2015 Scarborough Juried Annual Art Show "InspirAsians",
2013 Scarborough Juried Annual Art Show“ChildSight”, Papermill Gallery @ Todmorden Mill., Toronto, On
2012 "The most favoured Artist" prize @ Roncy Rocks Arts Festival, Toronto, On
2011 "Galerie en folie", Celine Allard Art Gallery, Toronto, On
2010 "Art on Danforth Show," LucSculpture Gallery, To, On
2009 Annual Art& Craft Show, LucSculpture Gallery, To, On
2008 Annual Juried Art Show "Made to measure",
Arts Etobicoke Gallery,Toronto, On
2008 Monthly Group Art Shows, Kohl Art Gallery, Toronto, On
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Selected juried group shows in Europe
2018 " Annual Art Show of artists with prizes during 2017-2018, Hellios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
2016 " Cromatic nostalgia", Városi Gallery, Csongrád, Hungary
2016 "The liberation of Timisoara", Helios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
2015 "National Graphics Art Show", Caminul Artei/Simeza art galleries, Bucharest, Romania
2015 "Timisoara, from Royal Residence to European City", Helios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
2009 "Stars in visual arts", Administrative Palace, Timisoara, Romania
2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008 "Annual Arts District Exhibition", Helios Gallery,The Art Museum of Timisoara, Administrative Palace of Timisoara, Romania
2008 “Without point”, Helios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
2008 "Romanian Contemporary Art ", Helios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
2008 “UAP Timisoara Group Show” , Forma & Axe Art galleries, Deva, Romania
2007 “The Way”, The Administrative Palace of Timisoara, Romania
2006 “Maternity, Origin of Life”, The Art Museum of Timisoara, Romania
2006 “The Scene”, National Theatre, Timisoara, Romania
2006 “The Wave of Timisoara”, Art Museum, Gyula, Hungary
2004 “The Light”, Szeged Art Gallery, Szeged, Hungary
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Solo shows in Romania
2008 “The Garden”, Axa Art Gallery, Julius Mall, Timisoara, with artist Amalia Todorov
2007 “Symbolic messages”, Art Club Gallery, Timisoara
2006 “Dreams of the Primordial”, Axa Art Gallery, Julius Mall,
Tmisoara, with artist Amalia Todorov
2005 Painting and Photography Exhibition, Pro Arte Gallery, Lugoj, with photographer Octavian Scriuba
2002 Painting exhibition, Visual Arts Library, Timisoara, with artist Mihaela Tarhuna
1999 Drawing and Painting Exhibition, Armi Gallery, Lugoj
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Artist in residence
2007 - Városi Gallery, Csongrád, Hungary
2006‑ Bulgarians Minority Museum, Dudeştii Vechi, Romania
2001- Maltez Centre, DorobanÅ£i, România
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Represented by
Current
National Artists Union of Professional Artists, Graphics, Romania
Helios Art Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Art Rotary Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
ArtworksOakille Art Association, Oakville, Canada
Artbomb, online Art Gallery, Canada
Fine Art America, online art gallery, USA
Saatchi Art, online art gallery, USA
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Past
Etobicoke Arts Art Association, Etobicoke, Canada
Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, Canada
LucSculpture Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Rainbow Gallery, Art for all Canada, Torontohttp://www.artforallcanada.org/the%20Artists.htm
Celine Allard Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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Kohl Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Axa Art Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Carolla Art Gallery, Timisoara, Romania