Simona Soare
Born 01.08.1979, Galati, Romania
currently lives and works in Busan, South Korea
Website: http://simonasoare.blogspot.com
E-mail: simonasoareus@yahoo.com

	Education / Training
2007-2004	Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, Master of Fine Arts, Art in Context, DE
2003-2004	Erasmusexchange Painting, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee(KHB), DE
2003-1999	National University of Fine Arts(UNA), B.F. A.Mural Art, Bucharest, Romania
2004-2013	Guest in the Printmaking Workshop KHB, Berlin, DE

	Achievements / Awards
2014	Special Prize in KCPA awarded by The Korean Printmakers Association, Seoul, S.Korea
2012	Scholarship from Grafiken Hus(Sweden), Workshop with Outi Heiskanen and J. Laine
2010	Scholarship from Goethe-Institut Oslo, Art in Public Space: »Tracks in Bergen« (Norway)

	Solo Exhibitions
2017	“True Stories/ Surreal Memories’, Irohani Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2015	“Imaginary Landscape”, Praum Gallery, Busan, S.Korea
2014	“Moon Mermaid“ at Banana Long Gallery, Busan, S. Korea
2011	“Lebglücklich in einerillusorischen Welt!“ at the Embassy of Romania, Berlin “Wer hat die Sonnegestohlen?/ Performance “The Mermaid“ in Studio Niculescu, Berlin
2010	“Artworks/Simona Soare" Museum of Visual Arts, Galati, Romania curated by A.Pamfil
2008	“Arbeiten auf Papier‘‘, S.U.S.I. InterkulturellesFrauenzentrum, Berlin
2007	“Journal/Who stole the sun?”, Nelimarkka Museum, Finland
2005	“Fragmente, Nachklänge, Spiel, Traum, Realität“, Romanian Cultural Institut,(ICR) Berlin
2004	Exhibition in Monbijou Foyer, KHB, Berlin
2003	“Die Stadt“, Goethe-Institut, Bucharest, Romania
2001	“Oil Paintings”, Schiller Haus, Bucharest, Romania

	Group Exhibitions(Selected)
2018	“True Stories/ Surreal Memories’, Irohani Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2017	Natura Matematica, curated by Maddy Rosenberg in Central Booking, New York, USANatura Matematica, curated by Maddy Rosenberg in Central Booking, New York, USA3rd Global Print, curated by Nuno Canelas, Portugal Today Artists, Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea Awagami International Mini Print Exhibition,(AIMPE) Tokushima, Japan Holiday Extravaganza, OffLINE at Central Booking, New York, USA “777”, Jeongsu Gallery, Seoul Art Show, COEX, Seoul, South Korea Today Artists, Picasso Gallery, Busan, South Korea
2016	Seacourt Contemporary Printmaking Center, Miniprint Biennial, Northern Irland Seoul Museum of Art, Exhibition of the Korean Contemporary Printmakers(KCPA) Krebsen Gallery, “Dialog: Kwak Tae Im/ Simona Soare”, Copenhagen, Denmark 2-nd Jurisied Miniprint Exhibition in Manhatten Graphic Center, N.Y., USA Duoro Graphic Biennale curated by Nuno Canelas, Portugal EDISON 63, curated by Sabine Heron, Kunst am Spreeknie Festival, Berlin The 1-st TKO International Miniprint Exhibition 2016, Tokio-Kyoto-Osaka
2015	New Print Horizons, OffLINE Space at Central Booking, N.Y., USA International Biennale for Miniature Graphics, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Scenes of Crime curated by Maddy Rosenberg, Central Booking in N.Y. , USA 2nd Global Print 2015 curated by Nuno Canelas, Portugal Rundgang- Tage der offenen Tuer, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weisensee, Berlin 1st International Contemporary Engraving Biennale Iasi, Romania "Iosif Iser" International Contemporary Engraving Bienniale, Edition XI, Ploiesti, Museum of Art, Prahova, Romania.
2014	“Time and Again“, curated by Maddy Rosenberg, Central Booking Gallery N.Y. USA “Uncanny Spaces“, curated by Maddy Rosenberg, Bennington College Vermont Busan Art Show 2014 in BEXCO, Banana Long Gallery, S. Korea “Crossing“- curated by Sabine Heron in Spreehöfe, Berlin, DE “Zentral Station” curated by Dr.PeterFunken und Lutz Längert, Berlin, DE “Dialogue Landscape“ in Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland Korean Contemporary Printmaking Competition in Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, S Korea Art Edition Fair 2014, Seoul, S. Korea
2013	Ensilumi/Der ersteSchnee,(german-finnish exchange project) GalerieAlteSchule Berlin Transition, at the Spinnerei Leipzig, curated by MajlaZeneli(Maniére Noire)&A. L. Rolland(LIAp), Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE Korea DMZ Art Festival 2013,LEE, curated by Myung Hwan Seoul, S. Korea Collective Diary, curated by Youngjoo Cho and Helga in Hal Project, Seoul, S. Korea
2012	Juried Show 2012, Manhattan Graphics Center, N.Y. USA Grafikmarktplatz/ Gallery Maniére Noire at the Leipziger Buchmesse, DE Central Booking in Berlin, curated by Maddy Rosenberg, DE Licht FarbeLinie/ Light Color Line in the Festival KunstamSpreeknie, Berlin, DE
2011	Kalenderbox 2012/Slow motion tv, Druckwerk Berlin, DE Ortstermin 2011, Wunderkammer in the Gallery Maniére Noire Berlin, DE Kunst am Spreeknie/Open Studio with guest GowaraMinsa, in Spreehöfe, Berlin, DE
2010	Narrative Sequences, Center for Books of Arts, (CBA), N.Y. USA “The ferocious dream of the mermaid‘‘ with Katja von Hellendorf, Galerie OKK, Berlin “Tracks in Bergen“, Art Intervention (woodcut pictograms) in Public Space with Annett Fay, Bergen, Norway
2009	Central Booking, directed and curated by Maddy Rosenberg, N.Y., USA Obsession/Terminal/00 – Balkan Contemporary Art, London, GB Bienala Cezar Ivanescu, Editia 1, Museum of Contemporary Visual Arts Galati, Romania
2008	DrawIn – International Drawing Exhibition, 00130 Gallery Helsinki, Finland “Drift Into Purple Blue”, Spreehöfe Berlin, DE Anonymous Drawings 9, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, curated by Anke Becker, Berlin, DE “Warten am Wartenberg“, Art Intervention in Public Space, Capsula Project, Berlin, DE

	Upcomming Exhibition 2018:
6-10 April	Guest artist in the Atelier Outotsu- Printmaking Workshop, Osaka, Japan
23 April	Guest Lecture- Contemporary Art in Europe in Pukyong National University, Busan
May 9 July 27	International Mini Print Biennial 2018 at the Seacourt Print Workshop -The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Northern Irland
May 23-28	AMOY ART FAIR Xiamen represented by Jeongsu Gallery -Seoul in Xiamen, China
10 August 31 October	9 th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2018, Portugal
22 August	Group Exhibition with Atelier OUTOTSU in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan

Simona Soare

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