Alta Mihartescu

Biography, Artist Statement, and CV

Biography

Alta Mihartescu is a contemporary Romanian-Canadian painter based in Toronto. Born in Bucharest in 1974, she moved to Canada in 2008.

She received her BFA from the National University of Arts (UNArte), Bucharest, in 2000 and has exhibited in Romania and Canada since then. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Nichita Stănescu Museum in Ploiești and the Art Gallery of the National Military Circle in Bucharest.

Her paintings focus on structure, gesture, and surface tension.

She has been a member of the Romanian Artists' Union since 2000 and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto since 2025.

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Artist Statement

I work at the interval between seeing and losing, where shame, grief, longing, rage, and memory concentrate. Stopping thought is my real work.

I use whatever materials and processes register the moment best: acrylic, watercolur, ink, graphite, charcoal, and photography. Black and white only.

Painting requires no justification. I paint for myself. What follows belongs to the world.

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CV

Alta Mihartescu

b. 1974, Bucharest, Romania.

Lives and works in Toronto, Canada

Education

2000 | BFA Fine Arts, National University of Arts (UNArte), Bucharest, Romania

Awards

2006 | 1st Prize, FOTODIGITALE National Photography Contest, Bucharest, Romania

2005 | 3rd Prize, DIGIT.ALL National Photography Contest, Bucharest, Romania

1996 | Diploma of Excellence, Jean de la Fontaine International Visual Arts Contest, Bucharest, Romania

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014 | Orpheus Within Us, Gallery 1313 - Toronto, Canada

2012 | Heroes, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada

2000 | Stones, U-Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

1996 | Nothing More, National Military House, Bucharest, Romania

1995 | Revers, National Military House, Bucharest, Romania

1994 | Self-Portrait, GAST Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 | The Beverly Owens Project: LUST, Toronto, Canada

2009 | Artwalk Festival, Toronto, Canada

2009 | Nuit Blanche, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2007 | European Bridges, Sibiu, Romania

2006 | National Art Salon, Bucharest, Romania

2006 | Sacred Art Salon, Bucharest, Romania

2004 | Art Salon, Artis Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2003 | Art Salon, Artis Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2001 | Accents, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2000 | Art Salon, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2000 | Moldavia, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

1999 | Painting Class Graduates, National Theatre, et 3/4, Bucharest, Romania

Selected Public Collections

Nichita Stanescu Museum, Pitesti, Romania

Art Gallery of the National Military Circle, Bucharest, Romania

Affiliations

Romanian Artists' Union, Bucharest, Romania (2000)

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2025)