Vlad BASARAB (b. 1977, Bucuresti), visual artist specialized in ceramics. Is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics; the Union of Artists of Romania and NCECA, USA. He won the Award of Excellence at 2017 Cluj International Ceramics Biennale, Romania. Basarab is a PhD candidate at the University of Art in Bucharest. He received a Fulbright research grant (2013-2014), 1st prize for the international competition for the Monument of the Romanian Language, Republic of Moldova (2014), MFA (West Virginia University 2013), BFA (University of Alaska Anchorage 2001). Guest of honour of the European Comission at the Gaudeamus Book Fair, Bucharest, 2017.
Education
2001 - Art degree in ceramics, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, USA
2002-2003 - Candidate at the Master in Arts, ceramics, California State University, Long Beach, USA
2013 - Master degree in Arts, electronic media, West Virginia University, Morgantown, SUA
2014- present - Doctoral student in arts, Bucharest National University of Arts
Affiliates
Since 1997 Member of the National Committee of Education in Ceramic Art, USA
October 2013 - June 2014 - Researcher for Fullbright in Romania, Subject: ,,The lost of Collective’s Memory caused by the persecution of the intellectuals in the communist period”
Personal Exhibitions
1997 - Bottle as Life, Student Union Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage
1999 - Visions of Structure, Vlad Basarab and Steve Godfrey, Student Union Gallery, University of Alaska
2001 - Shadows, Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage and GALLA Galerry, Bucharest
2003 – Capita, Total installation with the occasion of Open Gates, California State University Long Beach Ceramics Department, SUA
2007 - Rebirth, Mountain View Arts Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2008 - Commemoration, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2009 - Havana, Out North Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, SUA
- Recents Paintings, Savannah Cafe, Anchorage, Alaska, SUA
- Memory of the third eye, Serendipity, Bucharest
- Photographs of the People of Romania, Europa Cafe, Anchorage, Alaska, SUA
- Wooden Gates, Doriolas, Anchorage, Alaska, SUA
2012 – Memory’s censorship at Project Spaces, National Committee of Education in Ceramic, NCECA, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Memory’s censorship at the Biennial of Decorative Arts, Constantin Brancusi Room, Parliament Palace, Bucharest
2013 - Memory’s Archeology, Paul Mesaros Gallery, Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
2015-2016 - Memory’s Archeology: Fire Books, National Museum of Contemporary Art Brukenthal, Sibiu
2016 - Memory’s Archeology: Earth Books, National Museum of Art, Arad, Romania
- Memory’s Archeology: Earth Books, National Museum of Art, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Exhibitions with Palnia group:
2004 - Palnia Under Construction, with Andrei Ciubotaru, Jan Eugen, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Una Galeria, Bucharest National University of Arts
2005 - The Fingerprint, with Andrei Ciubotaru, Jan Eugen, Una Galerry, Bucharest National University of Arts
Exhibition with NEURON group, (Vlad Basarab, Andrei Ciubotaru si Dragos Neagoe)
2014 - Gallery IX, Bucharest, Romania; Reanimation, Tipography, International Biennial of Engraving, Bucharest
2015 - Reanimation 2, Brancoveanu Palaces Cultural Centre, Mogosoaia Group Exhibitions
1995 - No Big Heads, juried exhibition, Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage USA
1995 - Eggsibition, Honorable Mention. Matanuska College. Eagle River, Alaska, USA
1995 - Painting Exhibition, Café del Mundo, Anchorage, Alaska, SUA
1996 - Tridimensional Exhibition. UAA Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska,Anchorage, USA
1997 - International Universitary Ceramics Exhibition, Riverside Museum, Riverside, California, USA
- First Alaskan Woodfiring Ceramics Exhibition, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
- Tridimensional Invitation, UAA Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage USA
-Extravagance of Ceramics and Culinary art, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
1998 - Brad Schwieger and the students from the ceramics section. Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
- Tridimensional Invitation, Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
1999 - Mono-engraves in clay. UAA Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
2001 - The Boomerang, with the PALNIA Group, Museum of Literature, Bucharest
2002 - Unspecified Sparkle. Tracks Installation. Marilyn Ray Gallery California State University, Long Beach, USA
- Multicultural Festival. California State University, Long Beach, USA
- Under 30, Juried Exhibition. Out North Art Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
- Exhibition at the Botanic Garden. Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2007 - Members of the Photographic Center’s Exhibition, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
No Big Heads, Jury’s Award. Akio Takamori, Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Honorable Mention at the graduate exhibition of the University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA, Graduate exhibition of the University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA, juried by Campus Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
2008 - Rarified Light, Juried Exposition . Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2009 - Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by Sean Licka, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
- 50/50 - Alaska’s 50 years anniversary Exhibition, Invitation Exhibition, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2010 - Master’s Students Exhibition , Morgantown Brew Pub, Morgantown, West Virginia, SUA
2011 - Shared Journeys China West Virginia Conference, Zen Clay, Morgantown, West Virginia, SUA
- Ego/Anti-Ego, Messaros Galleries Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
2012 - Romanian Contemporary Ceramics, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- Alaska Photographic Center Member Show, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
- Juried Exhibition, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
- Arts in Bucharest, The National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
- Rarefied Light, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska, SUA
- Homegrown, Artist Image Resource Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, SUA
2013 - International Ceramics Biennale, Cluj, Cluj – Napoca, Romania
- Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design, Arvada, Colorado, SUA
- The Fifth International Artists' Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Ungaria
- One Million Bones, National Mall in Washington, D.C., SUA
- Confluences, Artist Image Resource Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, SUA
- Coffee, Tea or ... # 2, Terra Incognito Gallery, Oak Park, Illionois, USA
- Eminescu: Book/object exhibition. National Library of Romania, Bucuresti, Romania
2014 - British Flute Society Convention, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- Exchange/ 2014 Berlin Fulbright Grantee Juried Exhibition, Staycation Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Byzantine Music Festival, Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest, Romania
- International Biennial of Visual Arts “August in Art”, Varna, Bulgaria
2015 - International Ceramics Biennial, Romanian Ceramics Artists Exhibition, Cluj, Romania
- European International Book Art in Bucharest, Romania
- The Hyperconnectivity’s Facets, Brancoveanu Palaces Cultural Centre, Mogosoaia
- Rhythm Repetition Ritual, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, Washington
- NCECA 2015 Biennial, David Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
- Hugh, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage
- Invisible Cities: Art as a Political Subtlety in Central/ Eastern Europe, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2016 - The Hyperconnectivity’s Facets, Roman Cultural Institute, Berlin
Monumental Artworks
1995 - Mural Bus 368, Steller Alternative School, Anchorage, Alaska, USA;
2010 - The human being, Steel, in collaboration with Florin & Andrei Ciubotaru, Jan Eugen, Otopeni, Romania;
2012 - Ansamblul Sculptural Muze la Kentuck Knob, Pennsylvania, USA
2014 - The Monument of Romanian Language, Chisinau, Republica Moldova (in progress)
Symposiums and conferences:
1997 - NCECA conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, SUA
1999 - Different Stokes-International Woodfire Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
1999 - International Ceramics Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, SUA
1999 - NCECA conference, Columbus, Ohio, SUA
2006 - Figurative Sculpture Symposium, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2010 - SECAC, Richmond Virginia, USA
2011 – SECAC, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2011 - Shared Journeys, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
2011 - NCECA conference, Tampa Florida, USA
2012 - NCECA, Seattle, Washington, USA
2013 - Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Public presentations and exposures at conferences:
2014 - The University of Bucharest, American studies in Romania
- American Corners, The National Library of Romania, Bucharest
- George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi, Romania
2013 - Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- The International Ceramics Biennial, Museum of Art, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- University of Alaska Anchorage, Fine Arts Building, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
- Departament of Art, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA
2010 - Electronic Media Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
2007 - University of Alaska Anchorage, Fine Arts Building, Alaska, SUA
Collections in public institutions
Academy of Science of the Moldavia Republic, Chisinau, The Republic of Moldova
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado, USA
King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, SUA
Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, USA
Saint Andrew the Apostle Romanian Orthodox Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
St. Mary's Romanian Orthodox Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Dormition of the Mother of God Orthodox Monastery, Rives Junction, Michigan, USA
The Ascension of the Lord Romanian Orthodox Monastery, Clinton, Michigan, USA
Private collections in USA (Alaska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, California), Denmark and Romania.
Awards and scholarships
2014 - 1st Place at the International Contest for the Projection of the Monument of the Romanian Language backed up by the Academy of Science of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldavia
2013 - Researcher Fulbright in Romania, october 2013 – june 2014 - 1st Place for research master/mentor, West Virginia University
2011 - Alison Deem Scholarship at the NCECA conferences in Tampa, Florida and SECAC in Savannah, Georgia
2010-2013 - 3 years of scholarship offered by the Valerie Canada Foundation
2008 – Scholarship offered by the Rasmuson Foundation for the Arts, Anchorage, Alaska, SUA
2007 - Honour Mention, ,,Alumni Juried Exhibition”, Student Union Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage
Jury Award, “No Big Heads Exhibition”, Student Union Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
1999 - Ken Grey Scholarship, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
