contact: aria_zah@yahoo.com
Lives and works in London.
Born in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania
2012 MA Fine Art (Printmaking), Royal College of Art, London
2010 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Byam Shaw School of Art, UAL, London
2008 BA in Cinematography and Media (Photography and Video), National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Cryptofiction On-Demand, selected by Mania Akbari (Film: Public Figure);
Artviewer:SCREEN, online screening curated by Cristina Ramos (Film: Public Figure);
Third Thursdays Brighton, curated by videoclub (Film: Public Figure);
2021 GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Brattle Theatre, Boston, USA (Film: Public Figure);
SQIFF (Scottish Queer Film Festival), Glasgow (Film: Public Figure);
VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE, Casa Artelor (Collateral event of the Art Encounters Biennial 2021), Timisoara;
Projection/Projektion, Darmstadter Sezession, Darmstadt;
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (Film: Public Figure) - Winner of The Best Film in the National
Competition award;
Secret Language, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
2020 My Life Coach Insisted on 90 Days of Self Love, Atelier 35, Bucharest (curated by Diana Badea and Daria
Nedelcu)
Unstilled Life: Artist Animations 1980 – 2020 (online exhibition), Tintype Gallery in collaboration with Ron
Mados Gallery and blinkvideo, London (curated by Paul Carey-Kent and Emma Cousin, with Teresa Grimes)
SO FAR SO GOOD, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (curated by Flóra Gadó)
Viral self-portraits (online exhibition), Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM), Ljubljana, Slovenia
52proposalsforthe20s, Instagram project curated by Maria Lind
2019 EBC 023, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol
Art Encounters Biennial 2019, Timisoara (curated by Maria Lind and Anca Rujoiu)
Mostyn Open 2019, Llandudno, Wales
The Immeasurable, Thames-Side Gallery, London (curated by Hannah Conroy and Linda Persson)
ppm#4 – copy art show, Aiciacolo, Cluj, Romania
The Web of Fabric, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony, APT Gallery, London
2018 <pre><history>Romanian* Art Now, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest
Reading as Rhythm, Tate Exchange Liverpool (performance in collaboration with Ross taylor as part of the Control Magazine retrospective), UK
2017 Tender Buttons, SALÓN, Madrid (with Fran meana and curated by Cristina Ramos and Alfredo Aracil)
DEBT., Tintype Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Mind.Language.Matter, St Mary's House, Norwich
2016 SAY WHAT ?, ASC Gallery, London
Identify your limitations, acknowledge the periphery, Vitrine Gallery, London
The Staging of an exhibition, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (solo exhibition)
Bench, Tintype Gallery, London
2015 A Leap of Faith - The LivingRoom, St Laurence Church, Catford, London
LOOKING LONDON, TALKING TOKYO, Tintype Gallery, London (solo project)
London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London
An evening with Flat i, Flat i, London
Feel the discourse!, Guest Projects, London
Hidden in plain sight, NUA Gallery, Norwich
2014 The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Kunst- und Kulturforderung, Berlin
A well furnished room, IngridProjects, London (solo exhibition)
2013 Kltz.Pmz.AAAAA!, Tintype Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Blue Plastic Bag, AIRstudio, Central Saint Martins, UAL (collab. with Ross Taylor - funded by the Arts Council, England
The Round Manual, Arch Collective, London
2012 Hospitable Plains, Brussels Arts Factory, Brussels
2nd Exhibition, CGP, London
2011 RE--READ, An Assembley Projects, London
1st Exhibition, CGP, London
2010 Pas Pas Cichi Cichi a performance for the sea, Coastal Currents, Hastings
OPEN, 14 Cheshire street, London
subSTRATUM, Islington Arts Factory, London
In the memory of light, Kingsgate Gallery, London
2009 I KNOW A FRIEND THAT KNOWS A FRIEND..., Het Poortgebouw, Rotterdam
Perfect answers, Factory Projects, London
2008 Real Presence, House of Legacy, Belgrade, Serbia
Archive in Residence, UNA Galeria, Bucharest
Archive in Residence, VBKO, Vienna
2007 The XIVth edition of ViIla Nova de Cerveria Biennale, Portugal
A sangue frredo/In cold blood, group exhibition at Romanian Cultural Institute, Venice
FEMIDOM, Galeria Noua, Bucharest
Filmography
Public Figure (2021), The Six basic Rules of UnTidying (2020), The Mess Can’t Clean the Hand (2020) and When I Occupy the Present (2019).
Residencies and grants
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2019 Chelsea Arts Club Trust – Trustees Award
2013 Windows Comission, AIRstudio, CSM, UAL
2012 Augustus Martin Award
2010 AIR residency, AIRstudio, London
Artists' and Collectors' Bursury, UAL
2009 REAL PRESENCE, Belgrade, Serbia
Other Projects and Publications
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2014 Control Magazine | Issue Nineteen (contributor)
Neru Phuyt | Issue 1 (contributor)
2013 UM:DRUCK | Issue 25
Artforum, Best of 2013
2005 - 08 Experimental, multimedia and collective novel RUBIK, Bucharest, Romania