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BIO Alexandru Salceanu received his BFA in 2004 from the University of San Diego in San Diego, California and his MFA in 2021 from Mills College in Oakland, California. In 2020, during his graduate studies, he was awarded a Cadogan Scholarship by the San Francisco Foundation. He has been exhibiting locally and internationally since his graduation. He is the founder of a Romanian artist collective based in San Francisco. He joined the SFAS community since the summer of 2022. alexandrusalceanu.com @alexandrusalceanustudio |
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STATEMENT
I'm a Romanian-American interdisciplinary artist. My artistic concerns revolve around micro and macro tensions: narratives of power and vulnerability; fear and resilience; cultural identity and the homogeneity of globalism. These themes arise from reconciling my cultural identity as someone born in Communist Romania. Assimilating into other cultures after the 1989 revolution keenly influence my approach to the world, driving him to layer historical and aesthetic references. Juxtaposing the dissonance of political and economic theory and the intimacy of lived experience, I stitch historical facts and personal accounts together through a variety of media—photography, video, projection mapping, painting, social practice, and mixed media. Through my work, I seek art’s transformative power to humanize issues, challenge perspectives and encourage a more personal encounter.
I'm a Romanian-American interdisciplinary artist. My artistic concerns revolve around micro and macro tensions: narratives of power and vulnerability; fear and resilience; cultural identity and the homogeneity of globalism. These themes arise from reconciling my cultural identity as someone born in Communist Romania. Assimilating into other cultures after the 1989 revolution keenly influence my approach to the world, driving him to layer historical and aesthetic references. Juxtaposing the dissonance of political and economic theory and the intimacy of lived experience, I stitch historical facts and personal accounts together through a variety of media—photography, video, projection mapping, painting, social practice, and mixed media. Through my work, I seek art’s transformative power to humanize issues, challenge perspectives and encourage a more personal encounter.
