Dragoș Bădiță (b. 1987) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca, specialising in painting. In 2009 he finished his MA studies at the same university. In 2015 he exhibits at the National Portrait Gallery as part as the BP Portrait Award event, and also at Scottish National Portrait Gallery/ Edinburgh,UK (2015) and Ulster Museum/ Belfast, UK (2016). Dragoș Bădiță chooses the subjects of his oil and ink paintings and drawings from deeply personal surroundings, transforming the artworks into frames-of-consciousness, glimpses of the human psyche and its connection to others. His figurative paintings reflect on Flemish and Danish painterly influences, striking a contemporary contrast with his choice of framing and merge of motifs and fantastic landscapes.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Ironing out the Waves of the Sea, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Some Are Born To Sweet Delight, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2020 Light Breeze Touching the Earth, Richter Gallery, Rome, Italy
2018 Spin the Cotton While The Moon Is Bright, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2018 A Storm Passed By, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 Winter Sleep, Pilot Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 Tip of the Iris, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Light Falls, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2017 Meditation on perception, Superliquidato, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 12 May at Dusk, RAFT, Brașov, Romania
2013 The Room With An Echo, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2012 My Body Is Always Here, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2011 Cover your ears and you will hear fire, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2009 Breath, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Group exhibitions
2024 Art Brussels 2024, Brussels, Belgium
2024 The Cluj Collective,JD Malat Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2023 Hiding in Plain Sight, Biju Gallery, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2023 Hacking the Future, Matca Art Space, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2022 Open Doors, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2021 Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Lateral ArtSpace / Rubik, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2020 After 12 years. Artistic production in Romania in 180 works, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2020 In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times, litost Gallery, Prague
2019 In The Eye of The Storm, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2019 The Museum Affairs, Zoological and Botanical Museums, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 Winter Celebration, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2018 Imaginea Pictură. Despre ieșirea în „realitate”, Galeria Quadro, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 Imaginea Pictură. Despre ieșirea în „realitate”, County Museum, Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania
2018 Cu excepția Riveranilor, Pilot Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 A Word for Each of Us, Galeria Richter Fine Art, Rome, Italy
2018 Drawing Post-Brâncuși, Alexandru Ștefulescu County Museum, Târgu-Jiu, Romania
2017 Cu excepția Riveranilor, Pilot Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 #digestiblepredictions, part of “Life – A User’s Manual”, Lateral ArtSpace at Art Encounters 2017, Timisoara, Romania
2017 Being Mountains, Being Seas, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 Sympathy and Signification. Before the vertical labyrinth and behind the red line, The National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
2016 BP Portrait Award 2015, Ulster Museum, Belfast, United Kingdom
2016 Polished Honesty, Centrul Artelor Vizuale Multimedia, Bucharest, Romania
2016 The Quiet Corner, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2015 BP Portrait Award 2015, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2015 BP Portrait Award 2015, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2015 Some Change, County Museum, Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania
2014 Die Alpineum minimale2, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
2014 Pale Blue Dot, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2014 Disenchantment Day, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, Romania
2013 Defining / Creating, Larm Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
2012 Art Foundation Mallorca Collection – Special Edition, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2012 Reality Terror, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Bound to art, Romanian Cultural Institute, London, United Kingdom
2010 Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2010 In The Eyes of My Brother, Larm Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 Artbooth, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Oradea, Romania
2009 Young artists from the painting school of Cluj, Mie Lefever Gallery, Belgium
2009 Only cowards die without having fun, ICCA Experimental Space, Bucharest, Romania
2008 Passport, ASFA exhibition space, Athens, Greece
2008 Artower Athina 2008, Artower Hall, Athens, Greece
2007 Maniphesto, Preview Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2007 Europa Artium, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Art Fairs
2022 Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, with Anca Poterasu Gallery
2020 NADA, Bruxelles, Belgium, with Anca Poterasu Gallery
2019 NADA, Miami, SUA, with Anca Poterasu Gallery
2018 VOLTA Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, with Anca Poterasu Gallery
2018 Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden, with Lateral ArtSpace
2015 Art Safari, Bucharest, Romania, with Lateral ArtSpace
2015 Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden, with Lateral ArtSpace
2015 Sluice Art Fair, London, United Kingdom, with Lateral ArtSpace
2014 Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden, with Lateral ArtSpace
2014 Art Athina, Athens, Greece, with Lateral ArtSpace 2012
2014 ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain, with Ivan Gallery
Workshops & Residencies
2015 Fjuk Art Centre, Husavik, Iceland
2015 Colonia 21, Tescani, Romania
2013 The Echo of Music, Roglijevo, Serbia
2012 Curators’ Network, Sibiu, Romania
2009 Samuel Brukenthal’s Guests, Avrig, Romania
2009 Petrosani Art Summer Camp, Petrosani, Romania
Publications & Curatorial Activity
2017 Open Calls, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Wild Awake, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj, Romania
2014 Pale blue dot, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj, Romania
