Daniela Groza: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:38, 2 March 2026

Daniela Groza

"Daniela Groza - Artist Portrait" / (c) Daniela Groza, 2019

Biography

Daniela Groza (*1983 in Constanța, RO), (she/her), non-binary visual artist of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in Romania and USA, and lived in the two countries of choice: Romania and USA, spending half of year in each one, at a time. She studied Fine Arts degree in Italian philosophy and Literature from UC Berkeley. After college she spent a few years learning the ins and outs of the culinary arts, then engaged in a short photography a the Documentary Photography (2010-2011) program at Florence University of the Arts under Prof. Simone Pierotti. Taxi driver, when living in USA, visual queer photography artist, when living in Romania.

"Daniela Groza - Good News" ”The image set the tone for a queer presence, queer with all the semantic valences associated with the word. That image marked the acceptance of the first grant for a queer photography project funded by AFCN in 2017, the year of that referendum boycotted by queer people and our allies. I wanted to break the conventions of shame by self-representing a free, curious and fearless spirit (-artist note, 2026)” / (c) Daniela Groza 2017

Artistic disciplines:

Art Photography (queer)

Process

Daniela Groza works as a documentary photographer working primarily with a medium format camera (6x7). Through photography, she aims to create a space where cynicism vanishes from the psychology of the image. If photography is a notorious culprit for inciting nostalgia, itself a shade of joylessness, joyful images will meander the soft edges of what it feels like to come in contact with light, with the love she holds for her wife, their favorite foods & the ordinary necessary objects becoming extraordinary. As a queer artist, she is learning alongside another queer body how to soften up while unlearning a judgmental mindset, transitioning toward a stance of curiosity, empathy, acceptance, by embracing joy as a means of resistance.

Notable themes

Recurring theme in Daniela Grozu's works is the self-representation, interested in joy as queer resilience.

Works in collections and public recognition

exhibited nationally and internationally, at museums, public institutions and art galleries.
works in private collections (Germany, Romania, USA).

Selected exhibitions

1.Selected solo exhibitions

2020 - solo exhibition, Tables, Epicentru Gallery, Constanța, Romania^[1]
2020 - solo exhibition, QUEERO - Queer Romanian Womxn, Brașov, Romania

2.Selected group exhibitions

2025 - group exhibition, ‘Lost & Found’, LA Center for Photography, USA
2023 - group exhibition, ‘See us!’, Romania
2023 - group exhibition, ‘Queer Bodies’, Transylvania Queer Art, Cluj Napoca, Romania^[2]
2023 - group exhibition, ‘Tabachera cu Scorpion’, Timișoara, Romania^[3]
2023 - group exhibition, ‘Women with a camera’, Casa Presei Libere, Bucharest, Romania
2022 - group exhibition, ‘WE ARE HERE’, Identity Education, Timișoara, Romania
2022 - group exhibition, ‘WE ARE HERE’/POLAR RAINBOW, ArtHub, Bucharest, Romania
2020 - group exhibition, ‘QUEERO’, Indecis Art Space, Timișoara, Romania
2018 - group exhibition, 'Home is Where', Rezidența BRD / Scena9, Bucharest, Romania^[4]
2018 - group exhibition, 'Reforma Photo Days', Bucharest, Romania^[5]
2016 - group exhibition, 'In/Out', Transylvania Photography Festival, Romania
2016 - group exhibition, 'Human All Too Human', NYU Kimmel Galleries, NY, USA
2016 - group exhibition, 'Home', Granada, Spain
2015 - group exhibition, 'I/Thou', NYU Kimmel Galleries, NY, USA
2015 - group exhibition, 'That Used To Be Us', Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, USA
2015 - group exhibition, 'Four of Hearts', Ground Floor Gallery, NY
2014 - group exhibition, 'Queering the self', sponsored by AMEX and Estee Lauder, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, NY, USA
2016 - group exhibition, 'Vacancy', NYU Kimmel Galleries, NY, USA^[6]

3.Biennials, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions

NA

Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects

2024, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’ collaboration with the BDSM community, co-instructor with her life partner, Ioana Pop, Bucharest, Romania
2023, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy in Bucharest’, co-instructor with her life partner Ioana Pop, Bucharest, Romania
2023, Photography workshop, collaboration with Identity Education non profit, leading several workshops on Queer Joy^[7]
2022, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’, guest artist/ instructor, collaboration with Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
2021, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’, guest instructor, collaboration with Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
2021, Photography workshop, ‘Joy in the Visual Arts’, instructor, collaboration with Casa Tranzit, Cluj, Romania
2021, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’, guest instructor, collaboration with Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2021, Artist talk, TEDX speaker - TEDx Zorilor, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2020, Artist talk, Romanian Cultural Institute, Women Voices in North America, online venue, NY, USA
2018, Artist talk, Ultraviolet TV show, in conversation with Alida Mocanu, Bucharest, Romania
2018, Artist talk, SMART Radio, in conversation with Veronica Soare, Bucharest, Romania
2017, Artist talk, Radio Guerilla, ROZ, in conversation with Carla Maria Teaha, Bucharest, Romania
2017, Artist talk, FOR REAL podcast, in conversation with Andreea Vrabie, Bucharest, Romania
2017, Artist talk, On intersectional feminism, Apollo Theater, Bucharest, Romania
2017, Artist talk, DOR live, WOMAN photography series, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
2016, Artist talk, Creative Mornings, ON LOVE, Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bucharest, Romania
2014-ongoing - BE KIND FOR REAL fundraising for common good, various issues (queer refugees, women, artists, domestic violence, etc.)

Selected works

"My wife - Good news", the artist partner in the artist NY driven taxi, from the Good News series, 2024, medium format film, 60x70 cm, 2021, photography by Daniela Groza (c) Daniela Groza 2021
Picnic by the Wayside, installation (mural painting), oil on canvas, 380 x 490 cm - (c) Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest 2023
In the golden center, 2023, charcoal and oil on paper, 52 x 32 cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2023
On green floor III, 2019, charcoal and oil on paper, 69.5 x 61.5cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2019
Moon Walker, 2024, oil on canvas, 2024 - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2024

Exhibition views

View from Green Meat first institutional solo show at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK) 05. – 07.2018 (c) Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK) 2018
View from the Picnic by the Wayside solo show, installation (mural painting), oil on canvas, 380 x 490 cm, second solo show at the Anca Poterașu Gallery, 07. - 08.2023 - (c) Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest 2023
View from the STARCATCHER solo show at DUVE Berlin Gallery, 03 – 04.2024 - (c) DUVE Berlin Gallery 2024
View from TRANSMISSION solo show at Volery Gallery, Dubai, 09. - 10.2025 (c) Volery Gallery, Dubai 2025
View from This Space Between Us solo show at Philipp Anders Gallery, Leipzig 05. - 06.2025 (c) Philipp Anders Gallery, Leipzig 2025

Publications

1.Published books

NA

2.Published articles in journals & magazines

2022, ‘At the port’, article, CUTRA, Romania^[8]
2021, 'A letter to my young self', article, The Daring, USA^[9]
2020, ‘Donuts and a ride in a pandemic New York’, published interview, Scena9, Romania^[10]
2020, ‘Affective’, article, CUTRA, Romania
2017, 'Those who leave and those who remain', article, Decât O Revistă, Romania^[11]
2016, 'Where I Come From', article, Decât O Revistă, Romania^[12]

Curating activity (Artist as curator)

NA

Catalogues

NA

Press

2024, Romanian Contemporary Photography INFLUX – Urban Gardens On Love, article, ^[13]
2020, 'On driving a taxi in New York during the pandemic', published interview, by Ioana Ulmeanu, Elle Magazine, Romania^[14]
2018 - Scena 9, 2018. „Daniela Groza - The other family‘‘ by Andra Matzal^[15]
2018, 'Daniela Groza: the story of a kind person for real', published interview, Elle Magazine, Romania^[16]

2017, 'Daniela Groza: the story of a kind person for real', published interview, iQuads ro ^[17]

Gallery Representation

NA
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact NPK

Social Media Links

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniela.groza.pop
Website: http://www.danielagroza.com/ http://www.danielagroza.com/]

Hashtags

(applicable hashtags for this artist)

List of tags in alphabetical order

(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes)

#A #B #C #D #E #F #G H #I J K #L M N #O #P Q #R #S T U V W X Y Z

Compatible and inspirational artists:

(artist-mentioned reference list) ("for the way they have laid down the foundations for self-representation, queer and beyond." -artist note)

[1] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/CGxuWQLpSrL/

[2] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/CtZnuv6Iohv/?img_index=1

[3] ttps://identity.education/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/queer-legacy-ro_digital.pdf

[4] ttps://cdfd.ro/despre-noi/

[5] ttps://www.creart.ro/photo-festival-reforma-photo-days-1/

[6] ttps://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2014/september/nyus-kimmel-galleries-presents-vacancy-through-november-30th.html

[7] ttps://www.facebook.com/identity.education/photos/a.2174065612808438/3280966602118328/?_rdr

[8] ttps://cutra.ro/la-liman-despre-fericire-migratie-cautare/

[9] ttps://www.thedaring.co/2021/02/the-miracle-of-delight-a-letter-to-my-younger-self/

[10] ttps://www.scena9.ro/article/pandemie-covid-new-york-taxi

[11] ttps://www.dor.ro/cei-care-pleaca-si-cei-care-raman-dor-28/

[12] ttps://www.dor.ro/de-aici-sunt-integral-din-dor-20/

[13] ttps://www.photographyinflux.ro/the-garden-of-eden-joy-paradise-love-daniela-groza-ioana-groza-pop-lucian-bran/

[14] ttps://www.elle.ro/lifestyle/daniela-groza-despre-coronavirus-panica-si-speranta-la-new-york-717611

[15] ttps://www.scena9.ro/article/fotografie-documentara-daniela-groza-familii-lgbt

[16] ttps://www.elle.ro/people/daniela-groza-povestea-unui-om-care-e-bun-pe-bune-612699

[17] ttps://www.iqads.ro/articol/39489/daniela-groza-fotograf-documentar-sofer-uber-in-new-york-om-bun-cu-adevarat

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

@@ Line 63: / Line 63: @@
 ==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
-* 2023, Collaborations with Identity Education non profit, leading several workshops on Queer Joy<ref>https://www.facebook.com/identity.education/photos/a.2174065612808438/3280966602118328/?_rdr</ref>
+* 2024, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’ collaboration with the BDSM community, co-instructor with her life partner, Ioana Pop, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2023, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy in Bucharest’, co-instructor with her life partner Ioana Pop, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2023, Photography workshop, collaboration with Identity Education non profit, leading several workshops on Queer Joy<ref>https://www.facebook.com/identity.education/photos/a.2174065612808438/3280966602118328/?_rdr</ref>
+* 2022, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’, guest artist/ instructor, collaboration with Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
+* 2021, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’, guest instructor, collaboration with Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
+* 2021, Photography workshop, ‘Joy in the Visual Arts’, instructor, collaboration with Casa Tranzit, Cluj, Romania
+* 2021, Photography workshop, ‘Queer Joy’, guest instructor, collaboration with Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
+* 2021, Artist talk, TEDX speaker - TEDx Zorilor, Cluj Napoca, Romania
+* 2020, Artist talk, Romanian Cultural Institute, Women Voices in North America, online venue, NY, USA
+* 2018, Artist talk, Ultraviolet TV show, in conversation with Alida Mocanu, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2018, Artist talk, SMART Radio, in conversation with Veronica Soare, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2017, Artist talk, Radio Guerilla, ROZ, in conversation with Carla Maria Teaha, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2017, Artist talk, FOR REAL podcast, in conversation with Andreea Vrabie, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2017, Artist talk, On intersectional feminism, Apollo Theater, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2017, Artist talk, DOR live, WOMAN photography series, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2016, Artist talk, Creative Mornings, ON LOVE, Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bucharest, Romania
+* 2014-ongoing - BE KIND FOR REAL fundraising for common good, various issues (queer refugees, women, artists, domestic violence, etc.)
 <br />
 ----
@@ Line 69: / Line 85: @@
 ==== Selected works ====
 <gallery>
-Artwork1-Sebastian Hosu.jpg|Aquarius, 2023, oil on canvas, 280 x 180 cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2023
+Artwork1-DanielaGroza.jpg|"My wife - Good news", the artist partner in the artist NY driven taxi, from the Good News series, 2024, medium format film, 60x70 cm, 2021, photography by Daniela Groza (c) Daniela Groza 2021
 Artwork2-Sebastian Hosu.jpg|Picnic by the Wayside, installation (mural painting), oil on canvas, 380 x 490 cm - (c) Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest 2023
 Artwork3-Sebastian Hosu.jpg|In the golden center, 2023, charcoal and oil on paper, 52 x 32 cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2023
@@ Line 95: / Line 111: @@
 NA
 ===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines =====
-NA
+* 2022, ‘At the port’, article, CUTRA, Romania<ref>https://cutra.ro/la-liman-despre-fericire-migratie-cautare/</ref>
+* 2021, 'A letter to my young self', article, The Daring, USA<ref>https://www.thedaring.co/2021/02/the-miracle-of-delight-a-letter-to-my-younger-self/</ref>
+* 2020, ‘Donuts and a ride in a pandemic New York’, published interview, Scena9, Romania<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/pandemie-covid-new-york-taxi</ref>
+* 2020, ‘Affective’, article, CUTRA, Romania
+* 2017, 'Those who leave and those who remain', article, Decât O Revistă, Romania<ref>https://www.dor.ro/cei-care-pleaca-si-cei-care-raman-dor-28/</ref>
+* 2016, 'Where I Come From', article, Decât O Revistă, Romania<ref>https://www.dor.ro/de-aici-sunt-integral-din-dor-20/</ref>
 <br />
 ----
@@ Line 111: / Line 132: @@
 ----
 ==== Press ====
-* 2024 - Scena 9, 2018. „Daniela Groza - The other family‘‘ by Andra Matzal<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/fotografie-documentara-daniela-groza-familii-lgbt</ref>
+* 2024, Romanian Contemporary Photography INFLUX – Urban Gardens On Love, article, <ref>https://www.photographyinflux.ro/the-garden-of-eden-joy-paradise-love-daniela-groza-ioana-groza-pop-lucian-bran/</ref>
+* 2020, 'On driving a taxi in New York during the pandemic', published interview, by Ioana Ulmeanu, Elle Magazine, Romania<ref>https://www.elle.ro/lifestyle/daniela-groza-despre-coronavirus-panica-si-speranta-la-new-york-717611</ref>
+* 2018 - Scena 9, 2018. „Daniela Groza - The other family‘‘ by Andra Matzal<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/fotografie-documentara-daniela-groza-familii-lgbt</ref>
+* 2018, 'Daniela Groza: the story of a kind person for real', published interview, Elle Magazine, Romania<ref>https://www.elle.ro/people/daniela-groza-povestea-unui-om-care-e-bun-pe-bune-612699</ref>
+, 'Daniela Groza: the story of a kind person for real', published interview, iQuads ro <ref>https://www.iqads.ro/articol/39489/daniela-groza-fotograf-documentar-sofer-uber-in-new-york-om-bun-cu-adevarat</ref>
 <br />
 ----