Daniela Groza
Daniela Groza
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.
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
- 2023, Collaborations with Identity Education non profit, leading several workshops on Queer Joy[7]
Selected works
Aquarius, 2023, oil on canvas, 280 x 180 cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2023
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
NA
Curating activity (Artist as curator)
NA
Catalogues
NA
Press
- 2024 - Scena 9, 2018. „Daniela Groza - The other family‘‘ by Andra Matzal[8]
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/]
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body art
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calligraphy, charcoal drawing, collage, collecting
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double understanding, drawing
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external view
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figurative, future-telling
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gestural
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painting, pigment, plastic, plein-air, poetry
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ritual
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solastagia, soundscape
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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)
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CGxuWQLpSrL/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CtZnuv6Iohv/?img_index=1
- ↑ https://identity.education/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/queer-legacy-ro_digital.pdf
- ↑ https://cdfd.ro/despre-noi/
- ↑ https://www.creart.ro/photo-festival-reforma-photo-days-1/
- ↑ https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2014/september/nyus-kimmel-galleries-presents-vacancy-through-november-30th.html
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/identity.education/photos/a.2174065612808438/3280966602118328/?_rdr
- ↑ https://www.scena9.ro/article/fotografie-documentara-daniela-groza-familii-lgbt
