January 6th, 1962, Brad, Hunedoara County, RO
Studies • 1981-1986 – National University of Arts, Bucharest, Master of Fine Arts, major in painting • 1971-1980 – College of Arts, Deva City – Romania • since 2012 President of the National University of Arts in Bucharest • Professor at the Bucharest National University of Arts, Painting Department • since 2010 coordinator for PhD studies • 2004-PhD in Visual Arts with the subject AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF VISUAL ARTISTIC IMAGE AND ITS GRAMMAR (IMAGE AND ITS SYNTAX) • 2000- Research activity in image analyzing as a Director of ARTLAB (Image analyzing and creation laboratory, certified CNCSIS) • since 1990 – member of the Professional Artists Association in Romania
One-man shows • 2022 – Mannerism projections – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest • 2020 – Mannerism, Ilfoveanu-Badea Foundation, Pitești; • 2018 – Mannerism as a state, Museum of Art, Craiova; • 2016 – Studies for Mannerism, Museum of Art, Timișoara, Ro; • 2006 – Apollo Gallery, Bucharest; • 2003 – Simeza Gallery, Bucharest; • 2000 – Simeza Gallery, Bucharest; • 1997 – Apollo Gallery, Bucharest; • 1994 – Simeza Gallery, Bucharest.
International Art shows • 2022 – Reunions of Artists – UAP Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; • 2019 – Another East, RIVAA Gallery, New York; • 2015 – 6th International Art Biennial Memory and Dream, National Museum of Art Beijing, China • 2012 – International Biennial for print and Drawing, Third edition – Bangkok, Thailand • 2001 – International Biennial for Print and Drawing – Taipei, Taiwan • 2000 – Yungersted & Brostrom Gallery – Copenhagen, Denmark • 1997 – International Biennial of Art, Sharjah – UAE • 1995 – Rhein Main Maritime Hotel – Darmstadt • 1995 – Romanian Cultural Center – Wien, Budapest, Venice • 1995 – International Festival of Painting – Cagnes sur Mer, France • 1990 – Itinerant Art Show; ISELP, Bruxelles, Botanique Gallery Bruxelles, Romanian Library, Paris • 1989 – International Art Show of Miniatural Art 4th edition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto
Selected group exhibitions • 2022 – S.N.A.C. – CAV, Bucharest; • 2022 – UNA today – Constanta Art Museum; • 2020 – Laborator interior – CAV, Bucharest; • 2020 – Salonul Național de Artă Contemporană, S.E.N.A.T. Gallery, Bucharest; • 2020 – Salonul de pictură, CAV, Bucharest; • 2020 – Group Exibition – National Galleries of Arts, FORMA-Deva; • 2020 – Transformation from Gdansk to Bucharest, National Museum of Art, Bucharest; • 2020 – Grup 53 pictură, CAV, Bucharest; • 2018 – Salonul Național de Artă Contemporană-Centenar 2018, National Museum of Arts, Bucharest; • 2018 – Grup 47 pictură, CAV, Bucharest; • 2018 – Artists from Bucharest, UAP Gallery, Brăila ; • 2018 – Artists from Bucharest, Museum of Art, Galați; • 2017 – Winter Art, CAV, Bucharest; • 2016 – Very Big Painting, National Theatre, Bucharest • 2016 – National Art Show of Painting, Orizont Gallery Bucharest • 2016 – Group 33, Painting, Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2016 – Drawing 1, Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2015 – National Art Show of Painting, Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2015 – Painting without Painting, 030202 Gallery, Bucharest • 2014 – National Art Show, Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2014 – NON HIC LIBRORUM, Museum of Art, Constanța • 2014 – 150 years of Art Education, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest • 2014 – DUPLEX , CALPE Gallery, Timișoara • 2013 – Art show of City Bucharest, Center of Visual Arts • 2013 – ZECE +, May, Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2013– VENATURE XXV, April, Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2012 – Art show of City Bucharest, Center of Visual Arts • 2012 – UNARTE 012 Museum of Art, Cluj- Napoca • 2012 – Culture of Cosmos, Parliament Hall, Bucharest • 2012 –Unsprezece+, January, Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2011- Art show of City Bucharest, Center of Visual Arts • 2011 – Group Artshow, Iasi Professional Artists Association Gallery • 2011 – Treisprezece – Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2010 – Studio Sequences – Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2009 – ZECE – Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2009 – Studio Sequences – Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest • 2008 – CÂINELE ANDALUZ–Artis Gallery, Bucharest • 2008 – Desen, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest • 2003 – Art show of City Bucharest, Artis Gallery • 2001 – Group Art Show – Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest • 2001 – National Art Show – Romexpo Exhibition Center, Bucharest • 1999 –Timpul în artele spațiului – Institute of Architecture, Bucharest • 1995 – Apollo Gallery, Bucharest • 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 – National Art show of Young Artists, National Theatre Bucharest • 1988 – National graphics show, Dalles Gallery Bucharest • 1985,1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 – Art show of Bucharest City National Theatre • 1983 – Croquis, students art show, Bucharest
Grants and awards
• 1997 – Scholarship offered by the Italian Institute of Culture from Bucharest – trip for study Rome, Florence and Venice • 1993 – one stage by six weeks in Bath College of Higher Education UK, Tempus Program • 1988 – studio Costin Petrescu grant offered by the Professional Artists Association from Romania • 1979 – 1st prize at the National competition of College of Art Festival Timisoara, Romania • 1979 – 2nd prize at the Secondary Schools of Art Festival Sibiu, Romania * Research activity (www.3a.ro; www.iqinart.ro; www.unarte.org) • 2002-2004- Image analyzing method of the basic elements in image – Research Projects financial sustained by National Developing Program • 2001- New Technics and Methods for Image Analyzig CNCSIS A -research project • 2000- Research activity in image analyzing as a Director of ARTLAB CA 37-2004 National Research Network CNCSIS Articles, books: – Zhang S., Neagu D. and Balescu C. (2005) Refinement of Clustering Solutions using a Multi-Label Voting Algorithm for Neuro-Fuzzy Ensembles, Procs. First International Conference on Natural Computation ICNC2005 (Lipo Wang, Ke Chen, Yew S. Ong eds.) – Changsha, China, 1300-1303, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS3612, ISSN 3-540-28320-X – Neagu D., Zhang S. and Balescu C. (2005) A Multi-Label Voting Algorithm for Neuro-Fuzzy Classifiers Ensembles applied for Visual Arts Data Mining, Procs. 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA2005, Wroclaw, Poland – (Halina Kwasnicka, Marcin Paprzycki eds.) 245-250, IEEE Computer Society Press, ISSN 0-7695-2286-6. – S. Zhang, D. Neagu, C. Balescu (2005) Knowledge Representation for Visual Art Data Mining. 6th Informatics Workshop for Research Students, Univ. of Bradford, 23 March 2005, 198-202, ISBN1-85143-220-5 – S. Zhang, D. Neagu, C. Balescu (2005) Visual Art Data Mining: Knowledge Representation and a Case Study. PREP 2005: the EPSRC Postgraduate Research Conf. in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Networks, and ComputingScience at the University of Lancaster, 30th March – 1st April 2005, 295-296. • Ilfoveanu – Studio 2005- 2010 (graphic design C. Balescu) UNARTE Publisher, Bucharest, ISBN 978606—8296-00-5 • Ruxandra Demetrescu, Ioana Beldiman, Grațiela Grigoriu – Kalinderu Collection (graphic design C.Balescu) UNARTE Publisher Bucharest, ISBN 978- 973-1922- 52- 2, 2009. • Museum of the National University of Arts UNARTE Publisher Bucharest – ISBN 978–973–1922–06-5, 2008. • Architecture- Contest for the National University of Arts in Bucharest ISBN 978-973-1922-12-6, UNARTE Publisher Bucharest, 2008.
Personal catalogues: • CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU – 2022 – Mannerism projections, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, UNARTE Publishing House, ISBN 978-606-720-160-4; • CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU – 2018 – Mannerism as a state, Craiova Museum of Arts, UNARTE Publishing House, ISBN 978-606-720-104-8; • CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU – 2016 – Mannerism studies, Timișoara Museum of Arts, UNARTE Publishing House, ISBN 978-606-720-045-4; • CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU – 2007 – Painting, Simeza Gallery -1994-2000-2004 – UNARTE Publishing House, ISBN 978-973-87493-9-9, 2007; • CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU – 2007 – APOLLO GALLERY – Painting- 2006 – UNARTE Publishing House, ISBN 978-97388507-4-3
web links: • www.unarte.org • www.3a.ro • www. mnac.ro • www.wikipedia.org