Education
2002 / 2004
M.A., Visual Arts, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2004
3 months scholarship, Socrates-Erasmus Program, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
1997 / 2002
B. A., Fine Arts/ Painting, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Solo Exhibition
2015
The Illusion of Depth, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
The Distance Itself, C-Space, Beijing, China
2012
Geometry of Human Nature, curator Maria Rus Bojan, Galerie Dix9, Paris, France
2007
Chroma Sky (Blue Key), Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2006
Cult, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Group Exhibition
2016
The Road Not Taken Ch.2, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
The New Wave of Realism, Galleri KIRK, Aalborg, Denmark
2014
Very Important Chair, curator Alexandru Popovici, Pont Chevron, France
2013
#FFFFFF - #000000, curator Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Galerie Dix9, Paris, FRrance
2012
Renovation & Collateral Effects, curator Ami Barak, Galerie Dix9, Paris, France
2011
Colouring the Grey – State of Mind, curator Cosmin Năsui, Artists’ House Tel Aviv, ISRael
Post Humanism, curator Cosmin Năsui, V-Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special Projects Section, Colouring the Grey. The Second Wave of the Contemporary Romanian Artists, curator Cosmin Năsui, Art Play, Moscow, Russia
2010
Impermanence, Hendershot Gallery, New York, USA
Acquisitions 2009 – a selection, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Netherland
2009
Fast Forward, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Projects, The Hague, Netherland
Urban Fictions, curator Irina Cios, organized by ICCA at The Ark Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
....Expectations, curator Maria Rus Bojan, temporary space, Dé is Ka & de Verzameling, Barbara Strozzilaan 314-316, Amsterdam, Netherland
2008
Strategies for Concealing, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China
Urban Art, architectural projections festival, Bucharest, Romania
2007
Urban Art, architectural projections festival, Bucharest, Romania
2005
I Love Pictura, under construction space, Hotel Continental, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
International Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, Czech
European Blue – Young Generation, Matthias Corvinus House Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO and on tour at Aula Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2004
Airbag, National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2003
Urban Emotion, Galeria Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Skin, Ataş Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2002
Ana Maria Micu & Cătălin Petrişor, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Dream Sequence, The Visual Artists' Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Project
2014
How to Mend Unbroken Things (in collaboration with Ana Maria Micu), Work-in-Progress Duo Show, my art, Vienna, Australia
2012
A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness (in collaboration with Ana Maria Micu), Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Production as Tableau Vivant (in collaboration with Ana Maria Micu ), artist-in-residence finissage, my art, Vienna, Australia
2009
Understatement (in collaboration with Ana Maria Micu), curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space, Beijing, China
Workshop
2014
Abstract Circle, A Mobile Painting Workshop 22 - 29 July, daily 8-11 and 17-20, held together with Ana Maria Micu in different areas of Brestei neighborhood, Craiova, Romania
2012
5. ART:aussee, Altaussee, Austria (30.06 – 7.07)
Open Call
2014
Paint Like You Mean It, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2013
Celeste Prize Finalist, catalogue and exhibition at Spazio Fienaroli 28, Rome, Italy
2012
Strabag ArtAward International Nominee, online archive
2009
Încotro, online curation project by Tudor Prisăcariu
2004
Prize of The DWS Presidium, DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania
2003
DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania
Residency
2014
my art, Vienna, Austria (1.07 – 5.08)
2012
my art, Vienna, Austria ( 8.07 – 30.07)
2008
În construcţie - 2, International Center of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (1.05 – 30.08)
Art Fair
2014
Galerie Dix9, Art Paris Art Fair, France
2013
Galerie Dix9, Cutlog New York, USA
Galerie Dix9, Art Rotterdam, Netherland
2012
C-Space, China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
2011
Jecza & Ross Gallery, The-solo-project, Basel, Switzerland
Hendershot Gallery, Scope Art Show, New York, USA
2010
C-Space / C-projects, Art Amsterdam, Netherland
C-Space, Art Beijing, China
C-Space and MB Art Agency, Art Rotterdam, Netherland
2009
C-Space, Art Rotterdam, Netherland
2007
Anaid Art Gallery, art.fair, Cologne, German
2006
Anaid Art Gallery, art.fair, Cologne, German
Selected Publication
Max Joseph 1, Das Magazin der Bayerische Staatsoper (München, 2014 – 2015) p. 8, p. 20 - 21
Bogdan Ghiu, Linia de producție. Lucrând cu arta ( Cluj-Napoca: Tact Publishing, 2014) p.72 - 73, 416 - 419
In Sight. Thoughts on the Collection of De Nederlandsche Bank, Art Committee of De Nederlandsche Bank (Amsterdam, 12.2014) p. 249
Mihaela Velea, "Atelier Mobil De Pictură", Mozaicul no. 9 (Craiova, 2014) p. 14
The Empty Annual 01 ( Sydney, 2013)
ArtCo no. 244 (Taipei, 2013)
Artitude (Taipei, 01.2013) p.106-107
La Vie (Taipei, 12.2012)
C'est si bon no. 8 (Taipei, 2012)
Basak Malone, The New Collectors Book (New York, 2012), p.11
Liz Rice McCray, “Cătălin Petrişor”, BL!SSS Magazine 59 (Newport, 2011), p. 38
Cătălin Petrişor, C-Space (Beijing, 2010)
Cosmin Costinaş, 32 Romanian Painters, H’art Gallery (Bucharest, 2005), p. 66 - 71
Selected Online Periodical
Marius Dobrin, “Cercul abstract”, Prăvălia culturală, 06.2014
Igor Mocanu, “Cătălin Petrişor sau despre răzbunarea semnului”, Accent cultural no. 8, 12.2011
Bogdan Ghiu, “Reconstrucţia visului (Cătălin Petrişor)”, Atelier LiterNet, 13.02.2011
“Picto-Rama Zilei: Cătălin Petrişor”, Artclue, 12.04.2011
Andra Matzal, “Tablouri care fac “afirmaţii moderate” la Beijing”, Cotidianul, 31.05.2009
Andra Matzal, “Arta pe ruinele nou-nouţe ale capitalismului”, Cotidianul, 22.05.2009
Cosmin Năsui, “Picturi crepusculare”, Observator Cultural no. 485, 2009
Ellen Pearlman, “Shock and awe - C-Space provokes”, Time Out Beijing, 2008
Selected Blog
Jeff Hamada, “Catalin Petrisor”, Booooooom (blog), 26.08.2013. http://www.booooooom.com/2013/08/26/artist-painter-catalin-petrisor-2/
“catalin petrisor”, I need a guide (blog), 11.07.2011. http://ineedaguide.blogspot.ro/2011/07/catalin-petrisor.html
Jeff Hamada, “Catalin Petrisor”, Booooooom (blog), 29.06.2011. http://www.booooooom.com/2011/06/29/artist-painter-catalin-petrisor/
“Artist Link - Cătălin Petrişor”, Vernisaje (blog), 2011, http://www.vernisaje.com/2011/07/artist-link-catalin-petrisor.html
Public Collection
De Nederlandsche Bank's Collection: the painting "Memorial House" made in 2009
The Collection of The National Gallery in Prague: the paintings “The Next Dog” and “Eye for an Eye” made in 2005