Biography

Oana Coşug (born 1979, in Galați, Romania) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied painting

at the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest and in 2009 obtained a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Art at Academy Royale of Beaux Arts, Brussels. She has had numerous group exhibitions in Brussels (Galerie B, Galerie Actionfields, Art'Contest, Croxhapox in Ghent, Galerie d'Ys and Artitude) and Bucharest (MNAC, Anca Poterasu, Gallery, Apollo, Căminul Artei, etc.). Solo exhibitions (selection): Paintings / Drawings (2022, Albert Dumont Gallery), Here I sit still in silence (2021, Gallery UJ Kriterion), 25th International Contemporary Art Fair (2019, Zurich, Switzerland), 34 6 Gallery (curated by Pierre Martens in Linkebeek, Belgium), Hidden - exhibition and book presentation (2018, Artitude Gallery at Rivoli Building, Brussels), The Simultaneous Spaces of Absence (2018, curated by Cristina Stoenescu, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania), Drawings at BeCulture (2018, Artitude Galerie in Brussels), Installation The Locker (2017, ERG in Brussels), Landscape (Artitude Gallery, Brussels, 2015), Drawings (ICR Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014), Paintings / Drawings (Visual Art Museum, Galaţi, 2012), Blue face (Artsenzafine Gallery, Milano, 2010) , My shadow (Artsenzafine Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2008), ExPosition (Atelier 35, Bucharest).

In 2012, Oana Coșug took part in the exhibition organized by CanvasCollectie / The RTBF Collection at
Bozar. She has been present in different artistic residences: Les Alisiers (Sion, Switzerland, at the invitation of Olivier von Schulthness Collection), Destelheide in Belgium, Colonia 21 (Tescani, Romania), Mie Lefever in Ghent in Belgium. 
In 2012 she received the first prize at the International Biennial of Contemporary Drawing in Namur, Belgium
(ex aequo: Oana Coşug and Anya Belyat-Giunta). In 2021 she was selected to participate in
the exhibition for the Drawing Prize in Ronse.