After more than fifteen years working across animation, film, and design, Florin Dragoi (b. 1985, Timisoara, Romania) dedicated himself fully to his personal artistic practice.

Florin studied Graphics at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the West University of Timisoara before continuing his education in animation at CSIA in Lugano, Switzerland, and completing a master’s degree in the United Kingdom in 3D Animation at Bournemouth University at the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) in 2011. The years that followed saw him working across animation, film, and design, collaborating with studios and creative teams in London, Romania and across Europe.

Since 2024, his personal artistic practice has become his primary focus. Working primarily with graphite and colored pencil on paper, Florin develops figurative works centred on characters from imagined future tribes. His experience in animation and character design, together with a longstanding interest in creating characters, continues to shape the narrative nature of his work. His practice brings together mythology, folklore, archetypal imagery, technology, and speculative futures, exploring how older forms of knowledge and belief might persist and transform as humanity changes.

His background in digital image-making remains part of this process. Digital collages, diffusion-based models, and other contemporary image-making tools are used during research and development, while the final works are drawn entirely by hand. This relationship between technological and traditional processes reflects a broader tension that runs throughout his work.

Since dedicating himself fully to his artistic practice, his work has been presented at the Art Encounters Foundation in Timisoara, Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery in Bucharest, Patchings Art Centre in Nottingham, United Kingdom, Savremena galerija Zrenjanin in Serbia, and the National Museum of Art Timișoara. In 2025, he received an Honourable Mention at the Almenara Art Prize in Córdoba, Spain. In 2026, he presented two solo exhibitions, at Centrul de Proiecte Timișoara and Heartfully Gallery in Sibiu.

Florin Dragoi lives and works in Timisoara, Romania.