Artist Resume

Florin Dragoi

Born in 1985 in Timisoara, Romania

Lives and works in Timisoara, Romania

Education/training:

2010-2011: MA 3D Computer Animation(NCCA), Master of Arts, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK;

2009-2010: Computer Animation Course, CSIA Lugano (Centro Scolastico per le Industrie Artistiche), Lugano, Switzerland;

2004-2008: BFA Graphics, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Graphics), Faculty of Arts and Design, West Univeristy of Timisoara, Romania;

1996-2004: Baccalaureate, Visual Communications, Fine Arts High School, Timisoara, Romania.

Selected exhibitions:

2024: Contemporary Drawing in Romania 2024, Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (group exhibition);

2007: Third year Graphics Department Exhibition, Cultural Center, Alba Iulia, Romania (group exhibition);

2004: Philosophische Hintergründe (Philosophical contexts), Cultural Center, Bad Durkheim, Germany (solo exhibition).

Selected awards & participation:

2024: Luxembourg Art Prize 2024 "Certificate of Artistic Achievement" in recognition of high artistic quality;

2024: Finalist in the Art Movements Foundation Award for contemporary drawing 2’nd edition, with the drawing “Mellarius”;

2024: Finalist in the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, 33PA Emerging Artist Award with the drawing “Mellarius”;

2023: Second Prize Winner in the photography contest organized by Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture;

2011: Anim’est 2011: Participant in the national competition with the 3D animation “Wake Up” (2011, 1’35”);

2008: Anim’est 2008: Participant in the national competition with the 2D animation “The Song of the Bird”(2008, 4’53).

Selected publications & press:

Contemporary Drawing in Romania 2024:

https://www.modernism.ro/2024/11/07/contemporary-drawing-in-romania-editia-2-la-scemtovici-benowitz-gallery-bucuresti/

https://www.iqads.ro/articol/70121/scemtovici-benowitz-gallery-prezinta-a-doua-editie-a-expozitiei-anuale

https://www.artmovements.ro/concurs

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024: 33PA Emerging Artist Award Finalists Announced:

https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/beautiful-bizarre-art-prize-2024-33pa-emerging-artist-award-finalists-announced/?v=3605c251087b

IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5783005/

Anim’est:

https://www.cinemagia.ro/stiri/filmele-din-competitia-animest-2008-anuntate-9855/

https://www.modernism.ro/2012/01/18/animatia-romaneasca-a-anului-2011-in-20-de-scurtmetraje/

Professional Contributions / Art related jobs:

2011-2023: 3D Artist/Animator/Creative/Art Director:

JellyFish Pictures, London

Animade, London

Hirsch&Mann, London

onedotzero, London

Marketcolor, London

Medify, Bucharest

https://www.linkedin.com/in/florindragoi/

Contact:

Florin Dragoi, Str. Acad. Sextil Puscariu nr. 1, Timisoara, Romania

https://www.florindragoi.com/

efdragoi@gmail.com

+40 721184289