Teodora Pica is a senior Canadian visual artist living in Toronto who maintains her practice in Toronto and in the historic village of Brasov in Transylvania, Romania. She works in painting, sculpture, experimental printmaking and photography. The third generation of a family of artists, she first studied at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture in Bucharest. She obtained a Bachelor of Architecture degree from John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, and later, she studied painting and drawing at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. In August 2014 she graduated from Goucher College, in Baltimore, MD, with a Master of Arts in Arts Administration diploma. Pica has exhibited her work together with other independent artists internationally, collaborating with commercial and public galleries, as well as museums, in Canada, USA, Belgium, Italy, Romania and Mexico.
She works onsite at ARTUNIT studio in Toronto. An extension of the gallery, the studio is a creative “laboratory” where Pica initiates collaborative experimental art projects.
Pica is a member of CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation, Le Front des Artistes Canadienes), a federally incorporated non-profit corporation operating as the sole national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists.
Education
2014 Goucher College, University of Baltimore
Master of Arts and Arts Administration
1994-1997 Ontario College of Art, Painting and Drawing
1992 John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, B. Arch
1983 -1988 University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ion Mincu, Bucuresti
Solo shows
2019 Be aware of Paradisus - ARTUNIT Toronto
2017 City Works - ARTUNIT, Toronto
2015 Insubordinate Gardens - T-ART Gallery, Toronto
2014 Colonizing – T-ART Gallery, Toronto
2013 Bridging Collectives -T-ART Gallery, Toronto
2012 Estate Replayed- OKIAN Gallery, Brasov
2011 Hydroponics - T-ART Gallery, Toronto
2010 Core Estate – T-ART Gallery
2009 Rouge Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2009 Galeria Frezia, Dej, Transylvania
2008 Galerie d’art Le Royer
2004, 2005 Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2002, 2006 Galerie d’art Michel Bigue, Saint Sauveur des Monts, QC
Group Exhibition
2019 7 Artists - ETEROGEN Gallery. Bucharest
2015 Waterin the garden- Zalau
2015 Arts Symposium- Botanical garden Jibou
2013 New Sculptures - Galerie Van Der Planken, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 WATER at Todmorden Mills Gallery
2010 LOOP Gallery, Toronto
2010 Nuit Blanche, Toronto
2009 Moos Gallery, Toronto, On
“ 50 years anniversary = Collector’s Choice”
Pica, Chadwick, Etrog, Appel,
Chandra, Scott, McEwen, Iskowitz, Snow Galerie d’Art Le Royer,Montreal, QC
Jasondeanart Gallery, London, England
Therymer Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Forest Gallery Fine Art, Guildford, England
Berengo Fine, Venice, Italy
Whistler Village Art Galleries, Whistler, BC
Koyman Art Galleries, Ottawa, Canada
Art At Five Gallery, Brighton, England
Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
Wendy J Levy Contemporary Art, Manchester, England
Fairs
2013 April PAN, Amsterdam - Galerie Van Der Planken
2012 October Toronto International Art Fair – Galerie Van Der Planken
2012 April PAN, Amsterdam - Galerie Van Der Planken
2010 October Toronto International Art Fair
2010 April Glasgow Art Far, England
2009 October Toronto International Art Fair
2009 April Glasgow Art Fair, England
2006 - 2008 New York International Art Fair
2000 - 2003 Toronto International Art Fair
1999 - 2003 New York International Art Fair
1996 Miami Art Fair
Museums and Public Gallery Exhibitions
2019 Citadels - solo exhibition -University of Transylvania Multicultural Centre
2019 46th Annual Juried Exhibition -Ontario Society of Artists
2018 100 Years of Romanian Women Artists - National Museum of Art in Brasov, Romania
2012 Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle PA – Teodora Pica solo exhibition, March
2010 Agnes Jamieson Gallery - Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Minden, Ontrio - Juried Exhibition
2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Durango, Mexico - Xilo Project
2009 National Museum of Fine Arts, Cluj- Napoca, Cluj, Romania, “Core Estate” - solo exhibition
2007 Community Center Art Gallery, Rasnov, Romania - Sacred Art Exhibition, group show
2006 National Museum of Fine Arts of Brasov, Romania Special Invitation -“Three Diaspora Artists”
Brasov, Romania
Public Collections
Hoyt Institute of fine Arts , New Castle, PA
Museum of Fine Art, Durango, Mexico
National Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania
National Museum of Fine Arts of Brasov, Romania
Bombardier, Montreal
Arte Contemporane Museum, Montreal
Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto
All images and text © 2019 by Teodora Pica