RESUME

Emanuela Sintamarian is an artist originally from Romania, but she currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her work hinges on topic of memory, identity, fragmentation and allienation.

Part of her immigrant reinvention as an artist was a dramatic change on her approach to art-making. While in Romania she was working mostly on small scale drawings, in the United States she started working in a range of media, from painting, drawing, mixed media, and mural. She is  currently interested on expanding the structure of painting from a 2-dimensional format onto a 3-dimensional one.

Professional Awards and Fellowships:

2021 The Leigh Weimar Art Award, Rotary Club San Jose, CA

2020 Artist Award CVS Creates, San Jose, CA

Sunny Art Prize, (finalist), London, United Kingdom
2018 Golden Foundation Fellowship, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2014 Emergency Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2013 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2011 Djerassi Alumni Artists’ Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA 2010

Lawren Harris Award/Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, Canada

Silicon Valley Arts Council: Artist Fellowship 2010, San Jose, CA

2008

Award of Excellence- ACGI Gallery, Berkeley, CA

ArtShift Award, ARTShift Magazine, San Jose CA
2006

Fellowship Artist’ s Grant— Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT

2005

Nomination SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award

Fellowship: Artist’s Grant— Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT
AIR Program Fellowship Works-San Jose Gallery—Works, San Jose, CA

Solo Exhibitions –Selected

2022

Embedded Contradictory Stories, The Forth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA

Snippets, Art Arc Gallery, San Jose, CA

2019

Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2018

Ism’s and other objects of desire, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY

Startup Artfair, San Francisco, CA
2016

Every Object is Modified by One’s Look, Museum of Art, Arad, Romania

Panta Rey, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2015

Jesus, Pop Corn and Other Social Abbreviations, Timisoara, Romania
2014

Frames, ProArt, Oakland, CA
2013

Cut-Out, College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 2012 Maximalism Utopia: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010

Silicon Valley Arts Council: Artist Fellowship 2010, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2009

One for Every Day of the Year: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007

Drawings: Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Stop Editing Me: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The World of Images: KALEID Project, San Jose, CA
2006

Foreshadowing XYX, Works Gallery-P2 Installation Space, San Jose, CA

Travels Through Hyper Reality, Lavinia Center, Milton, DE

2005

Savage Garden; Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

How Could I Live without Ads, Open Studio, Works –San Jose Gallery, San Jose, CA 

Group Exhibitions-Selected

2023

Mix Tape No 4, Cultivate Gallery, London, UK

About the Faces, Bradford Gallery, Walnut Creek

Figure, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA

2022

Reap, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
2021

Saturation, Cultivated Gallery, London, UK 2020 Expo39, BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY

Sunny Art Prize, Sunny Art Center, London, United Kingdom

2019

Lobster Dinner: a show of small works. Trestle Gallery & Trestle Art Space- Sunset Park, New York,

AIR-Kala-Printmaking, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Made in Paint, The Sam and Adel Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
ArtSpan Art-in-Neighborhood, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

Mills Building-organized by Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2018

Lascar Vorel, National Biennale of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Piatra Neamt, Romania

Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Badford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2017

Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
About Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Badford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Detirius, Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA

2016

Bombay Saphar, Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

CamArt, Cluj Napoca, Romania

International Art Camp Gernik XII, Pygmalion Gallery, Timisoara, Romania

Six Eastern European Artists, Artik, San Jose, CA
2015

Ape, Ape, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Constanta, Romania

Bay Area Artists, MOCA Marin, Navato, CA
2014 My castle is my home, Triade Gallery, Timisoara, Romania

Abstract, Essntl Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Printmaking Group Show, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA

Artists who inspire artists, ProArts, Oakland, CA
Group, Unframed Gallery, New Mexico
20th Annual, Artik, San Jose, CA

2013

Creatives Rising, See Me Exhibition Space, Long Island City, NY
The Story of the Creative, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY

The Story of the Creative, See Exhibition Space, New York, NY

2012

From the Golden Gate Bridge to Oakland: Trade and Tourism, organized/curated by Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland Airport, Oakland, CA

2012 Collector's Choice, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
In Other Words, Intersection for The Arts, San Francisco, CA Momentum,

Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Belly of the Beast, ArtObject Gallery, San Jose, CA
Everything is in motion, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2011

54th Venice Biennale: digital production: VIP Opening Reception, Boston Online Project, Venice, Italy Lobby Project- finalists YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Boston Online Biennial 2011, http://www.biennialproject.com/ContestWinners.aspx
Shattered: 6th Annual MarinMOCA National Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

No Dead Artist, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA

California, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Depth of Meaning, (June 10/August 31st) Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Expo 30, B.J.Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
West Coast Biennial, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA
Annual 2011, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

2010

Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

United Cultures, TravelGallery, Vienna, Austria
Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia

Scope Miami 2010, finalist: digital display, Miami, FL

2010

Bay Area Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

New Directions ’10, Barret Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

Secret Drawing, Palo Alto Center for the Arts, Palo Alto, CA

2009

Little Works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
This is not a Poster, Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose CA

2008

Gertrude Herbert-Institute of Art, “A Sense of Place”, Augusta, GE

Sobrato Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007

Group Show: Niklas Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Drawing: Vision, Surfaces and Beyond, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA

Ripples, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Little Works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

Juried Annual 2007, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

2006

Storm, Swarm Gallery, Oakland CA,

New Vision: Introduction 2006, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
Theory of Relativity, Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Eat Me, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Connections-National Juried Exhibition, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Crossovers: Crafts- Art- Design, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE 6th Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2005

New Visions: Introductions 2005, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA

Annual Small Works, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Big Deal-Visual Aid, SOMA Art, San Francisco, CA
Glim Glum Glam, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Say What? ArtSF, San Francisco, CA

Workshops, Lectures, and Gallery Talks

2014

History of Prints and Printmaking, Ecole Nationale des Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

2012

WARP Contemporary Art Platform Artist Village Residency, Genk, Belgium

In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

White Drawings: guest speaker, University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2010 

Playing with Time and Memory: The Palo Alto Art Center and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program; Palo Alto, CA
2008

Artist Talk: Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2005

New Vision: Intro-Behind the Curtains, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA

Residency:

2023 Cincsor, Brasov, Romania

2018 Golden Foundation AIR Program, New Berlin, NY Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2016 AIR Krems, Krems au der Donau, Austria 2015 Art Campus, Bata, Romania
2014 Art House Woslfberg, Garana, Romania

2013Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA

College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI

2012 WARP Contemporary Art Platform Artist Village Residency, Genk, Belgium
2010 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2007 Artist in Residency, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2006 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont
2005 Works-San Jose, San Jose, CA

Public Film Projections and Multimedia Exhibitions:

Crack me up with laughter through a rabbit hole, 2023 Mural at Camp Earnest / Twain Heart, CA

2014 FisArt2014, Timisoara, Romania

Art Ark/”Inainte de Inceput” –movie projection, Collaboration with Val Raps, SubZero/Zero1 Biennale, San Jose, CA
Planetarium: McBean Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Anno Domini/Phantom Gallery-San Jose, CA

Bibliography / Publications (Selected)

2023 "Ema Sintamarian’s road to art began with a pair of rebellious red shoes", by Mary Corbin, july 06/2023, 48 Hills,https://48hills.org/2023/05/ema-sintamarians-road-to-art-began-with-a-pair-of-rebellious-red-shoes/

2022 Artistonish- contemporary art magazine, Issue #27, October 2022, Publisher: Discover the Artist, Code: MGZ346684521
2021 Artist of Meraki Magazine, 2021-upcoming
2020 MASS Movement, July 2020, https://www.the-mass.com/july-2020

2020 Interview Circles des Arts Foundation 2019 https://circle-arts.com/interview-emanuela-i-h-sintamarian/ 2019 Made in Paint, catalogue-The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation
2017 The Mercury News, Abstract art gets a modern, feminist touch in, by Lou Fancher, Oct 3, 2017
2016 Interview: Romanian Artists Abroad / Radio Romania Cultural, August, 20162016 Periferal Vision: http://www.peripheralvisionarts.org/sintamarian-profile/2016 Marin MOCA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnxome0zLoE

https://www .artslant.com/global/artists/show/259944-emanuela-harris-sintamarian?tab=PROFILE
2012: *Kunstenaars uit de hele werld kameren op C-Mine, Het Belang van Limburg #186, by Chris Nelis, 22 August *Genk kunstenaarsdorp op C Mine, Dag Limburg, Kunstenaarsdorp / TVL Belgium, reporter Nele Postelmans *“Maximalism: Utopia”-Ema Harris-Sintamarian at Jack Fischer Gallery, by Greg Flood, The Examiner, April 12, 2012 http://www.examiner.com/article/maximalism-utopia-ema-harrissintamarian-
at-the-jack-fischer-gallery
*http://myartcontest.com/2012-ABSTRACTS/harris.html
*ARTSLANT San Francisco: Artist Profile: http://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/31194
*Catalogue: Art Takes Miami
*Catalogue, Momenutum WAC, Gallery 825, LA
“* In Other Words” at the Intersection for the Arts, by Nancy Ewart, SF Museum Examiner, March 28, 2012
2012: January / Finalist round 1 ArtSlant
2011 Juxtapoz, December 29th, http://www.juxtapoz.com/Illustration/emanuela-harris-sintamarian
*The annual "No Dead Artists" show opens at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans By:
Eric Bookhardt, 09/09/2011 http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50288 *http://www.escapeintolife.com/art-news/art-news-headlines-september-19-2011/
*“Bay Area galleries dish up a bevy of eclectic offerings”, By Jennifer Modenessi, San Jose Mercury News, 09/08/2011
*2011: Catalog: Studio Visit Magazine, vol 13-14
*Catalog: Harvests of New Millennium, February, published by Cyberwit Kalindipuram, India
*2010: Catalog: 8th Annual Open International Juried Exhibition: Painting on the Edge, Vancouver, Canada
*2010: “Secret Drawings, Dream Sequences & Surreal Reinventions” http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/csd/activities_and_recreation/attractions/art_center/news/d etails.asp?NewsID=1587&TargetID=27,248,28,249
*“A woman’s art traces dad’s disappearance”, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, April,18, 2009
*Art notes: SFMOMA, Kentridge, Shettar, First Thursday, April 6, 2009 http://www.ptank.com/blog/tag/ema-h-sintamarian/
*KQVA-TV: Artist Portrait: Ema Harris-Sintamarian; - producer Mark Potter
*Stories Real and Vividly Imagined, KulturStan,Oct. 13, 2007 http://www.kulturstan.se
*You Should Stop Editing, by Johnny Ray Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct. 3, 2007
*SJICA Launches Residency Program in South Bay, ArtDaily
*NextNew 2007 and Mitra Fabian at the San Jose ICA, by David Buuk, ArtWeek Nov. 2007, vol.38, issue 9 *QKUD-Spark TV, interview with Naill McKay, produced by QKUD –Spark TV, 2007
*Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian at Rosenfeld Gallery: (http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/search/label/emanuela%20harris-sintamarian) 2007
*Charlotte Kruk n' Kempken et Ema Sintamarian, Les cahiers Truong, (http://alaintruong.canalblog.com/archives/2007/03/27/index.html) 2007
*Charlotte Kruk n’Kempken and Ema Sintamarian, ArtDaily, 2007 (http://www.artdaily.com/section/lastweek/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=19718&int_modo=2

*“Advertising, stock phrases and real estate come under the microscope in Pro Arts show”, San Francisco Chronicle, August.27, 2005 by Kenneth Baker
*Santa Clara Review, Fall/Winter, 2005, Volume 93 No 1-full page coverage artwork
*“New Visions at Pro Arts” by Renny Pritikin, Shotgun Review, September 10, 2005 http://www.delpesco.com/shotgun/archives/000182.html

*“Works Tonight”- commentaries, http://www.village savant.com
*“Fly Energy”, Philadelphia Weekly, March.7.2005 by Roberta Fallon
*“Exuberance and restrain,”, http://www.fallonandrosof.com/2005/03/exuberance-andrestraint. html, 03/08/2005 by Libby Rosof
*“Momentum”-South Bay Art Momentum Exhibition, fall 2004-catalogue exhibition
*“Direct Art”-full page coverage of artwork, Vol.7, Fall and Winter, 2002-3