Mihail Tomescu - Visual Artist
Mihail Tomescu is a Romanian-born visual artist active in the United States and internationally. His recent exhibitions include shows at Ground Floor Galley, Blue Fig Gallery in Nashville and Scope Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
He received his MFA from Penn State School of Visual Arts and BFA from the University of Arts and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania. After graduation he moved with his family to Southeast Missouri where in 2012 opens his own Art Gallery in the historic building “Cotton Exchange Bank” in downtown Kennett, MO.
Until 2017, when he moved to Nashville TN, Tomescu traveled extensively getting exposed to various cultural influences which he actively explores and assimilates.
For the past five years he lived and worked in Austin, Texas and Oahu, Hawaii.
EDUCATION
2004 - 2005
MFA, Painting, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
1992 - 1998
BFA, Painting, University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1998
Teaching certificate, University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1990 - 1992
BFA, PWork towards Bachelors of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
AWARDS
2005
Creative Achievement Award, School of Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State University, PA
2005
Graduate assistantship, Pennsylvania State University, Pa
2002
Colibita Invitational 2002, Artist Residency and Group Exhibition, Bistrita Nasaud, Romania
ART FAIRS
2018 Scope Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Birdman, Blue Fig Gallery, Nashville, TN
2012 Recent Works by Mihail Tomescu- Tomescu Art Gallery, Kennett, MO
2008 Aeolian Strings-Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, Pa
2007 Diagrams of Love- Gallery 1.2.5, Cape Girardeau, Mo
2005 Ruminating a Mythological Now- Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, Pa
2005 Ruminating a Mythological Now- Edwin Zoller Gallery, Pa
2005 Faces-paintings by Mihail Tomescu- Ritenour building, Pennsylvania State University, Pa
2003 Painting Exhibition - Mihai Tomescu, Cristian Tarnovan, Cristian Porumb, Marius Lehene, Gallery of the Bistrita-Nasaud Board for Culture, Cults and National Patrimony, Bistrita, Romania, curator Camelia Tarnovan
2002 Romanian Artists, Galerie Lageland, Hamweg, Netherlands
2001 Echoes-George Cosbuc Gallery, Bistrita, Romania
2000 Jurjen Swalve & Mihai Tomescu- two person show, Galerie Lageland, Hamweg, The Netherlands
1999 Romanian Art- Vernissagge Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada
1998 Pre-morphological steps of the figural- Babes - Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2017 AGGREGATE, Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN, curator Georganna Greene
2013 West Austin Studio Tour, Austin TX
2013 Romanian Drawings, Tomescu Art Gallery, Kennett, MO
2013 Give me Five, Heights Art Gallery, Houston, TX
2010 E.A.S.T, East Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
2007 Art - Isadore art Gallery, Lancaster, Pa
2006 Go Figure: artist interpretations- Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, Pa
2005 Grand opening group exhibition- Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, Pa
2005 Graduate Exhibition- Hub Centre Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, Pa
2005 A tribute to the earth in art and imagination-” A window shop hop”, State College, Pa
2004 Graduate Exhibition- Hub Centre Gallery, State College, Pa
2004 Celebrating community honoring earth-” A window shop hop”, State College, Pa
2003 Cluj-Napoca Artists in Zalau-”Ion Sima”, Museum of Art, Zalau, Romania
2003 Eternal Feminine- World Trade Centre Art Gallery, Bucuresti, Romania
2003 Cluj-Napoca Artists in Zalau-”Ion Sima”, Museum of Art, Zalau, Romania
2002 Colibita Summer Art Residency Exhibition- Museum of Art, Bistrita, Romania
2002 Cluj-Napoca Artists in Zalau-”Ion Sima”, Museum of Art, Zalau, Romania
2002 Semiramide- National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2002 Open Images- National Union of Artists Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2002 Substituted Time- National Union of Artists Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2001 Identities- Romanian Parliament Palace,”Constantin Brancusi” Hall, Bucuresti, Romania
2001 Artists of Cluj Painting Exhibition- National Union of Artists Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2001 Cluj-Napoca Artists in Zalau-” Ion Sima Gallery “, Zalau, Romania
2001 National Exhibition of the Union of Romanian Artists- Casa Presei Libere, Bucharest, Romania
2000 Winter Saloon- National Union of Artists Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1999 Winter Saloon- National Union of Artists Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1999 Winter Saloon- National Union of Artists Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1998 Painting Exhibition- National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1993 4th Biennial of European Academies of Visual Art- Maastricht Art Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2004-05 Teaching assistant - painting and drawing, Pennsylvania State University, PA
2005 Teaching assistant, Instructor of record -on line drawing class, PSU, PA
2005 Coordinator, Friday Open Nude Model Class, PSU, PA
1999-2004 Professor of Drawing and Painting, “Romulus Ladea” Fine Arts High School, Cluj-Napoca , Romania
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2012 Founder of Tomescu Art Gallery, Kennett, MO
2000-03 Member of the Administrative Committee, “Romulus Ladea” Fine Arts High School, Cluj-Napoca , Romania
1999 Member of the National Union of Artists, Cluj Branch, Romania
1994 Assistant, Byzantine Painting Restoration Project - Church of Zimbor , Salaj County , Romania
lSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2005 Artist Mihail Tomescu Show at Isadore Gallery, Press article, Lancaster, Pa
2005 Fine arts thesis exhibit opens, Press article, “Daily Collegian”, State College, PA
2001 22 artists from Cluj Napoca at Sima Gallery, Press Article, Zalau, Romania
2001 Expositie Agenda, Press Article, Netherlands
2001 Roemeense Kunst in Lageland Te Zien, Press Article, Lageland, the Netherlands
1998 Pre-morphological steps of the figural, Thesis project, University of Art and Design. Cluj- Napoca, Romania
ART CATALOGUE:
2003 Encyclopedia of Contemporary Romanian Artists, One Page Entry, Arc Press, pg 189, Romania
2002 Grai, Colibita Summer Art Symposium-second edition, pg 6-7, Bistrita, Romania
2000 Artists of Cluj, One Page Entry, Pg.34, Cluj Napoca Municipal Press, Romania
1999 Contemporary Artists of Cluj, One Page Entry, pg.66, Cluj Napoca Municipal Press, Romania