Laura Partin (b. 1986, Iași, Romania) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bucharest whose practice spans drawing, video and installation. Her work is primarily focused on drawing techniques and combines poetic imagery and conceptual inquiry, addressing themes of environmental fragility, gender invisibility and human vulnerability.

Laura studied Fine Arts and Art Theory at the George Enescu University of Arts in Iași, and between 2012 and 2014 she was a Fine Arts fellow at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice. In 2021, she obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from Paris 8 University, where she developed research about the phenomenon of deception in modern and contemporary art practices.

Her artistic approach often intertwines visual expression with social commentary, exploring issues such as gender stereotypes, migration, and concepts from social psychology including cognitive dissonance and terror management theory. Her project Eviction (Rome, 2020) combined video and drawing to document the displacement of Roma families from their homes in Romania between 2010 and 2020, transforming socio-political realities into intimate visual narratives.

During the pandemic, Laura explored the performative and multimedia dimensions of contemporary feminist poetry, resulting in a collaborative video-poem created with a video artist and two professional actors, alongside a series of drawings and an illustrated poetry book. This project expanded her interest in themes like anticipatory grief, alienation, and the restorative relationship between the human psyche and the natural world.

Her recent series Mar Adentro deepens her engagement with ecological concerns. Through delicate watercolor and ink drawings, she evokes the disappearance of aquatic biodiversity and the shifting boundaries between myth and reality. The works unfold as a visual meditation on the instability of the marine world — a fluid, dreamlike cartography where the visible and invisible coexist in perpetual transformation.

Currently, Laura is developing Glow in the Dark, an immersive installation that combines drawing, sound, and performance to illuminate the lives of women artists who persevered in the face of exclusion and adversity. Drawn with neon markers on transparent acrylic sheets and viewed under UV light in a darkened, labyrinthine space, the installation invites viewers to encounter the spectral presence of artists such as Lili Elbe, Augusta Savage, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi. Their stories, narrated through a poetic soundscape, form a luminous tribute to resilience, creativity, and the reimagining of female representation in art history.

Across her body of work, Laura Partin constructs a dialogue between intimacy and collectivity, personal memory and shared history. Her art reveals the subtle interdependence between humans and their environments — social, emotional, and ecological — transforming drawing and installation into acts of remembrance, resistance, and renewal.