Bio

Laura Partin (b. 1986, Iași, Romania) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bucharest whose practice spans drawing, video and installation. In 2026 she started an online collaboration with Paris-based Galerie Bruno Massa. The artist has presented solo exhibitions in Bucharest, Iași, Rome and Venice, most recently The Dark Water Keeps Our Names at Galeria 15 Design (2026). Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in Romania, Italy and Spain, supported by a 2024 Aripa Arte grant, and is held in private collections in Paris, Montreal, Barcelona, Bucharest, Iași and Houston.

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 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. 

Currently, Laura is also 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. 

Laura stands in a contemporary art gallery in Bucharest. Behind her are framed paintings featuring watercolor portraits and coral drawings, predominantly in red tones.