Ilie RUSU (b. 1956, Feleacu, Cluj), visual artist specialized in ceramics, glass, metal. In 1980 he graduated from the ”Ion Andreescu” Institute of Fine Arts Cluj - Napoca. Since 1990 he has been a member of the Romanian Artists Union. He is associate professor at the Ceramics-Glass-Metal Department within the National University of Arts, Bucharest. In 1993, he received a scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education from Madrid, in Valencia, Spain.
Education:
1980 - ”Ion Andreescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Cluj - Napoca
1975 - High School of Fine Arts, Cluj - Napoca
Membership:
1990 - Member of the Romanian Artists Union
Grants:
1993 - Scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education, Madrid and Valencia, Spain
Awards:
2016 - Jury Prize, Exhibition ”Arts in Bucharest”
2001 - Ceramics Award at the International Biennale ”Arts of Fire” , Bucharest
1999 - The Art Salon Award - ”Art and Ephemeral” section, Bucharest
1996 - ”Mac Constantinescu” Award for ceramics, Bucharest
1978 - Second Prize, Scientific Research Exhibition for Youth, Cluj-Napoca
Personal and group exhibitions - selection:
2017 - Exhibition of drawing ”A 4”, UNArte Gallery, Bucharest
2017 - Personal exhibition, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
2016 - ”A 4”, 2nd edition, international, itinerant - Bucharest, Timisoara, Romania, Chumen, Bulgaria,
2016 - ”Arts in Bucharest” Salon, Art House, Bucharest
2016 - ”Time Maps” - Real Communities - Virtual World - Past Experienced, Theodor Pallady Hall, Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest
2016 - ”Time Maps” - Archaic Techniques, Contemporary Approaches, Hanul cu Tei Gallery, Bucharest
2016 - ”Azulejo”, Romanian Cultural Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 - ”Ion Andreescu” International Biennial, 10th edition, Art Gallery, Buzau
2016 - ”Incandescent Metaphors ” National Biennale, 6th edition, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca
2015 - ”Ceramists from Romania”, Casa Matei Corvin Gallery, Cluj Napoca
2015 - ”The Man Against Life” - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2015 - ”Grounds” Salon of Arts, Constantin Brancusi Hall, Parliament Palace, Bucharest
2015 - ”A 4”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2014 - ”Arts in Bucharest” Salon, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2014 - ”Continuity in the Arts of Fire”, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
2013 - ”Selari 13 - Then and Now”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2013 - Salon of Arts, Constantin Brancusi Hall, Parliament Palace, Bucharest
2013 - ”Galateea Today”, Brancovenesti Palace Cultural Center, Mogosoaia
2013 - ”The drawing, a view, a bird”, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
2013 - Painting Salon ”Abstract”, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2013 - Annual Art Fair, Sutu Palace, Bucharest
2013 - Winter Salon, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2012 - ”Small Ceramics”, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
2012 - ”Book - Object”, National Library of Romania, Bucharest
2012 - Small Salon, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2012 - National Exhibition of Decorative Art 2012, Cotroceni Museum, Bucharest
2012 - ”Arts in Bucharest”, 3rd edition, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2012 - Annual Art Fair, Sutu Palace, Bucharest
2011 - Exhibition of Ceramics, French Institute, Mediateca
2011 - Group Exhibition, EliteProfArt Gallery, Bucharest
2011 - National Ceramics Salon ”Costel Badea”, 1st edition, Mamaia, Constanta
2010 - Glass Salon, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2010 - Small Salon Bucharest, Art House, Bucharest
2010 - ”Zoomania”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2010 - National Salon of Decorative Art, Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest
2010 - Winter Salon, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2009 - Small Salon ”The Cuboid Family”, Art House, Bucharest
2009 - ”Selari 13” Biennial, Galeria Apollo, Bucharest
2008 - Winter Salon Apollo Gallery, Bucharest
2007 - ”Passing over Passing”, Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2003 - Group Exhibition, Latin American House, Bucharest
2002 - Personal exhibition of ceramics, Art Museum, Brasov
2002 - Engraving exhibition ”The Bridge”, Bucharest
2002 - Group exhibition ”Venetian Wings”, Italian Cultural Center, Bucharest
2001 - Glass Salon, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2001 - Group Exhibition ”Selari 13”, Bucharest
2000 - Contemporary Art Salon, Parliament Palace, Bucharest
1999 - The Municipal Salon, section ”Arts and Ephemeral”, Bucharest
1991 - ”Life between things and nature” (design exhibition), Art House, Bucharest
1986 - Quadrienna of decorative arts, Erfurt, Germany
1985 - Exhibition of Porcelain Symposium ”IRIS”, Transylvanian Museum, Cluj-Napoca
1984 - Quadrienna of Decorative Arts, Dalles Hall, Bucharest
1979 - 1985 - The County Exhibition of Decorative and Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca
1978 - Exhibition of Scientific Research for Youth, Cluj-Napoca
