Bianca Pirlog

b. 1994, Brăila, Romania
Lives and works in London

I am a London-based contemporary artist working across painting and mediated mixed-media processes. My practice is defined by a restrained yet emotionally charged visual language, exploring psychological interiority.

I graduated from the University of the Arts London and developed my vision through studies in Japan, where engagement with Eastern philosophy and aesthetics shapes the contemplative precision of my work, in which silence, surface, and material presence exist in deliberate balance.

My trajectory across Romania, London, and Japan informs a practice in which identity is fluid and continuously reconfigured. Romania grounded me in historical awareness and emotional depth, London exposed me to hybridity and reinvention, and Japan cultivated a sensitivity to impermanence and restraint.

Portraiture lies at the core of my visual language. Figures exist in suspended psychological states, often beginning from self-portraiture and subtly altered, forming a camouflage — a recalibration of the self within shifting cultural and emotional landscapes.

I build each work slowly, through accumulation and restraint. Texture becomes structural — at times recalling skin: luminous, layered, and resilient, reinforcing vulnerability and endurance while leaving a sense of quiet affirmation. Layered surfaces of oil, ink, diamond dust, and gold leaf on canvas carry conceptual and emotional weight. Some compositions are refined through mediated processes, exploring new possibilities of perception without replacing the tactile process of painting.

A lasting influence is Kintsugi — the visible integration of rupture. Fracture becomes structure; damage becomes history. Gold fissures in my portraits mark transformation rather than conceal it.

I have presented selected works internationally, including in London, Paris, New York, Kyoto, Cologne, Dubai, Venice, and Miami, and at institutions such as the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (UNESCO), National Library of Romania, Romanian National Commission for UNESCO, Bucharest, Romania. My practice has been recognised with selected distinctions, featured in publications and television, and I am the recipient of the Excellence in Culture Award.

Exhibitions — 2025

  • Cologne Art, Unframed — Cologne

  • Andakulova Gallery — Dubai

  • Stolen Space Gallery — London

  • Romanian Christmas Ball Action — London

  • International Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello — Venice

  • Miami Art Week

  • Miami Art Basel

Exhibitions — 2026 

  • Nicola Gallery — Berlin, January 2026

  • Bellini Museum — Florence, January 2026

  • Contemporary Art Fair London — March 2026

  • Face to Face - Exhibition by Creative Debuts — London, March 2026

  • Art Space Fairs  — London, April 2026

  • European Museum of Modern Art — Barcelona, April 2026

  • Carrousel du Louvre — Paris, April 2026

  • Artio Gallery — New York, June 2026

  • Women in Art Biennale — London, September 2026

  • Art3F Monaco Art Fair — September 2026

Awards & Distinctions

  • International Prize “Artist in the Art History” — Effetto Arte Foundation, Palazzo Borghese, Florence

  • “The Universal Genius”, Tribute to Leonardo da Vinci — National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci”, Milan

  • Excellence in Culture Award — Ministry of Culture of Romania, Directorate for Culture Brăila

  • Rotary Club Brăila Art Competition — Certificate of Merit & Bursary