Bio

Florin Dragoi (b. 1985, Timisoara, Romania) is a contemporary visual artist based in Timisoara, known for his detailed figurative drawings made in graphite and colored pencil on paper. His works feature highly detailed characters, often wearing masks, placed in natural environments and post-apocalyptic settings, combining magical realism with archetypal symbolism.

Using both traditional drawing techniques and digital tools, during the documentation and research phase, he combines traditional drawing with contemporary visual technologies to create a personal aesthetic.

His artistic practice explores imaginary tribes and identities of a future humanity, shaped by the intersection between technological progress, transhumanism, and spiritual reconnection with ancestral roots. At the center of his visual narratives are themes such as mythology, folklore, mysticism, and the ecological and spiritual relationship between man and nature. In works such as Waxing Crescent, Scarabeus, and Mellarius, he imagines a world in which people have evolved to access multiple dimensions, where magic and technology converge, and their customs, clothing, and rituals reflect ancient traditions, reinterpreted and reshaped into a mythology of the future, where the sacred and the scientific coexist in profound harmony.

Florin Dragoi studied at the Fine Arts High School in Timisoara, before earning a bachelor's degree in Graphics at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the West University of Timisoara, in 2008. Later, he pursued animation studies at CSIA in Lugano, Switzerland, and then completed a master’s degree in the United Kingdom in 3D Animation at Bournemouth University at the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) in 2011. He collaborated with film, animation, and design studios in Romania and London. Since 2024, he has fully dedicated himself to his personal artistic practice, exhibiting in group exhibitions in Romania and abroad.