Artist Resume
Florin Dragoi
Born in 1985 in Timisoara, Romania
Lives and works in Timisoara, Romania
Education/training:
2010-2011: MA 3D Computer Animation(NCCA), Master of Arts, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK;
2009-2010: Computer Animation Course, CSIA Lugano (Centro Scolastico per le Industrie Artistiche), Lugano, Switzerland;
2004-2008: BFA Graphics, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Graphics), Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timisoara, Romania;
1996-2004: Baccalaureate, Visual Communications, Fine Arts High School, Timisoara, Romania.
Selected exhibitions:
2025: Currently on view: Another time has other lives to live, ArtEncounters Foundation, Timisoara, Romania (group exhibition);
2025: Currently on view: The Almenara 2025 Art Prize Online Exhibition, The Almenara Collection Website Gallery, Córdoba, Spain (online group exhibition);
2025: The Artist and Leisure Painter Open Art Competition 2025 (TALP Open), Patchings Art Centre, Calverton, Nottingham, UK (group exhibition);
2024: Contemporary Drawing in Romania 2024, Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (group exhibition);
2007: Third year Graphics Department Exhibition, Cultural Center, Alba Iulia, Romania (group exhibition);
2004: Philosophische Hintergründe (Philosophical contexts), Cultural Center, Bad Durkheim, Germany (solo exhibition).
Selected awards & participation:
2025: Honorable Mention and Finalist in The Almenara Art Prize 2025, Córdoba, Spain, with the drawing “The Fool’s Coronation”;
2025: 4 selected works for Almenara 2025 Online Exhibition, Almenara Collection Website, Córdoba, Spain (online group exhibition)
2025: Work exhibited at TALP Open Art Competition 2025, Patchings Art Centre, Calverton, Nottingham, UK;
2024: Luxembourg Art Prize 2024 "Certificate of Artistic Achievement" in recognition of high artistic quality;
2024: Finalist in the Art Movements Foundation Award for contemporary drawing 2’nd edition, with the drawing “Mellarius”;
2024: Finalist in the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, 33PA Emerging Artist Award with the drawing “Mellarius”;
2023: Second Prize Winner in the photography contest organized by Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture;
2011: Anim’est 2011: Participant in the national competition with the 3D animation “Wake Up” (2011, 1’35”);
2008: Anim’est 2008: Participant in the national competition with the 2D animation “The Song of the Bird”(2008, 4’53).
Selected publications & press:
Art Encounters Foundation - Another Time Has Other Lives to Live
https://artencounters.ro/en/eveniment/vernisaj-another-time-has-other-lives-to-live/
https://artencounters.ro/en/artist/florin-dragoi/
The Almenara 2025 Art Prize - Online Exhibition
Drawing category - https://www.thealmenaracollection.com/viewcollection/214986
Fantastic Realism category - https://www.thealmenaracollection.com/viewcollection/214985
Contemporary Drawing in Romania 2024:
https://curatorial.ro/arta/recomandarile-curatorial-ro-pentru-weekendul-8-10-noiembrie/
https://www.artmovements.ro/concurs
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024: 33PA Emerging Artist Award Finalists Announced:
IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5783005/
Anim’est:
https://www.cinemagia.ro/stiri/filmele-din-competitia-animest-2008-anuntate-9855/
https://www.modernism.ro/2012/01/18/animatia-romaneasca-a-anului-2011-in-20-de-scurtmetraje/
Professional Contributions / Art related jobs:
2011-2023: 3D Artist/Animator/Creative/Art Director:
JellyFish Pictures, London
Animade, London
Hirsch&Mann, London
onedotzero, London
Marketcolor, London
Medify, Bucharest
https://www.linkedin.com/in/florindragoi/
Contact:
Florin Dragoi, Str. Acad. Sextil Puscariu nr. 1, Timisoara, Romania
efdragoi@gmail.com
+40 721184289