Bio

Dominic-Petru Virtosu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1983, and has lived and worked in Roubaix, France, since 2018. He completed his formal artistic education with a Licence in Painting (2006) in the class of the renowned Romanian artist Florin Ciubotaru, followed by a Master’s degree (2013) with Professor Cătălin Bălescu at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. He also spent a semester as an Erasmus exchange student at the prestigious Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, where he was guided by the style and color of his professor, Annette Schröter.

Before becoming a full-time artist, and later a tenured professor at the École Supérieure d’Art de Dunkerque/Tourcoing in Northern France, Virtosu spent six years working in broadcast television and advertising. That experience refined his sensitivity to the seductive and absurd power of pop imagery: its immediacy, its cultural saturation and its potential to both reflect and distort contemporary life. These sensibilities permeate his canvases in unexpected and often humorous ways.

Virtosu’s paintings invite viewers to inhabit the tension between the familiar and the fantastically strange. In this shifting space, his work reveals not only how we construct the world around us, but also how endlessly it can be reinvented.

Exhibitions

2025

• Peindre Encore, Roubaix, France Group show
• Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, with ArtLef Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Art fair
• De l’Amour, Verderonne Art Centre, Verderonne, France. Curated by Caroline Corre Group show

2024

• O’Bazaar Fair, Lille, France Group show
• Le Chant du Monde, Château de Bourgogne, Estaimpuis, Belgium Group show

2023

• Solo exhibition, KI Gallery, Paris, France Solo show
• Renouveau, Château Bac-Saint-Maur, Sailly-sur-la-Lys, France Group show

2022

• Solo exhibition, Impulse Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland. Curated by Zhuang Hong-Yi Solo show
• Coexistence, Istanbul Atatürk Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Turkey. Curated by Beste Gürsu Group show
• AAF Brussels, ArtLef Gallery / Groeningen, Brussels, Belgium. Curated by Paul LaPoutre Group show

2021

• Hauts les Coeurs, Verderonne Art Centre, Verderonne, France. Curated by Caroline Corre Group show
• Retrouvailles, Collégiale Gallery, Lille, France. Curated by Véronique Dalle Group show

2020

• New Image Come Back, Galerie 36Bis, Tourcoing, France. Curated by Eric Harasym Group show

2019

• Sea of Flowers, Dock Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Curated by Zhuang Hong-Yi Group show

2018

• Point d’Eau, Nasbinals, Lozère, France. Curated by Dominic Virtosu Group show
• Avez-vous un motif ?, Frontières Art Gallery, Lille, France. Curated by Janusz Stega Group show

2017

• Going Strong, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

2016

• Arta la Fereastră, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Anca Boeriu and Corina Gabriela Duma
• PAIN / TING, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

2015

• Convergent, Vasile Grigore Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania
• Here & Now, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Laura Buzatu
• Art Safari, Bucharest, Romania, with Focus Art, Cluj-Napoca Group show

2013

• In Search, Romanian National Library, Bucharest, Romania Group show

2012

• We Are Here, Erasmus exhibition, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Group show
• Semesterausstellung, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany. Curated by Prof. Annette Schröter Group show
• Constantly Out-of-Space, Residency Blumen, Leipzig, Germany Group show
• The Wall that Sucks, Erasmus exhibition, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany Group show

2011

• Color, Shift Pub, Bucharest, Romania Solo show
• E-Bienale, George Enescu International Music Festival, Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Ilina Schileru Group show

2010

• Police the Police, Young Artists Biennial, Portfolio Review Section, Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Mica Gherghescu Group show
• …After Crémaster, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Prof. Cătălin Bălescu Group show
• Identities, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Group show

2009

• Hau Uan Dăr Ful, Sigma Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Solo show
• World Wide View, Opera Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Group show

2006

• Painting, Art Jazz Club, Bucharest, Romania Group show
• Cats of War, Galeria Gallery, Bucharest, Romania. Text by Mica Gherghescu Solo show