"ST.APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST LUKE WITH SCENES FROM HIS LIFE" (2006) Painting by Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu

My name is GHEORGHIU CLAUDIU VICTOR and I was born in October 1967 in Bucharest.
In 1998 I took the master degree at University from Bucharest , the Faculty of History- universal old history section- with theme (Constantine the Great and Christianity) at professor LIGIA BARZU.
In 1991 I graduated Art School, painting section, with TITU DRAGUTESCU. I painted sacred pictures from 1990, in technique tempera or tempera with egg on wood. In the period 2004-2016, I had the honor to have the encouragements, the advices, the friendship of the Master PAUL GHERASIM(1925-2016), my mentor, the founder of the "Prolog" group. During the period 1992-1994 I was artistic advisor at Coleus contemporary art gallery .
I am titular member of the Association Branch of Religious Plastic Arts and Restoration - AFAPRR of UAP from Romania: Visual Artists’ Union from Romania from April 17, 2019, admitted by contest, as well as I was trainee member during the period 2016-2019, admitted by contest. I was member in Plastic Background(FP) belong Visual Artists’ Union from Romania(UAP) from 7th of December 2000, admitted by contest.
From 25th of May 2015 I was elected Media advisor of the Steering Committee of the AFAPRR of UAP from Romania: Visual Artists’ Union from Romania.
From 2014 I am member Visarta(from March 31, 2017, I was elected in the Steering Committee of Visarta, during the period 2017-2022), the Romanian Visual Arts Copyright Collecting Society.
I had 4 Personal Exhibitions with sacred art organized by UAP from Romania- Romanian Fine Arts Union in Bucharest (2001, 2003, 2004 at ArTei Gallery, 2007 at Galateea Gallery), also another: at Silva Gallery in Busteni(2007-2008), at Sabion Gallery in Bucharest, 2019(together with Cristina Georgescu), the personal exhibition of painting and drawing “SEMPER FIDELIS”(together with Cristina Georgescu), in August 2023 at Romană Art Gallery from Bucharest, traveling in October 2023 at the “Ion Andreescu” Galleries from Buzău. I have also 2 Personal Exhibitions in Italy : I was Honor Guest, representing Romania, with sacred art, June 2003 at Pisa and in October 2006 ”The ICONS, sacred pictures in contemporary world” at Viadana(Mantua). I participated at many group/collective exhibitions in Romania and around the world.
I won some prizes in Italy(Taormina, Palermo) and I participated, admitted by contest, at some art fairs and international exhibitions around the world, representing Romania: most of them in Italy(Pompeii, Pisa, Padua, Turin, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Bari, Viadana, Mantua), but also in France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Peru, South Korea, Switzerland.

• Nationality: ROMANIA
• Date of birth : 1967
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Romanian Contemporary Artists