ANNA BIRO
Textiles
514-288-6841
biro1@sympatico.ca
Anna Biro explores tradition and new computer aided textile designing technologies, while remembering and communicating between pre-modern living folkloric traditions in Transylvania (Romania) and the North- American realm of technological innovation.
It is a spontaneous but experienced blending process of old and new, life and art, art and artistic business.
EDUCATION
• 1992- 1995 Le centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal
• 1990 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
• 1981- 1985 Academy of Visual Arts, Ion Andreescu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
• 1996 Conseil des Métiers d’Art du Québec, Montréal- Prix Francoise-Houde, Group show
• 1993 Le Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal- Merit award
• 1981- 1985 Academy of Visual Arts Ion Andreescu, Cluj-Napoca, Roumania- Full scholarship
ART EXHIBITIONS
• 2002 Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax
• 2000 “Millennium Hungaricum”- Group show, Maison de la culture, NDG, Montréal
• 2000 “E-textiles-aventures, tissage jacquard”, Musée d’arts contemporains- Montréal
• 1998 Galerie ADAR, Montréal 1997 5th International Textile Competition’97, Kyoto, Japan
• 1995 “À la gloire du tapis”- Group show Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montréal
• 1995 “Immanences”- Group show, The Upstairs Gallery, Essex, New York
• 1995 “Cloth as a Metaphor”- Graduation group show, Le centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal, Québec
• 1994 “National students exhibition”- Group show, Museum for textiles,
The Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
• 1993 Galerie l’ Empreinte, Montréal, Québec-Duo show
• 1993 “Co-Exist Confessions”- Group show, Galerie In Direct Presence, Montréal
• 1990 “Art ’90”, Group show, Jewish Community Center, Montréal, Québec
• 1987 Group show, Palace of Culture, Târgu-Mures, Romania
• 1896 Sighisoara Art Gallery, Group show, Sighisoara, Romania