(n. 1986, Pucioasa, Romania)
Ioana Pioaru is a Romanian-British artist working with a variety of media ranging from virtual reality artmaking and holography to traditional drawing and printmaking.
Ioana's passion for traditional architecture, literature, and the beautiful British landscape is reflected in her recent ink drawings. Other projects, including her work in VR holography, explore the boundary between drawing and sculpture. Ioana’s VR holograms combine her traditional hand-drawing skills with the unique features of holography and virtual reality art through an original technique developed by her during her doctoral studies. Portraits of influential artists such as Andy Warhol or Marcel Duchamp, as well as depictions of endangered species of animals, created in virtual reality, are brought into the real world as achromatic holograms of a kind never seen before.
Ioana received her BA (2008) and MA (2010) from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where she studied fine art drawing. In 2021 Ioana received her PhD from the University of Chester, under the auspices of Glyndwr University, for her research into the concept of artistic maximalism.
