About
Leyla Aysel Munteanu
Leyla Aysel Munteanu was born In Hunedoara, Romania in 1967. She moved in Canada in 1998. As education she has B.Sc, BFA, B.Ed., and an MFA. She works in many media but enjoys the mixed media the most. She has her work in private collections all over the world and she received awards for her work in many national and international competitions. Her work appears in many publications, from USA to Italy. She is member in numerous international and national art associations, galleries and academies. She participated in over 80 national and international art exhibitions. She is interested in expressing situations and feelings that we experience as human beings, using a wide range of traditional and non-traditional art materials.
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Education and Certification
2014 – Galleries and Museum Studies, California State University - East Bay, USA
2011 – Bachelor in Education, University of Windsor, ON, Canada, OCT (Ontario Certified Teachers) – Certified from 2011- present
2010 – Master Fine Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2007 – Bachelor Fine Arts - Visual Art, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
2001 – Diploma with highest honors in Art, International Correspondence Schools, QC, Canada
1992 - B. A. Sc. - UTCB - Civil Engineering Technical University of Bucharest, Romania
1990 – Diploma in Art – Specialty Sculpture, Scoala de Arta Populara Bucuresti, (Art School of Bucharest), Romania
Awards
2014 – “The Golden Medal of Caprese Michelangelo City Award 2014”,
2nd BIENNIAL of CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
2014 – Trofeo La Palma d’Oro per l’Arte, Principato di Monaco
2014 - Albo Celebrativo, 1914-2014(nel 100 Anniversario dell'Inizio della Prima Guerra Mondiale
2014 – Trofeo Knights of Malta, Casino Maltese, La Valletta, Italy
2014 – Trofeo La Vela d’Oro per l’Arte, Cesenatico (FC) Italy
2014 – IX Rasegna Internationale di Arte Pittorica “Premio Targa D’Oro Citta di Gubbio-2014”, Palazzo dei Consoli 3rd Place with Honours, Italy
2014 – Trinacria Award 2014 “Tribute to Sicily, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary
2013 – Picasso Prize, Il Segno juried exhibition, Palazzo Racchetta, Ferrara, Italy
2013 – Premio del Presidente “Antonello da Messina” at PREMIO Europeo TINDARI Terzomillennio, Messina, Italy
2013 – Third Place at 56” Premio Zancle” – International Painting, Zancle, Italy
2013 – Awarded the 2013-2014 Membership at Academia Internazionale “Federico IIdi Svevia” Arti - Lettere –Scienze, Messina, Italy
2013 - Forth place at Artisti dal Mondo, Monbarocio, Italy
2013 -“Award for Best Three Dimensional or Mixed media artwork, Juried Exhibit: “Ordinary Everyday Objects”, Still Point Art Gallery, USA
2012 – Honorable Mention, My Contests .com
2012 – Honorable Mention, Artavita 2nd art contest
2012 First Place, Heinz, juried show, Leamington Art Center Gallery, Leamington, Canada
2012 First Place, TOP10 Abstract Consequences, juried show, Artrom Gallery, Roma, Italy
2010 Certificate of Recognition from Graduate School of Wayne State University
2009-2010 John and Irene Sowinski Scholarship in Fine Arts and Design
2009-2010 Graduate Professional Assistantships
2008-2009 Graduate Teaching Assistantships
2008 Golden Key Award, Wayne State University
2007 1st Place at 2nd Annual Utrecht Miniature Competition
2006-2007 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Honour Roll
2006 Merit Award, “Just Paint”, on-line juried show, Artrom Gallery, Roma, Italy
2006 Merit Award, “Texture”, on-line juried show, Artrom Gallery, Roma, Italy
2006 Dennis W. Knight Award of Excellence in Visual art
2006 University of Windsor In Course Scholarship
2005-2006 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Honour Roll
2005 Signature status Award, Purely Pastel 14th Annual Open Juried Show
2005 Golden Key Award, University of Windsor
2005 Award of Excellence, The American Juried Art Salon
2004 The Pastel Journal award “Purely Pastel 13th Annual Open Juried Exhibit”
Solo exhibitions:
2015 – Retrospective 2006-2014, LeyDAn Gallery, Windsor, On. Canada
2014 - Retrospective Leyla Munteanu, Kingsville, On, Canada
2014 -“Drawings 2006-2007”, Art Community Center, Leamington, On, Canada
2014 -“Hot Ground”, 2014 encaustic paintings, Art Community Center, Leamington, On, Canada
2013 -“Behind the walls”, Art Community Center, Leamington, On, Canada
2012 - “Shapers of Time”, Art Community Center, Leamington, On, Canada
2011 - Memories of Passing Time, Open Gallery of Art &Architecture, Toronto, On, Canada
2011 -“Conversations”, Art Community Center, Leamington, On, Canada
2008 “Portraits”, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2007 - “Roma La Cita Eterna”, Common Ground Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada
2007 - “Portraits”, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2006 - “Drawings 2006”, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2005 - Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Solo, Group and Juried exhibitions:
2015 – "Behind Brush Strokes"2015 solo exhibition, Museo Michelangiolesco, Caprese, Italy
2015 – Romanian Art Connection 2015, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, On. Canada
2014 – Exhibition Celebrating the Anniversary of 100 Years from the start of a I World War,
2014 – Arte Itinerante 2014, Nautartis- Gubbio, III Edizione
2014 – 2nd Biennale Di Arte Contemporanea,Premio Medaglia D’Oro, Citta di Caprese Michelangelo 2014
2014 –La Palma d’Oro per l’Arte, Hotel Di Paris Principato di Monaco
2014 – Prix International Medaille d’or de la Ville de Spa, Salle R. Quirin, Belgium
2014 – Festival dell Amicizia Italo-Giapponese, Palazzo dei Conasoli, Gubbio, Italy
2014 – Terra, Aria, Fuoco, Aqua, Impatto Del “Cantico Delle Creature” Sull’uomo Moderno, Centro d’Arte “San Vidal” – UCAI Venezia
2014 – “Point V”, Still Point Arts Gallery, USA
2014 –La Vela d’Oro per l’Arte, Sala Congressi Hotel Miramare, Cesenatico (FC), Italy
2014 –“Knights of Malta”, Club Casino Maltese, La Valletta, Malta
2014 -“Personaggi in primo piano” III Ed. Galleria d’Arte Centro Storico, Firenze
2014 -“Mostra Goretti”, Pila Perugia
2014 -“L’arte e in Festa”, 4a edizione, Il Chiostro della Chiesa di San Francesco, Gubbio
2014 – IX Rasegna Internationale di Arte Pittorica “Premio Targa D’Oro Citta di Gubbio-2014”,
2014 – “Il Tempio”, 1st Premio Trinacria 2014, Premio Conca D’Oro, Monreale, Sicily, Italy
2014 – Michelangelo Prize 2013, Gadarte Art Gallery, Florence, Italy
2013-2014 – ITINERA 3a Edizione 9 Italian cities (Traveling Exhibition) Sept 2013 –April 2014
2013 –Salento Poarta D’oriente XIV Edizione “Apollo Dio di Tutte le Arti, Lecce , Italy
2013 – 14th Edizione Premio Europeo TINDARI Terzomillennio, Messina, Italy
2013 – Fiere Arte Padova, 24a Mostra Mercato di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Padova Italy
2013 – Creative Rising New York City, October 2013
2013 – Il Segno juried exhibition, Palazzo Racchetta, Ferrara, Italy
2013 – Nel Segno Della Figurazione, Il Tempio art gallery, Palermo, Italy
2013 – “Ordinary Everyday Objects” juried exhibit, Still Point Art Gallery, USA
2013 – Artisti dal Mondo, Juried art Exhibition, Monbarocio, Italy
2013 - May Group exhibition, Broadway Gallery, New York, USA
2013 - 8th International Contemporary Art Exhibition “The Golden Plaque of Gubbio City Award”
Traveling show: Rome, Milan, Helsinki, Berlin.
2012 - “Heinz”, Juried Exhibit, Art Community Center, Leamington, On, Canada
2010 -WSU MFA Thesis Exhibition, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts, Detroit
2009 - “BEHR”, Detroit, MI, USA
2008 - “Consistency and Change”, Work Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA
2007 - 2nd Annual Utrecht Miniature Painting Competition
2007 - “Eclecktika”, Lebel Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada
2006 - Curatting and exhibiting, the small group show -“Caimac”, Lebel Gallery, Windsor, ON,
2006 - “Self Portrait”, Lebel Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada,
2006 - Book Fest Windsor,” Book Altering”, performance piece, Art Gallery of Windsor, ON,
2006-The International Exhibition”Caragiale” by Cartoonists Rights Network, Ploiesti, Romania, (the work is included in “Cartoonists Rights Network” permanent collection)
2006 - 1st Annual Desmond Juried Art Exhibition, Renaissance Art Gallery-Ridgetown, Ontario
2006 - Pastel Artists of Canada Members show, Gallery Old Chelsea, Quebec.
2005 - Birmingham Watercolor Society “Winter Exhibition”- RBSA Gallery, Birmingham UK.
2005 - Purely Pastel 14th Annual Open Juried Show, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
2004 - “Purely Pastel 13th Annual Open Juried Exhibit”, Women’s Art Ass. Gallery, Toronto , On.
2004-“Celebrating Diversity”, Renaissance Gallery, Ridgetown, On, Canada
2004-“Zeitgeist”, Lebel Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada
Publications:
2015 –“Balance and Harmony” artwork published in Artista nella Storia a cura di Jose Van Roy Dali, Effeto Arte
2014 - Still Point Arts Quarterly, published the piece “Artists”
2014 -“The Best Modern and Contemporary Artists”, 2014
2014 –Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook
2013 –Still Point Arts Quarterly, “Walls” Series no 2 and 3, the piece “Hanged” on the front cover
2013 –Still Point Arts Quarterly, published the award winning artwork “Size 38”
2013 -International Contemporary Artists, Vol. VII, ICA Publishing, two artworks included
2013 - Magazine Arte Mondadori 2013, work included: Self Portrait 2011
2013 - International Magazine EFFETTO ARTE, artwork selected and included: Self Portrait 2010
2012 -International Contemporary Artists, Vol. V, ICA Publishing, two artworks included
2012 – Inclusion of “Self Portrait 2010” in “My Artist Portfolio” Magazine issue no.7
2012- “Artisti Internationali”, Anuario per Artisti di Successo, Vol. 2. 4 works included: Self Portrait 2010, Broken 2009, Tight Together 2011, Hanging 2011.
2011 -International Contemporary Artists, Vol. III, ICA Publishing, two artworks included, and one made the front cover.
2006 -The article: LAM Collapflex (A printing process that uses a surprising material…), ARTitude magazine, Issue #22 (Autumn2006)
2005 -“The New Masters of Fantasy 2005”-CD collection, Epilogue Gallery.
Artwork included: “Will you come?”-Acrylic,” Hydra”-acrylic, Adaptation”-oil, fantasy art.
2004-“The New Masters of Fantasy2004” Epilogue Gallery, CD collection; included artwork: “The Warrior”-oil on canvas, illustrative fantasy art.