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Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu (28 october 1920 - 1 november 2021) born in Chișinău, România was a Bessarabian artist. Her art is remarkable through the expressive means, considered by critics unconventional, innovative, as well as by a deeply poetic. After Vladimir Bulat’s words, the style that she possessed during the soviet time can be “read” as a "sublimated subversion", a risk that Valentina Rusu-Ciobana had assumed.

Studies and Education

Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu was born in Chișinău. She attended the Chisinau School of Arts in the period (1938-1940). From (1942-1944) she attended the Academy of Plastic Arts in Iași, today University of Arts „George Enescu” from Iași, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design. During 1944-1946, The School of Plastic Arts „I. Repin” in Chișinău.

Personal expositions


 * 1961 - Chișinău
 * 1984 - Art Museum, Chișinău
 * 2000 - National Library, Chișinău

Group Expositions


 * 1947 - 1980 - participated at allmost all the expositions UAP in Moldova
 * 2009 - exposition „Bessarabia Moia”, gallery Artmark, București

Expositions oversea


 * 1949 - workshop, Moscow, Russia
 * 1951, 1952 - participated in a summer creative camp in RSFS Russia
 * 1954 - summer creative camp Abramtzevo, Russia
 * 1957 - Moscow
 * 1961 - Sofia, Bulgaria
 * 1963 - Warsaw, Poland
 * 1968 – Montreal, Canada
 * 1970, 1971 – Plovdiv, Bulgaria
 * 1975 – Bucharest, Romania
 * 1975 – Irak
 * 1975 – Siria

Awards, titles and mentions

1974 - State Award

1961 - Order "Badge of Honor"

1985 - People's Artist of the MSSR; Emeritus Master of Art

1966 - Silver medal in EREN

1996 - Order of the Republic

1998 - Award for the entire activity and prosperity of the visual arts

2020 - Order of "Cultural Merit" in the rank of Grand Officer, Category C - "Fine Arts"

Selective list of works
Girl at the Window, 1957,

Planting Trees, 1961,

Portrait of Emil Loteanu, 1964,

The portrait of the actor Dumitru Fusu, 1964

Fireworks, 1966

Breakfast, 1979 - 1980

Writer Seraphim Saca, 1996,

The Doctor's Visit, 1971,

The masked ball

The game, 1957

Self-portrait with glasses

Mug on the windowsill

Actress Maria Goncear

Flowers on a red background

Glie and the people

Invitation to dance