Dragos Badita

Dragos Bădiță's observant portraiture emanates from the mental state of the person he paints. For years he has been inviting his friends and family to show in his works, revealing through their portraits, elements of the human psyche and emotions.

Dragoș Bădiță (b. 1987) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca, specialising in painting. In 2009 he finished his MA studies at the same university. In 2015 he exhibits at the National Portrait Gallery as part as the BP Portrait Award event, and also at Scottish National Portrait Gallery/ Edinburgh, UK (2015) and Ulster Museum/ Belfast, UK (2016). Dragoș Bădiță chooses the subjects of his extensive portrait series from deeply personal surroundings. Selected shows include: Light breeze touching the earth, Richter Gallery, Rome, Italy (2020 - 2021); In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times,litost Gallery, Prague (2020); The Museum Affairs, The Zoological and Botanical Museums in Cluj-Napoca (2019); White Cuib. Cluj-Napoca (2018), Solo and groups shows at  Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest (2019 and 2018); Solo Show at Spinnerei Leipzig Project Space with Anca Poterasu Gallery (2019);  Bistrița-Năsăud County Museum, Romania (2018); Richter Fine Art Gallery, Rome (2018); Alexandru-ȘtefulescuCounty Museum, Târgu-Jiu, Romania (2018); Polit Space, Cluj, Romania (2017); Art Encounters Collateral Events for the Contemporary Art Biennial Timișoara (2017); The National Library of Romania, Bucharest (2017); Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK (2016);National Portrait Gallery London, UK (2015); Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh,UK (2015); Alpineum Produzentengalerie/ Lucerne, Switzerland (2014), Salonul de Proiecte/Bucharest, Romania (2014), Larm Gallery/ Copenhagen, Denmark (2013), KunstvereinTiergarten/ Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany (2013), The Romanian Cultural Institute/ London,UK (2011), CCA Andratx/ Mallorca, Spain (2010), Gallery Mie Lefever/ Gent, Belgium(2009), Artower Hall/ Athens, Greece (2008).