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Education
M.F.A. in Fine Arts in Painting. University of South Dakota. 2001.
B.F.A. in Fine Arts -Licenta in Painting. Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts. Romania. 1996.
Collaboration Projects
BASF – headquarters Floram Park NJ (pigments ,liquid metal in Art)
AkzoNobel -headquarters -Duluth Georgia – lightweight 3D art inovations
Toyo Ink – headqurters- Tokyo Japan -organic pigments in art
Reichold Chemical -headqurters– Triangle Park North Carolina
Asbury Carbons- headqurters- Asbury NJ (from nanotubes to art )
Neville Chemicals-headqurters Pittsburg Pensylvania- hydrocarbon resin in Art
Tronox -headqurters Oklahoma City OK – Titanium Dioxide in Art
Upcoming exhibitions
IMTS Chicago – New Materials -Parallel between the Third Industrial Revolution ,Art and New emerging Materials and Technologies –McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois – September 2014
IMTS 2014 AMT’s Emerging Technology Center (ETC)
The Fusion of Art and Technology- Ioan Florea 3D liquid metal car—IMTS
Avatars of Additive at RAPID 2014
Rapid SME – Innovation Exchange -The Third Industrial Revolution –Detroit – June 2014
Third Industrial Revolution – New York – April 2 -2014– Inside 3D Printing Show -Jacob K. Javits Convention Center –show title by Ioan Florea
Current exhibition
South Bend Museum of Art and Century Center – Sightlines June 2013- May -2015
Solo Exhibitions-(selection)
Tactile Histories – Surplus Gallery -Southern University of Illinois –October 2013
The Artist Project 2008. .Art Chicago. April 2008.
Topological Synapses. Visual Arts Gallery. University of Illinois. Springfield, Illinois. September, 2007.
3-D Paintings . Studio 222. Bloomington, Illinois. April 2007.
Light and Texture. Anne Lloyd Gallery. Madden Center. Decatur, Illinois. June 2005.
Medieval Ruins. Thalia State Philharmonic. Sibiu, Romania. January 2005. (European Cultural Capital )
Introspection – The Landmark Center. St. Paul, Minnesota. October 2002.
Metaphysical Textures- Eppley Gallery, Morningside College. Sioux City, Iowa. September 2001.
Badlands Impressions– Oscar Howe Art Center. Mitchell, South Dakota. February, 2001.
Axis Mundi– W.H. Over State Museum. Vermillion, South Dakota. 2000.
Coincidentia Oppositorum– Washington Street Art Center. Vermillion, South Dakota. 2000.
Imago Mundi– Bede Art Gallery, Mount Marty College. Yankton, South Dakota. 1999.
Osuaria– Gallery Eforie. Bucharest, Romania. 1998.
Man 2000. Gallery Schuster, Swaben Center. Augsburg, Germany. 1995.
Grants
Graduate Student Research Grant, University of South Dakota- Grant for artifact research
in South Dakota. 1999.
Research in collaboration with BASF, Asbury Carbons, Reichold Chemicals (and many other)-
integration of new materials in art (From graphite to nanotubes-art and technology )-ongoing
Press
CBSNews.com ——–3D-printed houses: Coming to a neighborhood near you? May 2014
NBC Nightly News —–The Hottest and Freshest Rides at New York’s Auto Show April 2014
Artistic Expression Driven by Ford Vehicles /6/2014
Avatars of Additive at RAPID 2014 By Michael C. Anderson Senior Editor
Exciting potential from 3D printing – The National – by Martin Kuban July 3, 2014
Voxeljet AG -Case Study Ioan Florea Design from a 3D printer
World’s automakers show their latest and best cars in New York City16 April 2014 -Demontix
Highlights from the 2014 N.Y. Auto Show- Los Angeles Times
Rolling art Automotive News by Mike Colias –April 17, 2014
Show us your Muscle New Times Staff – Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
3D Printed House created by artist Ioan Florea premieres in New York April 2014
Illinois artist crafts a 3-D printed, liquid-metal muscle car -MSN -Auto -Exhaust Notes by Clifford Atiyeh Oct 21, 2013
This is what a 3D-printed liquid metal Ford Torino looks like -Autoblog By Damon Lowney Oct 12th 2013
Ioan Florea is The Wizard of 3D Printing — Cars & Houses & Appliances! June 20 2014
3D-Printed Ford Gran Torino Is the Muscle Car From Hell April 2014
Florea, Designer of the 3D Printed House & Gran Torino has More up his Sleeve – Is a Submarine Next? — -3DPrint.com May 15 2014
Have 3-D Printer; Make Your Own Car? —- Boston.com December 2013
Pimp my Ride – Ioan Florea3D printing- – The Economist – November 9th 2013 -print edition
Ford-Torino-Skulptur – Spiegel -Germany – by Jurgen Pander October 29 -2013
Print My Ride: 3D Printed 1971 Gran Torino Won’t Amuse Clint Eastwood
3D Printing Bonds Liquid Metal And Stone To Ford Torino
Ioan Florea 3D Prints American Muscle in Metal – 3D Printer World by Todd Halterman October 22, 2013
Tactile Histories -Post-fordism – Designboom October 3 2013
How a Ford Torino became a liquid metal sculpture -Yahoo News – Justin Hyde – Octobe 11 2013
3D-Printed Metal Sculptures and the Search for Utopia – 3D Printing Industry -Michael Molitch-Hou -October 7, 2014
Stroke of Genius: Artist Dazzles with 3D-Printed Paintings– Yahoo news via LiveScience-Tanya Lewis- July 6-2013
The Giant 3D Paintings of Ioan Florea LiveScience-Tanya Lewis-July 4 -2013
3D Printing and Painting – Together At Last– Fabbaloo-Personal Manufacturing and 3D printing- July2 -2013
Ioan Florea’s Evolving Art for Two Senses– 3D Printing Industry By Juho Vesanto On Wed, July 3, 2013
South Bend Museum of Art and Century Center present large scale 3-D printed transfer paintings
New York Foundation for the Arts NYFA -interview May 2013
Tamara Browning – Reach out and touch “Teletronic” III- Topologycal Synapses – The State Journal–Register Sept 6 -2007
Richrath,Holly. Obsession leads to Inspiration. Peoria Journal Star. Peoria, IL. April 1, 2007.
Botezatu, Cristina. Primul roman laudat in 2007. Evenimentul Zilei Online. Bucharest, Romania. January 3, 2007.
Mannlein, Arlene. Sculptural Paintings. Herald & Review. Decatur, IL. January 2, 2007.
Morrison, Lisa. Florea Shows Splashes of Color. Herald & Review. Decatur, IL. June 3, 2005.
Associated Press. Artist’s Creativity Extends to Making His Own Paint. The Saint Louis Post Dispatch. St.Louis, MO. Jan., 2004.
Mannlein, Arlene. Master of the Mix, Herald & Review. Decatur, IL. January 6,2004.
Champion, John B. Florea: Gentle but Animated Artist. Owatonna People’s Press. September 4, 2003.
McClure, Lynn. Local Artists at Work. Decatur Magazine. August/September, 2003.
Baum, Eliza. Romanian Artist Exhibits Locally. Volante. University Press. January 20, 2000.
Farris, Michael. Romanian Sees Art in Cow, Bison Bones.Sioux Falls Argus Leader. February 23, 2000.
Jills, Lelah. Of Alphabets and Alchemy. Yankton Press and Dakotan. November 6, 1999.
Avram, Horea. Ephemeral Ossuary. Exhibition Catalogue. Bucharest, Romania. June, 1998.
Zeitung, Aichacher. Der Mench 2000. Augsburger, Germany. January 6, 1995.
