Bio

Andreea Chitan is a Romanian artist, curator, and creative producer based in Northern England . Her multidisciplinary practice moves fluidly between photography, moving image, installation, and text, forming a language that probes liminality—the spaces between places, identities, and states of being. Her work does not seek resolution but rather dwells in ambiguity, exploring how moments of transition, absence, and transformation might be visually articulated.

Chitan’s practice is underpinned by a critical inquiry into memory, identity, and the shifting architectures of perception. Her projects are not simply about storytelling, but about displacing the notion of fixed narratives altogether—reflecting instead on the fragmentary, the ephemeral, and the invisible. She is drawn to what resists classification, to the thresholds where personal and collective histories blur and reconfigure.

Simultaneously occupying the roles of artist, curator, and producer, Chitan cultivates a space where creation and facilitation coexist. Her curatorial and production work reflects a commitment to dialogue, care, and collaboration—foregrounding practices and artists that challenge dominant structures and embrace multiplicity. She approaches exhibition-making not just as a logistical exercise but as a conceptual extension of her own artistic ethos: an ongoing negotiation between form, audience, and context.

Chitan holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, where she developed an experimental and critically engaged methodology that continues to shape her evolving practice. Whether crafting her own work or producing for others, she remains dedicated to the generative potential of visual language—to create not answers, but openings.

 

Exhibitions Featuring Chitan’s Work
Sites of encounter—where her practice has been held, seen, and momentarily situated within broader constellations of thought, form, and dialogue.
 

• Work in Progress, Royal College of Art (Online, 2021)
  A moment of process held in suspension; an offering of becoming rather than arrival.

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• RCA Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London (25–30 June 2022)
  The culmination of inquiry and experimentation—images, objects, gestures, gathered in dialogue.

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• After The Waiting Room, Copeland Gallery, London (15–19 August 2022)
  An exploration of held breath and release; of thresholds both physical and psychological.

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• Bring It! 2023, APS Gallery, Leeds (19 May–5 June 2023)
  A collective gesture toward possibility; an act of placing emerging voices into the present.

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• Open Gallery, Halifax (10–30 June 2023)
  Quiet reverberations of presence, embedded within a regional context of practice.

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• RED, Tinker Gallery, Ilkley (1 February–30 March 2024)
  A meditation on chromatic memory—how colour might hold affect, echo, pulse.

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• Nature, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (3 August–14 September 2024)
  A gesture towards the porous boundary between body and landscape.

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• Landscape, Lace and Luminosity, Solar Gallery, Ilkley (1 March–27 April 2025)
  An entanglement of material, memory, and atmosphere; light as both medium and metaphor.

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Curated & Produced Exhibitions
Working at the intersection of care and curation, Chitan assembles exhibitions as spaces of encounter—where narratives unfold not linearly, but relationally.

• Landscapes of Identity, Ilkley Manor House (31 August–6 September 2024)
  An invocation of place as both inheritance and imagination; identity as mapped and unmapped terrain.

• Faces of Bradford: Then and Now, Ilkley Manor House (1–23 March 2025)
  A living archive of a city’s soul. Memory and portraiture in dialogue—fragmented, layered, enduring.
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Publications

• Fold/Unfold, Royal College of Art
  An exploration of visual thinking and spatial poetics through collective practice.

• Source: Graduate Photography Online (2022)
  A gesture toward visibility—emerging voices framed within the evolving landscape of contemporary lens-based work.

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