Ioana Băltan ↗

Ioana Băltan (b. 1993, Dragomirești, Dâmbovița) lives and works in London. She attended the National University of Arts, Bucharest, where she obtained a BA degree in
painting in 2015. The same year, Băltan obtained the Teaching Training Department’s BA degree issued by the same institution. She continued her studies at The Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan with a scholarship and got an MA Degree in Strategies of Creation in Painting, released by the National University of Arts, Bucharest.

Băltan’s paintings reveal her strong preoccupation with contemporary approaches to the female figure. Her large-scale compositions are thought of as a body of visual research on portraying feminine archetypes with a strong focus on beauty standards /and body image on social media. In her work, she captures the contrast between
the image of contemporary glamour and the soft brutality of beauty standards. The idealised female figures are often placed between luxurious settings and deranged
tables with broken make-up and pills, highlighting the violence women subject their bodies to in order to attain physical perfection.