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Serban Ionescu’s work spans sculpture, painting, design, and architecture. With distinctive lines emerging from his intensive drawing practice, vibrant use of color, and cartoonish gestures, Ionescu infuses his works with anthropomorphic and abstract shapes, creating a constant, intuitive play on shifting scale and form.
Born in Romania in 1984, Ionescu grew up in New York City from the age of ten. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and served as an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture in Troy, NY, from 2010 to 2016. Ionescu has exhibited solo shows across the United States and internationally, including Antwerp and Tokyo.
His large-scale steel and aluminum sculptures, such as Chapel For An Apple, Tower For An Hour, and Smokey, mark a return to a post-architectural studio practice. Recently, he completed his first public sculpture, Room for A Shroom, standing at 33 feet tall in Zonhoven, Belgium along with a private commission for a playground in Aspen, Colorado. His book A THING ON A TABLE IN A HOUSE (2021), featuring colorful steel sculptures and furniture, and 148 OBLIQUE DRAWINGS (2023), a collection of drawings, were published by Apartamento.
Ionescu lives and works between Brooklyn and Paris.