Personal site -https://myexpressionistart.webs.com
Education and experience:
Faculty of Psychology, University “Al. I. Cuza “, Iasi.
University of Art ”George Enescu” of Iasi, Romania, class univ. prof. and artist Constantin Tofan.
School of Arts ”Titel Popovici” from Iasi, Department of Painting.
Member of the Union of Plastic Artists (UAP) from ROMANIA, Branch of Iași.
Member of the Union of Artists& Fine Arts Pieria, GREECE, KATERINI.
Member of the CIRCLE OF ARTS, LYON, FRANCE.
Doctor of Psychology (PhD) in 1999.
Since 1990 she works as researcher in the Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Psychology Department of Economic and Social Research Institute “Gh Zane”.
In the last years she organized International Scientific Conferences in Romanian Academy, ”Gh. Zane” Institute of Ia?i, with themes of Art. Ethics and Aesthetics: http://artandpersonality.webs.com

AWARDS:
Critics Award (First Prize), International Competition of Contemporary Art, Ed. 32, Milano, Italy, sept. 2015.
Galleries Award (Second Prize), Milano, Italy, sept. 2015.
Bronze Award (Third Prize) at the International Competition of Art, “Five Golden Stars”, December, 2012, Eindhoven, Holland.
Special Award at the National Contest of Painting and Graphic ”Vespasian Lungu”, May, 2013, Braila, România.
Special Award, at exhibition ”Dragobete”, February, 2014, Ia?i, Romania.
Award for artistic merit, International Competition of Contemporary Art, December, 2014, Ed. 29, Milano, Italy.
Painting Award at the exhibition “Dragobete”, February, 2015, Ia?i, Romania.
Certificate of Excellence at the exhibition “Dragobete”, February, 2015 Ia?i, Romania.
Painting Award at the exhibition ”Careu de dame”, March, 2015, Ia?i, Romania.
Certificate of Excellence at the exhibition ”Careu de dame”, Ia?i, Romania.
Certificate of Excellence at the exhibition ”Made in Romania”, July, 2015, Ia?i, Romania.
Certificate of Excellence at the exhibition of International Festival ”Art and Tradition in Europe”, 6th edition, july-August, 2015, Iasi.

Personal exhibitions:
2021, 1-10 April, ”HEIGHTS AND ABYSSES”, ”Th. Pallady” Gallery, Union of Plastic Artists of Romania, Iași Branch.
► 2019, 15-30 October, ”AN EXPRESSIONIST JOURNEY”, The Marble Hall, USAMV, Iași.
► 2019, 28-31 May, ”ASPIRATIONS”, Aula Magna, Romanian Academy, Iași.
► 2018, 3-22 December, ”PORTRAIT PARTY LA PICASSO”, Galeria ”i”, Centrul de Studii Europene, Iași.
► 2018, 20-26 August, ”HAPPENING EXHIBITION”, Center NOSTRO MONDO, KORINTHO, GREECE.
► 2017, 9-12 June, ”DIVERSITY”, Aula Magna, Romanian Academy, Iași.
► 2017, 25 May-3 June, ”UNDER THE SIGN OF HARPE”, Galeria ”i”, Centrul de Studii Europene, Iași.
► 2017, 17-20 March, ”BETWEEN EMOTIONS”, PALAS MALL, IASI.
► 2016, 17 Nov.-10 Dec., ”EXPRESIONISTIC DIALOGUE”, Clubul CFR, Iași, Romania.
► 2016, 9 - 20 August, ”MEANDERS OF TIME”, Biblioteca Municipală, KORINTH, GREECE
– 2015, 8-22 of July, ”UNDER THE SUN OF CRETE”, Gallerie 88, Crete Island, Greece.
– 2015, 15 of April -15 of May, ”SUBJECTIVE CONNEXIONS”, Gallery Athenaeum Tatara?i, Ia?i, Romania.
– 23 – 30 of April, 2014, ”DIALOGUE OF FORMS”, Municipal Gallery, Katerini, Greece.
– 2013, July-August, “Summer”, Headquarters of Agentie ”Travel by Pleasure”, Katerini, Greece.
-2012, 8-16 Dec., ”Symbols and colors”, Art-Gallery City Hall – „Ekavi” (Ekabh), Katerini, Greece.
-2012, 29 Oct.-29 Nov., ”Abstract Visions”, Athenaeum Tatara?i, Ia?i, Romania.
-2012, 9-19 January,”Ellada through the eyes of soul”, Art Gallery Antoniadios Stegi Grammaton ke Tehnon, Veria, Greece.
-2011, 7-14 December,”Ellada through the eyes of soul”, Art Gallery „Astiki Sholi”, Katerini, Greece.
-2010, 3-14 Dec., “Emotions and feelings”, Top Art Gallery, Casa C?r?ii, Iasi, Romania.
-2009, 17 July-14 August, “Steps to the soul”, Top Art Gallery, Casa C?rtii, Iasi, Romania.

Group exhibitions: more than 50.

PAINTING VOLUMES (collective) where personal works are published:
”Portret și autoportret”, ed. a-III-a, 2021, Ed. Spiru Haret, Iași, p. 53.
”Dragobete Art.Ro”, UAP from România, Branch of Iași, 2021, Ed. Spiru Haret, Iași, p. 43.
,,ARTIS 2020”, UAP from România, Branch of Iași, 2020, Ed. PIM, p. 64. www.uapriasi.ro
”Identități ieșene”, ed. a IX-a, UAP from România, Branch of Iași, 2020, Ed. Spiru Haret, Iași, p. 45.
”Portret și autoportret”, ed. a-II-a, UAP from România, Branch of Iași, 2020, Ed. Spiru Haret, Iași, p. 50.
”PAGINE D’ARTE– Collezione di Opere D’Artisti”, Associazione Culturale Ad-Art, ITALIA p. 27, 2018.
”INDIRIZZO D'ARTE”, author art critic Paolo Pellegrino, Ed. Accademia Santa Sara, ALESSANDRIA, ITALY, 2017, p. 108.
”CATALOGO degli Artisti Contemporanei”, Associazione Culturale Ad-Art, ITALY, p. 32, 2017
”Poveste de iarnă” - Editura PIM, ianuarie, Iași, 2018, p. 28.
”Identități ieșene” - Editura Spiru Haret, nov., Iași, 2017, p. 32.
and others.

Marinela Rusu is also the author of numerous papers and volumes of psychology:
“Emotions and compensation” (2001); “The science of consciousness” (2002);
“Emotional Intelligence” (2005); ”Introduction to Pedagogy” (2006)
“Teenagers of the XXI century – opportunities and risks in personal development” (2010).
”Affective dimension of personality” (coord. 2012); ”Manifestation and self-regulation of emotions” (coord. 2013).

She realized many cover pages for collective volumes but also for her own edited books.

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