Born 1977, lives and works on Earth.
Co-editor of VERSION artist run magazine www.versionmagazine.com
Represented by Galerie Yvon Lambert , Paris, New York and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

AWARD
Prix Paul Ricard S.A., Paris 2004*

SOLO shows
2007
A free smile, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, (USA)
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Panorámica, Mexico, D.F.
FRAC Champagne Ardennes, FR*

2006
Jucãrii pentru copii (Toys for childrens)-with Ion Grigorescu, Protokoll Studio, Cluj Napoca, (RO)*
The title is the last thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, (USA)*
Burn to be Burnt, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, (IT)
The landscape is changing, solo screening, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

2005
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Prix Ricard S.A., Centre Pompidou, Paris (F)
Deeparture, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York, (USA)
Si tu marche plus vite, il pleut moins fort, Centro arte moderna, Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon, (P)*

2004
Preview, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma

2003
Corporate identity, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (F)
(...), Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (F)
In front of my eyes, Trans> Area, New York, (USA)

2002
The Right Man at the Right Place, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Nulle part ailleurs, Le Studio-Yvon Lambert,
Paris Ping Pang Pong, Entre-deux Association, Nantes *

1999
Headlines, Gad Photogallery, Bucharest

GROUP shows
2007
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)*
An Atlas of Events, Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon, (P)*
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena (IT)*
Critical Foreground, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio (USA)
Logiques du rêve éveillé, Les instant chavirés, Montreuil (F)
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris* (F)
Hay algo de revolucionario en todo esto, Sala Parpalló, Valencia
Fairytale, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Albania
I want to believe, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (CH)
Confined Innocence, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario (CA)*
Paranoia, Freud Museum, London* (UK)

2006
Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Spain*
October Art Salon, Belgarde* (YU)
I Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zurich* (CH) Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea*
Dada east? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Volaire, Zurich, (CH)
Voices of Silence, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel Printemps de septembre, Toulouse* (F)
Human Game – Winner and losers, Stazione Leopolda, Florence* (IT)
Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery* (UK)
Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable (UK)
Periferic 7: Focusing Iasi / Why Children?, Iasi* (RO)
La Force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris (F)
Czeslaw Milosz “To Allen Ginsberg”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel*
Marcher , Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc (F)
LESS ­ Strategie alternative dell'abitare, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan*
Message Personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris* (F)
4th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art, Berlin*(D)
Notre Histoire…, Palais de Tokyo, Paris*(F)

2005
Global Tour, Art Travel and Beyond, W139, Amsterdam*(NL)
May you live in interesting times, Cardiff Fesitval of Creative Technology,
A Picture This Moving Image Project War is over, 1945 – 2005 The Freedom of Art from Picasso to Warhol and Cattelan, GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo*(IT)
Modern Times, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, (IT)
Nach Rokytník - The EVN Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, (A)
Generations of art-10 years at F.A.R., Fondazione Antonio Ratti* (IT)
On Difference, Wuertenmbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (D)
Cosmopolis, State Museum for Contemporary Art, Tessaloniki* (GR)
TEXT ground, Display, Space for contemporary art, Prague* (CZ)
e-flux video rental, Project room of KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, (D)
Revolution is on hold, Isola Art Center, Milan (IT)
Theorema, une collection privée en Italie, Musée d'art contemporain, Collection Lambert, Avignon* (F)
The need to document, Kunsthaus Baselland, (CH)*
Works from the collection, Magasin 3 Konstahall, Stockholm
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of contemporray art, Chicago*
Irreducible, contemporary short form video, 1995–2005, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, (USA)

2004
The works I told you about, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Stock Zero (OPERA), MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Bucharest*
Proseismic, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris*
I’ll be your Mirror, A special project for Frieze Art Fair 2004, City Inn Westminster Hotel, London
Publishing Without Limits: New Directions for Art Magazines, Art Forum Berlin Talks (with Version)
Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje, Montenegro*
Nine Points of the Law, NGBK, Berlin*
Mediterraneo, MACRO, Roma
Plug in, Futura, Prague* (CZ)
Quick-sand, De Appel, Amsterdam*
Imagine Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art
The Happy worker, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, New York.
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, Renaissance Society, Chicago/ Tate Modern London

2003
Tirana Biennale 2, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana*
Phalanstère, Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel*
Poesis. The Everyday Differently, Kunsthalle/Mucsarnok, Budapest*
Displaced, Ucla Hammer Museum, Los Angeles*
50th La Biennale Di Venezia, « Clandestine »*
Unoccupied territotries, K&S gallery, Berlin*
International Film Festival, with Smen video, Rotterdam*

2002
Les enfants du paradis, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
ForwArt2002,Brussels A9 Forum
Transeuropa, Museum Quartier, Vienna*
Urban Tension, Museum in progress, Brussels, Vienna, Frankfurt, Rome
Boundless Borders, Billboards project in the city, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Bucharest, Thessaloniki, Kassel *
Festival -Rendez vous Roumain, Espace En Cours, Paris * (with Version)

2001
Documents 11 young photographers, New Gallery, Bucharest*
Traversées, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris *
Heimsuchung, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
49th La Biennale Di Venezia, (Context-network), Romanian pavillion, Venice *
Art Judgment Show, Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana
Jean Pierre Magazine, CNEAI (Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé), Chatou *
Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Bonn *

2000
Transitioland, Museul National de Arta, Bucharest *
Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Berlin *
Say What?, Eforie Gallery, Bucharest *
Argos Project 2000, Vevey (CH)
Actif-Reactif, C.R.D.C., Nantes * International Boutique,
>Public, Paris MK2 project café, Paris
Periferic 4, Turkish bath, Iassy*
One Night Stand, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York
Voyages d'affaires, ERBAN, Nantes (with Gabriela Vanga) *

*catalogue available

PUBLICATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Sean James Rose, Mircea Cantor, poete politique, Liberation, 12 june 2007
Emanuelle Lequeux, Un Autre Monde est Possible – Portrait, Beaux Arts magazine no 275, May, p.108
Nick Hackworth, Preachiness overpowers poetry, Evening Standard, UK, 11.01.07

2006
Alessando Rabottini, A future world, Flash art November December, no 251 + COVER
Steven Henry Madoff, At Berlin Biennial, Art Fits Evrywhere, The New York Times, 11.04
Von Harald Fricke, Von Wolfen und Rehen, Die Tageszeitung, 25.03.06
Jennifer Allen, The 4th Berlin Biennial, Artforum May, p181
Samuel Schellenberg, Bienale a la vie, a la mort, Le courier, 29.04.06
Steffen Dengler, Der Wolf lauert uberall, Abbendzeitung Munchen, 25.03.06

2005
Christy Lange, A story I want to belive, in Parkett 74, pp.200-203
Christy Lange, Artist meets con artist ; Travel and tourism, Matches lit at both ends, in Frieze, November-December
Travis Jeppesen, Read this text, in Umelec magazine n° 3/2005, p.92
Ami Barak, Reviews –Mircea Cantor, Gabriela Vanga, in Artpress n° 315, p.86
Roxana Azimi- Marché de l'art. Regard sur la nouvelle Europe, in Le Monde, 11 septembre
Ana Maria Onisei, Un nou « Version » al artei contemporane, in Suplimentul de Cultura, Iasi, n°28, p.16
Dialog între Mircea Cantor si Cosmin Costinas, in Dilema veche, n°65, 15-21 aprilie 2005, p.8

2004
Boris Groys talks to Jan Fuchtjohann and Mircea Cantor, in Janus, n°17/04, pp.74-78
Miriam Bers, Her und Hin, in Tema Celeste, November-December 2004
Florena Dobrescu, Mircea Cantor a câstigat Premiul tinarului artist francez, in Adevarul,Bucharest, 25 oct.2004, pg.4
Nicolas Bourriaud, Stock Zero (OPERA), Prologue :Bucharest, in cat. MNAC, Bucharest Oct 2004 pp.289-303*
Francesca Shaw/Lavinia Garulli, Was will Europa, in Flash Art International, July-Sept, n° 237.pg100
Amiel Grumberg, Le guide de Rout’art in Beaux Arts magazine no.242, pp.66-75
Simona Vladikova, Pictures at an exhibition, Umelec (CZ) 2/2004 pp.80-81
Katia Reich, in catalogue of exhibition Nine Points of the Law, NGBK, Berlin
Chiara Leoni, Prague gets plugged…, in Flash Art International, May-June, n° 236
Amiel Grumberg, The landscape is changing, In Quicksand catalogue Deappel, Amsterdam
Victor Palacios, Arenas movezidas, In Quicksand catalogue Deappel, Amsterdam pp.84-85
Yasmil Raymond Ventura, The happy worker, thesis at Bard College

2003
Attila Tordai-S, Aperto Romania, in Flash Art International, November-December, n° 233
Vanina Pinter, L’œuvre à processus, in Etapes ,Paris, November, no° 102
Michele Robecchi : Tirana Biennial 2, in Idea art+society, n° 15+16
Elsa Demo, Tirana në pasqyrat e rumunit Cantor, in Shekulli n°.208,
Dan Perjovschi, Mircea Cantor Super star, in Idea art+society, n° 14
Thomas Boutoux, Ouverture, in Flash Art International, March-April, n° 229
Ami Barak : Mircea Cantor and the match theory , in Balkon, n°13, Spring
Dossier : 10 vidéastes en vue, in Beaux Arts magazine no. 224

2002
Anne Pontégnie, On the road again, catalogue ForwArt exhibition, Brussels, Sept.
Ping Pang Pong, Flip book, Entre-deux Association (ed.), Nantes
Léa Gauthier, Ecrans de fantasme, in Mouvement, n°16, April-June
Traversäri, Mircea Cantor, Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, in Balkon, n°10, Spring Olivier Michelon, Je ne suis plus un étudiant. Les post-diplômes en France, in Le Journal des arts, n°142
Hans Ulrich Obrist, First Take, in Artforum International, Jan.
Ruxandra Balaci, Nomansland for everybody holidays,Traversées catalogue, MAMDVP Oct. Interlope
ERBAN-Fine Art School, Nantes

2001
Magda Carneci, Travesând Traversées, in Artelier, n°7
Elena Deldrago, Piccoli miracoli della provincia francese, in Il Manifesto, Dec. 11
Jean Max Collard, Nouvelles frontières, in Inrockuptibles, n°312
Interview with Aurélie Voltz, in Traversées, Exhibition catalogue, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Oct.
Context Network, Catalogue, Romanian Pavilion, Venice Biennal, June 10-Nov. 11
Stefanie Stadel, Rumänien: der Zukunft zugewandt, in Kunstzeitung, n°57, May
Catherine Millet, Transitioland, in Art press, Reviews, n°268, May
La petite Interlope, ERBAN-Fine Art School, Nantes

2000
The Spirit of the Place, Catalogue, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, July
Transitioland, Exhibition catalogue, MNAR, Bucharest, Dec.
Catalogue for the International Post Graduate Program at ERBAN-Fine Art School, Nantes

1999
Ruxandra Balaci, Mircea Cantor's ..."Headlines"..., in Artelier, n°3/4