C Fodoreanu

Education

• Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York
• Doctor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
• Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Public Art

• 2026 — Cor Fabrica, 10-foot mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture after Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543). Donated to the Hillcrest Community Foundation; stored near the Pride Promenade, Harvey Milk Street, San Diego, awaiting installation and unveiling. One of the inaugural public artworks of San Diego's LGBTQ+ Cultural District.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2025 — writings, level of service not required, La Jolla, California
• 2023 — Liminal Forms (preamble & assemble), MFA thesis exhibition, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
• 2023 — Contrapposto, the MET at UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California
• 2023 — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
• 2021 — water hands, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — thou shadow, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — lost trees, Next Door, San Diego
• 2019 — street smart, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2019 — dancers, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2011 — SplitS, Harvard Arts First, Boston

Selected Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs

2025

• Self Portrait, level of service not required, La Jolla
• one, two, three, and four — 2nd ed., level of service not required, La Jolla
• everything and anything, level of service not required, La Jolla
• brand new, level of service not required, La Jolla

2024

• one, two, three, and four, level of service not required, La Jolla
• no thing at all, level of service not required, La Jolla
• fall into the bloom, level of service not required, La Jolla
• room in a room in a room, level of service not required, La Jolla
• Space 4 Art, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego
• Resonantly Me, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California
• BLINK 2.0, One West Grand, Chicago

2023

• Untitled Art Miami Beach — featured graduating MFA artist, School of Visual Arts
• Common Space, Space 4 Art, San Diego
• Sloom, Studio 9D, New York
• The Last Group Show, Bread & Salt, San Diego
• Snow Creek Collaborative, Photographer's Eye Gallery, Escondido, California
• BLINK, One West Grand, Chicago
• Yonder Crush, Satchel Projects, New York

2022

• Public Private, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York
• SoCal MFA Annual Juried Exhibition, Peggy Phelps and East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, California (juried by guest juror Dion Johnson)
• PROUD+, The Studio Door, San Diego
• Iridescent Perception, SVA Flatiron Windows, New York (juried exhibition, April 9–25, 2022)

2021

• Failed State, School of Visual Arts, New York
• Open Show LA, Los Angeles

2020

• self portrait, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• Gleaming Apollo, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs, California
• intimate, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• cues² and macroskins, duo exhibition with Carmen Fodoreanu, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2019

• Art San Diego 2019, [LOCAL TALENT] inaugural program (curated selection of four ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station artists, presenting dancers series), San Diego Convention Center, San Diego
• Cultural Art Expo, Courtyard Marriott, El Cajon
• Your Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

2008

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Harvard Medical School, Boston

2006

• Cultural Awareness Network Exposition, University of California, San Diego

2005

• Annual Expo, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego

Residencies

• 2022 — The Artist Residency Project, School of Visual Arts, New York
• 2022 — Kipaipai Fellowship, Ojai, California

Public & Institutional Collections

• Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
• De Pietri Artphilein Foundation, Switzerland
• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
• Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco
• Printed Matter, New York
• SVA Library, New York
• Foley Gallery, New York
• University of California, San Diego
• Western University, Ontario, Canada
• Decker Library at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
• level of service not required, San Diego
• Private collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia

Awards, Fellowships, and Honors

• 2023 — Inaugural Sidney L. Saltzstein, MD and Sally F. Saltzstein Endowed Lecture on Compassionate Care, UC San Diego School of Medicine
• 2021 — MFA Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute (deferred)
• 2020 — Community Service Award for street smart Fundraiser, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, San Diego
• 2019 — Local Talent Art Visionary Award, Art San Diego, San Diego
• 2011 — Presidential Scholar, Harvard Medical School, Boston
• 2007 — F. Thomas Bond Outstanding Academic and Leadership Award, University of California, San Diego

Publications and Monographs

• Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, monograph, edition of 500, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego, 2022. With essays by Seph Rodney, PhD, and Shana Nys Dambrot. Stocked as an Alumni Author title at the UC San Diego Bookstore.
• Frank Gillette, The Symbiotic Blues, exhibition catalog, level of service not required, La Jolla, 2024 (contribution).
• First-Person Creates…, photography book contribution, Voice to Vision Publications, San Diego, 2021.
• First-Person Presents, photography book contribution, Voice to Vision Publications, San Diego, 2020.
• street smart, exhibition catalog, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego, 2019.
• The Human Condition, Vol. 19, front and back cover, UCSD School of Medicine Yearly Art/Literary Magazine, San Diego, 2014.
• Harvard Arts First, catalog entry, Harvard University, Boston, 2011.
• Third Space Magazine, Harvard Medical School Literary Magazine, Boston, 2010–2011 (contributions).
• Three books of Romanian poetry.

Book Fairs and Festivals

• 2025 — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, San Francisco Photobook Fair, San Francisco (inaugural edition; presented by the artist)
• 2025 — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, Medium Photo Festival, San Diego (presented by the artist)
• 2024 — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, Medium Photo Festival, San Diego (presented by the artist)
• 2023 — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, book talk at Space 4 Art, San Diego, August 26, 2023 (presented by the artist; KPBS Arts Calendar Editor's Pick)
• 2023 — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, Meet Your Local Harvard Author book discussion and signing, Harvard Club of San Diego, La Jolla Public Library, May 16, 2023 (moderated by Loreen Collins, AB 1982, Harvard Club of San Diego President)

Selected Press

• “LOS/NR” in “Galleries: Recently opened alumni-owned spaces,” SVA Visual Arts Journal, Spring/Summer 2026, p. 43, School of Visual Arts, New York.
• “Pride Promenade,” Hillcrest Business Association, 2025 (announcing Cor Fabrica's siting at the new Hillcrest community space, San Diego).
• Andrew Berardini, “Spirited Land and Flowering Bodies: On writings by C Fodoreanu,” exhibition essay for writings solo exhibition at level of service not required, La Jolla, 2025.
• Shana Nys Dambrot, “C Fodoreanu's writings tells more than one story,” exhibition essay for writings solo exhibition at level of service not required, La Jolla, 2025.
• Seth Combs, “C Fodoreanu: The writings on the Wall,” exhibition essay for writings solo exhibition at level of service not required, La Jolla, 2025.
• Vittoria Benzine, “San Diego-based multidisciplinary artist C Fodoreanu grew up along the road there,” Whitehot Magazine, April 18, 2025.
• “‘Everything and Anything’ art gallery at Level of Service Not Required finds meaning in the ‘fluff’,” The Daily Aztec, 2025.
• Ryan Hardison, “16 Things to Do in San Diego This Weekend: April 16–20,” San Diego Magazine, April 15, 2025 (preview of writings opening at LOS/NR).
• Ashley Mackin-Solomon, “La Jolla Business Roundup: Here’s what’s coming and going in The Village and nearby,” La Jolla Light, June 2, 2024.
• “Book Talk: How Design Elevates the Success of Your First Photobook,” Lenscratch, May 2024 (featured photobook).
• Justin Duyao, “Justin Duyao on C Fodoreanu,” HereIn Journal, January 13, 2024.
• Seth Combs, “Finding the balance: C Fodoreanu pursues his artistic dreams while working as a doctor,” The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 5, 2023.
• Peter Frank, “Dreamscape with Lake: C Fodoreanu's Sacalaia,” exhibition essay, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, July 2023.
• Andrew Woolbright, exhibition essay for Liminal Forms, MFA thesis exhibition, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, 2023.
• Genie Davis, “Dive In,” Diversions LA, August 28, 2023.
• “Ode to the Lake Sacalaia / Solo Exhibition by C Fodoreanu at Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery,” LA Art Documents, August 9, 2023 (video documentation).
• “Meet Deep Dive Artist C Fodoreanu,” The Village Voice, July 27, 2023.
• “Meet Deep Dive Artist C Fodoreanu,” LA Weekly, July 24, 2023.
• “Cal State LA Presents Ode to the Lake Sacalaia,” Art Now LA, July 12, 2023.
• Rachel Harris-Huffman, “An Artist's Memories of a Haunting Lake,” Hyperallergic, April 10, 2023.
• “C Fodoreanu: Ode to the Lake Sacalaia,” Lenscratch, March 25, 2023 (interview).
• Wayne Swanson, “C Fodoreanu — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia,” Photobook Journal, December 20, 2022.
• Beth Accomando, “Studio Door hosts exhibit on climate change featuring youth ‘ARTivists’,” KPBS, April 5, 2022.
• Patric Stillman, “Artist Profile: C Fodoreanu,” LGBTQ San Diego County News, September 3, 2021.
• Art and Cake, Los Angeles, 2020.
• Lenscratch, Los Angeles, 2020.
• “Meet. C. Fodoreanu,” APA | San Diego (American Photographic Artists), Meet a Member series, May 20, 2020.
• Mary Pat Abruzzo, “Moving Images: C. Fodoreanu's ‘street smart’ captures the struggle of at-risk youth,” San Diego CityBeat, December 4, 2019.
• Miriam Raftery, “Cultural Art Expo Draws Top-Notch Artists,” East County Magazine, November 17, 2019.
• “Meet the artist-doctor behind Liberty Station's newest gallery,” The Peninsula Beacon, November 8, 2019.
• Hannah Smith, “C. Fodoreanu Opens New Studio to Help At-Risk Youth,” Art Business News, November 7, 2019.

Curatorial Projects

Co-founder and Art Director, level of service not required (LOS/NR), La Jolla, California, since 2024. View full curatorial program →

• 2026 — human body — 2026 Artist Award Show (juried open call), level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2026 — Healing Energy, level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2025–26 — Self Portrait — Physician Invitational, level of service not required, La Jolla. Organized in collaboration with the Physician Wellness Committee of Kaiser Permanente San Diego.
• 2025 — The Measure of Our Days, level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2025 — one, two, three, and four — 2nd Edition: Fast Fashion, Youth Enviro-Art group exhibition, level of service not required, La Jolla. Organized in collaboration with the AAP-CA3 Climate Change and Health Committee.
• 2025 — everything and anything, level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2025 — Michael Roque Collins: Corpus Sanctum (solo), level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2025 — Framing Identity, level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2025 — brand new, level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2024 — Frank Gillette: The Symbiotic Blues (solo), level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2024 — one, two, three, and four — 1st Edition: Tijuana Sewage Crisis, Youth Enviro-Art group exhibition, level of service not required, La Jolla. Organized in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics and San Diego Pediatricians for Clean Air; presented in honor of Children's Environmental Health Day.
• 2024 — no thing at all (international), level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2024 — fall into the bloom, level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2024 — room in a room in a room (inaugural exhibition), level of service not required, La Jolla
• 2022 — Youth Arts Exhibition: #WeBorrowTheEarthFromOurChildren, The Studio Door, San Diego
• 2021 — human body, 2nd edition, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2021 — Queer Artists Invitational, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2021 — dailies, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — self portrait, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — debauchery, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — Black Artists Invitational, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — Artist Award, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — intimate, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — human body, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2020 — mother series by Jen Georgescu, Cornel/Henry Art, San Diego
• 2008 — A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Harvard University, Boston

For the printable Curriculum Vitae, download the PDF: CFodoreanu_CV.pdf