Dumitru Gorzo Romanian, b. 1975

Dumitru Gorzo (b. Ieud, Maramureș) lives and works in Bucharest and New York. He studied at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, earning both a bachelor's and a master's degree in painting. He is one of the prominent artists of the 2000s, gaining recognition since his student years and during his emergence, being one of the co-founders of Rostopasca, an emblematic artistic group for the transition of the 1990s-2000s in Romanian contemporary art.

As an artist with a prolific body of work and a distinctive visual language, Gorzo employs drawing, painting, and wood sculpture as tools for his relentless search for new forms and to engage in a reactive and critical dialogue with contemporary issues. His work spans a wide thematic spectrum, standing out both through controversy, from eroticism to politics, and through positions of social and institutional critique.