Bio

Sorina Peia (b. 1988, Bucharest, Romania) is a contemporary visual artist based in Bucharest. Trained in Visual Arts in France, Peia developed a sustained interest in chromatic structure, spatial dynamics, and the material possibilities of layered painting. Her practice centers on painting as a perceptual field in which color, form, and space interact to produce shifting states of presence.

Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, Peia constructs compositions defined by chromatic intensity, structural clarity, and carefully balanced spatial relationships.

Developed through a gradual process of layering and intuitive response to the surface, her paintings unfold as dynamic visual environments where density and space interact continuously. Within these fields, forms appear, dissolve, and re-emerge, suggesting processes of transformation and perceptual transition.

Peia’s work draws from natural structures, cosmic imagery, symbolic systems, and philosophical reflections on transformation, continuously engaging with processes of becoming and future-oriented thinking. Organic lines, luminous color relationships, and fluid spatial arrangements evoke landscapes that feel simultaneously interior and universal, where figure, atmosphere, and pictorial space remain in constant negotiation.

Her work often explores cycles of emergence and renewal, reflecting an interest in the delicate balance between stillness and movement, structure and intuition, presence and disappearance. Through these visual tensions, the paintings invite viewers into a slower mode of perception, where meaning unfolds gradually through attentive looking.

Her recent body of work, Fields of Becoming (2025–2026), develops this inquiry through an exploration of equilibrium within the pictorial field. The works approach painting not as a fixed image but as a living structure in which color, gesture, and space remain in continuous transformation.

Through this practice, Peia seeks to create contemplative visual environments where painting becomes both a method of exploration and a reflection on the evolving nature of perception and identity.