Cătălin Bălescu


Cătălin Bălescu is a Romanian visual artist and a university professor at the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts in Bucharest.
Bălescu is the Rector of The National University of Arts in Bucharest. He is a member of the permanent staff of the Doctoral Studies section within The National University of Arts in Bucharest, and has coordinated doctoral dissertations ever since 2010.
Cătălin Bălescu has been a member of The Visual Artists’ Union of Romania since 1990.

Education

Cătălin Bălescu was born at Brad, Hunedoara County, Romania. In 1986 he graduated from the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Plastic Arts Institute, where he had studied between 1981 and 1986. Prior to that, he had studied at the High School of Arts in Deva, Hunedoara, Romania.

Scientific and Didactic Activity

Cătălin Bălescu has been teaching at the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts in Bucharest since 1990. He started his academic career as an assistant professor, between 1990 and 1997, at the class of Professors Sorin Ilfoveanu, Florin Mitroi, Vasile Grigore.
In 1998 he became a university lecturer at the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts in Bucharest.
In 2003 Cătălin Bălescu became a doctor in visual arts, by successfully defending his thesis entitled Grammar Elements of Visual Art Imagery: ImageSyntax, published by Printech Publishing House, 2004,.
Between 2005 and 2009 he was an associate professor at the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts in Bucharest. In 2009 he earned his title of university professor.
During 1995-1996 Cătălin Bălescu coordinated the Studio 35 section of .
Ever since 1996 Cătălin Bălescu has been involved in organizing activities with students groups of the Department of Painting. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a Scientific Secretary of the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts. Between 2000 and 2004 he was appointed Scientific Secretary of the Faculty of Fine Arts of The National University of Arts in Bucharest. In 2004 Cătălin Bălescu was appointed Scientific Secretary of the Senate of The National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania.
As far as scientific activity is concerned, starting with 2004 Cătălin Bălescu has been the ARTLAB Director, acknowledged by CA 37/2004 of .
Among the research projects in which he has taken active part there is the Type A NCSR – 1/2000, Research Concerning Advanced Techniques of Artistic Imagery Analysis, carried out in partnership with the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Cybernetics of .
From 2002 to 2004 Cătălin Bălescu participated in the PED Project/ CERES Program/National Plan for Development, entitled An Analysis Method of Fundamental Elements of ArtisticImagery, carried out in partnership with The National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics NIOE 2000.
Between 2006 and 2008 Cătălin Bălescu was involved in a program of providing graduation equipment for laboratories, administered by The National Ministry of Education. In 2008 he got involved in theCEX 05D8-02-2 project entitled eMart-Cyber Museumof Arts Universities in Romania.
Cătălin Bălescu is a member of the JAQM Advisory Board.

Personal Exhibitions

Voting Algorithm for Neuro-Fuzzy Ensembles,” Procs. of The First International Conference on Natural Computation ICNC 2005 Changsha,China, 2005, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS3612, pp. 1300 –1303,