Vanes Valves Veins
North American Odyssey
Five Clicks of Time
Maptracing Time
Vanitas Bestialis
The Exit from Beauty
For Export Only
Time Rush
Journey to the South
4.32 billion
Predictable Constructs

about

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Bucharest 
eugen.berlo@proton.me
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Genu Berlo is an American painter of Romanian heritage, operating between Bucharest and New York City. His formation is mixed: a Bachelor's in Mathematics (1997), a Bachelor's in Architecture from the University of Bucharest (2001), and continuing Fine Arts studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC (2003). Upon his arrival in New York City in 2000, for over a decade he worked as a design architect at some of New York's most prestigious firms, including the globally iconic Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). In 2012 he left that world to commit fully to painting. Since then he exhibited across Romania and beyond: shows at Gallery Studio 76, Atelier030202 and Palazzo Vimana, Galateca, Grumazescu, Contempora, Palatul Brancovenesc Mogoșoaia, Orion, EtajMahal; institutional appearances at the National Museum of Maps (Bucharest), the Nicolae Simache Clock Museum (Ploiești), the Municipal Museum Regina Maria (Iași),  Art Museum Casa Simian (Râmnicu Vâlcea), and the Inbe Art Space Museum in Yoshinogawa, Japan. 

solo exhibitions
2024   North American Odyssey, Muzeul de Artă Casa Simian, Râmnicu Vâlcea, curator: -n+1
2023   Five Clicks of Time, The Clock Museum Nicolae Simache, Ploiești, Romania
2023   Maptracing Time, The National Museum of Maps, Bucharest, Romania, curated by Călin Vasilescu
2021    Time Rush The Rebuttle, Galateca, Bucharest, Romania
2021   Journey to the South, The National Museum of Maps, Bucharest, and Grumazescu Gallery, Municipal Museum Regina Maria, Iași, Romania, co curated with Bogdan Tăut
2021   Time Rush (CENSORED), Ground floor of the Palace, Mogosoaia, Romania, curated by Ana Negoiță
2020   4.32 Billion, Orion Gallery, Cultural Palace, Ploiesti, Romania
2019   Predictable Constructs, Atelier030202 and NAG, Bucharest, Romania, curated by Marius Tănăsescu and Mihai Zgondoiu

group exhibitions
2026   Valves, Vanes and Veins, Gallery Studio 76, Bucharest
2026   Gheorghe Coman and Nicăpetre Small Sculpture Salon, Buzău County Museum, curated by Fatme Nistoroi
2025   Gheorghe Coman Small Sculpture Salon, Buzău County Museum, curated by Alexandru Anghel
2024   Martha Bibescu International Salon of Visual Arts, Mogoșoaia Palace
2023, 2021, 2019   Awagami International Miniature Print, Inbe Art Space, Tokushima, Japan
2022   Vanitas Bestialis, Vimana gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curated by -n+1
2022   The Exit from Beauty, Vimana gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curated by -n+1
2022   For Export Only, Vimana gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curated by -n+1
2020   1 year of Vikart Anniversary Auction, Vikart online auction, Bucharest, Romania
2018   Group show, Contempora, Bucharest, Romania, curated by Corina Laura Nae

collections
Art Museum Casa Simian, Râmnicu Vâlcea
The Clock Museum Nicolae Simache, Ploiești, Romania
Municipal Museum Regina Maria, Iași, Romania
The National Museum of Maps, Bucharest, Romania
Inbe Art Space Museum, Yoshinogawa, Japan

2005   Fine Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, US
2001   Architecture, Ion Mincu University Bucharest, Romania
1997   Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania
“I paint color and geometry in empiric formulas I have carried since early or became obsessed with along my journey, or that simply get my curiosity now. I mostly use oil on canvas, linen, or different materials like stone and metal that come in handy, in forms that are at once precise and wild, structured and free. 

I imagine that my painting is for people who look at the world and want more than what is given, who reach, instinctively, for the deeper pattern beneath things, or layers above. And for people that can set aside the narrative mind, and allow a moment for play and contemplation. 

Through painting I feel connected to the world, to myself, to something larger. And awe is not a side effect, it is the whole point.”