BIOGRAPHY
Photo © Lucie Sassiat
Alina Schiau was born in Romania in 1980. When she was three, her family fled the Ceaușescu dictatorship and found refuge in Switzerland. Growing up between two cultures, two languages, and two histories, she began early on to question identity, transmission, and what makes us who we are.
She trained at the École d'Arts Appliqués Bellecour in Geneva and explored several forms of artistic expression before devoting herself entirely to painting in 2019.
Through painting, engraved words, and immersive installations, she explores questions that have stayed with her since childhood: what we carry within us, what connects us to one another, and what continues to live when everything seems to have disappeared.
She lives and works in the Paris region and is represented by ACID Gallery (Lille) and Galerie Partage (Lyon).