Born in Romania in 1951, Georges Mazilu is known internationally for his signature style linking contemporary surrealism with the art of the Northern Renaissance. Masterfully executed and bewitchingly beautiful, his paintings portray mysterious figures seemingly caught in deep contemplation or frozen in the midst of enigmatic rituals.

He earned his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the Grigorescu Art Institute in Bucharest. In 1982 he escaped Ceausescu’s dictatorial regime and settled down in France. Some features of his present art as absurdity and grotesque could find their explanation in his youth years spent in socialist Romania. In their origins his compositions are abstract constructions that he gradually builds into representational images.

This process permits him to sound his unconscious as he transforms abstractions into harmonious structures, mirrors of his present state of mind. He tries to keep his logic from interfering, slowly converting his constructed forms into figures. In the final stage the process continues more consciously as he works to create an atmosphere around the figures that complete their world, a world that reflects the complexities and psychological realities of our own environment.Georges Mazilu participates regularly in the major Parisian art salons (Salon de Figuration Critique, Salon de Artistes Independants, etc.) and exhibits extensively in Europe and The United States.
Solo Exhibitions:

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1976 Orizont Gallery, Bucharest

• 1981 Simeza Gallery, Bucharest

• 1983 International City of the Arts, Paris

• 1985 Kleine Galerie, Bad Waldsee, Germany

• 1986 Art-Expo, Los Angeles

• 1987 Art-Expo, New York

• 1989 Le Jas de la Rimade Gallery, Carces, France

• 1990 Nunki Gallery, Paris

• 1990 Anne Rouff Gallery, Paris

• 1992 Palais Royal Gallery, Nice

• 1993 Schemes Gallery, Lille

• 1995 Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago

• 1995 Pieter Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam

• 1996 Turner-Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe

• 1996 City Hall of Noumea, New Caledonia

• 1997 Peter Noldus Art Gallery, Amsterdam

• 1997 Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago???????

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1997 Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, N.J

• 1998 Ivoire Hotel, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

• 1998 Turner-Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe

• 1998 Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton

• 1999 Pieter Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam. Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago

• 2000 Galerie Samagra, Paris

• 2000 Turner-Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe

• 2001 Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, N.J

• 2001 Aggie Hendrikx Fine Art gallery, Roemond, NL

• 2001 Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago

• 2001 Royden prior Gallery, London

• 2001 Pieter Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

• 2002 Galerie Samagra, Paris

• 2003 Aggie Hendrikx Fine Art Gallerry, Roermond, NL

• 2004 Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M. U.S.A

• 2005 Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, N.J. U.S.A

• 2005 Galerie Samagra, Paris

• 2005 Thomas Masters gallery, Chicago

• 2008 Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M. U.S.A



Group Exhibitions:

• 1974 to 1981 Participated in numerous exhibitions in Bucharest and other cities in Romania 

• 1978 International Art Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

• 1980 Juan Miro International Drawing Competition, Barcelona

• 1987 Signs, Schemes, Images, Acropolis, Nice

• 1990 Tempera Gallery, Brussels

• 1992 Apocalypses, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

• 1992 Figure out the Imaginary, City Hall of 6th district, Paris

• 1994 Figure out the Imaginary, City Hall of 6th district, Paris

• 1997 Figure out the Imaginary, City Hall of 6th district, Paris

• 1993 Biennale, Art out of Time, City Hall of 9th disrtict, Paris

• 1995 Biennale, Art out of Time, City Hall of 9th disrtict, Paris

• 1994 The Sacred and the Profane, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville

• 1994 The Sacred and the Profane, Umerov Gallery, Minneapolis

• 1994 Art Gallery of Place Beauvau, Paris

• 1994 City Hall of Noumea, New Caledonia

• 1995 Myth in Modern Times, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

• 1994 Lineart, International Art Fair, Gand, Belgium

• 1997 Lineart, International Art Fair, Gand, Belgium

• 1997 The Tower of Babel, Nunki Gallery, Paris???????

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1997 Equestri'Art, City Hall of Tarbes, France

• 1997 The Empire of Light, Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton

• 2000 Golden Age or Apocalypse City Hall of 9th district, Paris

• 2000 End of an Era: Eastern European Paintings from the Fall of Communism to the Year 2000, Turner-Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe

• 2000 Philadelphia Flower Show, Philadelphia 2000 Los Angeles Art Fair, U.S.A

• 2000 Salon des Artistes Bas-Normands, Caen, France (Guest of Honour)
• 1975 First Prize for Painting, conferred by the Romanian magazine Ampitheatre

1999 Taylor Award for Figurative Art, Taylor Foundation, Paris

2007 l'Isle Adam City Award
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