About me
Alma Gyovai is an illustrator and visual artist based in Timişoara, Romania.
Alma has studied Graphics for five years at University of West, Timişoara. Her artistic practice is about recycling in a metaphorical and literal sense. She reinterprets memories, re-uses old photos as references and makes objects out of old textiles and various other materials.
Her path on the design route was naturally reinforced by the Erasmus+ Mobility of a semester in 2020, in Vincennes, France, where she studied Event Design.
Right now, she is focusing on illustration and exploring two dimensional animation.
She’s been part of various art projects, she has illustrated for magazines and has acquired experience in the last years in editing and graphic design.
Get in touch!
E-mail: gyovai_alma@yahoo.com
Work Experience:
Graphic Designer/Illustrator • Promotional and educative materials for a dm campaign in collaboration with Sensodyne • Project-based (contracted by PRbeta Agency) June 2022 - August 2022.
Illustrator for Scena9 • How I brought shame to my family dancing on the song “Busuioc de prin Banat” (Cum mi-am făcut de rușine familia dansând pe melodia „Busuioc de prin Banat”) by Gabriel Mager • February 2025;
Illustrator/Writer • “Lackadaisical anything but” Comic Book Anthology (Project funded by Regional Arts & Culture Council) • released in January 2025 in Portland, Oregon;
Illustrator for Scena9 • The Summer in which I though I will be sent in Space (Vara în care am crezut că voi fi trimis în spațiu) by Gabriel Mager • October 2024;
Illustrator • “Lackadaisical anything but” Comic Book Anthology • to be released;
Illustrator for Scena9 • The Day My Drunk Grandfather Saved Christmas (Ziua în care bunicul meu beat a salvat Crăciunul) by Gabriel Mager • December 2023;
Illustrator for Scena9 • Cinemutations: The Strange Case of the Movie „La vita di messer Lazzaro” by Cristi Puiu (Cinemutații: Cazul straniu al filmului „La vita di messer Lazzaro” de Cristi Puiu) by Gabriel Mager • March 2023;
Desktop Publishing Operator at Arhebis Digital Systems • Full-time • September 2022 - October 2024;
Jr. Graphic Designer at Eurostampa Publishing House • Part-time • June 2022 - August 2022.
Articles, Mentions & co.:
“Lackadaisical anything but” Comic Book Anthology (Project funded by Regional Arts & Culture Council) - comicbook anthology released in January 2025 in Portland, Oregon;
Lumina - Revistă de literatură, artă şi cultură transfrontalieră, Anul LXXVI, Seria nouă, Nr. 10-12/2023 - interview and featured artworks;
Map of Local Illustrators (Harta ilustratorilor locali) - First collected issue of local illustrators, compiled by Sorina Vazelina and Mălina Cristea (2023);
Today's Featured Artist on ArtWanted.com
Kunsthalle Bega Box, publication printed and published by Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Berlin, Germany, 2023;
Revista ARTA - Visual arts, #48-49, 2021, Art & Digital Capitalism - article about the group exhibiton Later Edit, A Draft and The Public’s Generative Power by Marina Paladi;
Later Edit, Kunsthalle Bega - catalogue of the exhibition (2020);
Exhibitions:
2025, March- group exhibition, IZANAGI – Japanese Film Festival (5th Edition), Cinema Timiş, Timişoara, Romania;
2025, February- group exhibition, ARCH*IVE, Nava C2, Timişoara, Romania;
2025, February - group exhibition, Art Fair, Lapsus at Galeria 5, Timişoara, Romania;
2024, December - group exhibition, Christmas Art Fair, Lapsus, Timişoara, Romania;
2024, October - group intervention, Cozzzmonautica 2024, Desert Planets /// Stellar Silk Roads, Indecis Artist Run Space, Timişoara, Romania;
2024, March - virtual group exhibition, Bologna Children’s Book Fair - Virtual Illustrators Wall. A 190-days Show, online;
2023, December - group exhibition, Black Friday Art Sale, Lapsus, Timişoara, Romania;
2023, December - group exhibition, Ballads about the End of the World, Reperaj Gallery, Oradea, Romania;
2023, July – global collaboration, Tag or Dye SHOW at Centro Civic Pati Llimona, within the Experimental PhotoFestival 2023, Barcelona, Spain;
2023, June - global collaboration, Tag or Dye SHOW, Lapsus, Timișoara;
2023, March - global collaboration, Tag or Dye SHOW at Camera, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
2022, October – group exhibition, SnepHIV, National Week of HIV prevention, 3rd Edition – Expoziţie Conceptualism Pozithiv, Casa Tineretului, Timişoara, Romania;
2022, September-February 2023 - group exhibition, Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2022, OSTEN Gallery Skopje, North Macedonia;
2022, 9th September - group exhibition, Cozzzmonautica 2022, Forest of Antennae, Indecis Artist Run Space, Timişoara, Romania;
2022, August – group exhibition, International Mail Art Exhibition, Uppsala Konstnärsklubb, Sweden;
2022, June – group exhibition, What is your mind about?, Center of Projects, Timişoara, Romania;
2022, March – online group exhibition, FIG 2022 - Gif Exhibiton (part of EyeMyth Festival), India;
2022, 26th-27th March – digital group exhibition, Finding Home (re-exhibited), Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom;
2021, 17th December – group exhibition/art fair, Christmas Art Fair, Lapsus, Timişoara, Romania;
2021, 4th-5th December – digital group exhibition, Finding Home, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom;
2021, 26th November – group exhibition/art fair, Black Friday Art Sale, Lapsus, Timişoara, Romania;
2021, 4th-12th November – group exhibition, Neonlitic 3.0, Thessaloniki, Greece;
2021, 23th-31th October – group exhibition, Neonlitic 3.0, Underground Gallery, Timișoara, Romania;
2021, 12th-20th October – group exhibition, Neonlitic 3.0, Zrenjanin National Museum, Zrenjanin, Serbia;
2021, July – group exhibition, The Graduation Show 2021, Center of Projects, Timișoara, Romania;
2021, June – group exhibition, iMATERIALITĂȚI, Studio Citadelle, Timișoara, Romania;
2020, October – group exhibition, Later Edit, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania;
2020, March – online group exhibition/album (pdf), The C19 Album by Digital:Canvas\;
2019, October – group exhibition, 4th Edition of National Student Festival Vizualia, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
2019, May – group exhibition, Matter and Concept, Art Museum of Timișoara, Romania;
2018, October – group exhibition, 3th Edition of National Student Festival Vizualia, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
2018, April – group exhibition, 9th Edition of FiloArte Graphics, Banat Philarmonic, Timișoara, Romania:
2017, March – group exhibition, 1st International Student Drawing Biennial – The Drawing from the Studio, The Faculty of Art and Design, Timișoara, Romania;