Codruța Cernea uses painting as the ideal medium to exercise possibilities and to reveal hidden aspects of her own existence.

Her works have a profound meditative atmosphere and often capture private moments, reflecting the underlying feeling of solitude increasingly present in the contemporary human experience. The observer’s viewpoint, nostalgic scenarios about the future, the individual experience as a subtle mirror of collective transformations, the landscape, human nature with its contradictory emotional needs are some of the themes explored by the artist in her distinct and ever-changing pictorial universe. Born in 1979 in Târgu-Mureș, she is currently living in Bucharest.

In 2010, she got her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the National University of Arts in Bucharest. Her works have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Future Nostalgia (2019) and Paradise of Lost Desires (2021), at Mobius Gallery in Bucharest are the most recent. An Invincible Summer, her first artist book was launched in 2021 and in the same year she received Dă-te mare! Art Prize from Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest.