Sanda Iliescu

Sanda Ilescu was born in Romania. She received her BSE in Civil Engineering and her Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. She is a well-known and beloved professor of art and architecture at University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA), winning the National Beginning Design Faculty award in 2017. She has exhibited her art globally and has received many prestigious awards including the Rome Prize, a McDowell fellowship, and the Distinguished Artist Award of the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. Her writings on art and design, includes the book The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art and the forthcoming Looking Deeply: Essays on Art, Architecture, and Design as well as countless articles such as “The Garden as Collage,” “Beyond Cut-And-Paste,” and “Art and Community: Making Public Art on a University Campus.” With her students she has created many public art projects, responding to current campus and world issues of discrimination and violence. See Les Yeux du Monde, Ilescu’s Charlottesville art gallery. www.lydm.co/sanda-iliescu/