Where Are You From?

The 2025 edition of our annual Salon of Romanian-American Artists marks a new chapter in the evolution of this program, presenting an ambitious collaborative project with The Romanian Art Collective in San Francisco. This year’s exhibition revolves around the fundamental and often unsettling question “Where Are You From?” — a reflection on identity, belonging, and the multifaceted experiences of migration that shape contemporary life.

The show brings together eight Romanian-American artists — Alexandra Cicorschi, Ioanida Costache, Florentina Mocanu, Bogdan Pastor, Alexandru Salceanu, Emanuela Harris Sintamarian, Camelia Skikos, and Kat Mustatea — whose creative practices span diverse media, including painting, photography, fashion design, performance, installation, and sound art. United by a shared sense of displacement and reinvention, these artists offer deeply personal responses to the ongoing negotiation between roots and relocation, between the cultural memory of “home” and the transformative experience of “elsewhere.”

Through their works, ”Where Are You From?” invites…