Raluca Pilat left Bucharest for Québec over twenty years ago, trained at the Nicolae Tonitza Fine Arts School and the Nicolae Grigorescu Academy of Fine Arts. She spent twelve years teaching art before devoting herself fully to her own.

Working across oil, acrylic and pastel, she paints fate, memory, and the invisible threads between the human and the material world – dreamlike, philosophical, unmistakably her own.

Critic André Seleanu called her work “polysemous, rooted in the earth, and leading to the imaginary.” Each exhibition reveals another layer of the same question: what connects us to what we cannot see.

A Pilat doesn’t just hang on a wall. It asks something of the room.