Oana Stanciu

Oana Stanciu is a Romanian artist based in Edinburgh. A leading voice in Scottish contemporary photography, she uses herself as a model, experimenting with her body and everyday objects to improvise scenes and create unnatural or subtly distorted images.

Though the essence of her self-portraiture is playful, her work at times even flirting with humour, her imagery is nonetheless deeply uncanny; props, augmentations and contortions utilised to unsettling effect.

Oana's celebrated and idiosyncratic practice has attracted many distinctions including various awards, most notably the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Knight - for contribution to Romanian culture in the UK, awarded by the President of Romania in 2022. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, including with Edinburgh's prestigious Ingleby Gallery and Royal Scottish Academy, as well as in Romania, Norway and Japan.

One of “The 50 most exciting Scottish artists of 2026” - The Herald