Ana Lupaș

Ana Lupaș (; born 1940, Cluj) is a Romanian installation artist, textile artist, and photographer. She studied at the Institute of Fine and Decorative Art in Cluj-Napoca. Her art is influenced by neo-avant-garde movements such as land art, post-minimalism and Arte Povera, as well as folklore and local practices. She uses materials such as wool, cotton, linen, not only to challenge artistic norms, but also out of necessity, as she faced harsh living conditions under the communist dictatorship of the time. She managed a hidden local artistic community and worked somewhat secretly, creating artworks as a form of silent resistance against the totalitarian regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu, during which many of her family members - part of the pre-war political and intellectual elite - were imprisoned, tortured and killed.

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