about

Otilia Sabina is a multidisciplinary artist and designer born in Bucharest, Romania, and currently living on the ancestral, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations — also known as Vancouver, B.C. Her work explores memory, identity, and the immigrant experience through visual storytelling.


Worked with:

123WEST: Advertising Agency & Design Collective

City of Richmond 2024

Hawker Box - 2023

VMF Winter Arts 2023

VMF City Centre Motel

Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship

VMF Winter Arts 2022

City of North Vancouver

Vancouver Mural Festival

Low Tide Properties

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

City of Vancouver

In Print:

Room Magazine

Peach Magazine

Vancouver Art Book Fair

Poor Quality Press

SAD Magazine

Featured at:

Luppolo Brewing

Playground Pop-Up

University of British Columbia

Kafka’s Coffee

Triumf: Canada’s Particle Accelerator Centre

Bean Around the World

Collaborated with:

FakeKnot - ralph escamillan, Production Visuals

Georgia Lee Johnson Album Art

Roland Campbell Album Art

Residencies/Group Shows:

2025 Community of practice, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver BC

2023 Here I Am in the In-Between, Massey Arts, Vancouver BC

2021 The Thorough Line, OU Gallery + Artist Residency, Duncan BC

2018 Echoes, Kafkas, Vancouver BC

Read/Interviews:

Massey Arts: Interview/Otilia Sabina Collage/Memory as Acts of Assembling and Disassembling

Get to Know Otilia Spantulescu Feature on ECUAD

Otilia Sabina’s Sprawling, Joyful Mural Almost Didn’t Happen

Volunteer

<3 2024 - present Access Gallery, Vancouver BC, Board of Directors <3











All images © 2025 Otilia Sabina