Roxana Gheorghe

Visual Artist Exploring Architecture, Migration & Reconstruction

Layers of intervention and reconstruction expose the city as an evolving structure shaped by continual change.

Roxana Gheorghe is a New York–based visual artist working between photography and geometric abstraction.

Architecture Holds Memory.

Migration Reshapes It.

Identity Reconstructs It.

Working between architectural photography and geometric abstraction, Roxana Gheorghe explores migration as a force of transformation.

Rather than depicting migration directly, she examines how human movement reshapes architecture, memory, and identity over time. Her geometric interventions reveal the structural traces of these changes, inviting viewers to reconstruct spaces that appear permanent but are continually being rewritten.

Portfolio
Portfolio
Reflection disrupts the logic of the grid, creating a shifting visual system between structure and perception.

Light becomes structure. Reflection becomes instability.

What appears broken becomes a way of seeing.

Featured Projects

Downtown Story, abstract architectural artwork by Roxana Gheorghe, created from a photograph of Lower Manhattan and transformed through geometric fragmentation, color, and structural intervention.

Glass towers rise above cobblestones. New buildings rise beside traces of New York’s past.

The Story Behind Downtown Story
The Story Behind Downtown Story

The Broken Project

2025-2026

Broken transforms photographs of New York City architecture into geometric abstractions that examine migration as a force of continual transformation.

Through fragmentation, reflection, and structural intervention, the series reveals how architecture absorbs traces of movement, memory, and shifting identity—inviting viewers to reconstruct spaces that appear permanent but are continually being rewritten.

Enter Broken
Enter Broken
The spiraling geometry of the Guggenheim Museum is translated into a rhythmic arrangement of color, line, and movement, transforming architecture into a visual score.

Architecture becomes rhythm. Geometry becomes movement.

The New York City New Bauhaus Project

2023-2025

New York City New Bauhaus explores New York architecture through layered geometric interventions inspired by Bauhaus and Constructivist principles.

The series established the formal vocabulary that evolved into my ongoing Broken series, where fragmentation and structural displacement become central metaphors for memory, migration, and transformation.

New York City New Bauhaus
New York City New Bauhaus

The Artist

Portrait of Roxana Gheorghe, a New York City–based visual artist whose abstract architectural photography examines migration, memory, identity, and structural transformation through geometric interventions.
Portrait of Roxana Gheorghe, a New York City–based visual artist whose abstract architectural photography examines migration, memory, identity, and structural transformation through geometric interventions.

Roxana Gheorghe is a New York City–based visual artist working in photography and digital abstraction.

Drawing on her background in engineering and her experience of migration from Bucharest to New York, she transforms photographs of urban architecture into geometric compositions that explore memory, identity, and structural change.

About
About

Recognition

Luxembourg Art Prize — Certificate of Artistic Achievement (2023, 2024)

Vienna International Photo Award — Two Medals of Honor for Outstanding Abstract Work (2021)

Tokyo International Foto Awards — Official Selection (2021)

Visual Art Open (UK) — Long-Listed Artist (2023)

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Selected Exhibitions

Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy (2025)

Biennale Chianciano, Italy (2024)

Arte Laguna Prize Exhibitions (2024–2025)

Museo d’Arte Chianciano Terme, Italy (2024–Present)

Exhibitions