Ioan Bunuș (b. 1952) studied at the Ion Andreescu Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj and taught printmaking there from 1978 to 1982. He moved to Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1982. From 1984 onwards, he spent time in Italy and France. In 1989, he worked as a visiting artist at the Usine éphémère art centre in Paris. Since 2012, he has lived and worked in a studio in Forbach, France, while also maintaining connections with Karlsruhe, Germany, and Meaux, France. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the International Triennial of Drawing in Wrocław, Poland, the International Biennale of Original Drawing in Rijeka, Croatia, and the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale. He has also held solo exhibitions in galleries across Europe, including in Karlsruhe, Ettlingen, Paris, Brussels, and Budapest, and in Tokyo.

Ioan Bunuș studied and exhibited in the creative environment of the 1970s and 80s in Oradea and emigrated to the West in 1982. Mail art was the essential artistic tool with which he kept in touch with the free world before his departure, and later, from Paris, he sent his notes to friends back home, often turning them into precious objects. Text and image, vouchers and found visual sources function on the same level in his works, each a word of a subjective message addressed to the recipient.

(Teodora Ungurean, Székely Sebestyén György)