Vali Chincișan is a multimedia artist who explores identity, presence, and transformation through contemporary visual language.
His work has been presented at major international light and media art festivals, including Noor Festival (Riyadh), Fête des Lumières (Lyon), Festival of Lights (Berlin), Genius Loci Weimar, iMapp Bucharest, Video Mapping Festival Lille, and Chongqing International Light Art Festival (China).
He has received multiple international awards, including First Prize at 1minute Festival Tokyo, Charlotteburg Palace Award at Festival of Lights Berlin, 2x First Prize at Winter Dublin Lights, and the Audience Prize at Video Mapping Festival Lille, among others.
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2026
1minuteFestival as Anionavision, Tokyo, JAPAN
Portal, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
2025
Winter Dublin Lights, Dublin, IRELAND
Fête des Lumières, Lyon, FRANCE
Noor Festival,Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA
LightUp Festival, Iasi, ROMANIA
Festival of Lights, Berlin, GERMANY
Spotlight, Bucharest, Romania
iMapp, Bucharest, Romania
Constellations of Metz, Metz, FRANCE
Video Mapping Festival, Lille, FRANCE
2024
Chongqing International Light Art 2024, CHINA
Light Up Gwanghwamun, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Projection Mapping Special Exhibition, Tokyo, JAPAN
Spotlight Festival, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Shining Shanghai Light Festival, CHINA
Guest artist at Tokyo Lights 2024, JAPAN
2023
The Chongqing International Light Art 2023, CHINA
Dublin Winter Lights. Dublin, IRELAND
SSA Mapping, Salvador, BRASIL
1minute Festival , Tokyo, JAPAN
Genius Loci Weimar, GERMANY
Spotlight, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Cilac, Chongqing, CHINA
2022
WeLightFloripa, Floripa, BRAZIL
Mapsion Festival, Lauantaina, FINLAND
CosmoLights v.3, Kavala, GREECE
2020
ACSEE DATONG, CHINA
2019
1 Minute Projection Mapping, Odawara Castle, JAPAN
Kyiv Lights Festival, Kyiv, UKRAINE
Lightup Festival, Iasi, ROMANIA
Novi Light Sensation, Novi Ligure, ITALY
2018
SSA Mapping, Salvador, BRASIL
Art Vision – Modern, Moscow, RUSSIA
Luz y Vanguardias, Salamanca, SPAIN
Kyiv Lights Festival, Kyiv, UKRAINE
2025
Guinness World Records at Noor Riyadh Festival 2025, with The Vision Grid, for the Largest AI-processed projection mapping
First Prize @ Winter Dublin Lights, Dublin, IRELAND
Second Prize @ LIghtUp Festival, Iasi , ROMANIA
Festival of Light Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace Award, Berlin, GERMANY
Audience Prize -with the work JAZZ, Video Mapping Festival, Lille, FRANCE
2024
Bronze at Shinning Shanghai Light Festival with the work “The Soul’s Fairest Blossom,” CHINA
2023
1st prize at Dublin Winter Lights with the work Astral Pathways, Dublin, IRELAND
1st Prize at 1minute Festival with the work Ancient Link, Tokyo, JAPAN
One of the three winners at Genius Loci Weimar with the work Simetry Unveiled, Weimar, GERMANY
2022
1st prize at WeLightFloripa with the work Life is Eryfg, Floripa, BRAZIL
3rd Prize at the Mapsion Festival with the work Shards in the Self Shadow, Lauantaina, FINLAND
2019
3rd Prize at Lightup Festival with the work Hydrus, Iasi, ROMANIA
2nd Prize at Novi Light Sensation with the work Build in Travel, Novi Ligure, ITALY
2018
Special Prize of the University of Salamanca at Luz y Vanguardias with the work Urban Tree, Salamanca, SPAIN
2009
Best Romanian Film at Animest with the work Urban Tree, Bucharest, ROMANIA
2003-2005 Master in Visual Arts, Bucharest University of Arts
1999-2003 Bucharest University of Art, painting department
