Born in 1977 in Oradea, Romania, Mircea Cantor lives and works on Earth. A multidisciplinary artist, he explores drawing, video, sculpture, photography, and installation. Winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2011), he examines freedom, borders, and the human condition. His visual language, rich in rhythm, repetition, and symmetry, transforms everyday life into powerful metaphors. Among his major works are The Landscape is Changing (2003), in which protesters carry mirrors as placards, and Deeparture (2005), depicting a tense face-to-face encounter between a wolf and a deer in an empty gallery. He has exhibited at the Villa Medici (Rome, 2021), the Greek Theatre of Syracuse (2020), the Musée d’arts de Nantes (2019), and the Hermès Foundation in Tokyo (2018). His works are part of collections at MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Reina Sofia, and Kunsthaus Zürich. In 2019, he illustrated the season celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Paris Opera. In 2023, he collaborated with Dior. In 2025, he designed the visual identity for Saut Hermès in Paris.