Olga was born in Romania in 1975 and emigrated with her parents to the US at the age of 7. She has been conducting research on Romania's bourgeoning art scene since 2000, when she wrote her Masters for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the development of Romania's civil society through the arts. In 2011 she curated Just Another Brick in the Wall: Models for Artistic Production in Romania at the Barbara Seiler Gallery, and organized an arts policy conference, International Models for Local Solutions and The Trade Show, in Bucharest, Romania in November 2012. Her projects and writing can be found under

http://olgaistefan.wordpress.com