Anna Dumitriu

Anna Dumitriu (born 1969) is a pioneering visual artist based in Brighton, England, specialising in BioArt.

She is Artist in Residence with Modernising Medical Microbiology at The University of Oxford, and at the National Collection of Type Cultures at Public Health England.

Additionally Dumitriu holds Visiting Research Fellowship: Artist in Residence roles at The University of Hertfordshire in the Biocomputation Group in the School of Computer Science, and in Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

She was formerly a visiting research fellow: artist in residence in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics,[3] part of the School of Informatics at Sussex University between 2005 and 2014.

Her "Romantic Disease" project explores around historical and contemporary notions of Tuberculosis, whole genome sequencing of bacteria, global health and antimicrobial resistance.

Plague Dress by Anna Dumitriu, on display at the Thackray Museum of Medicine