Andriana Mereuta is a multimedia visual artist, storyteller, and educator based in New York, NY. Through her practice - creative technology, photography, teaching - she explores both vernacular and avant-garde ways to share the human story to build connection, amplify purpose, and create a better world. Her work exposes the beauty in the mundane, celebrates the ‘real’ in the human being, and continuously investigates what it means to cultivate a relationship with ourselves and others as the seed of true transformation. Her work revolves around themes about culture, identity, and human dignity, as well as self-assertion as the link between what is and what it could become.

Andriana has led storytelling programs in her native country of Moldova, Romania, Italy, and Serbia with partners from National Geographic, United Nations Development Programme Moldova, and The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Romania.

Mereuta has been conferred the Broward South Florida Cultural Consortium award through its 2020 Visual and Media Artists Program for her creativity, innovation, and sustained commitment to artistic work. Her photography work “Moldova - An Iconography of the Land and its People” was exhibited at NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale and Serbia in 2020.

In 2020, Mereuta initiated, developed, and implemented an educational initiative in Moldova called “Ambassadors of Change at Home Through the Power of Storytelling” - a one-year mentorship program for Moldovan youth (ages 14-17 years old) living in rural areas across the country. In this endeavor, she saw the opportunity to empower teens in her home country and indirectly amplify her work on Moldova through the voices of many. She raised over $25,000 in financial support through an endowment of a media grant from the US Embassy in Moldova and made a team with a local Hometown Association ‘Bastina-Sipoteni’, the United Nations Development Programme in Moldova, and two renowned National Geographic photographers, Lynn Johnson and Erika Larsen to make this project a success. The program unfolded remotely at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic for one year, for 30 students, holding weekly classes and critiques, and culminated with a 5-day in-person workshop in Sipoteni, Calarasi, Republic of Moldova. The outcome was an incredible celebration of community and cultural diversity, widespread media coverage on National Television, digital cameras to foster further development of this project through continued education and formation of local teams led by these very students, and a printed book with the work of 17 graduates, mainly female, featuring their artistic, storytelling, and photographic skill reflected in the images of their communities’ daily life, culture, and socio-economic changes implemented in their localities.

Mereuta is holds a master’s degree in professional studies in Interactive Telecommunications from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Andriana also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Commerce in the Republic of Moldova, an associate degree in photography from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a mindfulness teacher certification in awareness and compassion practices led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, a program offered by Sounds True in partnership with The University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.