Horea Avram is an art critic, media theorist and independent curator. He researches and writes about art and visual culture in relationship with media technology. PhD in Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Cinema and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

He has contributed to: Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, (Oxford University Press, 2014), Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline (New York: Routledge, 2013), Encyclopedia of the imaginaries in Romania. (Iaşi: Polirom, 2020). He is the author of Negotiable perspective. Essays and Commentaries on Contemporary Artistic Practices. Bucharest: Eikon Press, 2021.

He was research fellow of the New Europe College Institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences, 2017-2018.

Member of various professional associations such as: NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, International Society for Intermedial Studies (ISIS), The Union of Visual Artists (UAP), Romania. Member and past president of the AFCN Council – Administration of the National Cultural Fund, Romania. President of the International Association of Art Critics - AICA Romania.

Independent curator since 1996. Curator for Romania at the Venice Biennale 1999.