Vasile Toch

Vasile Toch is a Romanian architect and artist, living in Scotland since 1997. He joined the SSAA as one of the founding members.

He has been active in the fields of Art and Architecture for the last fifty years, holding managerial positions in various organisations, as follows:

- Director: Norrie Toch Studios Ltd.  1992 to present day
- Director: Arts Futures Ltd.  2024 to present day
- President: The Society of Scottish Artists, 2023 – 2024
- Director: Norrie Toch Gallery, Gullane, 1990 – 2005
- President: CBC Ltd (Scottish Urban Consortium), 1997 – 2003
- Director General: Bucharest 2000 Development Agency, Romania, 1998- 2003
- Director: The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 1994 – 1997
- Lecturer: “Duncan of Jordanstone” College of Art, Dundee, 1992 – 1997

Exhibitions

1987
Cleveland 8th International Drawing Biennale, UK (1987)

1988
Oriel Gallery, Cardiff
Derby Art Gallery, Derby
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Camden Arts Centre, London
Contemporary Art Fair, Bath
Castle Museum, Norwich
Contemporary Art Fair, YorkLyth Arts Centre, Caithness
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh

1989
4th International Contemporary Arts Fair, Olympia, London
Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Gallery,
Edinburgh Contemporary Art Fair, Bath
International Art Fair, Marlborough
Royal Scottish Academy, SAA Exhibition, Edinburgh
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

1990
The Royal Institute of British Architects, London
Business Design Centre, London Contemporary Art Fair, Bath
5th International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia, London
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh
Scotland Traquair House, Traquair, Scotland

1991
RIAS Gallery, Edinburgh
Scotland Street School, SAA Exhibition, Glasgow

1992
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Academy, Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh
Guest of the Belgian Ministry of Culture at "Frans Masereel" Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

1993
RIAS Gallery, Edinburgh

1994
Norrie Toch Gallery inaugural exhibition, Gullane, UK
Vasile Toch retrospective Pittencrieff House Museum, Guest of Dunfermline District Museums
Royal Scottish Academy, Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh, UK

1995-1997
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh, UK
Venice Biennale, Architectural Section
RIAS Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Budapest University, Hungary
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh, UK

2005 - 2011
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh, UK
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, UK
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh, UK
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh, UK
Kracow, Poland

2015 - 2022
Royal Scottish Academy, SSA, Edinburgh, UK

2023
Maclaurin Gallery, SSA, Ayr, UK

Awards

SLTN Awards, The Old Loans Inn boutique hotel, Ayrshire  (2010)
Scotland Awards, Small Hotel of the Year, for The Old Loans Inn boutique hotel, Ayrshire (2011)
Third Prize, Cleveland 8th International Drawing Biennale, (1987) 
Commendation, 2nd Romanian Architecture Biennale, (1996)
Special mention “Crea Open” Venice, (2026)

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