Cornel Vana was born in Cacova Ierii, Cluj, on 10 March 1957.

Personal exhibitions: "The Centurion of Capernaum", "Turn on the Light", "Romania framed", "On Transylvanian Paths", "Transylvanian Births", "And Sighisoara", "The Secret of Light", "Spring Concrete", "Thresholds Transylvania", "Transylvanian Reflections", "The stream under the winter sky", "Stops", "Rainbow beyond words", "People and weeds", "Weeds and people", "Summer's eyes", "Transylvanian lights", "The doll in the grass", "Reflections in the world of the Westerners"

Group exhibitions: "Biennale of contemporary art Nicolae Tonitza", "Transylvanian landscape in Transylvanian fine arts", "Seasons", "We give color to the country", "Fina arts itineraries"

Works in museum collections:

Museum of the Romanian Patriarchate, Bucharest, Casa Sturza, Vasile Pârvan Bârlad Museum, Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Gheorghe Lazar Museum in Avrig, Sibiu, Ethnographic Museum in Rimetea, Alba, Olofstrom University, Sweden, Museum "Dr. Raţiu" Arts and Crafts section Turda, National College "Mihai Viteazul" Turda, Sinaia Town Hall, Sinaia Contemporary Art Museum, Turda History Museum

"What we notice in the journey proposed by master Cornel Vana is the complexity of the compositions, the style of expression and the individuality of each work, and the symbols express the depth of the artist's thinking. With these works, the receiver enters a world different from the immediate sensibility and seeks, to the extent of his understanding, to harmonize with the ideational background proposed by the author. Cornel Vana's creation invites you to a less common journey, it is the journey of the human condition and the fact of faith. You cannot be present if you are not aware of what is happening to you. Faith remains an individual and fully assumed fact," says Gabriela Vasilescu about the artist.