Grigorescu is the creator of numerous films, photographic series, and actions recorded on film, as well as drawings and collages. His subjects include both his private life and the passage of the Romanian people from life under communism to capitalism.[1]
Personal exhibitions – selection
2013 – Trauma of the Exposed Body, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Church San Matteo, Lucca
2011 – Performing History, the Romanian Pavilion at the 54th International exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
2011 – Rome seen with the eyes / Rome invented, with Bogdan Vladuţă, workshop, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest;
Grigorescu, galeria Mitterand, Zuerich; Horse, Men Market, (personal) Friedrichshof Sammlung; Grigorescu, Enseigne des Oudin, Paris;
2010 – Oedipus The Wanderer, Gregor Podnar gallery, Berlin;[2]
2009 – The Poor people are fending for themselves Angels Gallery, Barcelona;[3]
In the Body of the Victim, retrospective Modern Art Museum Warsaw; Lili Dujourie and Ion Grigorescu, Ludlow 38, New York;[4]
Agents et Provocateurs, Dunaujvaros; Gender Check, Ludwigsmuseum Vienna
2010 – Subversive practices, Trafo, Budapest;
Promesses du Passe, Centre Pompidou;[7] 4th Biennale Berlin; Bienala Bucurestiului, Bucharest and Stockholm; Agents and Provocateurs, Hartware Medien Kunstverein, Dortmund; Romanian Art, Leipzig, Spinnerei Frieze Art Fair London
2011 – Out of Place, Tate Modern Gallery, London;[8]
Desene, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest; Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion; Ostalgia, New Museum New York;
Beeren, Wim in ”Wanderlieder” exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1991
Stiles, Kristine ”Uncorrupted Joy” in “Out of Action: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979” exhibition catalogue, MOCA, Los Angeles, 1998
Pintilie, Ileana ”Actionism in Romania during the Communist Era”, IDEA Publishing House, Cluj, 2002
Kreuger, Anders “There is no transparence or appearance” and Faria, Nuno “Deja-vu. Some notes on Paradoxes: the embodied city” in ”Paradoxes: the Embodied City”, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2005
Saxenhuber, Hedwig ”...that they mark everyday life in its depth”, in Springerin, Band XI, Heft 1 Fruejahr, Vienna, 2005
Cel ce se pedepsește singur. Stefan Bertalan, Florin Mitroi, Ion Grigorescu. Arta și România în anii 80–90, Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2009
Experiment în arta românească după 1960”- Adrian Guță, Performance art în România între 1980–1996, p. 79, Centrul Soros pentru artă contemporană, 1997
Alexandra Titu, Experimentul în arta românească după 1960, Ion Grigorescu, Editura Meridiane 2003
Ion Grigorescu, Studiul 3, Prolog, Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2009
Ion Grigorescu, Catalogul Romanian Cultural Resolution, editat de Editura Hatje Cantz, 2011;
Ion Grigorescu, Catalogue de l'exposition „Les Promesses du Passé, Centre Pompidou, 2010;
Ion Grigorescu, exhibition catalog, Ressources, with Geta Brătescu, M.N.A.C. Bucharest, 2007;
Catalogul proiectului Performing History sub forma unui supliment special al numărului 38 al revistei "IDEA artă+societate", 2011
Ion Grigorescu, exhibition catalog The poor people are fending for themselves, Angeles Gallery Barcelona, 2009;
Ion Grigorescu: In the Body of the Victim, author Marta Dziewanska, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2011