EDUCATION
2018 DLA, Doctorate in Liberal Arts, Major in Fine Arts, Pecsi Tudomany Egyetem, Pecs, Hungary
2010 MFA, Studio Art Memphis Collage of Art, Memphis, TN, USA
2006 University of Eotvos Lorand, Budapest, Hungary
2001 Printmaking Degree, Obudai Muveszeti Szakiskola School of Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1998 MKE- Regional Courses in Costume and Scene Design, University of Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Bookbinding degree, Kisfaludy Tot Miklos Technical School for the Printing Industry, Budapest, Hungary
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2020 New York Critic Club, member
2013 IceHotel#25, Art team member, Kiruna, Sweden
GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS
2023 The Puffin Foundation, grant
2023 Future Art Award, 2022 from MOZAIK Philanthropy
2022 8th International Marianne Brandt Award -Experiments on a new relationship with nature Nominee
2020 Covid-19 Relief Fund, Foundation of Contemporary Arts. NYC
2019 The Print Center’s 93st Annual International Competition, The Renaissance Graphics Arts Award, Philadelphia
2019 C.O.C.A. 18 Prize Finalist Artist, Multi Task Art, Center of Contemporary Artists, Barcelona, Spain
2018 The Print Center’s 92nd Annual International Competition, Semifinalist. Jurors: José Diaz, Chief Curator, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg and Lisa Sutcliffe, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Philadelphia,
2018 Prix de Print #28 Award by the Art in Print Magazine, magazine cover feature
2017 The Print Center’s 91st Annual International Competition, Semifinalist. Jurors: Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; and Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2017 SGC International's Student and Emerging Professionals Grant
2016 Martha and Robert Fogelman Family Faculty Enrichment Competitive Fund, Memphis, travel to IceHotel, Sweden Summer Residency
2015 Juror`s Mention Award, 28th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, LA
2013 Martha and Robert Fogelman Family Faculty Enrichment Competitive Fund, Memphis, TN, travel to thePedagogical University of Krakow, Stone Lithography, Mokulito-Wood Lithography Workshop, Krakow, Poland
2012 Juror`s Mention Award, 25th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, LA
2012 Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, LA, USA-Juror Lynn Gumpert
2011 Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration presented by Metropolitan Bank–nomination, Memphis TN
2011 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, Presidential Purchase Prize
2010 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, USA Special Merit Grant, Hohenberg Scholarship
RESIDENCY
2023 The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency program, TAC
2018 Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota FL
2016 IceHotel Summer Residency, Sweden, Jukkasjärvi
2013 Pedagogical University of Krakow, Stone Lithography, Mokulito-Wood Lithography Workshop, Krakow, Poland
Selected Group Exhibitions
Upcoming:
The Boston Printmakers 2023 North American Print Biennial by our juror Elizabeth M. Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, Boston
2023 Mini Print Cantabria Collection in Castro Urdiales, Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, Spain
2023 NCOA Photography Award Contest, online
2023 “Breath” Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) MUSEUM Gimpo, South Korea
2022 Next Text, Webber Gallery, at the University of Central Florida in Ocala, FL juried by
Sheila Goloborotko
2022 International Mini Print Cantabria, Santander, Spain
2022 NEXT 2022 Biennial of Contemporary Print, PRINTHOUSTON, Houston TX
2021 International Print Triennial Krakow, Poland
2021 9th International Juried Print Exhibition, New Grounds Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM juried by Sarah Smelser
2021 Ctrl-P, Print Exhibition, Da Vinci Art Alliance and juried by Liz Spungen. DVAA, Philadelphia, PA
canceled shows by covid-19
2020 Cycles Melting ice installation, Pinecrest Garden-Cypress Hall, Miami, FL
2020 Melting Reality, ice print installation Impact11, Hong Kong
2020 Chicago Printers Guild invitational show at Parlour and Ramp, Pilsen Open Studios Chicago
2020 Multiple Ones: Contemporary Perspectives in Printmedia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL
2020 Covid 19 Art of Isolation, Online show, curated by Milagros Bello, Lieska Husband, Maura Morandi
2020 Habitus: Contemplative Manifesto at the Lufrano Intercultural Gallery at the University of North Florida, FL
2019 Chicago Printers Guild, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Fine Arts Center Gallery at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, selected by David Jones
2019 Multiple Ones: Contemporary Perspectives in Printmedia, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California
2019 Atlanta Print Biennale Curator Eun Lee, Kai Lin Art Gallery, Atlanta GA
2019 SGCI 2019-2021 Member’s Traveling Exhibition, TexChange, 2019 Juried: Jane Hammond
2019 Portfolio Exchange Project, Habitus: Contemplative Manifesto, TexChange SGCI 2019 Organize by Sheila Goloborotko
2018 4th Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking exhibition at Site:Brooklyn, New York,
2018 Impact10, Encuentro Conference, Centro de Acción Social y Cultural de Caja Cantabria Building, Other Disciplines Show, Santander, Spain
2018 2nd International Digitalart Triennial, Szekszard, Hungary, invitational
2018 Hunderton Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, Multiple Ones: Contemporary Perspectives in Printmedia, curator, Sheila Goloborotko
2018 Edging Forward: New Prints 2018/Winter Selected by Miguel A. Aragón, Natasha Becker, Pepe Coronado, Bernard Lumpkin, Jennifer Melby, and Mark Waskow, Artist talk: International Print Center New York, New York
2017 First International Print Biennale Yerevan
2017 IPCNY, International Print Center New York, New Prints 2017/Summer show, Selected by Katherine Bradford
2017 International Printmaking Triennial Miskolc, Hungary
2017 Seventh international exhibition of the MATRICES, exhibition of small form of electrographich art, K.A.S. Gallery, Budapest, Hungary -invitational curators: Eugenia Gortchakova, Germany, Dr. Eva Trojanova, Slovakia, N. Mészáros Júlia, Hungary, HAász Ágnes, Hungary
2016 New Media Show, Currents Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016 IPCNY, International Print Center New York, New Prints 2016/Winter Show, Selected by Diana Burroughs, Carl Fudge, Clare Garfield, Marie Tennyson, David Senior, Justin Sanz.
2015 KADS NY Celebrating Print 2015, Contemporary Central and Eastern European print exhibition, New York, Bohemian Hall, selected by: Mildren Beltre.
2015 1st International Digital Triennial-invitational, Szekszard, Hungary,
Curators: Agnes Haasz, Peter Baky, Eniko Gabor.
2015 Atlanta Print Biennial-Curator: Art Werger Professor at the University of Ohio
2015 57th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR-Juror: Laura Terri
2015 28th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University LA-Juror: William Pittman Andrews
2015 IPCNY, International Print Center New York, 50/50 New Prints 2015/Winter Show, Selected by Joseph Goddu, Jodi Hauptman, Jane Kent, Andrew Mockler, Carrie Pollack, Marc Schwartz, New York
2014 Art of the South, Fogelman Gallery, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2013 Atlanta Print Biennial-Curator: Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville
2013 The Story of the creative, digital exhibition, New York 2013, curator: see.me
2013 Fifth International Artist`s Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
2013 IceHotel, Print Installation at the Art Suite, Illuminated, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
2012 International Print Triennial–Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art
Gallery, Krakow, Poland: Six Jury teams from Oldenburg, Vienna, Istanbul, Falun, Katowice and Krakow-Krakow Curator Team: Endi Poskovic, Peter Ford, Robert Svoboda, Andrzej Szczerski and Katarzyna Wojtyga
2012 Art of Science, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, presented by the Rozelle Artist Guild
2012 Ali Ribelli, International Artists Collective Museo del Brigantaggio, Itri, Italy-Curator: Bissan Rafe Qasrawi, Palestine
2012 Santorini Biennial of Arts 2012, Greece Installation Category-Curators: Alexa Kusber and Rajesh Punj, London
2012 25th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University LA-Juror: Lynn Gumpert
2012 54th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR-Juror: Tom Butler
2011 Atlanta Print Biennial-Curator: Beth Grabowski, Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2011 Art of Science, St. Jude Hospital, Memphis, presented by the Rozelle Artist Guild
2010 Szegenyseg Arcai, Film, Video Festival, Budapest, Hungary
2010 Five, Thesis Exhibition, Memphis College of Art
2009 Odessa Gallery, Memphis, TN
2009 Lower Gallery, Memphis College of Art
2002 Reneszeansz Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Ujlipotvaros Pince Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2002 ARC Street Billboard Festival Budapest, Hero Square, Hungary
2001 Vajda Lajos Studio, Szentendre, Hungary
2000 Nyitott Muhely Gallery, Margaret Island, Budapest, Hungary
Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Language of Ephemera, two artist show, SPAACES, Sarasota, Fl
2021 TO THE ONES WHO CAME BEFORE US, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota
2019 Pop Up, Alfstad& Edition, Sarasota, FL
2015 Gently Expanding Universe, Memphis College of Art, Alumni Gallery, Memphis,TN
2014 Passive Control, Arkansas State University, Arkansas, Jonesboro, AR
2013 Liquid Identities, Playhouse on the Square, Memphis, TN
2012 Thaw to the Spring, Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM-two artist show
2011 Best before, Caseworks, Art Museum University of Memphis, Memphis TN
2011 Deja vu, Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, TN
2010 Clouds and River, Handmade Paper Gallery, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
2010 Rain in Memphis, Korvina, Budapest, Hungary
2010 Raindrops, Vintage Toy Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
2003 Prints, Naka-Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Green, Harajuku, Pink Cow, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Chance, Omotesando, Las Chikas, Tokyo Saloon, Tokyo, Japan
Collections
Pecsi Tudomany University, Special Collection, Pecs, Hungary
Szent Istvan Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
Private Collections in Hungary, Japan and Sydney, Australia
Ali Ribelli, International Artists Collective Museo del Brigantaggio, Itri, Italy
Santorini Biennial of Arts, Greece
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Collection of the University of North Florida Art & Design Department
University of Dallas
Publications, Featured Works and Reviews
FEATURED WORKS
· Art in Print Magazine, Volume 7 number 6, Prix de Print No.28 Article by Michael Woolworth page 42.
· Art in Print Magazine, Volume 7 number 6, Cover feature
· Live Interview with Petofi TV, -En vagyok itt. M2, Budapest Hungary. 10/02/2016 http://www.petofilive.hu/category/petofi-tv/en-vagyok-itt/#
· Art in Print Magazine, Volume 5 number 2, Patterns of Interference, 50/50: New Prints 2015/Winter IPCNY, New York, July-August, 2015, page 33.
· Sziksz, E. (2012). Screen prints on ice. Printeresing.com. Retrieved from http://printeresting.tumblr.com/post/13879010977/screenprints-on-iceotisfittoprint
REVIEWS
· Ice Hotel:
o Patterson, L. (Jan. 24, 2013). Ice, ice, baby: 10 insane art pieces made from snow and ice. Flavorwire. Retrieved from http://flavorwire.com/365621/ice-ice-baby-10-insane-art-pieces-made-from-snow-and-ice/view-all/
o Patterson, L. (Jan. 25, 2013). Melting masterpieces: Impressive works of art made from snow and ice. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/melting-masterpieces-impressive-works-of-art-made-from-snow-and-ice/272538/
o Zimmer, L. (2013). Ephemeral screen printed ice decorates a room at Sweden’s ice hotel. Inhabitat.com. Retrieved from http://inhabitat.com/ephemeral-screen-printed-ice-decorates-aroom-at-swedens-ice-hotel/eszter-sziksz-ice-hotel2/?extend=1
o Foreign Language Reviews: Stockholm Post, Madrid News
- Thaw to Spring Works
o Gertz, S. (2012). Ice capades for printers. BookTryst. Retrieved from http://www.booktryst.com/2012/04/ice-capades-for-printers.html - Los Angeles
o Hanifli, B. (April, 2012). Thaw to spring works by Eszter Sziksz and Ben Utigard. Retrieved from http://eggmanwalrus.com/thaw-to-spring-works-by-eszter-sziksz-and-ben-utigard-march-16-april-1-2012/
- DejaVu
o Fox, C. (2011). Review: Auspicious inaugural international print biennidal at Barbara Archer gallery. Arts Atlanta. Retrieved from http://eggmanwalrus.com/thaw-to-spring-works-by-eszter-sziksz-and-ben-utigard-march-16-april-1-2012/
o Haselbacher, N. (December 5, 2011). Supercool-screenprints on ice. Otis College of Art and Design-Fit to Print Printmaking. Retrieved from https://blogs.otis.edu/otisfittoprint/2011/12/05/super-cool-screenprints-on-ice/
o Thornton, G. (Dec. 2, 2011). Ghostly imagery and technical prowess at Atlanta print biennial. Burnaway.Retrieved from http://burnaway.org/ghostly-imagery-and-technical-prowess-at-atlanta-print-biennial/
o Abney, K. (Nov. 2011). At a highly anticpated new gallery show, the time honored craft of printmaking gets its due. Fine print: Jezebel Magazine. Retrieved from http://digital.modernluxury.com/publication/?i=87218&p=59
- Fejer Megyei Hirlap, Szekesfehervar, Hungary 12 August 2010
- Elle Magazine, 2008 November, Hungary
- Eskuvoi Divat, 2007/2
- Elle Magazine, 2006 December, Hungary
PUBLICATION
o Sziksz, E. (Winter, 2012). Mokulito wood lithography. Graphic Impressions: The Newsletter of SGC International. Retrieved from http://sgcinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/
©Eszter Sziksz