Vita ZSOMBOR BARAKONYI:
1972
born in Budapest, Hungary
1990
High School Diploma at Szinyei Merse Pál Secondary School
1996-2001
Student of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, majoring in painting
2000
Erasmus scholarship, Camberwell College of Art, London, photography
2001
Diploma at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, MA in Painting
2002-2005
Postgraduate, DLA studies at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
2003-2005
Assistant of Foreign Connections Office at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
2005
Scholarship at the Accademia Ungherese a Roma, Rome
2007
DLA, graduate at the Doctoral School of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
Zsombor Barakonyi lives and works in Budapest and Szentendre, Hungary.
Awards:
2011
Esterházy Kunstpreis 2011 (nominee)
2011
Leopold Bloom Art Award 2011 (finalist)
2008
The MTV - Central Europian Network Hungary (3rd. Prize)
2007
The Strabag Prize – artists’ subsidy
2000
Grant for artistical designers of the company Volvo (1st. Prize
Audi: the Muse, grant for artistical designers of the company Porsche Hungária (3rd Prize)
1999
Jenő Barcsay Prize
Works in collections:
STRABAG Collection
Hungarian Telecom Collection
Porsche Hungária Collection
MTV – Central Europe Network Collection
Solo exhibitions:
2013
Five Years Selection at the National Hotel, Budapest
2012
Far Beyond the Infinite, Eötvös 10, Budapest
2011
Manual Focus, acb Gallery, Budapest /with Zbynek Sedlecky/
2010
First Step to Black&White, NextArt Gallery, Budapest
2009
Light&Magic 1999-2009, NextArt Gallery, Budapest
2008
Dogtown, NextArt Gallery, Budapest
2007
Blade and Spray, NextArt Gallery, Budapest
2005
Gallery of Edge Communications, Budapest
2004
Seven Ply, paintings on skateboards, Epreskert, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
Bed-cover Land, vol. 2, T-Com Gallery, T-Com Headquarters Building, Budapest
2003
Bed-cover Land, Epreskert,Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
Group exhibitions:
2011
Zwischenwelten, Pavelhaus, Radkersburg-Umgebung, Austria
2009
Art Vilnius ‘09, Vilnius, Lithuania
Art Cologne, New Contemporary, Köln, Germany
Amadeus exhibition, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Barcsay saloon, Budapest
2008
Summer.Next, summer exhibition in the NextArt Gallery
2007
Start Next, the first opening exhibition of Next Art Gallery, Budapest
Strabag Prize – Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2006
Les Retrouvailles 2006, Contemporary Painting in Eastern Europe, Paris
2005
Memo, Contemporary Art in Europe, acb Gallery, Budapest
EgyHetes, Hungarian contemporary art, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
2001
Klíma, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
2000
Festészet, Műcsarnok / Kunshalle, Budapest
Ericsson Art Gallery, Budapest, (with Tibor Kocsis)