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Ágnes Eperjesi

Personal data

Name: Ágnes Eperjesi
Born 1964, Budapest, Hungary
E-mail: eper@c3.hu
Tel: +36 1-212-6786

Education

1991:            MFA Degree
1990:            Master Course of photography and typography, Academy of Applied Arts
1989:            Minerva Academy, Groningen, Holland
1986:            Academy of Applied Arts, Budapest, Visual Communication Department

Grants

2007:            Residency at El Basilisco in Buenos Aires
2006:            Eötvös Scholarship, residency in New York
2005:            Eötvös Scholarship, residency in New York
2004:            Scholarship of Budapest City Council in Salzburg
2000:            Scholarship of Hungarian Academy in Rome
1998:            ArtsLink, USA
1998:            Derkovits Scholarship
                      In & Out of Touch, London
1996:            KulturKontakt, Wienna
1992-1995:            Pécsi József Scholarship
1992:            Eötvös Foundation

Awards

2008:
XVI. Photobiennial, Esztergom - Grand Prize

2000:
Novacom Telecommunication Prize
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1995:
Budapest City Council

1991:
Ministry of Culture (with Tibor Várnagy)

Publications

2008:
Private Protest, edition of 4, numbered and signed (12 x 20 cm, color, 168 pages, hand bound)

2007:
Timbre Azul, 36 color pencil drawings, unique

2006:
Water-Book – edition 3, plexiglas, plastic bag, water
Family Album, ofset, ed. 260 numbered and signed

2004:
Family Album – edition 28, numbered and signed (26 x 35,5 cm, 18 pages, 52 original C-print, hand-bound)
Busy Hands - Things to do inside and outside of the house artist book, edition of 2, numbered and signed
(21 x 23 cm, color, 98 pages, hand bound and slip cased, C print and tile included)

2003:
Recycled pictures 1999-2003. - (21 x 23 cm, color catalog)

2001:
Busy hands (A/5, color, 148 pages, hand bound and slip cased, C print on plexiglass or tile included ) edition of 3, numbered and signed

1998:
Still Life (A/5, color catalogue)

1996:
Lichtguss mit Sauglingen (A/4, Xerox, transparent)

1995:
Omens (with Tibor Várnagy, A/4, 76 p., hard cover, offset)

1992:
Ein Buch (with Tibor Várnagy, A/5, 64p., Japanese binding, offset)

1991:
Tavate`s woven pictures (with Tibor Várnagy, catalogue)

Works in public collections

Foundation for Modern Art, Duna̼újváros, Hungary
Szent István Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Goethe Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Obala Center of Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Austrian Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Photomuseum, Kecskem̩t, Hungary
National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Staadtliche Galerie, Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
MEO - Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest, Hungary
Gallery of Miskolc, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miskolc, Hungary

Solo shows

2010:
These, Fuga, Budapest

2009:
There will always be more fresh loundry, Hungarian House of Photography, Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary
Nothing beyond Colors, Nessim Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Small Prayer, King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

2008:
Private Protest, Labor, Budapest, Hungary

2006:
Irreversible Process, Vintage Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Ős Kaján Restaurant, Tolcsva, Hungary
Family Album, PhotoWest Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Recycled Images, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, USA

2004:
Family Plans, Millenáris Kerengő, Budapest, Hungary
Family Album, Van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Slices of Self-portraits, kArton Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Is He the One?, Vintage Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Compilation Europe - Galerie am Hauptplatz, Hainburg, Austria

2002:
The Gentle Art of Making Food, kArton Gallery, Budapest, Hunagry
Full Plates, Vintage Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Busy Hands, Fotofest, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA

2000:
Busy Hands, Vintage Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Weekly Menu, Vintage Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1999:
Palais Jalta, Frankfurt, Germany
Fruitful Fruits - Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, USA

1998:
Still life - Bolt Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1996:
Newborns - Óbudai Társaskör, Budapest, Hungary

1995:
Omens und Kommentar - Goethe Institute, Budapest (with Tibor Vánagy)

1994:
Baked pictures and Mandala - Szegedi Ifjúsági Ház, Szeged, Hungary

1993:
Der Kern einer Ausstellung - Künstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany (with Tibor Várnagy)
Przeplatane zdjecia Tavate - Mala Gallery, Warsawa, Poland (with Tibor Várnagy)

1992:
Seedy exhibition - Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (with Tibor Várnagy)

1991:
Weather - Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Selected group shows

2009:
t.error - your fear is an external object – Hungarian Cultural Center, New York

2008: 
XVI. Photobiennial – Esztergom
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Ungarn - Neuer Berliner Kunsverein, Berlin, Germany
Time Print - Hungarian Cultural Institute, Brussels
From the Icon to the Installation – Pannonhalma Abbey
Open Space – workshop exhibition, Deák Collection, Székesfehérvár

2007:
Light-box – Videospace Gallery, Budapest
Light – Volksbank Gallery, Budapest
Not For Thought Alone – DUMBO Arts Festival, New York
Living Color – Vasarely Museum, Budapest
Paraíso Imaginário – Encontro Internacional de Fotografia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Open studio – El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lost and Found – MODEM, Debrecen
Ohne HOrt – Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany
Ohne HOrt – Thüringer Museum Stadtschloss, Eisenach, Germany

2006:
Lost and Found – Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Fotogramme – Künstlerhaus, Wien, Austria
Domestic Goods – AIR. Gallery, New York
Plastic – Museum of Ethnography, Budapest
Narratíva – St. Stephen King's Museum, Székesfehérvár
Hazai javak – 2B Gallery, Budapest

2005:
Önarcképek – 2B galéria
Hungarian Contemporary Art – Millenium Museum, Beijing, China
Ne(a)t – Kogart, Budapest

2004:
Soap Opera – Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

2003:
Gravitation – Moszkva square, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2002:
Kvízió – Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Display – Loop House Gallery, San Cesario di Lecce, Italy
Hand, Medium, Körper, Technik – Stadtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
Unfolded box 2. – Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Trakta – Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2001:
Ungarische Kunst Heute – Leverkusen, Germany
Léger différé – Centre d'Art Contemporain, Séte, France
Cream – MEO Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest
Documentum 5. – Mai Mano Gallery, Budapest

2000:
Big Torino 2000 – International Biennial of Young Creativity - Torino, Italy
Day by day – Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Up to you – Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1999:
XXL – Trafo, Budapest
Unfolded box – Ernst Museum, Budapest
Young Portfolio – Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan

1998:
Transition – Espace Flon, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Spaces, Cleveland, USA
Observatorium – Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Warsawa, Poland

1997:
Chimaera – Staadtliche Galerie, Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
Sic! – Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest

1996:
Knoll Gallery, Budapest

1995:
Hungarian Days in Hamburg – Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
Unversehen –Austria Tabakwerke, Linz, Austria
Through the glass – Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1993:
Polifónia – SCCA Budapest (With V.T.)

1992:
Lady in enzian blau – Budapest / Bonn, Frauen Museum, Bonn

1991:
New Spaces in Photography – Muzeum Architektury, Wroclaw, Poland

1990:
2nd Internationale Photobiennale –Paris, France
Photographie de l'Est – Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Schnelle Bilder-Aktuelle Fotokunst im Gesprach – Künstlerhaus, Wien, Austria
Fotoanarchív – Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Warsawa, Poland

1989:
Junge Ungarische Fotografen – Galerie Pumpe, Berlin, Germany
Más-kép – Ernst Museum, Budapest