Ádám FARKAS

(1944, Budapest) sculptor

He graduated in sculpture from the Hungarian College of Fine Arts in 1968 and continued his studies in Paris in the following year. His teachers included Sándor Mikus, Béni Ferenczy and Emile Gilioli. He works with stone, wood and metal. He won the Munkácsy Award in 1983, the Meritorious Artist Award in 1989, the Prima Prize in 2010, the Kossuth Prize in 2016, and the Artist of the Nation title in 2022. His oeuvre exhibition was held at the Art Mill in Szentendre in 2015. His noteworthy solo exhibitions in recent years include the ones held at the M21 Gallery in Pécs (2016) and at the Kunsthalle Budapest (2024). He is a Professor Emeritus at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. His sculptures can be found in public spaces in Kolozsvár (Cluj), in Budapest’s Orczy Park and on the site of the former prison camp in Recsk, as well as in various squares, artists’ colonies and sculpture parks in France, Italy, Japan and California. Several of his works can be found in prominent collections both in Hungary and abroad.