József SZURCSIK

(1959, Budapest) fine artist

He graduated in reproductive graphic art from the Hungarian College of Fine Arts in 1985. He is a fine artist, painter and gr aphic artist. As a graphic artist, he has made illustrations as well as album and book covers. Besides autonomous drawings, he has worked with various reproductive graphic techniques. In addition to his acrylic and oil-on-canvas panel paintings, his oeuvre contains canvases marked by great plasticity as well as steel sculptures and installations, while he also had art performances and regularly performs with his bands. He received the Munkácsy Award in 1997, the Graphic Artwork of the Year Award in 2006 and the title of Meritorious Artist of Hungary in 2023. In recent years, he has had solo exhibitions in Belgrade, Szolnok, Vác, Budapest, Kecskemét and Rome. He was the curator of the Artonomy – II. National Salon of Fine Arts in 2020. His works can be found in the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery, the Ottó Herman Museum, the Ferenczy Museum, the Municipal Gallery of Győr, the Janus Pannonius Museum and the Ignác Tragor Museum.