István ZAKARIÁS

(1979, Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, RO) fine artist

He studied sculpture in the Lyceum of Fine Arts in Târgu Mureș, Romania. After graduating from there, he moved to Budapest and between 2001 and 2006 he was a student of painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where his master was Attila Kovács. He earned his PhD at the Doctoral School of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2011. Besides pursuing art, he is a theoretician and a cultural organiser. He has been a member of the MAMŰ Society cultural association since 2012 and its president since 2016. He has held the art scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Arts since 2024. His works can be found in the collections of the Cultural and Art Centre in Gyergyószárhegy and the Széchényi Artists’ Colony Foundation.