About The Artist

CONTACT artist.mata@gmail.com Facebook: attila mata sculptor view my portfolio on issuu.com phone: +36 30 389 48 75 BIOGRAPHY 06/02/1953 Born in Eger, Hungary 1977-1983 Studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, his master: Tamás Vígh 1981 Member of the Hungarian People’s Republic Fine Arts Foundation 1986 Member of the Young Artists Studio 1988 Member of the Artists Association 1993-1994 Secretary of the Sculpture Section, Artists Association 1995-1997 President of the Hungarian Sculpture Society 2006 One of the foundation members of the Morph Group 2018 Member of the Matéria Art Association EXHIBITIONS GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1985 ’40 Creative Years’, Hall of Art, Budapest (H) 1987 ’Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst aus Ungarn’, Galerie der Künstler, München (D) 1987 10th Small Sculpture Biennial, Pécs (H) 1988 ’Junge Künstler aus der DDR und Ungarn’, Rostock (D) 1988 Studio Exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest (H) 1989 ’Kunst heute in Ungarn’, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen (D) 1990 ’Art of the 80s’, Ernst Museum, Budapest (H) 1992 ’Acht Ungarn’, Neue Galerie, Graz (A) 1994 Small Sculpture Exhibition, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest (H) 1997 ’Woman’, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest (H) 1998 ’Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ost- und Südosteuropa’, Stadthaus, Ulm (D) 1999 Hungarian-American Exhibition, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (H) 2000 ’With Art into the New Millennium’, contemporary sculpture exhibition, City Park, Budapest (H) 2001 American-Hungarian Exhibition, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia (USA) 2004 Salon d’Automne, Paris (F) 2005 Salon d’Automne, Paris (F) 2005 ’Grounds for Sculpture’, Hamilton, New Jersey (USA) 2006 ’The Road 1956-2006’, Hall of Art, Budapest (H) 2007 ’Ungarisches Accent’, exhibition of the Morph Group, Hungarian Embassy, Berlin (D) 2007 Exhibition of the Morph Group, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna (A) 2008 ’A Selection from the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery’, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (H) 2009 Day of Painting, Zikkurat Gallery, Budapest (H) 2009 ’New Works in the KOGART Contemporary Collection’, Budapest (H) 2010 Exhibition of the Morph Group, REÖK (Regional Arts Center), Szeged (H) 2011 Exhibition of the Morph Group, Contemporary Art Center, Moscow (RUS) 2011 ’Without Borders’, Contemporary Croatian Sculpture + Hungarian Reflections, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (H) 2015 Quadriannale Modern Art Gallery, Pécs (H) 2015 Hall of Art, Budapest (H) 2016 Modern Art Gallery, Veszprém (H) 2016 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing (China) 2017 Summer Exhibition, REÖK (Regional Arts Center), Szeged (H) 2018 ’Lyrical Abstraction’, Agora Gallery, New York, New York (USA) 2018 Artexpo New York, New York (USA) 2018 Onishi Gallery, New York, New York (USA) 2018 Spectrum Miami, Miami (USA) 2018 Morph Exhibition, Hall of Art (H) 2018 Matéria Art Assiciation Exhibition, Vaszary Art Gallery, Kaposvár (H) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1986 Újpest Gallery, Budapest (H) 1986 Óbuda Cellar Gallery, Budapest (H) 1989 Ulmisches Theater, Ulm (D) 1989 Cellar Gallery, Pécs (H) 1991 Künstler Bahnhof Gallerie, Darmstadt (D) 1992 Duna Gallery with Attila Orbán, Budapest (H) 1994 Hall of Art, Budapest (H) 1997 Vigadó Gallery, Budapest (H) 2001 Tower Gallery, Budapest (H) 2001 Art’otel, Budapest (H) 2002 Vadnai Gallery, Budapest (H) 2006 Grand Hotel, Budapest (H) 2006 Erdős Renée House, Budapest (H) 2006 Skoda Éva Gallery with El Kazovskij, Budapest (H) 2006 Ráday Gallery, Budapest (H) 2007 Mono Gallery, Budapest (H) 2007 Vienna Art Fair, Wien (A) 2008 Bartók 32. Gallery, Budapest (H) 2009 Art Salon, Budapest (H) AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 1986-1989 Derkovits Scholarship 1987 Derkovits Award 1987 First prize, 10th National Small Sculpture Biennial, Pécs (H) 1992 Munkácsy Prize 1993 Third prize, 13th National Small Sculpture Biennial, Pécs (H) 2009 HUNGART Scholarship WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Sphinx (1985) King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (H) Acrobat (1985) Modern Art Gallery, Pécs (H) Mr Artist (1985) Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs (H) Passport (1986) Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen (D) Desire (1987) Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (H) Tower-Nosed (1987) Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (H) Heilig (1988) Edwin Scharf Museum, Neu-Ulm (D) Langer Kopf (1988) Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen (D) Alchemist (1992) Edwin Scharf Museum, Neu-Ulm (D) Double Figure (1994) Edwin Scharf Museum, Neu-Ulm (D) Double Figure (1996) Data System, Ettlingen (D) WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Vass Collection, Budapest (H) Manfred Lindinger Collection, Wörth (D) Körmendi-Csák Collection, Budapest (H) Deschler Collection, Ulm (D) Szecskai Collection, Budapest (H)