Szőnyei György
(b. 1951)
György Sőnyei started his studies at the School of Store Window Display Designer and Decorator School, and later he graduated from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in 1978, in applied graphics. He has been an exhibiting artist since 1979 and lives and works in Budapest.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Négyzetek, Műcsarnok, Budapest 2023 „Stories in black”, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest
2013 „Kövesd a szemeddel”, Izraelian Cultural Institute, Budapest
2010 Jungle, Prestige Galéria, Budapest
2007 GUITARS, Színhely Gallery, Budapest
2004 „Gitárszerzemények”, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
1998 Collector of Collections, SE Studio Gallery, Budapest
1997 Drops, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1993 Fészek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1994 Drops, No. 5 Gallery, Budapest
1991 Gutenberg Cultural Centre, Budapest
1990 Galerie Calumet, Heidelberg
1986 Fractions, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
1984 Sex unter Wasser, Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest
1988 Pince Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1987 Lágymányosi Community House, Budapest
1986 Details, Studio Gallery, Budapest
1984 Sex Unter Wasser, Club of Young Artists, Budapest
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Summer Wine - Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest
2021 Symmetry with Counterpoints - Paintings from the Second Half of the '80s and the Early' 90s, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2021 TypoHungary - Typography in Hungary in the 21st century, Deák Palta (Fashion Street Gallery), Budapest, Hungary
2020 Art Market Budapest, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Bauhaus 100 Exhibitions: Hungarian Cultural Institute Paris, FUGA - Budapest Architectural Center, Pécs Gallery
2019 Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2019 Chapter I., Art + Text Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2018 Only for Adults, Exhibition of the Typoszalon Széphárom Community Space, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Dolce Geo, Art + Text Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2017 30x30, Excerpt from the Hungarian Fine Arts of the Turn of the Millennium 1985-2015, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Op art / Hommage at Vasarely, Hungarian House, Paris, France
2017 Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2016 Studio 58-89, Budapest Gallery, Budapest Hungary
2016 Op art Hommage á Vasarely, Pécsi Gallery, Hungary
2016 Initial, Eötvös Loránd University, University Library, Budapest, Hungary
2015 MET 20, Association of Hungarian Painters , Budapest,
Hungary
2015 Illuminations, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Architectural Graphics, Digital Prints, Exhibition of the Typoszalon, Viziváros Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Architectural Graphics, Digital Prints, Marcibányi Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
2015 The White, First Hungarian Spectacle Library, Tapolca-Diszel, Hungary
2015 MET 20, Society of Hungarian Painters, Széphárom Community Space, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Betűkép, Nick Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2014 LITERATURE, Exhibition of the Typoszalon, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2014 The Book Man: György Haimann 1914-2014 100, Memorial Exhibition, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Labyrinth by Maoe, Művészetmalom, Szentendre, Hungary
2014 SIGN-SIGNAL, Society of Hungarian Painters, Mazart Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013 MUSIC, Exhibition of the Typoszalon, Viziváros Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013 New Collages, Marczibányi Cultural House, Budapest, Hungary
2013 Fraction, Fuga, Budapest, Hungary
2013 Immersion in Budapest, New Budapest Gallery (opening exhibition at the Whale), Budapest, Hungary
2012 (TR!END) of Print, Széchenyi Library, Budapest, Hungary
2012 New Collages, Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2012 „White”, Bejárat Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011 DeKOR 2, Reöck House , Szeged, Hungary
2010 Gyorsuló idő, Prestige Galéria, Budapest
2010 Black Pictures 2., Palme House, Budapest, Hungary
2009 The Renaissance of the Letter, Exhibition of the MATT Company, Gödör Club Budapest, Hungary
2009 „Between”, Hungarian Post-Geometric Art III. Viziváros Gallery,
Budapest, Hungary
2007 Hungarian Design Award 2007, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Kassák 120, Kassák Museu, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Collection in the focus, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Dublin # 8 Bloomsday, Typographic Exhibition Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary
2006 Mail, Exhibition of the Typoszalon, Arany 10. Cultural Centre, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Journey, Exhibition of the Typoszalon, Kapás Street Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Salon Kogart 2005, Kogart House, Budapest, Hungary
2004 Journey, Collegium Hungaricum Vienna, Austria
2004 Silenced Holocaust, Art Gallery, Budapest
2003 Contemporary Hungarian Illustrations, Hungarian Cultural Institute Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Hungarian Illustrated Books and Illustrations, Bologna International Children's Book Fair, Bologna, Italy
2002 “Trakta”, Exhibition of Typographers, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Kogart Salon 2004, Contemporary Art Fair, KOGART House, Budapest, Hungary
2000 Intuition, Innovation, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2000 Sculpture from here and beyond, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2000 XX. National Graphic Biennale, City Art Museum, Miskolc, Hungary
2000 Contemporary Hungarian Illustrators, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
1998 Trafik, Linz-Peuerbach, and Eisenstadt, Austria
1998 Kitsch and Cult, Sándor Palace, Budapest, Hungary
1998 Exhibition of Hungarian illustrators, Frankfurt, Germany
1998 IX. National Drawing Biennale, History Museum of Nógrád, Salgótarján, Hungary
1998 Oil / Canvas, Bucharest, Romania
1998 Oil / Canvas, Mestna Gallery, Lubljana, Slovenia
1998 Oil / Canvas, Milano, Italy
1997 Diaspora (and) Art, Hungarian Jewish Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Trafik, Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary
1997 Trafik, Moravska Galerie, Brno, Slovakia
1997 Trafik, Burgerlandische Landesgalerie, Austria
1997 Oil / Canvas, Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Hommage à Gémes Péter, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Situation II., Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
1995 Situation / Hungarian Sculpture, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
1995 Contemporary Hungarian graphics from the Albertina collection, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1995 Testimonies about the line, exhibition of the Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1994 Formatted, Lajos Kassák Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1994 Prints, Nest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1994 Fine Arts of the 80s, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1992 The Stranger is Beautiful, Barcsay Hall, Budapest, Hungary
1993 Summer Prints, Fészek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1993 Formed (ART MADI), Műcsarnok, Győr, Hungary
1991 Metaphor, Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
1991 Hommage à Kandinszkij, Nest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1991 Position of the Hungarian Arts Council, Munich, Germany
1991 Flag, Nest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1991 Metaphora, Kenneshaw State College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1990 Art Coal Budapest, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria
1990 Post Geometry, G. Gerulata, Bratislava, Slovakia
1990 Contemporary Hungarian Art, Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
1990 International Painting Festival, Chateau Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur- Mer, France
1989 Budapest Belvedere, Kampfnagel Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany
1989 T.É.R., Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
1988 Young Hungarian Artists, Studio Exhibition, Warsaw, Krakow, Poland
1988 New Sensitivity, House of Hungarian Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
1988 Architecture, French Institute, Budapest, Hungary
1988 1st International Sample Triennial, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
1988 50 × 70, Fészek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1988 IV. National Drawing Biennale, Sándor Nógrádi, Museum, Salgótarján, Hungary
1987 Neue Sensibilität, Hungarian Government of the 80th century, Galerie der Stadt, Esslingen, Germany
1987 Neue Sensibilität, Ungarische Malerei der 80-er Jahre, Dortmund, Germany
1987 Post Geometry, Nest Club, Budapest, Hungary
1987 New Sensitivity IV., Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
1987 New Painting, House of Hungarian Culture, Berlin, Germany
1987 Domus Aurea, Fészek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1987 Pyramid, Zichy Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1987 Holiday, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1986 Eclecticism '85, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1985 Cellar Exhibition, Cellar Gallery (with Dezső Kiss and György Szabó), Budapest, Hungary
1985 Studio '85, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1985 Natura, Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
1985 New Sensitivity III., Budapest Gallery Lajos u., Budapest, Hungary
1984 Material, Fényes Adolf Hall, Budapest, Hungary
1984 Studio '84, Budapest International Fair, Budapest, Hungary
1983 Contemporary Hungarian graphics and drawing, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1983 Studio '83, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1983 Meeting of Young Artists, Budapest Sports Hall, Budapest, Hungary
1983 Avant-garde dies, Bercsényi College, Budapest, Hungary
1982 Transformation, Young Artists Club, Budapest, Hungary
1982 Studio '82, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
1979 Drawing, Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
1979 Textile without Textile, Club of Young Artists, Budapest, Hungary
