Tamás Konok

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1930, Budapest, Hungary

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Tamás Konok at Art+Text Budapest: noir et blanc

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Tamás Konok was studying classical music and Socreal painting in

Budapest then in 1959 he emigrated to France. His studio was in the

Les Halles (old market hall) in the ever since disappeared quarter.

He integrated pieces of material from the craft workshops that were

still there and integrated fragments of wallpapers into his

collages. After the successfull debut his exhibition opened in the

parisian Galerie Lambert, he had exhibition in Washington and in the

Stedelijk Museum of Netherland. His art was cleansed by the end of

the 1960s, he produced monochrome reliefs and he started doing his

series of "Graphidions" under the influence of architectural line

network and writing image. He was commuting between Paris and Zurich

for decades, now he is living and working in Budapest.

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AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS

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1955 Young Artists' Award

1958 Gyula Derkovits Scholarship

1963 Hartford Foundation's Scholarship, New York & California (USA)

1997 Chevalier of the French Order of Civil Merit

         Award of Hungarian Painters Association

1998 Kossuth Award

2004 Commander's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit

2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, Day of Hungarian Painting Foundation

2009 Award by Kévés Studio and the Association of Hungarian

         Architects, Engineers and Artists

2009 Gundel Art Prize

2010 HUNGART Lifetime Achievement Award

2014 Artist of the Nation

2014 Prima Primissima Award

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WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (FR)

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris (FR)

Embassy of France in Budapest (HU)

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest (HU)

Kassák Museum, Budapest (HU)

Kunstmuseum, Winterthur (CH)

Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (HU)

Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (HU)

Europe Parliament, Brussels (BE)

McCoy collection, New York (USA)

Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (la donation Jeunet), Neuchâtel (CH)

Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Paris (FR)

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bern (CH)

Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)

Prèfecture, Cergy-Nouvelle Ville (FR)

Städtische Sammlung, Hamburg (DE)

Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam - Rotterdam (NL)

Walo Bürohaus, Zurich (CH)

Waser Bürohaus, Buchs (CH)

Eigenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (CH)

Museum Würzburg / Samlung Perer C. Ruppert, Würzburg (DE)

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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1960 Galerie lambert, Paris (FR)

         Club Azziza, othmana, Tunis (TN)

1961 Galerie Lambert, Paris (FR)

1962  P. H. Gallery, Washington (USA)

         Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris (FR)

         Silvan Simone Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)

1964 Haus der Begegnung, Hamburg (DE)

         Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam – Rotterdam (NL)

         Galerie loubin, Angoulême (FR)

1965 Galerie Boisserée, Cologne (DE)

         Galerie Trapez, Krefeld (DE)

1967 Galerie läubli, Zurich (CH)

1968 Kunstlichting, Rotterdam (NL)

         Centre Culturel, Hoogeveen (NL)

1969 Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Velence (IT)

         Art Museum, Austin (USA)

1971 Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam – Rotterdam (NL)

1972 Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (CH)

1973 Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (CH)

1974 Galerie Art, Basel (CH)

         Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (CH)

1977 Galerie Nouvelles Images, den Haag (NL)

         Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam – Rotterdam (NL)

         Galerie cour St-Pierre, Genf (CH)

         Galerie Numago, Auvernier (CH)

         Art 8’77 – Basel (CH)

1978 Galerie Philippe Fregnac, Paris (FR)

         Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich (DE)

         Galerie Münsterberg, Basel (CH)

1979 Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)

         Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (CH)

1980 Galerie Koppelmann, Leverkusen (DE)

         Galerie Hilger & Schmeer, Duisburg (DE)

         János Xantus Museum, Győr

1981 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

         Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich (DE)

1983 Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (CH)

1984 Galerie Perrig, Basel (CH)

         Galerie Humana, Wil

         Museum of Tihany, Tihany (HU)

         Műhely Galéria, Szentendre (HU)

         Városi Galéria, Sárospatak (HU)

1985 Galerie Boisserée, Cologne (DE)

         Galerie „E”, Montreux

         Ottó Herman Museum, Miskolc (HU)

         Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm (SE)

         Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (CH)

         Arte Fiera ’86 – Bologna (IT)

         Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (CH)

         Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm (SE)

1990 Galerie Graf & Schelble, Basel (CH)

         Városi Művészeti Múzeum, Győr (HU)

1991 Nemes Endre Múzeum, Pécs (HU)

         Kecskeméti Képtár, Kecskemét (HU)

         Vasarely Museum, Budapest (HU)

         Galerie Franka Berndt, Paris (FR)

1992 Galerie „T” – Zurich (CH)