Orshi Drozdik
(b. 1946)
© Carla van de Puttelaar
Orshi (Orsolya) Drozdik is a Hungarian-born visual artist resident in New York, who was not only one of the defining figures of Hungarian conceptual art in the 1970s but is also an outstanding exponent of international feminist art, a trend that came to the fore in the 1980s. In her works the human body is a reappearing motif and often it can be the medium too. With the concept of using her own body Drozdik is examining the relations to the traditional female role model that appears in physical and psychic spaces and that is fixed in academic discourse. Orshi Drozdik’s figures and shapes are rendered indistinct through the act of erasure. They simultaneously reflect on presence and disappearance, on completeness and absence, on recognisability and unrecognisability, on physicality and sensuality, on freedom, and on the
image of female identity in her own times.
STUDIES
2015 Member of SZIMA, Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Habilitation, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2004 DLA program, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
1974–77 MA Program, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1972–74 Department of Graphics, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary (Professor Károly Raszler)
1970–72 Department of Painting, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary (Professor Szilárd Iván)
1964–68 Visual Arts and Hungarian Language majors, Teacher Training College, The University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2003 Munkácsy Mihály State Art Award, Hungary
2003 Landis & Gyr Foundation grant, Zug, Switzerland
2001 The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation scholarship, New York, USA
1995 New York Foundation for the Arts, Women Photographers Catalog Project, New York, USA
1994 Austrian Ministry of Culture fellowship, Vienna, Austria
1993 CAVA, Career Advancement of Visual Artists fellowship, Miami, FL, USA
1993 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York, USA
1991 Cartier Foundation Fellowship, Paris, France
1990 The Gordon Matta-Clark Trust fellowship, New York, USA
1990 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York, USA
1985 Prince Bernhard Foundation fellowship, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1978 Stipend of the Young Artist’s Studio, Budapest
1976 Kondor Béla Award of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
WORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Hungarian National Gallery, Contemporary Collection, Budapest, Hungary
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Municipal Picture Gallery ‒ Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Art Gallery, Paks, Hungary
Art Gallery, Sárospatak, Hungary
Hermann Ottó Museum, Miskolc, Hungary
Janus Pannonius Museum – Gallery of Modern Hungarian Art, Pécs, Hungary
Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Muzej na sovremenata umetnost │ Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia
The New School, Vera List Center, New York, USA
Barbara Schwartz Collection, New York, USA
Bill Arning Collection, New York, USA
Bob’s Art, Robert J. Shiffler Collection, Greenville, OH, USA
Cornelia Grassi Collection, Milan, Italy (today London, UK)
Don and Mira Rubel Collection, New York, USA
Sandra Gering Collection, New York, USA
Walter Sudol and Steven Johnson Collection, New York, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Verbund Collection, Vienna, Austria
Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, Switzerland
And in other private collections in New York, the USA and Europe.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
2005–15 Professor, Painting Department, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
2006 Visiting Artist, Department of Fine Arts, University of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
2003‒04 Visiting Artist, ETH, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 Lecturer, Central European University, Gender Department, Budapest, Hungary
1994–95 Visiting Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
1994 Visiting Lecturer, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
1991–93 Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts Department, New York University, New York, USA
1991 Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
1990 Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Department, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, USA
1989‒90 Artist-in-residence, Sculpture Department, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Orshi Drozdik - Paintings and Drawings From the Early 80s (4 Maj 2023 - 31 Maj 2023)
2022 Blink and Sigh: I am a Photograph (1977), Pornography (1978), Individual Mythology (1975‒77), one-person exhibition with Einspach Fine Art &
Photography Budapest, Paris Photo, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
(November 10‒13, 2022)
2022 Manufacturing The Self: Pathological Normal (1985‒1995) and Edith Simpson (1986), one-person exhibition with Einspach Fine Art & Photography Budapest, Frieze Masters 2022, The Regent's Park, London (October 12‒16, 2022)
2022 The Photograph and The Love Poem (Curated by Lili Boros PhD), Hungarian House of Photography ‒ Mai Manó House, Budapest (August 30 ‒ October 9, 2022)
2021 Orshi Drozdik Paintings and Drawings. New works made in the Gallery of A.P.A. and older works. A.P.A. Gallery, Ateliers Pro Arts Art Center, Budapest, September 3‒10, 2021.
2019 O.D.F.A.M. Orshi Drozdik Feminist Art Museum, Knoll Galerie, Vienna, Austria (September 17 – November 16, 2019)
2019 Sexual Mythology 1982, A.P.A., Ateliers Pro Arts Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (June 2—28, Mid-Summer Night Disco, June 24, 2019)
2018 FreeDance, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary (December 7, 2018 – January 20, 2019)
2018 Cell Paintings, A.P.A. Ateliers Pro Arts Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (October 15 – November 30, 1918)
2018 Sensuality and Matter, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (September 29 – November 11, 2018)
2015/16 Individual Mythology: FreeDance, Bajor Gizi Actors’ Museum, National Museum and Institute of Theatre, Budapest, Hungary (September 19, 2015 – January 31, 2016)
2015 Medical Venus, Erythrocytes, Semmelweis Museum of Medical History, Budapest, Hungary (October 2 – November 10, 2015)
2015 Stripes II (performance), Fészek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (October 13, 2015)
2015 It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, FLUX gallery, Budapest, Hungary (October 1 – October 14, 2015)
At the opening: It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, performance
2015 Stripes à la Sol LeWitt (painting performance with musical accompaniment by Krisztina Megyeri ‘s composition, Hohes Ufer II, 2014, and recital by Bíborka Bocskor), Here and Now exhibition,Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary (May 19, 2015)
2014 Individual Mythology: Play It Again, Drozdik (performance), 10th Language, Ideology, Media: Gender/Sexuality Relations in Hungary Conference, Faculty of Humanities, the University of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary (September 19, 2014)
2014 Orsolya Drozdik: Individual Mythology (NEO-ROSE VI – Subchapters from the first Chapter of Hungarian Conceptual Art), Neon Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (April 10 – May 6, 2014)
2014 Individual Mythology: Play It Again, Drozdik, Dance on the Blades of Memories (A revised version of the 1976 performance with an exhibition of photographs, slides and videos), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary (March 19, 2014)
2013 It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (October 2 –November 27, 2013)
2011/12 The Other Venus (Retrospective exhibition. A thematic selection from works made between 1975–2011), MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary (October 8, 2011 – January 8, 2012)
2009/10 Un Chandelier Maria Theresa (installation), Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary (December 3, 2009 – January 24, 2010)
2007 Venuses, Draperies and Folds of the Body, Budapest Gallery – Budapest Exhibition Space, Budapest, Hungary (February 22 – March 25, 2007)
2006/07 Lipstick Paintings à la Fontana, A.P.A. Ateliers Pro Arts Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (December 10, 2006 – January 21, 2007)
2004 Folds of the Body (Open Atelier), Landis & Gyr Kulturstiftung, Zug, Switzerland (April 23—24, 2004)
2004 My Life as an 18th Century Scientist, Collegium Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (March 31 – June 10, 2004)
2004 Individual Mythology – Medical Venus – Young and Beautiful, The Art Gallery of the City Museum, Győr, Hungary (January 17 – March 15, 2004)
2003 Strast za prisvajanjem │ Passion after Appropriation, retrospective exhibition, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti │ Museum of Contemporary Art (March 27 – April 20, 2003) and Umjetnički paviljon │ Kunsthalle (March 27 – April 27), Zagreb, Croatia
2001/02 Drozdik Orshi Retrospective Exhibition, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary (December 12, 2001 – March 3, 2002)
2001 Objects II (1996–2000) = My Mother’s Porcelain Figurines, Knoll Galerie, Vienna, Austria (September 12 – November 17, 2001)
2001 Objects I (1996–2000) = My Mother’s Porcelain Figurines, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (January 25 – March 31, 2001)
1997 My Mother, Erzsébet Kockás’s Strudel (performance, video within the exhibition series, Cherchez la Femme), Szombathely Art Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary (June 16, 1977)
1997 Oshi Ohashi: Young and Beautiful, Confident Cosmetic Line, Goethe Institute, Budapest, Hungary (April 9—30, 1997, as an opening event of the series of exhibitions and conferences entitledLeiblicher Logos, organized by Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest)
1996 Manufacturing the Self: Body Self, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
1995 Le Corps pathologique │ Manufacturing the Self: The Pathological Body, La Salle Blanche, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France (March 18 – May 21, 1995)
1994 Manufacturing the Self: Medical Erotic, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA (November 4 – December 23, 1994)
1994 Manufacturing the Self: Body Self, Knoll Galerie, Vienna, Austria (September 14 – November 19, 1994)
1994 Manufacturing the Self: Body Self, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland (April 15 – May 27, 1994)
1994 Adventure in Technos Dystopium: Dystopium Infinite, Photographs from 1984–1994, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, USA (March 8 – April 9, 1994)
1993 Manufacturing the Self: Convent, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France; Manufacturing the Self: Medical Erotic, Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Herblay, France (September 24 – November 20, 1993)
1993 Manufacturing the Self: The Nineteen-Century Self, Time and Tide: The Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain (June 18 – September 5, 1993, curated by Corinne Diserens)
1993 Manufacturing the Self: Medical Erotic, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA (May 8 – June 26, 1993)
1992/93 Manufacturing the Self: Brains on High Heels, The Boundary Rider, 9. Sydney Biennale (December 15, 1992 – March 14, 1993, curated by Anthony Bond), Sydney, Australia
1992 Science Fictions: One Decade’s Work with Science (two-person exhibition with Jon Tower), Orshi Drozdik: Adventure in Technos Dystopium, 1988–90, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (February 28 – April 18, 1992)
1991 Cynical Reason III (in the framework of Beelden in de Koepel, a series of solo exhibitions by five artists organized in 1990–91, curated by Anneke Oele), Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, The Netherlands (April 20 – June 2, 1991)
1990 Cynical Reason II, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, USA (November 10 –December 10, 1990)
1990 Cynical Reason I, Knoll Galerie, Vienna, Austria (September 12 – November 10, 1990)
1990 Adventure in Technos Dystopium (Originally titled, The Shoes, the Bean and the Airplane), Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary (August 17 – September 16, 1990)
1990 Fragmenta Naturae, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA (February 2—24, 1990)
1989 Morbid Conditions II, Galerie Arch, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (October 21 – November 18, 1989)
1989 Morbid Conditions I, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA (February 10 – March 11, 1989)
1988 Adventure in Technos Dystopium: Popular Natural Philosophy II, CEPA (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, today: Contemporary Photography and Visual Arts Center) Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA (November 5 – December 23, 1988)
1988 Adventure in Technos Dystopium: Popular Natural Philosophy I, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA (February 13 – March 12, 1988)
1986 Adventure in Technos Dystopium: Dystopium Infinite, Art Salon DeFacto (530 West 25th Street NYC), New York, USA (December 3—31, 1986)
1986 Orshi Drozdik & Robert Younger, Art Salon DeFacto, New York, USA (March 12 – April 12, 1986)
1985 Biological Metaphors IV, Galerie Suspect, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (March 17 – April 6, 1985)
1984 Biological Metaphors II, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada (September 25 – October 20, 1984)
1984 Biological Metaphors I, Óbuda Gallery (Zichy Palace), Budapest, Hungary (July 23 – September 16, 1984)
1981 Hijacking a Shadow, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (January 28 – February 14, 1981)
1981 Diavision – Dialogue Sculpture II (performance with Patrick McGrath), Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada (January 3, 1981)
1980 Diavision – Dialogue Sculpture I (performance and video with Patrick McGrath), Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
1980 Diverted Diagonal (performance, video), Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
1980 Double (video), Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1980 I Try to Be Transparent (to Art History), performance, Factory 77, Toronto, Canada (November 22, 1980)
1979 Transparencies (installation), Pulp Press Building, Vancouver, Canada
1979 Pornography III (performance), Open Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1979 Pornography II (performance), Open Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1978 Pornography I (performance), Open Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1978 Exhibition of works (object, action) by Orsolya Drozdik and László Herczeg, Youth Club of MOM Szakasits Árpád Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary (May 31, 1978)
1978 GlassBreaking, performance at the opening of Ernő Tolvaly and László Herczeg’s exhibition, International Students’ Club, Budapest, Hungary (May 4, 1978)
1978 Exhibition of works by Orsolya Drozdik, Regional Cultural Center, Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary
1978 Individual Mythology, Art Gallery of the József Attila Library, Miskolc, Hungary (March 9 – April 8, 1978)
1977 Exhibition of works by Orsolya Drozdik, Bercsényi Club, Budapest, Hungary (May 3—8, 1977)
1977 Situation (video and performance), Rózsa Café, Budapest, Hungary
1977 Commonplace Symbols (offset series), Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1977 Individual Mythology III (performance), Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1977 Be Happy Until 10 (boat excursion on the River Danube, happening as the closing event of the exhibition and dance party organized at the Ganz-MÁVAG Cultural Center), Budapest, Hungary (May 29, 1977)
1977 Individual Mythology (dance performance with a slide show), Rose Dance exhibition, Ganz-MÁVAG Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary (May 28, 1977)
1977 NudeModel (performance, photographic series), Young Artists’ Club, Budapest, Hungary (January 4—10, 1977)
1977 Two-person exhibition with Róbert Kőnig, Hatvani Gallery, Cultural Center, Hatvan, Hungary
1976 Commonplace Symbols (photographic series), Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1976 Individual Mythology II (performance), Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1976 Individual Mythology, Cage (performance), Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1976 Situation, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1975 Individual Mythology I (performance), Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1975 Identification, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Offscreen (one-person exhibition with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), Grand Garage Haussmann, Paris, France
2022 Paris Photo (one-person exhibition with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
2022 Frieze Masters 2022 (one-person exhibition with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), The Regent's Park, London (12 ‒ 16 October, 2022)
2022 Art Market Budapest (with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), Bálna, Budapest, Hungary
2021‒22 Female Sensibility. Feminist Avant-Garde from the Sammlung Verbund, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (2021/22); MSUV: Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia (2022); Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Photo Festival, Arles, France (2022)
2021/22 Discipline and Perform, MAMCO Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 The Paper Side of Art: From Leonardo to Miró. Spellbound by 150 Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings, Michelangelo Hall, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
2021 Setting a Model: Pictorial Constructions of the Human Body, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2021 Art Market Budapest (one-person show with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), Bálna, Budapest
2020‒22 Time Machine. A New Selection from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Ludwig Museum ‒ Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Paris Photo (one-person exhibition with Einspach Fine Art & Photography,
Budapest), Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
2022 Frieze Masters 2022 (one-person exhibition with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), The Regent's Park, London (12 ‒ 16 October, 2022)
2022 Art Market Budapest (with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), Bálna, Budapest
2021‒22 Female Sensibility. Feminist Avant-Garde from the Sammlung Verbund, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (2021/22); MSUV: Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia (2022); Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Photo Festival, Arles, France (2022)
2021/22 Discipline and Perform, MAMCO Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 The Paper Side of Art: From Leonardo to Miró. Spellbound by 150 Years of
Collecting Prints and Drawings, Michelangelo Hall, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
2021 Setting a Model: Pictorial Constructions of the Human Body, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2021 Art Market Budapest (one-person show with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), Bálna, Budapest
2020‒22 Time Machine. A New Selection from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Ludwig Museum ‒ Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2020 Art Market Budapest / Art Photo Budapest (with Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest), Millenáris, Budapest
2020 Visual Dialectics. The Medium of Photography in Hungarian Art 1970‒2000. Works from the collection of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany (Curator: Zsuzsanna Petró)
2020 Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Works from the Verbund Collection, Vienna, ICP, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2019/20 The Medea Insurrection. Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain (Curator: Susanne Altmann), The Wende Museum, Culver City, CA, USA
2019 Tecniche d’Evasione │ Evasion Techniques (Curated by Giuseppe Garrera, József Készman, Viktória Popovics, and Sebastiano Triulzi), Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2019 Paris Photo (with Art+Text Budapest Gallery), Grand Palais, Paris, France
2019 Vienna Contemporary (with Knoll Galerie), Marx Halle, Vienna, Austria
2019 Art Market Budapest (with Knoll Galerie), Millenaris Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2019 1989, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018/19 The Medea Insurrection. Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain (Curator: Susanne Altmann), Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany
2018 Women on Paper (Curator: Nadine Gandy), EAC: Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans‑Sartoux, France
2018 Left Performance Histories (Curators: Judit Bodor, Adam Czirak, Astrid Hackel, Beata Hock, Andrej Mircev, and Angelica Richter), nGbk: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2016 Vienna Contemporary (with Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia), Vienna, Austria
2015 East Side Paintings (1960‒1990) ‒ Orshi Drozdik, Alva Hajn, Július Koller, Zorka Ságlová ‒, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 Here and Now (Curator: Júlia N. Mészáros), Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Art Brussels (with Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia), Brussels, Belgium
2014 Art Cologne (with Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia), Cologne, Germany
2014 Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module (Curators: Vít Havránek, Dóra Hegyi, and Georg Schöllhammer, tranzit.org), The New Museum, New York, USA
2013/14 Budapest Immersion (Curators: Gábor Andrási, Péter Fitz, and Tamás Török), New Budapest Gallery – Bálna, Budapest Hungary
2013 Conceptual Art Today – Conceptual Art in Hungary from the Early 1990s (Curator: Erzsébet Tatai), Art Gallery, Paks, Hungary
2013 Ars Aevi Collection in Progress 1993—2003 for the Contemporary Art Museum in Sarajevo.Arsenale di Venezia, Tesa 105, Venice, Italy
2013 SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine (Curator: Nina Czegledy), Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Art Fair Vienna (with Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia), Vienna, Austria
2013 Re.act.feminism – Performance Art of the 1960s and 70s Today, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2012/13 Re.act.feminism – Performance Art of the 1960s and 70s Today, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
2012 SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine (Curator: Nina Czegledy), UTAC, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2012 New Acquisitions of the Municipal Picture Gallery: Continuation, Municipal Picture Gallery / Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2012 Re.act.feminism – Performance Art of the 1960s and 70s Today, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdańsk, Poland; Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia; Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark; Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia
2011/12 Re.act.feminism – Performance Art of the 1960s and 70s Today, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain
2011 The New Arrivals. 8 Contemporary Artists from Hungary (Curator: Péter Forgács), BOZAR – Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium
2010 On Paper, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest
2009/10 Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe (Curator: Bojana Pejić),Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria; Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Les Femmes Parlent, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Parallel Chronologies. The Invisible History of Exhibitions ‒ documentary and research exhibition, Labor, Budapest
2009 Tolerance in Art – 100 Slovak and 100 Hungarian Contemporary Artists (Curators: Júlia N. Mészáros, M. Horváthová, and D. Srnenská), Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava-Čunovo, Slovakia
2008/09 Re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute │ Performance Art of the 1960s and 70s Today, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Galerija Vzigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
2007/08 1‒2‒3 The Collection in Focus, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2007/08 ARTINACT – A Selection from the Art Gallery of Paks Collection, Art Gallery, Paks, Hungary
2007 International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale: Knocking on the Door, Incheon Culture & Arts Center, Incheon, South Korea
2006/07 Speaking of Others: Tranzit, Auditorium, Stage, Backstage – An Exposure in 32 Acts, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 NECC – A selection from the photos, videos and installations of contemporary women artists living and working in Hungary and Eastern Europe, KOGART, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Works on the Edge – A New Selection of the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, No. 1, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2003 6th Exhibition of the Recipients of National Art Awards, Olof Palme House, Budapest, Hungary
2001 Oggetti, Corpi e Organi ‒ Orshi Drozdik, Eloisa Gobbo, Katalin Káldi (Curator: Raffaele Gavarro), Hungarian Academy in Rome: Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome, Italy
2001 Digitized Bodies – Virtual Spectacles (Curator: Nina Czegledy), Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2000 Intimate Perceptions, part of the project, Digitized Bodies – Virtual Spectacles (Curator: Nina Czegledy), InterAccess Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000 “The Second Sex” – Women’s Art in Hungary 1960–2000 (Curator: Katalin Keserü), Ernst Museum, Budapest
2000 La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore ‒ Construction of Identities (Curator: Lóránd Hegyi), National Gallery, Prague, The Czech Republic
1999 La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore – Konstruktion der Identitäten (Curator: Lóránd Hegyi), Museum Moderner Kunst – Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
1999 Rondo – A Selection of Works by Central and Eastern European Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art – Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1999 Objects, Bodies, Landscapes, Hungarian Academy in Rome: Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome, Italy
1998 Rózsa Presszó 1976‒1998 │ Café Rose 1976‒1998, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1998 Sarajevo 2000. Schenkungen von Künstlern für ein neues Museum in Sarajevo │ Donations by Artists for a New Museum in Sarajevo (Curator: Lóránd Hegyi), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria
1997 Body (Curator: Anthony Bond), The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1997 SUPERmarkt, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
1996 Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1996 Nature, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, USA
1996 3 x 3 From Hungary, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
1996 Segments, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
1995–97 This End Up: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler, organized by The Wyoming Art Museum and the Robert J. Shiffler Collection, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, 1995; travelling to The South Dakota Art Museum, Brooking, SD; The Arvada Center of the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, CO; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
1995 1995 Exhibition, Career Advancement of Visual Artists – Orshi Drozdik, Michelle Luke, Quing-Min Meng ‒, NFAA: National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, New York, USA
1995 Europe: Creation & Re-Creation (Leading curator: Katalin Keserü), Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest
1994 São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
1994 The Eighties – Visual Art (Curator: Katalin Keserü), Ernst Museum, Budapest
1994 Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1994 Don't Look Now (Curator: Joshua Decter), Thread Waxing Space (476 Broadway, New York, NY), New York, USA
1993 GATE 12. An exhibition of Hungarian-American Contemporary Art, Hungarian Consulate, New York, USA
1993 Summer Exhibition, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, USA
1993 The Nature of Science, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, N.Y.; The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1993 Healing, Wooster Gardens Gallery, New York, USA
1993 Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
1992 INFORMATIONSDIENST │ INFORMATION SERVICE, Galerie Schmitz, Kassel; Ausstellungsraum, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; Galerie Kubinski, Cologne, Germany
1992 BRAIN: Internal Affairs (Curators: Suzanne Oxenaar and Guda Stoop), Beatrixziekenhuis (Beatrix Hospital), Gorinchem, The Netherlands
1991/92 Abstraction / Distraction ‒ Belag, Borysewicz, Cheng, Drozdik, Kent, Letitia, Works of the 18th and 19th centuries ‒, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, USA
1991 Group Show, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1991 Physical Relief, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, USA
1991 The Interrupted Life (Curator: France Morin), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1991 Anni Novanta │ The Eighties (Curator: Renato Barilli), Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna; Musei Comunali, Rimini; Ex colonia "Le Navi", Cattolica, Italy
1991 Aan elkaar grenzen │ Neighbourhood (Curator: Christiaan Bastiaans), AIR – Stichting Artists International Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991 The Body, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL, USA
1990/91 The Technological Muse (Curator: Susan Fillin-Yeh), Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA
1990 Group show, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
1990 About Nature: A Romantic Impulse, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, USA
1990 Memory/Reality, NYFAI: New York Feminist Art Institute, Ceres Gallery, New York, USA
1990 The Collectors’ Cabinet, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA
1990 Natural History Recreated (Curator: Ellen Levy), The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, USA
1990 Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
1990 Body. Once Removed, Sorkin Gallery, New York, USA
1990 Orshi Drozdik, Thomas Hartlauer, Thomas Locher, János Sugár, Knoll Gallery, Budapest
1990 A l'ouest, rien de nouveau ? │ All Quiet on the Western Front? (Curators: Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo), Galerie Antoine Candau, Espace Dieu, Paris, France
1990 Tierra Encantada, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, USA
1989/90 Art About AIDS, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
1989 Science, Alternative Museum, New York, USA
1989 P.B.: Works on Lead, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1989 A Different View ‒ Experimental Photography in Hungary in the Past Twenty Years, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1989 Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos (Curator: Laura Trippi), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1989 Suzan Etkin, Lydia Dona, Orshi Drozdik, Grechen Faust, Eve Laramée, Kiki Smith, Seton Smith, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA
1989 A Good Read: The Book as Metaphor, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, USA
1989 Science/Technology/Abstraction: Art at the End of the Decade (Curator: Barry A. Rosenberg),Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
1989 Artist Use Artist – Orshi Drozdik, Eric Montoya, Ron Rocco, Kiki Smith, Robin Winters ‒,Experimental Glass Workshop, New York, USA
1988 Rhona Bitner, Debby Davis, Orshi Drozdik, Lewis Stein, Milford Gallery, New York, USA
1988 Retrospection – Millie Burns, Orsolya Drozdik, John Maggiotto, Gerald Weinstein, Charles Wright ‒, Art in General, New York, USA
1988 BODY, an exhibition of the “Ocean Earth Construction & Development Corporation”, American Fine Arts, Co. – Colin de Land Fine Art, New York, USA
1988 Group Show, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA
1987 Metaphysics ‒ Armleder, Beuys, Bleckner, Boulton, Broodthaers, Drozdik, Dupuy, Grey, Jones & Ginzel, Kubota, Laffoley, L. Miller, Montano, Ono, Samaras ‒, Piezo Electric, New York, USA owner Doug Milford Clinton St. 29
1987 New Acquisitions in the Amsterdam Art Collection, Gemeente Koop, ARTI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986/87 Exhibition of Hungarian artists from Győr-Sopron County, Regional Museum of Konin, Konin, Poland
1986 UMAMA Dance Music Poetry Arts Manifestation September 1986 (An exhibition of UMAMA: Universal Moving Artists), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986 Group Show, ABC No Rio, New York, USA
1985 Group Show, Printed Matter, New York, USA
1985 Pagoda, Mo David Gallery, New York, USA
1985 Group Show, El Bohio Gallery, New York, USA
1985 Greetings from NYC, Colab Postcard project, New York, USA
1984/85 A. More Store, Colab project, Jack Tilton Gallery (57th Street), New York, USA
1984/85 A. More Store, Colab project, Printed Matter, New York, USA
1984 Eastern Europe, El Bohio Gallery, New York, USA
1984 Fashion Show, Drozdik Brain Dress for fashion show, Sophie VDT (producer), New York, USA
1984 Talk is Cheap, Colab street poster exhibition project, New York, USA
1984 Women Expressionists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
1984 Women Up Front, C.U.A.N.D.O., New York, USA
1984 Three Installations. Tony Monahan, Steven Donegan, Orsolya Drozdik (Biological Metaphors III), Art in General, New York, USA
1984 Nancy Burson, Douglas Davis, Orsolya Drozdik, Nancy Dwyer, Alex Hahn, Les Levine, Paulette Nenner, Rena Small, Bob Smith, Night Gallery, New York, USA
1983 Group show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
1983 Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
1983 Benefit Party for Nicaragua, Colab project, Danceteria, New York, USA
1983 Colab project, Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY, USA
1983 Current Memories: Painters Who Use Their Dreams, Small Walls, New York, USA
1983 Colab project, White Columns, New York; Studio 54, New York, USA
1983 The Ritz Project, a joint project by Colab (Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York) and W.P.A. (Washington Project for the Arts), The Ritz Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA
1983 SITUATION. The Seventies at the Sárospatak Art Gallery, Exhibition House of the Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1982 Arteder ’82, Feria Internacional de Bilbao │ International Exhibition Center, Bilbao, Spain
1982 Open Studios, Church Street Studio, New York, USA
1981 Donated Artworks (1980–1981), Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia
1981 2nd International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan
1980 8th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Cracow, Poland
1980 7th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
1979 Young Contemporary Hungarian Painters and Graphic Artists, Hungarian Cultural Days, INTERVERZA, Hamburg, Germany
1979 New Acquisitions, Gallery of the Herman Ottó Museum, Miskolc, Hungary
1979 13th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1979 Three-Dimensional Creation – Object Formation: Borderline Cases, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1978/79 Hungarian Graphic Arts – A Selection from the 1977 Hungarian Biennale of Graphic Arts, Miskolc,State Library, Berlin; "Hans Marchwitza" Cultural House, Potsdam, The German Democratic Republic
1978/79 Studio 58–78. The Studio of Young Artists’ Jubilee Exhibition (Curators: István Dévényi and Dezső Váli), Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1978 Le Studio de Budapest – within the 89th Salon des Indépendants of the French Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France
1978 7th International Print Biennale – Cracow, The Palace of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland
1978 Intergrafia 78 – International Biennial of Graphic Arts, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Katowice, Poland
1977 9th National Biennial of Graphic Arts, Art Gallery, Miskolc, Hungary
1977 Exhibition of graphic arts, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1977 International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
1977 Studio 77, Annual Exhibition of the Young Artists Studio, Csók István Art Gallery, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
1977 Studio Junger Künstler – Budapest │ Young Artists Studio, Stadtsparkasse, Duisburg, The Federal Republic of Germany
1977 Young Artists Studio, Cultural Centre, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1977 Drawing Biennial, Wrocław, Poland
1977 Rose Dance ‒ an exhibition, dance party, events, actions and performances by members of the “Café Rose” Group, Ganz-MÁVAG Factory Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary (8 p.m. May 28 – 10 a.m. May 29, 1977)
1976/77 Exhibitions, happenings and performances with artists of the “Rose Circle”, Café Rose (Rózsa presszó), Budapest, Hungary
1976 A Selection of Works by Hungarian Artists, Leipzig, The German Democratic Republic
1975 Hungarian Graphic Arts and Small Sculptures, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna, Austria
1973 What Happened Over the Past Twenty Years – The Jubilee Exhibition of the Visual Arts Circle of Győr, Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Győr, Hungary
1965 Exhibition of the Visual Arts Circle of Győr, Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Győr, Hungary
1963 9th Helicon Festival: Exhibition of Transdanubian High-school Students, Balaton Museum, Keszthely, Hungary (Award)
1963 Exhibition of the Awardees of the Photography and Fine Arts Competition of Győr-Sopron County,Műcsarnok / Palace of Art, Győr, Hungary
1961 Exhibition of the Awardees of the Fine Arts Competition of Győr-Sopron County, Jókai Cultural Center, Győr, Hungary
