Lajos Csaky

I was born on the 22nd June 1950, in Hódmezővásárhely. Up to the age of seven I lived in the house of my maternal grandmother, Eszter Szél. Then for a short period in my early childhood I stayed with "foster-parents".
When 1957 came, my mother and I started moving from one sublet to another.
1957–1961 cover the years spent in Szekszárd where I was a pupil at an elementary school. During this period I had an average childhood with its average ranges of interest.
In 1961, together with my mother, I was back again in the Great Hungarian Plain in the city of Kecskemét. Still no change in dwellings: sublets. This was the time of my first painting attempts: on nainsook with oil!
I started the new school year of 1963/64 in the Boarding School of the Technical College for Financial Studies, Budapest. College years came. Instead of sublets, I slept in ten-person dormitories.
Some important events spanning these years: were the "Surrealistic" artists in Budapest, the scandalous exhibition in the Ernst Museum organised by the Young Artists' Studio, an exhibition of impressionism in the Museum of Fine Arts and Picasso's works in the library of the French Embassy. The artistic calling was growing rapidly.
In 1966 I returned to Kecskemét a...

1982. Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest, Hungary
1983. Fővárosi Művelődési Központ, Budapest, Hungary
1995. Istres en Provence, France
1997. Deutschland Muzeum Der Stadt, Lorch, Germany
1998. Europe Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1998. Art Expo, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
1998. Csiki-hegyek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2000. Art-East Gallery, Balatonfüred,
2000. OTP Bank Gallery (Bankcenter), Budapest, Hungary
2002. Pfister-Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007. Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
2008. Wittgenstein Ház, Wien, Austria
2012. Próféta Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016. SCH Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2019. Magyar Könyvvizsgálói Kamara Oktatási Központ Kft., Budapest, Hungary