Ferenc Gusztáv Borbély

I was born in Szigetvar ( Hungary) on 13. January 1948. In 1979 I graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Budapest. For three years I was working as a high-school teacher and later on as a university assistant.


From 1982 to 1985, as typographer and designer, I was employed by the INTERART Studio Publishing House. For one and a half years I was working as the Head of the VlPress Design Studio and at the same time I was the Art Director of the Hungarian Edition of Playboy (US) until 1993. After that in 1994, me and my wife started our own graphic design studio. I have been working here for more than 20 years.


I am also continuing my individual art. My pictures have always been related to human beings and made by offset and serigraphy technics. Throughout my carrier I have participated in several art exhibitions in Hungary and abroad as well. Additionally, I have made many study tours in France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Cuba. I speak French fluently.


SOME OF MY PIECES ARE PLACED AT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:


• in Hungary:
-Pecs - Modern Hungarian Collection -Győr - Janos Xantus Museum
-Kaposvar - Somogy Gallery
-Budapest - National Museum
-Kecskemet -Jazsef Katona Museum - and many other private co...

• 1976-1980: University of Fine Arts Budapest

• 1969-1973: University of Pécs (Teachers' training college)

Most important group exhibitions:

• 1974 Sopron, Győr (Hungary) –Sopron Town’s Price
• 1974 Bratislava (Slovakia)
• 1977 Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) - "Graphics in the Spirit of Folk Art"
• 1978 Kecskemet (Hungary) - Art Scholarship
• 1979 Kecskemet (Hungary) - Special Graphic Award
• 1984 Budapest (Hungary) - National Gallery Exhibitions
• 1984 Budapest (Hungary) - "Art Gallery"
• 1984 - "International Graphics"
• 1984 Katowice (Poland) - "International Graphics"
• 1986 Paris (France)
• 1986 Cracow (Poland) "International Graphics"
• 1988 Toronto (Canada) - "Del Bello Gallery"
• 1989 Bharat Bhava (India) "International Graphics"
• 1989 Menton (France) "International Graphics"
• 1992 Szentendre (Hungary) - "Aktagonale”
• 1994 Cypern (Cyprus) "International Graphics"
• 1995 Kaposvar (Hungary) - "International Mail Art", Kapos-Art Awards Price
• 1996 Stuttgart (Germany) - Michael Kost Gallery
• 2003 - Kiev (Ukraine), Krakow (Poland), Moskva (Russia) - Eurografic Kyiv 2003
• 2009 - Miskolc, (Hungary) Miskolc Gallery - International Graphics Triennial