Jozsef Szurcsik

József Szurcsik was born in Budapest in 1959. He completed his studies at
the Hungarian College of Fine Arts 1981-1988. Szurcsik received strong artistic imp-
ressions from his family, his father is a painter, his mother prepares gobelin tapestry.
He has been active as an artist from an early age, and has had exhibitions
regularly since the mid-eighties both in and outside Hungary.
Being a creative and significant artist of his generation, Szurcsik prepares etchings, lithographs, oil and acrylic paintings and shapeing canvases, painted wood and steel sculptures and installations. Between 1986-1990 he performed with "Art Reaktor", his own art-musical ensemble. He has made several art performances since 1993.
Beside his activities as an artist, he was 2006-2009 the head of the Visual Art Faculty of the Eszterhazy Karoly College in Eger, and later 2014- 2016 he was the Vice-rector of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
His symbolic human portrays – a recurring element of his art up to the present – are antropomorphous depictions of objects and edifices.
Szurcsik's art is characterized by the surrealistic fusion of man and his or her material environment in a unique manner, and through these relations ...

Awards:
1981 LP Cover of the Year - Hungarian Record Publishing Co.
1985 Kondor Béla Commemorative Medal, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
1986 LP Cover of the Year - Hungarian Record Publishing Co.
1987 Le Surréalisme, 15' Salon International, Silver Prize, Revin, France
1988-90 Derkovits-scholarship
1991 First Prize of the 15th Miskolc Graphics Biennale, Miskolc
1992 First Prize of the4th International Cairo Biennale
1993 Prize of the 40th Vásárhely Autumn Art Exhibition, Hódmezővásárhely
1994 Scholarship, Hungarian Ministry of Culture, Rome, Italy
Scholarship of the Bavarian Government, Munchen, Germany
1997 Munkácsy -award, Hungary
The Masters of Graphic Arts, 4th International Graphics Biennale award
1998 Magyar Aszfalt Ltd., Hungarian Competition of Painters, II. prize, Hungary
2000 Prize of the 20th Miskolc Graphics Biennale, Miskolc
2001 Prize of the BEIJ- Japan
2014 Scholarship of Budapest City – in Lisbon

Significant International Group Exhibitions:
1986 13 Unkarilsaista Taiteiljaa, Taidekesus Maltinranta, Tampere, Finland
1987 Unkarin Tasavallan Suurlahetystön Kultuuri ja Taidekesus, Helsinki,
Finland
Kansainvalinen Nuorten taidegrafiikan Triennalli, Phjamaan
Musseossa, Vaasan Talidehalissa, Tikanojan
Taidekodessa,Vaasa, Finland
Le Surréalisme, 15 Salon International, Revin, France
1988 Wegiersjka Sztuka Mlodych, Centrum Sztuki, Warsawa, Poland
1989 Britain Salutes Hungary, Barbican Centre, London, England
1990 Grafiektentoonstelling van Hongaarse Kunstenaars
Academisch Genotschap, Eindhoven, Nederlands
Lieblings Bilder 68 elf Földerverein junger Kunst, Köln, Germany
1991 19. Mednarodni Graficni Bienale, Moderna Galerija,
Ljubljana,Yugoslavia
Art Contemporain le Création en Europe autour de la Premiére Paris
1992 Flirt mit dem Comic - Herz Tv und UFOs, Internationale Ausstellung,
Köln, Germany
Hungarian Art Today, Contemporary Printmakers, Ivan
Dougherty Gallery, Pad...