Agnes Toth

Dichotomy is the main feature of my practice; my work is equally precise and detailed, but also fractured, unfinished and deconstructed. A type of manipulation, where the painting is abstract and realistic at the same time. My aim is to be able to create anything within the framework of painting, to find a path where there are no constrains and limitations in terms of representation.
In my paintings appearance of the contrast between existing and invisible is linked to the conceptual matters of nature, existence and human cognition. The standard set of rules are dissolved by the fragments and the partial forms, layers. The shapes develop organically, as observed in nature.
My area of research is slow processes, private spaces, human behaviour, existence, incompleteness, reconstruction, fragmentation, reinterpretation and denial.

University College Falmouth
MA Fine Art Contemporary Practice

Academy of Fine Arts - MA Painting Budapest

2013
BP Portrait Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
London Design Festival, Southbank Centre, London
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
New York Design Week, Lazerian Gerald, New York

2012
Zabludowicz Collection, Jack Goldhill Painting Prize, London
Stephan Stumpf Gallery, Figurative Malerei, Munich
London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Gallery, Cork Street, Islington, London
Apocalypse Now, Galerie Marzia Frozen, Berlin
The Door Prize, For Painting, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
Stephan Stumpf Gallery, The Dance with the Devil and the Idyll of Fate Show, Munich

2011
Dvorak Sec Gallery, No Borders Appeal to Heaven, Prague
Hungarian Painters, National Gallery, Budapest
Promenade Project, Kogart House, Budapest
Hungarian Artists Collective, Potenza, Italy

2010
158th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West Academy, Bristol
MA Fine Art Show, University College Falmouth, Falmouth
Cork Street Open Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London
Italian Cultural Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Italian Cultural Institute, Vienna, Austria
Real Art Show, London
4th International Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Arsenale, Venice

2009
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London

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