Tibor Simon-Mazula

Born in 1973, Tibor Simon-Mazula completed his BA in Drawing, Visual Art and Mathematics at the University of Szeged, Hungary before going on to study filmmaking and cinematography in Budapest. In 2010 Tibor went on to San Francisco to earn his MFA in Painting and in the fall of 2013 he was named ‘Emerging Artist’ at the Academy of Art University with the reward of a distinguished two-month solo exhibition in downtown San Francisco.

In the last few years the artist has participated in several notable exhibitions across the USA. In 2015 as ’The Emerging Artist of the Bay Area’, he exhibited nine paintings at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, in Novato, California and in March that year his work was displayed in White Walls and Shooting Gallery, San Francisco together with fellow contemporary artists: M C Escher, Don Ed Hardy and Adam Lister. He was also a winner of the 2015 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Competition and was featured at SCOPE Miami Beach. Most recently his art was on display at DAX Gallery next to the works of Keith Haring, Ben Eine, D*Face and Plastic Jesus.

In his work, Tibor draws upon his background in mathematics, filmmaking, and cinematography to create crepuscular scenes, often containing solitary fi...

MFA, Painting & Drawing, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, United States (2013)

BA, Mathematics, Visual Art and Drawing, University of Szeged, Hungary (1996)

Diploma, Short Filmmaking, Szellemkép School of Art, Budapest, Hungary (2005)

Diploma, Traditional Animation, Pannonia Film Studio, Budapest, Hungary (2003)

Courses, Multimedia: Layout design and character animation, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA, United States (2015-16)

Courses, Garden and Open Space Design, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary (1991-92)

Workshop
Hands-On Intensive 4-Week Filmmaking Workshop, New York Film Academy, Budapest, Hungary (2007)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

September 16, 2017
Recollection,
Next Art Gallery,
Budapest, Hungary

January 15, 2016
Seriously Cool
Munkacsy M Museum
Bekescsaba, Hungary

Nov 14 - Dec 14, 2015
Dawning
Shooting Gallery
San Francisco, CA, United States

May 8 - Aug 1, 2015
Moments
Kabuki Art Gallery at Sundance Cinemas,
Japantown, San Francisco, CA, United States

January 15 - February 15, 2014
Paintings by Tibor Simon-Mazula
Cannery Suite 104 Gallery
San Francisco, CA, United States

Oct ober1 - December 1, 2013
Fidelity
Atelier Gallery / 79 New Montgomery
San Francisco, CA, United States

March, 2013
Moments of San Francisco
Woodside Priory School
Portola Valley, CA, United States

May1-15, 2012
Impressions
Vesuvio Bar
San Francisco, CA, United States

Apr 1 - 15, 2012
Cityscapes
Vesuvio Bar
San Francisco, CA, United States

Dec 1 - 15, 2011
Blue
Fireside Bar
San Francisco, CA, US

January 1-15, 2011
Eszmélet/Consciousness
Lencsési Community House
Békéscsaba, Hungary

Selected Group exhibitions

April, 2016
Big Show
Linus Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Dec 1 - 6, 2015
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series
MIAMI SCOPE
Miami Beach, FL, United States

October 30, 2015...