ANDRÁS MENGYÁN

(Short CV)

He has born in 1945 in Békéscsaba.
In 1968 he took his degree with master grade at the Hungarian Academy of Crafts
and Design. In 1981 he won a one-year-long research scholarship by an
international competition (ACLS, American Council of Learned Societies, USA).
In 1982 he was appointed to run the newly formed Institute for Basic
Instructions at the Hungarian Academy of Crafts and Design. From 1986 to 1987 he was the
advisor of the New York Pratt Institute. From 1990 to 2006 he was the head and
professor of the Cross vocational Studies of the Norwegian Bergen State Academy
of Arts and Design (University). His task was to direct the Institute for Basic
Instruction and to teach the Form Study, Space Study and Problem solving
subjects. In 1984 he is asked by the Museum István Király (King Stephen) of
Székesfehérvár to organise a large-scale individual exhibition. With its
novelty, scale and conception the introduced multimedia environment was the
milestone within the fields of the national and international fine arts. He has
started the direction line of the computer-guided, projected, programmed
space-installation.  Next year he
was invited by the Budapest Műcsarnok to introduce his environment, which he
extended with two new elements. This was followed by exhibitions in Ankara,
Bergen and Oslo, London, New York etc. He is participant and honoured of
numerous national and international exhibitions. His works can be found in
native and foreign state and private collections. His activity introduced by
critiques, studies, reports and monographs. To acknowledge his professional
activity, in 2006 the designers prize “Dózsa Farkas András” awards him, in 2007
by Munkácsy-prize (State award), by the Architecture and Art (Kévés Gallery)
the “Prize”, and also the Hungarian Széchenyi Academy of Literature and the
Arts admits him as a member. In 2024 he received one of the most prestigious Prima
Primissima price in Hungary.  He lives and
works in Budapest.

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