About
ISTVÁN NYÁRI has finished his university studies as a graphic designer at the Hungarian University of Applied Arts in 1977. He has been working as a fine artist since 1978.
He lived in New York between 1986 and 1990, Brussels from 2005 to 2007 and since then he has been working in Budapest, London, Amsterdam. His work has been presented at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Hungary, Belgium, Czech Republic, United States, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and form part of many national and international collections.
His paintings have been widely published in art magazines and studies about art appear in publications both in Europe and in the United States.
Nyári considers himself as a pop-surrealist artist.
Membership:
1982 Association of Fine and Applied Artist of Hungary
Awards:
2021 Prima regional Price
2009 Mihaly Munkacsy Price
Solo exhibitions:
2021 David Kovats Gallery, London
2017 Beauty & Beast, NextArt Gallery, Budapest
2016 Gallery kArton, Budapest
2013 Gallery Virág Judit, Budapest
2008 Gallery White, Budapest
2007 Gallery White, Budapest
2006 Gallery White, Budapest
2004 MEO – Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest
2003 Gallery Galamb, Budapest
2001 Gallery XO, Budapest
1999 Gallery XO, Budapest
1996 Gallery Vigadó, Budapest
1994 Gallery Várfok, Budapest
1992 Museum Istvan Király, Székesfehérvár
1991 Gallery Dorottya. Budapest
1985 Gallery Liget, Budapest
1976 Young Artists’ Club, Budapest
Selected group exhibitions
2023 Fine Art Hungary-”Az év műtárgya 2023”-Balatonfőldvári kilátó Gallery
2022 “Szintézis” 2022-Belvárosi Művészeti Napok, Széphárom, Budapest
2021 K-Gallery, “Jelenlét”, Budapest
2015 “Fresh”, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2014 Gallery Kápolna, Kecskemét
2013 “Deadly Nature” – Modem, Debrecen
2011 “Mexico Sinestro”, Resistance Gallery London
2011 BP Portrait Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery
2011 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery London
2010 “The most colourful summer”, BUMBUM, Budapest
2009 Selected works of contemporary and classical artists. BUMBUM, Budapest
2008 Gallery White, Budapest
2007 Gallery White, Budapest
2006 “One for All and All for One” , Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2006 “Hommage á Márai Sándor”, Home Gallery, Budapest
2005 “Oracle of Truth”, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2005 “Playtime” , Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2003 “Távoli közelség”, Museum of Fine Art, Olmütz, Czech Republic
2003 “A Mikulás is ember”, MEO – Collection of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2002 “Örökölt realizmus”, Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely
2002 KunstZurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2001 “Szobrászaton innen és túl”, Kunsthalle, Budapest
“Krém”, MEO- Collection of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2000 KunstZurich, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 “Olaj/Vászon”, Kunsthalle, Budapest
“Diaszpóra (És) Art”, Dohany St. Synagogue, Budapest
1996 “Helyzet-kép”, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1995 “Art of 80s”, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1993 “Nueva Pittura del Este”, Galeria del Arte Detursa, Madrid, Spain
Works In Public Collections:
Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely
Vak Bottyán Múzeum, Vác
István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár
Csók István Képtár, Székesfehérvár
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Fine Art Collection of Synagogue,Budapest
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Selected Bibliography:
Emporio. Tercer volumen. LA Santa Cultural Visual, Barcelona, Spain 2009
Szemethy, Orsi. Borzalmak kis keltetogepe – Gondolatok Nyari Istvan munkairol, Art Magazin 2008/3
Lóska, L: Virtuális hiperrealizmus. Új müvészet, 2005/1
Lóska, L: Tény-kép. Magyar festészet 1960-1990. (Fact-image. Hungarian Fine Art, 1960-1990)
Istvány Nyári – Harminc év munkái. (Istvan Nyari – Works of thirty year ), 2004 Benedek Mari Bt. , Budapest
Lóska, L: Képzőművészeti az ezredfordulón. (Fine Art at the beginning of a new millennium), Új forrás, 2001/6
Das tier in der zeitgenössichen kunst, 2001, Zurich, Switzerland
Készman, J.: Bevezető Nyári István katalogusához. (Introduction to István Nyári`s catalogue), 2001
Sasvari, E.: Képzeljünk el egy olyan szituáciot… (Let`s imagine such a situation.) Catalogue of Istvan Nyari, XO Gallery, 2001
Wehner T.: Egy rózsaszál szebben beszél (A rose would say it nicely). Új müvészet, 1997 January