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Andrea Dezsö

Biography

Born in Transylvania, lives and works in New York City

Education

1996
MFA in Visual Communication, Hungarian University of Design, Budapest, Hungary

1994
BFA in Graphic Design & Typography, Hungarian University of Design, Budapest, Hungary

1992
Certificate Course in Computing & Design Management, Middlesex University, London, UK

Public Art

2007
Between Worlds, a 645 sq. foot painted mural at the Balassi Institute in Budapest, Hungary

2006
Community Garden, a 30’x 7’ mosaic in the Bedford Park Blvd subway station in NYC commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit, New York City

Selected Exhibitions

2008
Artists Book Program at BravinLee programs, Chelsea New York

2007
New York, New York, New York show, with Flux Factory
Pulse Art Fair with BravinLee programs Miami FL
"Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful” at BravinLee programs, Chelsea New York
“Pricked” Radical Embroidery, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
Secret Clubhouse collaborative art project with Flux Factory and the Believer magazine
“Between Worlds” 60 m2 painted mural at Balassi Intezet, Budapest, Hungary
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany “n/ostalgia” show
Project Diversity Queens
Ten Years Running DT faculty and alumni show at the Chelsea Art Museum
LIC NY show, with FLux Factory at Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC NY
Andrea Dezsö: My Country, Hungarian Cultural Center NY (Village Voice Best in Show)

2006
A Night of Adult Toys AIGA Gallery San Francisco
Andrea Dezsö: Small Works, Lehman Gallery, Bronx, NY
Opolis, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York (Village Voice Best in Show)
Flux Factory Auction & Gala, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, NY
The New York Armory Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Bronx-Bound: MTA Public Art in the Bronx, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2005
Galapagos Gallery, Williamsbug Art Festival
Blab Show, Copro-Nason Gallery at Bergamot Station Track 16, Santa Monica CA
Stitched: Art, Design, Craft, Baltimore Broadcloth at G-Spot, Baltimore, MD
What The Book, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York and Bard College, NY
Alt. Fiber: Reclaiming Art/Craft, Assembly Gallery, Cleveland OH
Andrea Dezsö: Tales From Serbia at O3ONE Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
The New York Armory Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Jack Tilton Gallery, The History of the Jack Tilton Gallery group show, New York
Art Basel Miami Beach International Art Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

2004
Art Basel Miami Beach International Art Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
“Sharing Dreams”, 6th International Digital Art Salon and Colloquium, Havana Cuba
Comix Fluxture, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York
The New York Armory Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

2003
Art Basel Miami Beach International Art Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

1999
Jack Tilton Gallery, "Women" show New York

1998
Jack Tilton Gallery, (with Jun-Fey Ji and Randy Wray) New York

1997
Club of Young Artists, Black Gallery, solo show, Budapest, Hungary

1996
Arte Fierra Art Fair Bologna, Italy

1995
House of Hungarian Culture, show of Hungarian artist’s books, Prague, Czech Republic,
Vigado Galeria, "Confessions About the Line", national drawing show, Budapest, Hungary
Gallerie Pont Neuf,showing the work of 8 Hungarian Book Artists, Paris, France
"Envoice", Association of Women Artists, Auckland, New Zealand
Collegium Hungaricum, (with Sandor Racmolnar and Monika Kaszta), Wienna, Austria
State of the Art national sculpture show, Mucsarnok Palace of Art Budapest, Hungary

1994
Nagoya University of Art, Nagoya, Japan

Fellowships, Awards and Artist Residencies

2008
The Jerusalem-New York Artist Exchange awarded by the JCC New York
The Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY
Parsons Faculty Development Grant for The Demon Bridegroom

2007
Six Points Fellowship in the Visual Arts
New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowship in Drawing and Artist’s Books

2006
Parsons Faculty Development Grant

2005
Ucross Foundation’s Lois N. Gill Award For Female Visual Artist of Exceptional Merit
Ucross Foundation Artist in Residence

2004
Winner of the MTA Arts For Transit subway mosaic competition for Bedford Park Blvd.
Virginia Center for the Arts Fellowship for fiction writing

2002
Certificate of Excellence awarded by Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual

2000 Artist in Residence, Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 2000

1997-98
Artist in Residence, Center for Book Arts, New York

1996
Hungarian State Grant awarded by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture

1994
Fellowship of the Hungarian Republic Republic for outstanding academic achievement
Book Art Fellowship and Residency, Kultur Kontakt, Horn, Austria
Heltay Gaspar Typography Award for artist’s book The Tinderbox, Budapest, Hungary

1992
Tempus Fellowship in Computer & Interactive Art, Middlesex University, London, UK
Fellowship of the Hungarian Republic for outstanding academic achievement

Presentations and Lectures

2008
Columbia College Chicago artist talk
Museum of Arts & Design, The Embroidered Word: A Reading and Art-Book Presentation

2007
Stony Brook University, Art Department artist talk
Southeastern College Art Conference artist talk
International art/scholarly project on post communist nostalgia in Zanka, Hungary

2006
Andrea Dezsö: Small Works at Lehman Gallery to high school and college art students
The Publikum Calendar Art Project at Parsons, Design & Technology Department
Bronx High School for the Visual Arts, artist talk and workshop

2005
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, artist talk and workshop

2004
WPS1 Art Radio, read from recently published fiction Mamushka
Cooper Hewitt National Design Institute’s Summer Design Institute Play to Learn

Press

2008
Andrea Dinoto: Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, American Craft magazine, January
Lorna Mansley: Paper Landscapes, All, Shanghai-based Art magazine, January

2007
Andrea Dezsö: On Making Art for McSweeney's, NYFA Current, December
Karen Rosenberg: Needling More Than The Feminist Consciousness, The New York Times, Dec 28
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery Exhibition Catalog, Museum of Arts & Design New York
Leslie Camhi: Let’s Get Stitched, The Village Voice, November 20th 2007
Nothing Magazine interview and feature, November 2007
Roja Heidarpur: Art as a Bitter Pill, Coated with Sweetener, The New York Times, June 5th
Andrea Dezsö: Bronx Cheer, Print magazine, September
Peggy Roalf: Not Your Grandma’s Embroidery, Design Arts Daily, November
Duna TV Hungary Kikötö Cultural Show
Duna TV Hungary Duna Ter Cultural Show
RTL Club Hungary TV Reggeli Morning Show
R. C. Baker: Best In Show, Village Voice, March 22nd
Andrea Dezsö: Uncensored Embroideries, interview and feature Graphic Issue 11, June
Peter Furrier: Close to The Earth, Fire, Water, The Room, Hungary
Design Matters with Debbie Millman live radio show
Lukacs Zsolt: Magyar Muvesz a New Yorki Metroban, Marie Claire Hungary July issue
Tódor Zsófia: Kontinenseket összekötő kiállítás New Yorkban, Magyar Hirlap, Hungary

2006
Danielle Sonnenberg: Picture Perfect South Beach, TheStreet.com, Dec 5th
R. C. Baker: Best In Show, Village Voice, July 20
Terry Lee Stone: Made in Serbia: Publikum Calendars of New Art, Step, Nov/Dec
Heather Fletcher: Bronx Bound, Art Given a College Platform, NY Daily News, Feb 03

2005
Andrea Dezsö: Tales From Serbia, Documentary Film, FIA Publishing, Belgrade, Serbia
James Gaddy: The Serbian Calendar, Print magazine, 2005 Nov/Dec
Publikum Kalendar ‘06 in B92 Kultura, Belgrade, Serbia
Autorka Calendara Andrea Dezso: Politika, page 16, Nov 15 2005, Belgrade, Serbia
Americke Price Iz Srbije, Blic, page 18, Nov 15, 2005, Belgrade, Serbia
Alice Ockleshaw: Stitched, Reclaiming Art, Design, Craft, The Urbanite Magazine
Juxtapoz Magazine on Blabshow at Copro-Nason Gallery in Santa Monica, CA
Chloe Wilkins: Zero to Superhero, NY Arts Magazine Sept 2005

2004
David Carr: Building A One Man Magazine, New York Times, Nov 2004
Lisa Selin: Font of Knowledge, Metropolis magazine, October 2004

2003
Parsons School of Design BFA Catalog, Digital Design Department Featured Faculty

2002
Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual, New York Region
Adobe Partners in Design Web Profile
Steven Heller, Teresa Fernandez: Becoming a Graphic Designer, Wiley & Sons, 2002

1999-01
Lexicon of Contemporary Hungarian Artists, Volume 1, Enciklopedia Publisher, Hungary

1999
Joyce Rutter Kaye: Page in the Life, Print Magazine, 1999 Jan/Feb

Collections

The Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, 2 My Mother claimed... embroideries
The outsider and visionary art collection of Mickey and Janice Cartin, US
5 one-of-a-kind artist’s books including The Prayer book of the Queen
The collection of Susan and Leonard Feinstein, USA, 4 untitled one-of-a-kind artist’s boxes
University of New Mexico, Tamarind Institute, Alien Beauty, a set of 12 lithographs
University of Chicago, Regenstein Library, US, The Tinderbox, artist’s book
Temple University, Philadelphia, Paley Library, US, The Tinderbox, artist’s book
University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, The Tinderbox, artist’s book
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Sun, Moon, one-of-a-kind artist’s book
Hungarian University of Design, Budapest, Hungary, The Tinderbox, artist’s book
The book-art collection of Tony Kurz, Horn, Austria, The Tinderbox, artist’s book
The collection of Bunny and Jeff Dell, US, Eye Book, one-of-a-kind book, 3 obsessive drawings
The collection of Oscar Castellon, US, Frog, Rubber Accident and Tall Foreheads embroidered drawings, 2 Manocs color pencil drawings, 2 kaleidoscope drawings, 1 untitled one-of-a-kind artist’s box
The collection of Craig Platt, US, Airplane Book, one-of-a-kind artist’s book
The collection of Andrew Stohl, US, Alien Child drawing
The collection of Dana Gramp, US, Female Cold and Men suffer embroideries
The collection of Benjamin Nathelson, US, a series of drawings and 1 artist’s book
The collection of Joseph Steffan, Mother’s Day paper cutout, Green Garden digital print
The Collection of Debbie Millman, My Mother claimed... embroidery
The Collection of Marian Bantjes, My Mother claimed... embroidery
The Liszka-Weinstein collection, Two My Mother claimed... embroideries
The Collection of Nick Normal, The Day We Changed Our Lives Forever inkjet print