Biography
Lives and works in Gödöllő and Budapest (Budapest Art Factory).
Studies
- 2021: Budapest Art Mentor (Art management)
- 2013-2018: Schatz Studio
- 2006-2009: Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (Master: Orshi Drozdik)
- 2003-2005: School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York, NY
- 2003-2005: The Art Students’ League, New York, NY
- 1991-1998: Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, general medicine
Exhibitions, artfairs, competitions
- 2023 – Petőfi 200 group exhibition, Hybrid Art Gallery
- 2023 – Solo show with Galerie Art Affair (Regensburg, Germany)
- 2023 – Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (Barcelona, Spain) – MEAM Hall III.
- 2022 – Art Renewal Center 16th International Salon – finalist
- 2022 – Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (Barcelona, Spain) – MEAM Hall II. 2022 – Art Market Budapest with Lena&Roselli Gallery
- 2022 – Women Selection – FreylerArt Gallery (Budapest)
- 2022 – Visual Artists Association (London) Professional Artist award – shortlisted
- 2022 – Volta Basel Art Fair (Switzerland) with Lena Roselli Gallery
- 2022 – Royal Portrait Painters Society (Great Britain) annual show – semifinalist
- 2022 – Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (Barcelona, Spain) – MEAM Hall
- 2022 – Manhattan Arts International ’HerStory’, group show
- 2021 – Modportrait (MEAM & Galeria Artelibre) (Barcelona, Spain) finalist
- 2021 – Resident Art Fair (Budapest)
- 2021 – Budapest Art Factory ’About Fate’ Solo show
- 2021 – Dunartcom International Symposium (Samorin, Slovakia)
- 2021 – Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (Barcelona, Spain) – Lohengrin show
- 2014 – Autumn Show (Museum Tornyai, Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary)
- 2014 – Gallery Bartók11 (Budapest, Hungary)
- 2013 – Institute of Hungarian Culture (London, Great-Britain)
- 2013 – Feminine and masculine’ (MODEM, Debrecen)
- 2012 – Autumn Show (Museum Tornyai, Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary)
- 2012 – Institute of Hungarian Culture (Prague, Czech Republic)
- 2005 - Art Students League (New York, USA)
- 2004 - Art Students League (New York, USA)
Prizes
- 2023. Visual Artists Association International Exhibition and Scholarship Prize
- 2014: Podmaniczky-prize (Hungaria Nostra)
- 2012: Supporter’s special prize, 59. Autumn show, Museum Tornyai
- 2005: „Blue dot-award” Art Students’ League
- 2004: „Blue dot-award” Art Students’ League
Publications
- 2023: Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine March/April (USA)
- 2012. Rieder Gábor: Before a jubilee, in 59. Autumn Show, Museum Tornyai
- 2020: Prof. Katharina Wagner Lohengrin, in Lohengrin, painting interprets Wagnerian drama, Ediciones de la Fundació de les Arts i les Artistes
Printed Catalogues
- 2023: Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine March/April
- 2023: 16. International Salon Competition Book (Art Renewal Center, New York)
- 2021: Galeria Artelibre (Zaragoza, Spain) Modportrait Special Catalogue (With Museu Europeu d’Art Modern)
- 2020: Galeria Artelibre (Zaragoza, Spain) Modportrait Special Catalogue, (With Museu Europeu d’Art Modern)
- 2020: Lohengrin, Painting interprets Wagnerian Drama, Museu Europeu d’Art Modern
- 2014: 61. Autumn show, Tornyai János Museum
- 2012: 59. Autumn show, Tornyai János Museum
Meet the artist
Anikó Boda studied at the School of Visual Arts and The Art Students’ League in New York after graduating from the Medical University of Szeged in Hungary. She exhibited in one of the major institutions of figurative art MEAM (Museu Europeu d’ Art Modern) in Barcelona, besides in New York, London, Prague, Budapest and at art fairs like the Volta Basel. In 2021 after the international portrait painting contest of the MEAM, she was chosen one of the best 400 portrait painters. In 2023 she was finalist in the New York-based16. International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition and her work was featured in the renowned American magazine ’Fine Art Connoisseaur’. She is also the winner of the 2023 Visual Artists Association Great Britain (VAA) International Exhibition and Scholarship Prize.
Resonating across time with the traditional painting schools of Florence and St. Petersburg, Michael Trieger’s precise technique and the spirit of contemporary artists like Odd Nerdrum, Boda’s update of trompe l’oleil painting reflects the process of their making. With a penchant for experimentation, Boda expands her repertoire of painterly media. And then she deploys her ’inventions’ creating fresco-like ’weatherbeaten’ surfaces and lively objects. Her iconoclastic work is based on general psychological and philosophical questions of human existence, but always with a twist, as she refers to it:
„Sometimes we like to take certain truths granted. I like to dissect these traditional values, examine them from multiple points of view and turn them into pictures”
