• Date of birth: 14th of September, 1976
• Address:
  Unit 3C 178a Glyn Rd,
  Homerton, London,
  E5 0JE
• Telephone: 0208 5331798
• Mobile: 07771 903346
• E-mail: balint@balintbolygo.com
• Website: www.balintbolygo.com
• Nationality: British
• Languages: English, Hungarian, German

• Member of the International Kepes Society since spring 2007 - Society named after Kepes Gyˆrgy, and is dedicated to the practice and promoting of Light Art.

• Education
  
  
  • Degree:
    • MA (Hons) in Fine Art - University of Edinburgh.
  • A-Levels:
    • Art & Design, Physics, Maths, Chemistry, German,

• Selected Group Exhibitions:
  
  
  • Spring 2009
    
    
    • ‘Kinetica Art Fair’ P3 Space, London
    • ‘Lightwave: Defy the Darkness’ Science gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  
  
  • Winter 2008
    
    
    • ‘Creatures Great and Small’ A22 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  
  
  • Autumn 2008
    
    
    • ‘Creatures Great and Small’ Kinetica, Rove Gallery, London
    • ‘Sculpture biennial of Piemonte’ Academia Albertina, Turin, Italy
  
  
  • Summer 2008
    
    
    • ‘Arte E Potere’ San Fedele Art Prize exhibition, San Fedele gallery, Milan, Italy
  
  
  • Spring 2008
    
    
    • ‘Universal Man’ feature exhibition with Kinetica Museum at FORM art fair London.
  
  
  • Winter 2007
    
    
    • Magical Machines, Shire Hall, Stafford
    • Finding Shelter, Front Projects, London 2007
    • International Light Workshop 2007/8, A22 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  
  
  • Summer 2007
    
    
    • Multimedia Group Show ‘Life in Numbers’ Wilton’s Music Hall, London.


• Spring 2007
  
  
  • ‘Mapping’ group show at Bury Art Gallery / Museum, Bury.
  • The International Kepes Society group show in the East Slovak Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia.


• Winter 2006/7
  
  
  • Group Show ‘Magnetic Visions’ at Kinetica Museum, Spitafields London.


• Autumn 2006
  
  
  • Group Show ‘The Liminal Phase’ Huge site specific space at London’s Arsenal. Group Show ‘Future Palette’ at Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset.


• Autumn 2004
  
  
  • Group Show ‘Playing Dead I’ at the Long and Ryle Gallery, London.


• Summer 2004
  
  
  • Group show ‘Remote Control’ about contemporary drawing practice at Nottingham’s Angel Row Gallery.


• Autumn 2002
  
  
  • Work exhibited in ‘New Contemporaries 2002’; an annual exhibition of works by Britain’s emerging contemporary artists. The touring exhibition opened at the Liverpool biennial and was also held at London’s Barbican Centre.


• Summer 2002
  
  
  • Group Exhibition ‘Drawing Room’ in the ‘Travelling Gallery’, a space run by the Scottish Arts Council that tours Scotland over four months.


• Winter 2001
  
  
  • Installation “Cutting Corners” at the Simmons Gallery, London.


• Autumn 2001
  
  
  • Collaborative Group Show with artist David Mach RA at A.T.Kearney Ltd. Berkeley Sq, London.


• Summer 2001
  
  
  • Group exhibition “Neupop International” in Collective Gallery, Edinburgh


• Spring 2001
  
  
  • Royal Scottish Academy Students Exhibition, Edinburgh.


• Winter 2000
  
  
  • Work exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy of Art in the Visual Arts Scotland exhibition.


• Summer 2000
  
  
  • Work exhibited at the 57 - international FIDEM exhibition in the Goethe Institute Museum, Weimar, Germany.


• Spring 2000
  
  
  • Bronze sculptures exhibited at ‘Free Range’ Exhibition at the Simmons Gallery, London.


• Winter 1999
  
  
  • Bronze sculptures exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy of Art in the Visual Arts Scotland exhibition.


• Summer 1999
  
  
  • Work featured in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition London.

• Solo Exhibitions:
  
  
  • Winter 2008
    
    
    • ‘Mikrokosmos’ Wilton’s music Hall, London
  
  
  • Summer 2005
    
    
    • Solo Show ‘Mappings’ at Long and Ryle Gallery, London.
  
  
  • Summer 2003
    
    
    • Solo Exhibition “Soft Machines” at Hiscox Art Projects, The City, London.
  
  
  • Spring 2003
    
    
    • Solo show of etchings and photographic prints in Szombathely, M¸vÈszek H·za, Hungary.

• Commissions:
  
  
  • Ongoing ‘Waves’ Science Sculpture Park commission at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. Cornwall
  • Summer 2000 British Art Medal Society Medal commission for Autumn 2001 publication ‘The Medal’.
  • Spring 1999 Public sculpture commission ‘Uprooted Tree’ for the Edinburgh University’s George Square Gardens.

• Awards:
  
  
  • Sherborne House, Colour & Chemistry Bursary, 2006
  • Royal Scottish Academy : John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, Summer 2002.
  • Andrew Grant Bequest for distinguished work, Summer 2001.
  • Nancy MacDugald Award, Visual Arts Scotland Exhibition, Winter 2000.
  • FIDEM Federation Internationale de la Medaille Student Travel Grant, Summer 2000.
  • British Art Medal Society Student Conference Grant, Spring 2000.
  • National British Art Medal Exhibition, Niagara Falls Casting, Second Prize, 1999.

• Publications:
  
  
  • Espoarte, Interview with Cecilia Antolini, Dec/Jan 2007/8
  • Makt·r, ‘‹stˆkˆsˆk helyett BolygÛ’ article by Tibor Zielinski, , Nov 2005
  • Bloomberg New contemporaries 2002, catalogue
  • ‘The Medal’ British art medal trust publication, front and back cover image. Autumn 2001

• References:
  
  

  Antony Gormley 15-23 Vale Royal London N7 9AP +44 (0)2076 972180

  Dianne Harris Kinetica Museum ltd Hothouse, 274 Richmond rd London, E8 3QW +44 (0)2073 929674