Tamas Dezsö is a visual artist living and working in Budapest. His work examines the personal identity of humans and nonhumans, their persistence through time and the limits of human perception. Dezsö’s practice focuses on issues of materiality, temporality and vegetal existence, as well as questions raised by ecological concern, which he explores through photographs, sculptures and installations.



BOOK

2015  Notes for an Epilogue
          essay and texts by Eszter Szablyár
          published by Hatje Cantz


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022  Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
2021  Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, UGM Studio of Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
2018  Notes for an Epilogue, Clervaux Cité de l'Image, Clervaux, Luxembourg
2016  Notes for an Epilogue, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2016  Notes for an Epilogue, Argentea Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2015  Notes for an Epilogue, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014  Here, Anywhere, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki, Finland
2013  Notes for an Epilogue, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, United States
2013  Epilogue, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2013  Notes for an Epilogue, Athens Photo Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2012  Here, Anywhere, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2012  Notes for an Epilogue, Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011  Here, Anywhere, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, United States
2011  Here, Anywhere, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, United States
2011  Here, Anywhere, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2011  Here, Anywhere, Biennale Mediations, Poznan, Poland
2011  Romania, Half King Gallery, New York, United States
2011  Here, Anywhere, Chobi Mela, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
2011  Here, Anywhere, Balassi Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011  Here, Anywhere, Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2009  Upstarts, Historical Museum, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
2006  Hotel, House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2005  The Last Days of the Race Track, House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2023  Leopold Bloom Art Award, Kiscell Museum, Budapest
2023  Doomsday Brain Check, MAGMA Contemporary, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
2022  Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, United States
2022  Foto Wien – Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria
2022  Extra Ordinary – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021  The Armory Show – Robert Koch Gallery, New York City, United States
2020  The Armory Show – Robert Koch Gallery, New York City, United States
2019  Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, United States
2018  Sir Elton John: A Time for Reflection, AIPAD, New York City, United States
2018  Another Europe – Austrian Cultural Forum, King’s Cross, London, United Kingdom
2017  Photo London – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017  In My View – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017  Photofairs – Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2017  An Overview of Hungarian Photography, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2017  Hungarian photography from the past half century, Robert Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
2016  Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2016  Storytelling – Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, United States
2016  Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2016  When Frost Was Spectre-Grey, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016  516 ARTS/UNM Art Museum, Future Tense, Albuquerque, United States
2016  AIPAD New York – Robert Koch Gallery, New York, United States
2015  Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2015  Unseen Photo Fair – The Photographers’ Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015  Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2015  Ex & Post – Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2015  Photo London – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014  Unseen Photo Fair – The Photographers’ Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014  CinEast, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
2014  AIPAD New York – Robert Koch Gallery, New York City, United States
2013  Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2013  Paris Photo Los Angeles – Robert Koch Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2013  New Excursions in the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, United States
2013  Hungarian Art Photography, National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013  TraNshformation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2013  Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2012  Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, United States
2012  Inside/Outside, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2012  PhotoIreland Festival, Magazines on the Wall, Dublin, Ireland
2012  Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2012  Photoville, Photo District News, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, United States
2012  Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2012  Jeune Création Européenne, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2012  AIPAD New York – Robert Koch Gallery, New York City, United States
2012  What is Hungarian? – Contemporary Answers, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2012  BeLa Editions Gallery, JCE Grand Prize, Brussels, Belgium
2012  Tower Museum, Foto Foyle, Derry City, United Kingdom
2011  Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2011  The Terry O’Neill Tag Awards, HotShoe Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011  Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge, Paris, France
2011  Galerie Huit – Transience, Arles, France
2011  Belfast Photo Festival, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, United Kingdom
2011  Ulsan International Photography Festival, Ulsan, South Korea
2011  Young Contemporary Statements, Pecs, Hungary
2011  Budapest Positive, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2010  New York Photo Festival, powerHouse Arena, New York, United States
2010  East Side Story – Chroniques d’Europe Centrale, HSBC, Paris, France
2010  Foto8 Summer Show, HOST Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010  Live Sync. – Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2010  Foto8 Summershow, Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
2010  Present Continuous, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia
2007  Pécsi József Grant Exhibition, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2006  Risk, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006  Ungarn heute, Hungarian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
2006  Selected Images, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005  Hungary Today, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS (SELECTED)

A mű, Virág az ember?, exhibition review by György Cséka, Budapest, Hungary, November 2022
Designisso, A riporttól a filozofikus fotográfiáig, text by Henriett Peczár, Budapest, Hungary, November 2022
kultura.hu, The medium of life in fact is a huge garden, interview by Katica Kocsis, Budapest, Hungary, October 2022
Élet és Irodalom
, exhibition review by Péter György, Budapest, Hungary, September 2022
Qubit
, exhibition review by Zsuzsanna Balázs, Budapest, Hungary, September 2022
Punkt
, interview by Péter Baki, Budapest, Hungary, October 2021
Gente di Fotografia, cover and portfolio, Rome, Italy, June 2021
Forrás, portfolio, poem by Márton Simon, Kecskemét, Hungary, June 2021
Fototreff Berlin
, interview by Anna Charlotte Schmid, Berlin, Germany, May 2021
Thisispaper, portfolio, Berlin, Germany, March 2021  
Photography & Culture
, portfolio, text by Eszter Szablyár, edited by Gil Pasternak, London, UK, August 2019
Another Europe catalogue, Austrian Cultural Forum London, United Kingdom, August 2019
British Journal of Photography, Going beyond the borders with Another Europe, London, United Kingdom, July 2018
Telegraph Magazine, The Telegraph, The bigger picture, London, United Kingdom, November 2016
Harper's Magazine, New York, United States, April 2016
Literary Hub, portfolio, text by Eszter Szablyár, New York, United States, January 2016
Royal Photographic Society Journal, text by Lucy Davies, London, United Kingdom, September 2015
Huck Magazine, interview and text by Alex King, London, United Kingdom, September 2015
The Calvert Journal, text by Kriti Bajaj, London, United Kingdom, September 2015
Aesthetica Magazine, Notes for an Epilogue at The Photographers’ Gallery, York, United Kingdom, May 2015
The Guardian
, Notes for an Epilogue and Here, Anywhere, London, United Kingdom, April 2015
The Independent, interview by Gillian Orr, London, United Kingdom, April 2015
Financial Times, text by Jamie Waters, London, United Kingdom, April 2015
Photomonitor, interview by Sarah Allen, London, United Kingdom, April 2015
The Telegraph, portfolio, London, United Kingdom, April 2015
Prism Magazine, Notes for an Epilogue and Here, Anywhere, Dublin, Ireland, April 2015
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, portfolio, edited by Katharina Grieder, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2014
De Standaard Magazine, portfolio, edited by Jan Desloover, Brussels, Belgium, April 2014
Helsinki Photography Biennial book and catalogue, portfolio, Helsinki, Finland, March 2014
British Journal of Photography, cover, portfolio, review by Colin Pantall, London, United Kingdom, February 2014
Landscape Stories, Issue 15: Mountains, curated by Gianpaolo Arena, March 2014, Treviso, Italy
My Modern Met
, portfolio, text by Katie Hosmer, February 2014, Los Angeles, United States
BLINK Magazine
, published by ARam KIM, Seoul, South Korea, February 2014
WIRED, Raw File, text by Doug Bierend, San Francisco, United States, January 2014
Intro Magazine, text by Frederike Wetzels and Thomas Venker, Cologne, Germany, January 2014
20 Minutos, Interview by Ánxel Grove, Barcelona, Spain, January 2014
Our Age is Thirteen, text by Carole Coen, Paris, France, January 2014
LensCulture, curated and edited by Jim Casper, Paris, France, January 2014
The Georgia Review, cover and portfolio, review by Jenny Gropp Hess, Athens, GA, United States, December 2013
TurnOnArt, Ivorypress, interview by Ignacio Evangelista, Madrid, Spain, December 2013
San Francisco Chronicle, exhibition review by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco, United States, November 2013
American Photography 29, book cover and feature, New York, United States, November 2013
TIME Magazine, LightBox, text by Andrew Katz, New York, United States, October 2013
SF Weekly, exhibition review by Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco, United States, October 2013
San Francisco Examiner, exhibition review by Lauren Gallagher, San Francisco, United States, October 2013
The Fox is Black, text by Philip Kennedy, Los Angeles, United States, October 2013
L1ghtb1tes, interview by Gyorgy Laszlo, London, United Kingdom, October 2013
MutantSpace, text by Moray Mair, Cork City, Ireland, October 2013
Business Insider, review by Harrison Jacobs, New York, United States, October 2013
Internazionale, portfolio, Rome, Italy, October 2013
GUP Magazine, text by Katherine Oktober Matthews, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2013
Notes on the Road, text by Karen Lo, New York, United States, September 2013
Wall Street International, September 2013
Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium, book by Péter Baki, Budapest, Hungary, July 2013
Journal Europa, text by Marc Desmaillet, Paris, France, June 2013
Time Machine Magazine, Sydney, Australia, May 2013
PDN, Photo of the Day, New York, United States, March 2013
Gente di Fotografia, exhibition review by Franco Carlisi, Rome, Italy, January 2013
Flash Art, The Bikini Effect, text by Gábor Rieder, Milan, Italy, November-December 2012
Prix Pictet book, Power, teNeues, London, United Kingdom, November 2012
Mozgó Világ, exhibition review by Emese Kürti, Budapest, Hungary, November 2012
PDN, The Curator, New York, United States, July 2012
The New York Times, The 6th Floor, text by Gail Bichler, New York, United States, May 2012
Daylight Magazine, interview by Kate Levy, New York, United States, March 2012
Flash Art Hungary, interview and portfolio, Budapest, Hungary, February 2012
LFI, Leica Magazine, Berlin, Germany, February 2012
Reporter ohne Grenzen, yearbook, photo editor: Barbara Stauss, Berlin, Germany, February 2012
Burn Magazine, portfolio, United States, December 2011
Art Bay Area, exhibition review by Cherie Louise Turner, San Francisco, United States, October 2011
Visual Art Source, exhibition review by Chérie Louise Turner, San Francisco, United States, October 2011
The Wall Street Journal, text by Rebecca Horne, New York, United States, July 2011
HotShoe Magazine, text by Bill Kouwenhoven, London, United Kingdom, June 2011
Revizor, exhibition review by Eva Ibos, Budapest, Hungary, June 2011
TIME Magazine, LightBox, text by Deirdre van Dyk, photo editor: Alexander Ho, New York, United States, April 2011
Ojo de Pez, photo editor: Tina Ahrens, Madrid, Spain, November 2006
PDN Photo Annual, New York, United States, September 2006