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