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 text by Eszter Szablyár, published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2024
— Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2023
— Coda, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest, Hungary
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
— 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, Galleria U, Helsinki, Finland
2013
— Notes for an Epilogue, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, United States
— Epilogue, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
— Notes for an Epilogue, Athens Photo Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2012
— Here, Anywhere, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
— Notes for an Epilogue, Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011
— Here, Anywhere, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, United States
— Here, Anywhere, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, United States
— Here, Anywhere, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
— The Dignity of Isolation, Half King Gallery, New York, United States
— Here, Anywhere, Chobi Mela, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
— Here, Anywhere, Balassi Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
— 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
2024
— Heterotope - The Plastic Man Shaped by Nature, Pikszis, Budapest, Hungary
— Divergent Landscapes, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
— A New Chapter, Leopold Bloom Art Foundation Collection, Gallery of Szombathely, Hungary
— Air Loom, 15 years of the Cassilhaus Artist Residency, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, United States
2023
— Replanning, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
— On View, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
— Leopold Bloom Art Award, Kiscell Museum, Budapest, Hungary
— Summer Wine, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest, Hungary
— Doomsday Brain Check, MAGMA Contemporary, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
2022
— Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, United States
— Foto Wien, Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria
— Extra Ordinary, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2019
— Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, United States
— Another Europe with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Bucharest, Sibiu, Romania
2018
— Sir Elton John: A Time for Reflection, AIPAD, New York, United States
— Another Europe, Kings Cross, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, United Kingdom
2017
— In My View, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
— An Overview of Hungarian Photography, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
— Viewfinders, Hungarian photography from the past half century, Robert Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
— Winter Exhibition, Argentea Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2016
— Storytelling, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, United States
— When Frost Was Spectre-Grey, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
— 516 ARTS/UNM Art Museum, Future Tense, Albuquerque, United States
2015
— Ex & Post, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2014
— So Far, so Close, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
2013
— From Rembrandt to Pollock to Atget, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, United States
— New Excursions in the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, United States
— Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium, National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
— Tra(n)shformation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
— Memory, Vizii International Visual Culture Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012
— Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, United States
— Inside/Outside, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
— PhotoIreland Festival, Magazines on the Wall, Dublin, Ireland
— Photoville, Photo District News, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, United States
— JCE - Young European Art, Bratislava City Gallery / Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
— Jeune Création Européenne, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
— What is Hungarian? - Contemporary Answers, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
— JCE Grand Prize, BeLa Editions Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2011
— The Terry O’Neill Tag Awards, HotShoe Gallery, London, United Kingdom
— Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge, Paris, France
— Transcience, Galerie Huit Arles, Arles, France
— Active Witness, 12 Star Gallery, London, United Kingdom
— Belfast Photo Festival, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, United Kingdom
— Ulsan International Photography Festival, Ulsan, South Korea
— Young Contemporary Statements, Pecs, Hungary
— Here, Anywhere, Biennale Mediations, Poznan, Poland
— Budapest Positive, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2010
— Live Sync., Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
— New York Photo Festival, HumanKind, powerHouse Arena, New York, United States
— East Side Story, Polka Galerie, Paris, France
— Foto8, HOST Gallery, London, United Kingdom
— Foto8, Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
— Present Continuous, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia
2009
— Tradition and Receptiveness, Current Developments in Hungarian Photography, ArtDepoo, Tallinn, Estonia
— Present Continuous, Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
— Lishui Photography Festival, Zhejiang Province, China
2008
— Present Continuous, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
— Caja de Luz, Galeria Miscelane, Barcelona, Spain
2007
— József Pécsi Grant Exhibition, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2006
— Risk, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
— Ungarn Heute, Hungarian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
— Selected Images, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
— Budapest Feeling, Month of Photography, Krakow, Poland
2005
— Hungary Today, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Bibliography
2024
— Elements, inderwelt, edited by Stephen Ellcock, Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom
— Einspach & Czapolai Fine Art, autumn-winter 2024, portfolio, Budapest, Hungary
— L'Oeil de la Photographie, Robert Koch Gallery: Tamas Dezsö: Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, Paris, France
2023
— Artmagazin, Screams Entombed in Charcoal, exhibition review by Dániel Kustra, Budapest, Hungary
— A mű, The Interobjective Presentation of Disappearance, exhibition review by Márk Horváth, Budapest, Hungary
— ReVue, Hypothese: Alles ist Blatt, portfolio, edited by Barbara Stauss, Berlin, Germany
— Fotóművészet, exhibition review by Zsófia Somogyi, Budapest, Hungary
— Korunk, cover and portfolio, edited by Zágon Szentes, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2022
— A mű, Are we Flowers?, exhibition review by György Cséka, Budapest, Hungary
— Magnum Photos and The Photographers’ Gallery, Square Print Sale, London, United Kingdom
— Designisso, A riporttól a filozofikus fotográfiáig, text by Henriett Peczár, Budapest, Hungary
— kultura.hu, The medium of life in fact is a huge garden, interview by Katica Kocsis, Budapest, Hungary
— Élet és Irodalom, Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, exhibition review by Péter György, Budapest, Hungary
— Magyar Narancs, Légy, piszok, Wittgenstein, exhibition review by Krisztina Erdei, Budapest, Hungary
— Qubit, Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, exhibition review by Zsuzsanna Balázs, Budapest, Hungary
2021
— Punkt, interview by Péter Baki, Budapest, Hungary
— Gente di Fotografia, cover and portfolio, Rome, Italy
— Forrás, portfolio, poem by Márton Simon, Kecskemét, Hungary
— Fototreff Berlin, interview by Anna Charlotte Schmid, Berlin, Germany
— Thisispaper, portfolio, Berlin, Germany
2019
— Photography & Culture, portfolio, text by Eszter Szablyár, edited by Gil Pasternak, London, United Kingdom
— Another Europe catalogue, Austrian Cultural Forum London, United Kingdom
2018
— British Journal of Photography, Going beyond the borders with Another Europe, London, United Kingdom
2017
— European Month of Photography Luxembourg, catalogue, edited by Paul di Felice, Luxembourg
— GEO Magazine, Images of a Disappearing World, portfolio, Hamburg, Germany
2016
— Telegraph Magazine, The Telegraph, The bigger picture, London, United Kingdom
— Harper's Magazine, New York, United States
— San Francisco Chronicle, exhibition review by Jessica Zack, San Francisco, United States
— Juxtapoz Magazine, Notes for an Epilogue, portfolio, San Francisco, United States
— L’Œil de la Photographie, Notes for an Epilogue, Paris, France
— Homeward: The Wieland Collection, curated by Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Atlanta, United States
— Literary Hub, portfolio, text by Eszter Szablyár, New York, United States
2015
— Royal Photographic Society Journal, text by Lucy Davies, London, United Kingdom
— Huck Magazine, interview and text by Alex King, London, United Kingdom
— The Calvert Journal, Not quite forgotten, text by Kriti Bajaj, London, United Kingdom
— Aesthetica Magazine, Notes for an Epilogue at The Photographers’ Gallery, York, United Kingdom
— The Guardian, Postcards from the ruins, portfolio, London, United Kingdom
— Flash Art, The Bikini Effect, text by Gábor Rieder, Milan, Italy
— The Independent, interview by Gillian Orr, London, United Kingdom
— Financial Times, text by Jamie Waters, London, United Kingdom
— Photomonitor, interview by Sarah Allen, London, United Kingdom
— The Telegraph, portfolio, London, United Kingdom
— Prism Magazine, Notes for an Epilogue and Here, Anywhere, Dublin, Ireland
2014
— Público, Fragmentos do misterioso mundo de Tamas Dezso, Lisbon, Portugal
— Neue Zürcher Zeitung, portfolio, edited by Katharina Grieder, Zurich, Switzerland
— De Standaard Magazine, portfolio, edited by Jan Desloover, Brussels, Belgium
— Helsinki Photography Biennial book and catalogue, portfolio, Helsinki, Finland
— British Journal of Photography, cover, portfolio, review by Colin Pantall, London, United Kingdom
— Landscape Stories, Issue 15: Mountains, curated by Gianpaolo Arena, Treviso, Italy
— My Modern Met, portfolio, text by Katie Hosmer, Los Angeles, United States
— BLINK Magazine, published by ARam KIM, Seoul, South Korea
— WIRED, Raw File, text by Doug Bierend, San Francisco, United States
— Intro Magazine, text by Frederike Wetzels and Thomas Venker, Cologne, Germany
— 20 Minutos, Interview by Ánxel Grove, Barcelona, Spain
— Our Age is Thirteen, text by Carole Coen, Paris, France
— LensCulture, curated and edited by Jim Casper, Paris, France
2013
— The Georgia Review, cover and portfolio, review by Jenny Gropp Hess, Athens, GA, United States
— TurnOnArt, Ivory Press, interview by Ignacio Evangelista, Madrid, Spain
— San Francisco Chronicle, exhibition review by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco, United States
— American Photography 29, book cover and feature, New York, United States
— TIME Magazine, LightBox, text by Andrew Katz, New York, United States
— SF Weekly, exhibition review by Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco, United States
— San Francisco Examiner, exhibition review by Lauren Gallagher, San Francisco, United States
— The Fox is Black, text by Philip Kennedy, Los Angeles, United States
— L1ghtb1tes, interview by Gyorgy Laszlo, London, United Kingdom
— MutantSpace, text by Moray Mair, Cork City, Ireland
— Business Insider, review by Harrison Jacobs, New York, United States
— Fubiz, Tamas Dezso Photography, portfolio, Paris, France
— Internazionale, Epilogo Romeno, portfolio, Rome, Italy
— GUP Magazine, text by Katherine Oktober Matthews, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
— Notes on the Road, text by Karen Lo, New York, United States
— Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium, book by Péter Baki, Budapest, Hungary
— Journal Europa, text by Marc Desmaillet, Paris, France
— Time Machine Magazine, Notes for an Epilogue, Sydney, Australia
— PDN, Photo of the Day, New York, United States
— Gente di Fotografia, exhibition review by Franco Carlisi, Rome, Italy
— il Post, La Romania che non si vede, portfolio, Milan, Italy
— APhF:13: Athens Photo Festival, Fluid Identities catalogue, Athens, Greece
2012
— Prix Pictet book, Power, teNeues, London, United Kingdom
— Mozgó Világ, exhibition review by Emese Kürti, Budapest, Hungary
— PDN, The Curator, New York, United States
— National Geographic, Visions, Washington,DC, United States
— The New York Times, The 6th Floor, text by Gail Bichler, New York, United States
— Daylight Magazine, interview by Kate Levy, New York, United States
— Flash Art Hungary, interview and portfolio, Budapest, Hungary
— LFI, Leica Magazine, portfolio, Berlin, Germany
— Reporter ohne Grenzen, yearbook, photo editor: Barbara Stauss, Berlin, Germany
— GEO Magazine, Hallig Oland, Hamburg, Germany
2011
— TIME Magazine, text by Deirdre van Dyk, edited by Alexander Ho, New York, United States
— Burn Magazine, portfolio, United States
— Art Bay Area, exhibition review by Cherie Louise Turner, San Francisco, United States
— Visual Art Source, exhibition review by Chérie Louise Turner, San Francisco, United States
— The Wall Street Journal, text by Rebecca Horne, New York, United States
— HotShoe Magazine, text by Bill Kouwenhoven, London, United Kingdom
— The New Yorker, A Click Away: Review Santa Fe, written by Jessie Wender, New York, United States
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Revizor, exhibition review by Eva Ibos, Budapest, Hungary
— Budapest Positive, catalogue, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
— The Daily Beast, The Dignity of Isolation at The Half King Gallery, New York, United States
2008
— Present Continuous book, Visible Stories, edited by Gabriella Csizek, Budapest, Hungary
2006
— Ojo de Pez, edited by Tina Ahrens, Madrid, Spain
— Józsefváros, book, published by Városháza Könyvek, Budapest, Hungary
— PDN Photo Annual, Photo District News, New York, United States
Art Fairs
2024
— Paris Photo, solo presentation, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Grand Palais, Paris, France
— Unseen Amsterdam, solo presentation, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
— AIPAD New York, Robert Koch Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, United States
— Art & Antique Budapest, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2023
— Budapest Contemporary, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2021
— The Armory Show, Robert Koch Gallery, New York City, United States
2020
— The Armory Show, Robert Koch Gallery, New York City, United States
2017
— Photo London, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
— Photofairs, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2016
— Paris Photo, Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
— Expo Chicago, Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
— AIPAD New York, Robert Koch Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, United States
2015
— Paris Photo, Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
— Unseen Photo Fair, The Photographers’ Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
— Expo Chicago, Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
— Photo London, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014
— Unseen Photo Fair, The Photographers’ Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
— AIPAD New York, Robert Koch Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, United States
2013
— Paris Photo, Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
— Paris Photo Los Angeles, Robert Koch Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
— Expo Chicago, Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2012
— Paris Photo, Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
— Expo Chicago, Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
— AIPAD New York, Robert Koch Gallery, New York City, United States
2011
— Paris Photo, Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France