Szilvi Tóth    >  Curriculum Vitae

Born in Budapest, Hungary

Date of birth: 21/12/1976
Website: http://www.szilvitoth.com
Daily Diary: http://www.1day1photo.com
E-mail  szilvi.toth at gmail.com
             

EDUCATION, RESEARCH

2004
MA, MOME University of Art and Design Budapest - Institute for Manager Training

2003
- Pips:Lab Foundation, Amsterdam - Research in the Sfeer Media Art Project
- UIAH University, Helsinki - Department of Photography

2002
MA, MOME University of Art and Design Budapest - Department of Visual Communication - Photography

2001
TEI, Athens - Department of Photography

2000
Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava - Department of Photography

1996
Secondary School of Fine and Craft Arts - Department of Photography

SELECTED AWARDS

2010
Hungarian National Cultural Fund, College of Photography - Author's Grant

2007
Hungarian National Cultural Fund József Pécsi Photography Scholarship

2006
Hungarian National Cultural Fund József Pécsi Photography Scholarship

2005
Hungarian National Cultural Fund, College of Media Art - Grant for The Virtual Tour of Budapest

2004 
Hungarian National Cultural Fund József Pécsi Photography Scholarship

2003 
- Hungarian National Cultural Fund, College of Photography - Author's Grant
- PRCHA - Students for the Science Award
- Hungarian National Eötvös Scholarship, Amsterdam
- CIMO Scholarship, Helsinki

2002
We and the others > Leica Competition Prize

2001
- Hungarian National Cultural Fund, College of Photography - Author's Grant
- Erasmus Scholarship, Athens

2000
- National Ministry of Cultural Heritage - Grant for Minority Research
- Ceepus Scholarship, Bratislava

1996
Karoly Escher Award, Secondary School of Fine and Craft Arts


MEMBERSHIPS

2010-
New member of the 1day1photo.com daily photoblog project

2005-
Member of the Studio of Young Artists Association

2004-
Hungarian Association of Artists in Photography <MAOSZ>

2003-
Member of the Sfeer Visual Group

2001-
Member of  the Hungarian Young Photographers' Association


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Brussels, Contretype, Contemporary Photographic Art Centre http://contretype.org
RECONSTRUCTIONS - The Feminine Structure Of The World / Presence Of Women

2010
Hide and Seek - Budapest, Spiritusz Gallery - Photo Month

2007
Energies, Light Installation - Budapest, Lumen Galéria

2006
Comearound, Photo Based Comic Script - Budapest, Retorta Galéria

2004 
- Strangers - Bratislava, Mesiac Fotografie - Month  of Photography, Hungarian Institute
- Yesterday Night - Budapest, Goethe Institute
- North - Helsinki, Hungarian Cultural and Scientific Centre

1997
Ballet - Budapest, Secondary School of Fine and Craft Arts 


SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS

2011
- Várfok Galery, Budapest -Lucid Dream - Hommage á Rozsda Endre
- Spiritusz Gallery, Budapest - Photo Genes
- Art Amsterdam - Eddie the Eagle Museum - Synesthesia Prada Willy
- Spiritusz Gallery, Budapest - In Movement

2010
- 1day1photo.com exhibition - China, Lianzhou - 6th Lianzhou International Photography Festival,
"IS THE WORLD REAL?"
- Hide and Seek - Budapest, Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Spiritusz Gallery
- Strangers - Celje, Slovenia, Present Continous, Photonic Moments
- Hide and Seek - Essen, C.A.R., Contemporary Art Ruhr, Spiritusz Gallery
- Pure Spirit - Budapest, Spiritusz Gallery
- Paradogma - Selfportrait, Budapest, Várfok Gallery

2009
- Pink/Nicht - Budapest, Spiritusz Gallery
- Pink/Nicht - Vilnius, Vilnius'09 Art Fair
- Pink/Nicht - Budapest - Kunsthalle, Budapest Art Fair
- It's Green Time - Budapest, Spiritusz Gallery
- Strangers - Bratislava, Central European House of Photography, Present Continuous

2008
- Strangers - Budapest, Mai Manó House, Present Continuous
- Alominom - installation with Keez Duyves in the Beatrixpark, Amsterdam, Platform21, Checking Reality
- Energies, Light Installation - Brussels, Hungarian Institute, Time Print

2007
- Energies - Light Installation - Budapest, Mai Manó House, Present Continuous
- Saint Travelling, Light Installation - Moscow, Hungarian Institute

2006
- Saint Travelling, Light Installation - Wien, Hungarian Institute
- Saint Travelling, Light Installation - Budapest, Stúdió Gallery, Gallery by Night
- Self Stories, Photo Based Comic Script - Berlin, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
- Strangers - Krakow - Photo Month

- Virtual Tour of Budapest, interactive installation - Dunaújváros, Contemporary Art Institute,
Techno-d

2005
- Virtual Tour of Budapest, interactive installation - Kunsthalle, Budapest, Intro Festival

- Real Dreams - Kogart, Budapest, Necc, Women about women

- Virtual Tour of Budapest, interactive installation- NCCA, Moscow, Active Image - Media Art in Hungary

- SFEER, Virtual Tour of Amsterdam - Prague, Vitkov Mausoleum, Entermultimediale 2 Media Festival

- Strangers, Braga, Portugália, Museo da Imagem, Present Continuous

2004

- We and the others - Budapest, MOME Gallery, Astrodust

- E-verywhere - Budapest, Millenáris, Open-air Photo Exhibition

- Fliptures - Budapest, Hungarian House of Photography in Mai Manó House, Documentum 6



2003

- SFEER, Virtual Tour of Amsterdam - Budapest, Millenáris, Aura - International Media Art Exhibition

- One day of Budapest, Budapest, Millenáris, Open-air Photo Exhibition

- Strangers - Helsinki, UIAH

- Digital Culture and Handicap - Clermont-Ferrand

- We and the Others - Porto, Goethe Institute

- We and the Others - Rotterdam, Goethe Institute



2002

- Either, Digital in Contemporary Photography - Budapest, VAM Design Gallery

- Flying colours - Athens, TEI Gallery

- Portraits of Contemporary Writers - Budapest, Karolyi Palace, Word-Imagery

- We and the Others - Budapest, Goethe Institute



2001

Experiment - Bratislava, Academy of Fine Arts



2000

Solipse - Budapest, Tölgyfa Gallery



1997

Learning Ballet - Budapest, Ethnographical Museum, Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition

 


SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2010

Sfeer Performance - Amsterdam, Paradiso



2009

Sfeer Performance - Roma - Live Performers Meeting



2008

- Sfeer Performance - Amsterdam, Paradiso

- Sfeer Performance and Workshop together with Pips:lab - Budapest, Merlin, Low Festival, Dutch-Flemish Cultural Festival

2007

- Sfeer - Rome, Live Performers Meeting, Linux Club

- Sfeer 360 degree experimental performance - Budapest, National Museum, Museum Night - DOM

2006

Sfeer 360 degree experimental performance with Pips:lab - Zsambék - Rocker Base - DOM



2005

- Connections between Photo and Media Art, Lecture - Budapest, MOME University of Art and Design - Department of Visual Communication

- Recycle, Sfeer Theatre Performance with Fruzsi Nagy and Pater Sparrow - Budapest, Trafo House



2004

- Tigrics - Sfeer Performance - Ljubljana, rx : tx - Progress, Eastern European Electronic Music Festival

- Erwin Vann 'KOYA' - Sfeer Performance - Genk - Motives Festival, Now sounds of jazz

- Tigrics - Sfeer Performance - Rotterdam, DEAF04 Dutch Electronic Art Festival

- Tigrics - Sfeer Performance - Bratislava, FOTOFO, Month of Photography

- Tigrics - Sfeer Performance - Budapest, Goethe Institute

- Sfeer Workshop and Performance - Pécs - International Contemporary Art Meeting

- Tigrics - Pips:Lab - Sfeer Performance - Berlin, Transmediale Festival



2003

- Sfeer presentation - Budapest, Dinamo

- Pips:Lab - Sfeer Performance - Lowlands Festival



2002

LIBAration, First collaboration with Pips:Lab - Budapest, Trafo House


WORKSHOPS

2009 Live Performers Meeting - Rome

2008 Workshop held together with Pips:lab - Budapest, Low Festival, Merlin

2007 Live Performers Meeting - Rome, Linux Club

2005 Designing and Making a Book - Photo Workshop, Arles, Les Rencontres d'Arles


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2011

- RECONSTRUCTIONS - The Feminine Structure Of The World / Presence Of Women Catalogue,

Edited by Gabriella Csizek, publisher Contretype, Contemporary Photographic Art Centre, Brussels

- Photo Genes Catalogue, Edited by Bianca Iványi, Publisher Spiritusz Galery, Budapest

- Curatorial Cooking - The Design practise of Platform21 Amsterdam - Edited by Joanna van der Zanden

- XAL Design Magazine - 4 cover pages with Pips:Lab
- http://www.art-folio.hu/ - website opening picture

-Hungarian Contemporary Artists in International Art Fairs - Book - Giró-Szász Krisztina publisher - Fine Art Invest Kft.



2010

- Lianzhou International Photography Festival Catalogue, China

- Selection from the artwork of the Pécsi József Photo Artist Scholars 1991-2011, Publisher Mai Manó House, Budapest

- XAL Design Magazine - 4 cover pages with Pips:Lab

- Spiritusz Catalogue for C.A.R. International Contemporary Art Fair



2009

ArtVilnius'09 Catalogue



2008

http://www.platform21.nl/page/212/en



2007

- Present - Selection of Contemporary Photographers works - Published by Mai Manó House

- Pécsi József Catalogue - Energies - Published by Mai Manó House

- Lumen Gallery 2006 Book - Energies - Published by Lumen Foundation

2006

Present Continuous - Photo Album with Gabriella Csoszó, Judit Katalin Elek, Sarolta Szabó

2005

- Intro Festival Catalogue - Sfeer - Virtual Tour of Budapest

- Fotómuvészet - Hungarian Photo Magazine No 2005 / 4 - 5 - Necc

- Antal Jokesz - Zsolt Petrányi - Photo Matrix - FFS CD-ROM - Published by FFS

- Sfeer - Virtual Tour of Budapest - DVD-ROM - Published by SFEER

- Sfeer - Virtual Tour of Amsterdam - Catalogue - Published by SFEER

- Balkon - 2005/07-08 - Bianca Iványi - Metamorphoses of the Women, exhibition about the Identity of Women in Eastern Europe - Necc and Miklós Peternák - Active Image - New Media Exhibition of the C3 Foundation, National Centre for Contemporary Arts Moskva - SFEER - Virtual Tour of Budapest

- Active Image - Catalogue of Moscow Exhibition - Virtual Tour of Budapest - Published by C3

- Entermultimediale 2 Catalogue, 24th page - Sfeer - Published by CIANT

- IMAGO - SK - Central and Eastern European Photo Magazine - Winter 2004/2005 - No 19 - Published by Fotofo -Gábor Pfisztner - Spaces Brought Alive - Strangers - Cover page, 2nd - 7th p.



2004

- Fotómuvészet - Hungarian Photo Magazine, XLVII year, No 5-6, Cover page, 36 - 52 pages

- Motives Festival Catalogue, Genk - B - 45th page - SFEER

- Mesiac Fotografie, Bratislava - SK - Catalogue of Month of Photography, 90 - 93 pages

- Mesiac Fotografie Bratislava - SK - Postcard - Published by Fotofo

- IMAGO - No 18 - Photo Magazine, 50th page, 58 page - Published by Fotofo

- YF - Hungarian Art and Design Magazine, No 6-7, 94th - 95th pages - Sfeer



2003

Aura Exhibition Catalogue - Sfeer in A'dam - Published by C3



2002

- Szilvia Tóth - Living in the City - Photo Album in Black and White, SÍK Publisher House, Budapest

- Fotómuvészet - No 2002/3 - 4 - Word-Picture - 35th page