PROJECTS:

In the Words, In the Bones
(de)fault-lines - exhibit
TTHYGS
Fracture Analysis - II

History Likes Repeating Itself
Double Erasure
Film I brought back from Hungary
SPECTACLE STUDIO
WHO STOLE MY SUBLIME
Fracture Analysis
GONE/reDONE
SISYPHUS THE DAY AFTER
Crisis of the Visible
CRISIS OF THE Invisible
Crisis of the Free Spirit
THE END OF SLEEP
Institutional sunset
APROPER ERASURE
NO PLACE FOR […]
TRACE WITH ME
MID-CONVERSATIONAL MERGE
Debated Utopia

Awkward Beauty

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SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019 Lukács in Vienna, 12-14 contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2019 (de)fault lines, with Michal Geva, curator Ofra Harnam, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 In the Words, In the Bones, curator Magdalena Moskalewicz, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Double Erasure, book launch, Labor Gallery pop-up show, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Fracture Analysis, Art Factory Budapest, Hungary
2013 Absent | Present, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2011 Temporal Works, Fourth Wall Projects, Boston, MA
2011 Into the Woods, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2009 The Lure of Trees, Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA
2007 Forest Removed, Copley Society of Art, Boston
2005 Mesterséges Elmúlás - Természetes Fejlödés, Danube Museum, Hungary
2005 New Works, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, South End, MA
   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Try to Hold Your Gaze Steady, Radiator Gallery, New York, NY
2017 MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2017 Nightingale screening, Chicago, IL
2017 Can frescos be contemporary? MODEM, Debrecen, HU
2016 LOW//Impact, Throop Studio, Chicago, IL
2015 Sound and Fury, Chandler Gallery, Randolph, VT
2013 The Country Between Us, New Art Center, Newton, MA
2012 Art and Spirituality Entwined, Concord Art, MA
2011 Off the Wall, Danforth Museum, Boston, MA
2011 Coolidge Corner Theater screening, Boston, MA
2011 Bumpkin Forward, Mobius, Boston, MA
2011 Trace with Me, subSamson, Boston, MA
2010 subSamson screening, Boston, MA
2010 Roots & Branches, Mazmanian Art Gallery, Framingham State College, MA
2010 Northeast Prize Show, Cambridge, MA 
 

PERFORMATIVE EVENTS

2019 Ghost of Lukacs, traveling locations: Boston, Tel Aviv, Rome, Paris, Krapanj, Vienna
2017 Artist is Absent, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2017 Erasure Performance, Labor, Budapest, Hungary

 

EVENTS/TALKS
Roundtable moderator, FKSE (Studio Association for Young Contemporary Artist), Budapest, HU
Artist Talk, Modem, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
Artist Talk, RISD, Providence, RI
Artist Talk, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

RESIDENCIES
Modem, Debrecen, Hungary
Art Factory Budapest, Hungary
Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary
sübSamsøn, Boston, MA
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA

POSITIONS
Visiting Lecturer, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Co-Founder of The Wellesley Collective Residency, Wellesley, MA
Visiting Artist, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Wasserman forum coordinator - MIT List Visual Arts Center

AWARDS
Modem Studio Residency Award, Hungary
Stella Jerome Prager Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency Fellowship
Blanche E. Colman Award, Blanche E. Colman Foundation
Puffin Foundation Grant Award

EDUCATION
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL - 2017
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA - 2001
Janus Pannonius University, Pécs and Károly Eszterhazy College, Eger, Hungary

BOOKS
Productive Misreadings, Published by Alföld Foundation, New Alföld Books, Debrecen, 2020
Double Erasure (artist book), Chicago, IL, 2017

PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
Tillmann, J. A, Kölcsönös-kontamináció – Áfra János – Szegedi-Varga Zsuzsa: „Termékeny félreértés / Productive Misreadings”, in PRAE, December 12, 2020
SZOMBATHY BÁLINT, Termékenység mint egyetértés (Áfra János – Szegedi-Varga Zsuzsanna: Termékeny félreértés), in Alföld, issue 71, 111–112, December, 2020
Konkoly Dániel, Ex libris, in Élet és Irodalom, Book Review, Issue LXIV. évfolyam, 48. szám, november 27, 2020
Owen Good, János Áfra & Zsuzsanna Szegedi-Varga: Reading is always misreading, in HLO (Hungarian Literature Online, October 9, 2020
Csehy Zoltán: A félreértés alap (Áfra János – Szegedi-Varga Zsuzsanna: Termékeny félreértés. Productive misreadings), in Műút, September 16, 2020
Vass Edit, Derrida örökösei, in Bárka, augusztus 10, 2020
Cserhalmi Luca, A hasadékok aljáról, in Élet és Irodalom, Book Review, Issue LXIV. évfolyam, 24. szám, June 12, 2020
A Decade-Long Reflection: Leonie Bradbury and Zsuzsanna Szegedi-Varga Join In Conversation, in Boston Art Review, Summer 2020
Leah Triplett Harrington, Virtual Studio Visit | Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi, in Now And There, April 23, 2020
Kunstraum Panel: Eastern European Art & the Age of Extremity, Zoom, March 29, 2020
Karafiáth Orsolya, Meg kell húznunk magunkat, in Magyar Narancs, April 09, 2020
A Hét könyvei [Books of the week], Élet és Irodalom, March 6, 2020
Takács Dalma, Emberkísérlet egy művészkötet lapjain, in kultura.hu, February 29, 2020 
Nézzünk szembe – Sznobriadó,
in: artPortal, November 01, 2019
Christine O'Donnell,  In the Words, In the Bones, in: Thoughts on Art, August 15, 2019
Cate McQuaid, Looking into the darkness, in: Boston Globe, July 22, 2019
Ancestry in tumultuous histories, in: Baystate Banner, June 6, 2019
LUKÁCS GYÖRGY SZOBRA TEL AVIVBAN [George Lukács Statue in Tel Aviv], Szombat, July 11, 2019
All About Peace, Müértö Art Journal, July-August, 2018
All About Peace, Dékei Kriszta, Magyar Narancs, cultural weekly, July 12, 2018
Interview, MR4, Hungarian Radio, Germain Section, June 16, 2018
Új Művészet, Wall Paintings at the MODEM, Budapest, 2017
MODEM, Modern és Kortárs Művészeti Központ, Video interviews, Jan 24, 2017
Lukács Tihamér, Contextus, Video interviews, Lehet kortárs a feskó? [Can Frescos be Contemporary?], Budapest, 2017
Contextus, Kortárs freskókkal a szakralitásért, Budapest, 2017
M1, Hungarian National Television, live report, 2017
Big Red & Shiny, In Retrospect: Tony Feher & Absent | Present, 2013
Art New England, A Campus Kunsthalle, Leonie Bradbury, 2013
Big Red & Shiny, (only) 9 women artists, 2013

Boston Globe, Of comings and goings, by Cate McQuaid, 2013
Big Red & Shiny, Camilo Alvarez discusses the Samsøn residency program, Stephanie Cardon, 2013
Exhibit catalogue, Multiplicities: Artwork as Network, essay by Leonie Bradbury, 2013
Boston Magazine, by Matthew Reed Baker, 2011
WBUR, Looking Out: On Bumpkin Island, It’s ‘Survivor’ For Artists, by Andrea Shea 2010
Somogyi Hírlap, Keleti part - egyedi perspektívából, by Vas András, 2010
Exhibit catalogue, essay by Francine Koslow Miller, 2009
Northwest Life Magazine, 2009
Boston Globe, In trees, fresh perspective for Fruitlands, May 2009
Orion Magazine, September / October 2007
The Middlesex BEAT by Terry House, 2005
József Attila, Töredékek, Arcus Press, Hungary, Hardcover, 2005

 


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