Zsuzsi Simon is a visual artist living and working Budapest. In recent years, she has explored expectations, taboos, and stereotypes related to gender roles. She often uses her own body and experiences as a medium, thereby directly and sensitively linking personal and social issues. A hallmark of her feminist approach is her view that the female body is both an experiential and a political space.
Judit Csatlós
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2009 – 2015
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia, Budapest
2012 –
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, study abroad with ERASMUS scholarship spring semester, Krakow
2007 – 2009
NOVUS Art School, applied photographer, OKJ, Budapest
2003 – 2007
Bródy Imre High School, Fine Arts, Budapest
RESIDENCIES, MEMBERSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
2024 –
XVI. Steel Sculpture artist residency of Dunaújváros
2022 –
Member of the Secondary Archive
2022 –
Book of the Body workshop, Okofeminist festival, Szeszgyár
2019 –
f++k Independent Art Department workshop
2017 –
President of the Studio Association of Young Artists /FKSE/
2016 –
Köz.kemp art camp (organizer)
2015 –
Ferenc Mérei college membership
2015 – 2017
Member of the Board of the Studio Association of Young Artists /FKSE/
2013 – 2016
College of Art and Art Theory, NEMIgaz group - gender workshop
2011 – 2017
Member of the Studio of Young Photographers /FFS/
2011 –
Member of the Studio Association of Young Artists /FKSE/
2011 – 2018
30 UNDER 30 membership
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Hold.Raise.Unite., Kisterem, Budapest
2022
Alexandru, ISBN books + gallery, Budapest
2018
Jewel Hair - Ugly or beauty?, Lollipop Factory, Budapest
2013
See the Women, Kalicka Bistro, Budapest
2011
SHIVER - with the support of MONA (Hungarian Women's Foundation), Fogasház, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
65+-, AQB, Budapest
2025
Born in Transition, AQB, Budapest
Listing, Kisterem, Budapest
Born in Transition, Studio Hanniball, Berlin
Lokart 3.0 Fine Arts Biennale, Pécsi Galéria, Pécs
Maleficae, Sopa Gallery, Košice
To Live, to Err, to Fall, to Triumph – Exhibition from the Leopold Bloom Art Foundation Collection, Szombathely
European Kinship – From an Eastern European Perspective, Capa Center, Budapest
2024
Iron Will - XVI. Steel Sculpture artist residency of Dunaújváros, ICA-D, Dunaújváros
Maleficae - From bonfires to online witchcfart, Budapest Gallery
C80 - The Aesthetics of Cancer?, Semmelweis Institute of Pathology and Cancer
Research, Budapest
2023
Let’s think about freedom, Lehetőségek Tere, Budapest
Horizons of autonomy, Knoll Gallery, Vienna
Handle with care, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Redesign, ICA-D, Dunaújváros
Fototaxis II. - NO/BODY, Csikász Galery, Veszprém
Horizons of the Autonomy, Knoll Galery, Budapest
2020
Waiting Room - Women Healers and Patients, Semmelweis Museum of Medical
History
2019
PATRON Art Fair and Exhibition, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
2018
I became an artist, I became a stranger, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Erasing the future forever, FKSE annual exhibition, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
BODIES, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2016
The artist is what?, Labor Gallery, Budapest
ContURNuE EXPLOITATION // Get Out of Our Pants FESTIVAL, Aurora, Budapest
2015
Self-Readings, Studio Gallery, Pride Budapest
2014
FKSE annual exhibition, Gólya, Budapest
UBIK space/time distortions, Casati Art Corner Gallery, Budapest
2013
Budapest, Hotel Casati, FFS summer collection
Mass Insurance, Akvárium, Budapest
2012
Reflex Attact - Art Moments, Zsolnay Factory, Pécs
Balatonszemes Vigadó - St. ÉgRe, XVII Szemes Festival, Balatonszemes
In the Image of Mona Lisa II - Art Moments, MODEM, Debrecen
Mona Lisa’s Smile, Akvárium, Budapest
City Scape, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Manga Gallery, Krakow
Hotel Forum, Hotel Forum 2, Krakow
1 în 20, MAGMA Contemporary Art Exhibition Space, Sfântu Gheorghe
Hungry bitch growls - Exhibition of new members of FKSE, Studio Gallery
2011
Fictions of Reality - Exhibition of new members of FFS, Artbasis,
Urban Space Berlin Budapest, Demo Gallery, Budapest
Dunaújváros Biennale, Institute of Contemporary Art /ICA-D/
Balatonszemes Vigadó, St. Ég, XVII Szemes Festival, Balatonszemes
OTHER
2023 – Futures talents – futures-photography.com/artists/simon-zsuzsi
2021 – The big body hair question, Venus project podcast
2016 – Conversation with the Eleven Monument – Radio Forbidden
2016 – Talk at the Eleven Monument – Floating “victim”
2004 – 2014 – Tihany Artists’ colony, creative camp
MEDIA APPEARANCES
2025 British Journal of Photography – European Kinship – Eastern European Perspective
2022 “We don’t have that kind of spirit” – interview with Zsuzsi Simon, Gergely Nagy, A mű, HVG
2022 Mirror for the man – György Cséka, ÚjMűvészet
2022 Alexandru – First Hand video – Artmagazin
2022 “We don’t have that kind of spirit” – Interview with Zsuzsi Simon, Nagy Gergely, A mű
2022 Mirror for the man, Cséka György, ÚjMűvészet
2022 More than body hair – Emese Mucsi, Glamour Magazin
2022 Changegaze, Schuller Judit Flóra, Artportal
2022 Let’s eat! Capazine – Emese Mucsi, Glamour Magazin
2021 It’s a relief to have nothing to hide. 6 Hungarian photographers on the power of
the female gaze – Lili Rutai, The Calvert Journal
2020 punkt.hu – “It is important for my projects that I am involved as a participant” – Interview with Zsuzsanna Simon – by Vera Fehér
2016 Why does someone write on their belly that they don’t want to be a government official? – László Szily
2014 Interview – Literary Centrifuge
2013 Photopost – Edit Barta
2013 Female deformities – Kékharisnya Blog
2011 Urban Space Berlin Budapest, Artportal