Eszter Sziksz · MFA, DLA

Instagram: @szikszeszter
Website:  www.szikszeszter.com

Bio

Eszter Sziksz is a Hungarian artist whose work brings together printmaking, installation, sculpture, and video to explore memory, presence, and human connection. Many of her projects invite participation from the audience, allowing the work to unfold through physical interaction and shared experience. She has lived and worked internationally, with projects spanning Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration at the Sarasota Art Museum, the International Print Triennial in Poland, the Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, juried by Elizabeth Rudy of the Harvard Art Museums, and the upcoming Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment at the Castellani Art Museum (2026–27). In fall 2026 she will present her first museum-level solo exhibition at the Sarasota Art Museum.

She is the recipient of the Halo Arts Project Fellowship (2026), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant(2024), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2023), and received the Prix de Print Award from Art in Printmagazine, where her work was featured on the cover.

Eszter earned her MFA from Memphis College of Art and her Doctorate in Liberal Arts (DLA) from the University of Pécs, Hungary. She teaches Fine Arts/Printmaking at Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida.

Full version of the CV, here

EDUCATION

2018 · DLA, Doctorate in Liberal Arts, Fine Arts – University of Pécs, Hungary
2010 · MFA, Studio Art – Memphis College of Art, TN
2006 · University of Eötvös Loránd, Budapest
2001 · Printmaking Degree – Óbudai Művészeti Szakiskola, Budapest
1997 · Bookbinding Degree – Kisfaludy Tóth Miklós Technical School, Budapest

SELECTED ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2025 · Co-Lecturer, Puertograbando International Printmaking Conference, Puerto Rico
2024 · Co-Lecturer, Child/Youth-Friendly Climate Justice, University College Cork, Ireland
2023 · Co-Lecturer, UDHR at 75, Ghent University, Belgium
2017 · Full-time Faculty, Printmaking, Ringling College of Art + Design
2015–16 · Interim Director, MFA Program, Memphis College of Art
2010–15 · Instructor, Printmaking, Memphis College of Art
2020 · Member, New York Critic Club
2013 · Art Team Member, ICEHOTEL #25, Sweden

RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS (SELECTED)

2025 · The Studios of Key West (PEAR Program), FL
2024 · Loop Residency, MUD Foundation (virtual)
2023 · The Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency, Svalbard, Norway
2018 · Art Ovation Hotel Residency, Sarasota, FL
2016 · IceHotel Summer Residency, Sweden
2013 · Mokulito & Lithography Workshop, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

Upcoming: I Don’t Know What I’m Looking For (And I Hope I Never Find It), Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL, 2026

2025 · Let it Go, Gallery114, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL
2021 · To the Ones Who Came Before Us, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College, Sarasota, FL
2019 · Pop Up, Alfstad & Editions, Sarasota, FL
2015 · Gently Expanding Universe, Memphis College of Art
2013–10 · Selected solos in the U.S., Hungary, and Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026–27 · Human Nature: Envisioning the Environment, Castellani Art Museum, NY
2025 · Traces of Change, SPAACES, Sarasota, FL
2025 · Mapping the Anthropocene, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
2024 · Skyway 2024, The Ringling; Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete; Tampa Museum of Art; USF CAM; Sarasota Art Museum
2024 · The Twelve Art Biennale, Budapest
2023 · The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial
2023 · Breath, CICA Museum, South Korea
2022 · NEXT 2022, PRINTHOUSTON · International Mini Print Cantabria
2021 · International Print Triennial, Krakow
2020–15 · Multiple Ones, MOCA Jacksonville & California Lutheran University
2018 · Impact10, Santander, Spain
2017–11 · New Prints (IPCNY), Summer/Winter editions

(Additional early exhibitions available upon request.)

AWARDS, GRANTS & HONORS (SELECTED)

2026 · Halo Fellowship Award
2024 · Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2024 · Professional Development Fund, Ringling College of Art + Design
2023 · The Puffin Foundation Grant
2022 · Future Art Award, MOZAIK Philanthropy
2020 · COVID-19 Relief Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2019 · Renaissance Graphic Arts Award, The Print Center
2018 · Prix de Print #28, Art in Print
2017 · Emerging Professionals Grant, SGCI
2016 & 2013 · Fogelman Travel Grants

SCREENINGS & PUBLIC ART

2023 · Light the Way, façade projection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
2016 · Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
2010 · Faces of Poverty, Film & Video Festival, Budapest

LECTURES, TALKS & VISITING ARTIST ROLES (RECENT)

Upcoming: 2026 Artist Talk, University of Texas, Austin
2025 · Gallery Talk, Sarasota Art Museum
2024 · Artist Talk, Skyway 2024, Sarasota Art Museum
2024 · Visiting Artist, University of North Florida
2023 · Artist Talk, Ringling College
2020 · Artist Talk, MOCA Jacksonville
2018 · Artist Talk, IPCNY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS

2024 · Printmaking Today — Feature: “Extended Printmaking”
2023 · HVG 360 – Feature on Arctic Circle project
2021 · Duna World Hungarian Television Feature
2018 · Art in Print – Prix de Print
Earlier notable press in: The Atlantic, Flavorwire, Inhabitat, ArtDaily, Jezebel, Stockholm Post, Madrid News.

AUTHORIAL PUBLICATIONS

2012 · “Mokulito Wood Lithography,” Graphic Impressions, SGCI Newsletter
2012 · “Screen Prints on Ice,” Printeresting.com