JÁNOS KORODI
CURRICULUM VITAE
Janos was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1971, and has lived in Philadelphia since 2015.
STUDIES
2014 Doctorate at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
Thesis: The spirit of place and its interferences with universal art /
axis mundi of Béla Veszelszky and James Turrell —read Abstract here—
discusses the theme of the Spirit of Place and its effects on the work of an artist.
2004−2005 Universitat für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, Austria,
guest semester at the architect-faculty, class of Wolf D. Prix / Coop Himmelb(l)au
2002–2005 postgradual studies in Pécs University Art Department
1998 MFA at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Light works Terminal, Létminimum Bázis, Budapest
2016 “Anonymous Landscape” Artworks Trenton, NJ
2014 “Speakeasy" – with Roland Horváth Neon Gallery, Budapest
2013 AJAMK, Budapest
2011 “Eternal Lingering”. Neon Gallery, Budapest
2010 Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2009 “Secret Reading". Viltin Gallery, Budapest
Joensuu Art Museum, Finnland
2008 galleria U, Helsinki, Finnland
Hungarian Cultural Institute, Tallin, Estonia
ARTI08 – Den Haag, NL
2006 acb Gallery, Budapest
2003 “Periodic System”. Secco Gallery, Budapest
2002 Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
1999 “Selfspreading”. UFF Gallery, Budapest
1997 Subway, Budapest
1994 Tam-Tam, Budapest
SELECTED COLLECTIVE
2022 Passages: Arden Bendler Browning and Janos Korodi @ miniMAC (miniature Mount Airy Contemporary), Philadelphia, PA
2021 Hidden Threads - with Katee Boyle, Carlos Alejandro, Alex Griffin, Matt Nelson of N.E.thing_productions,
Hot+Bed, Philadelphia, PA
PASSENGER with Andras Szigeti at Hungarian Cultural Center İstanbul, Tr
also included in Visegrad Cultural Program Series
Hezarfen Film Gallery Architecture Center in İzmir, Tr
2019 Pattern Burst - Artsy Exclusive - InLiquid
The Yard, Philadelphia
2018 "Motion Pictured" DVAA @ International House, Philadelphia, PA
"International Variety, a works on paper" James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Transformation as Perception" (with Ana Vizcarra Rankin and Bryant Girsch)
curated by Eric Preisendanz @ Azavea, Philadelphia, PA
"Outside In" (with Alice Gonglewski, Eli Smith, Krista Dedrick Lai, Márton Szabó) InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 America (with Christopher Brown, John Y. Wind and Matthew Courtney)
@ The South Tower Gallery at Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
2015 “Water/Color” Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
“Art all Night” Trenton, NJ
2012 Wallspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 “Hybridity within the Carpathians” MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen
2010 Donumenta, Regensburg, Germany
2009 Accademia delle Accademie – Rome, Tempio di Adriano“ Spazi Aperti”. Romanian Accademy, Rome
2008 Gallery-fund project by 9 hungarian artists. “Budapest Erzsébet tér”. Gödör Klub, Budapest
The Irokez-collection – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2007 “Uncutted version – Painterly positions”. Ernst-Museum, Budapest
2006 “SideMen”. Körzőgyár, Budapest (Csáky Donát Márk, Duronelly Balázs, Horváth Roland, Korodi János,
Kotormán Norbert, Szabó Ákos, Szabó Márton)
2005 Wittgenstein-Haus, Wien (Csáky Donát Márk, Csepregi Balázs, Korodi János, Révész László László)
Hungarian Kultural Institute, Bruxelles, Belgium Csáky Donát Márk, Mario Feretti
2004 IROKEZ-collection – Szombathely,
Hungarian Institute, Sofia
2003 Painting Biennal Väsby Konsthall. Infra Gallery, Stockholm
“Bad Boys”. Műcsarnok Exhibition Hall, Budapest
2002 “Fresh”. Art-Mill, Szentendre
“We choose yellow rather than bluish-white” with Luca Korodi. APA! Gallery, Budapest
“It’s good everywhere, but the best at home”. MEO, Budapest
2001 KIO Gallery, BBS, Toldi (Szigeti A., Uglár Cs.)
The Irokéz Collection – Műcsarnok Exhibition Hall, Budapest
Hungarian Institute Moskow (Derkovits-scholarship members)
2000 “Rotation”. Várfok Gallery, Budapest
Tóth Menyhért scholarship members. Cifrapalota, Kecskemét
König Albrecht Haus, Leipzig
“Dialogue” Painting on the Millenium. Műcsarnok Exhibition Hall, Budapest
1999 “Irregular Memory”. Exhibition Hall, Szombathely
20th Century Box (with Szigeti András). UFF Gallery, Budapest
1997 “Slamasztika ’97” (with Ádám Kálmán). UFF Gallery, Budapest
1996 Zichy-castle, Óbuda, Budapest
“K”- as Chimera. Exhibition Hall, Szombathely
1995 Újlak Exhibitionspace, Budapest. (Baranyai Levente, Uglár Csaba, Korodi János)
1994 Vajda Lajos Cave, Szentendre
COMMON COLLECTION
Park Towne Place Museum District, permanent collection, Philadelphia, PA
Irokéz Collection, Szombathely
PTE MK KM, Pécs
Ernst Museum, Budapest
Raiffeisen Bank, Budapest
Collection of Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Budapest
PRIZES
2010 Eötvös Grant of the Hungarian State – studio residency New York City, NY
2008 scholarship of the Hungarian Academy in Rome
1999–2001 Derkovits-scholarship of the state
1996 The scholarship of the “Tóth Menyhért Foundation” Kecskemét, Hungary
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Public Art Proposal // Janos Korodi reimagines Philadelphia’s rusty tanks as vessels of beauty and community // RQ Vol. 5 // Issue 2 // RUST // FALL 2023
https://www.rootquarterly.com/rqsales/rq-vol-issue-2-rust-fall2023
2020 PROFILE // Mental States: For painter Janos Korodi, home—and freedom—are in the mind - ROOT QUARTERLY VOL. 2 // ISSUE 2 // FIGHT / FLIGHT / TEND & BEFRIEND https://www.rootquarterly.com/fight-flight
2013 “Color and How to Use It” by Marcie Cooperman, textbook, color theory ©Pearson Prentice Hall, 2013
2008 Paintings 1994–2008. Hungarian–English, 100p – 94 color plates ©Janos Korodi, 2008