István Halas

(1954, Budapest)

István Halas graduated in photography from the Vocational Secondary School in 1977. He regards Francis Bacon, Lucien Hervé, Gábor Kerekes, Robert Frank, István Petrás, Richard Avedon and Zsolt Fekete as his masters. He is an experimental artist exploring the boundary between fine art and photography. He received the André Kertész Prize in 1999, the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2001 and the Europa Nostra Award in 2003. Major exhibitions: Berlin (2020), King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (2023), Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest (2023), FUGA Budapest (2025). His works can be found in the collections of the King Saint Stephen Museum (Székesfehérvár), the Allen Memorial Museum (Oberlin), the Musée d’Élysée (Lausanne), the Kiscelli Museum (Budapest), the Petőfi Literary Museum (Budapest) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest), among others.