Jenő Lévay

(1954, Budapest)

Jenő Lévay is a Munkácsy Award-winning visual artist. He graduated from the Teacher Training College in Eger (now Eszterházy Károly Catholic University) in 1978 and received his master’s degree in teaching from the same institution in 2009. In 1981, he was one of the founders of the Xertox group, and in 1994, he launched the Váltótér project. His most significant awards include the Grand Prize at the 18th National Biennial of Graphic Arts (1996); the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, Japan, 3rd prize (1997); the IX. National Drawing Biennial Grand Prize (1998); a scholarship from the Hungarian Academy in Rome (2000); as well as an award from the Hungarian Academy of Arts at the exhibition of the Szolnok Fine Arts Society “Transz” (2020). In 2014, he had a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Budapest. His works are displayed in the following public collections: the Hungarian National Gallery, the Budapest History Museum, the Ministry of Culture, the Miskolc Gallery, the Ottó Herman Museum, the János Xantus Museum, the Békés County Library, the Studio of Young Artists, the National Workshop of Graphic Arts in Vác, and at KOGART, Natural History Museum.