Ábel Szalontai

(1972, Budapest)

Ábel Szalontai graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts in 1998, mentored by Imre Benkő, Miklós Gulyás, and Tibor Zátonyi. He is a senior lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and head of the same institution’s doctoral school. The realms of immersion and observation open up in his works, where reality and self-reflection are delicately intertwined. He won the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2015 and the Red Dot Award in 2024. In recent years, he has had solo exhibitions at the House of Arts in Veszprém and the Robert Capa Center in Budapest.