István Szirányi

(1951, Kaposvár)

István Szirányi graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs in 1976, and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1986. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists (MAOE), the Association of Hungarian Photographers, the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists, and the Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists. He exhibits regularly in solo and group exhibitions. He won the main prize at the Esztergom Photo Biennial in 1994. He received scholarships from Nord Pas-de-Calais (Lille) in 2000, the Hungarian Academy in Rome in 2003, and MAOE in 2005. He received the Ildikó Simsay Award in 2020 and was honoured with the István Szőts Award from the Hungarian Academy of Arts in 2025. His works can be found at the Atelier Vis-á-Vis (Marseille), the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, the KOGART, the Hungarian Museum of Photography, the Hungarian National Museum, the Miskolc Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art (Hokkaido), the Museum of Modern Arts (Skopje), the King Saint Stephen Museum, the Rikhardinkatu Library (Helsinki), and the Center of Book Art (New York).