Tibor Várnagy

(1957, Debrecen)

Tibor Várnagy is a self-taught visual artist and founding member of the Hejettes Szomlyazók group. He has been taking photographs with and without a camera since the early 1980s. He was a member of the Studio of Young Photographers between 1987 and 1990. He received the Derkovits scholarship between 1991 and 1994. He won the award of the Ministry of Culture and Public Education in 1993 together with Ágnes Eperjesi and was recognised with the Locus Signi award in the same year. He received the Beautiful Hungarian Book award in 1996, the Mediawave Festival Parallel Culture Award in 2017, and the curatorial award at Paris Photo in 2019. In recent years, he has had solo exhibitions in Budapest and Sepsiszentgyörgy. His works can be found in the collections of Artpool, the First Hungarian Art & Artifact Repository, the Ludwig Museum, the Hungarian National Gallery, the King Saint Stephen Museum, the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), the Obala Art Center (Sarajevo) and the Galeria Wymiany (Łódź), among others.