Represented artist
Ujházi Péter
festészet · assemblage · kerámia · szobrászat
Groteszk, an artist characterised by a grotesque, ironic and surrealist vision, works with paintings, assemblages, ceramics and sculptures.
Ujházi Péter (1940) has had an unblemished creative career for over four decades. All of his work – drawings, paintings, box pieces, ceramic and bronze sculptures, collages, watercolours, leporello art‑books, and transformed photographs – emerges from his hand. He chronicles everyday life, drawing constant inspiration from people‑filled places: streets, railways, pubs, horse races, target shooting, motor racing and circus. His forms, sketched with scratched calligraphic lines on rough surfaces, resemble urban chalk walls and prehistoric cave drawings – the closest manifestation of a style that seeks to distil the essence of phenomena. He portrays the world in a lively, colourful, distorted manner that mirrors the way children draw, with its innocent charm, natural accidents and naivety, and in doing so creates a special, singular, unequivocally lovable visual world. His mode of representation – a tension between reality and vision, figurativism and abstraction – is united by a sharply ironic yet always empathically forgiving subjective narration, yielding oddly‑toned, sometimes bizarre compositions. The figurations are marked by playful experimentation, spontaneity and versatility. The use of different viewpoints within a single image, and the carpet‑like, narratively descriptive compositional style, give these works a distinctive character. In his pictures the deeply symbolic imagery of caves, wells, tunnels, labyrinths, towers, islands and springs becomes emblematic self‑portrait symbols enriched by personal experience.
Earlier professional biography
Full biography and exhibition history
Péter Ujhazi
1940 Székesfehérvár
LEARNING MATERIALS
1961–1966 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
Masters: Bernáth Aurél, Kmetty János
Awards (selection)
2012 National Prima Award
2004 Artist of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
2002 XVIII National Watercolour Biennale Prize, Eger
2000 XX. National Graphic Biennale Award, Miskolc
The 1998 XV National Ceramic Biennale Award, Pécs.
1993 Deák Dénes Award
1987 Munkácsy Mihály Award
1976 Award of the V National Watercolour Biennale, Eger
Teachers, Assistants
2015, 2000, 1988, 1986 Sweden
2001 Budapest partner‑city scholarship, Lisbon
1999, 1983 United States
1993 József Eötvös Scholarship
1991: the Scholarship of the Roman Hungarian Academy
Since 1968 he has visited Paris on several occasions.
Works in Our Collections (selection)
St Stephen the King Museum, Székesfehérvár
Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Ludwig Collection, Aachen
Rippl-Rónai József Museum, Kaposvár
Szombathely Art Gallery, Szombathely
First Hungarian Exposition Foundation, Budapest
Modern Art Foundation, Dunaújváros
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2017 Karinthy Salon, Budapest (with Ildikó Zsemlye)
2016 New boxes, Liget Gallery, Budapest
2016, 2011, 2009, 2007 Godot Gallery, Budapest
2015 “My New House”, New Hungarian Art Repository, Székesfehérvár
2015, 2012, 2009, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1991 Várfok Gallery, Budapest
2014 8 pieces (talking) vessel, Pelikán Gallery, Székesfehérvár
2012 Vaszary Picture Gallery, Kaposvár
2010, 2000, 1976, 1971 St Stephen the King Museum, Székesfehérvár
2006 UP66 collection exhibition at five venues, Budapest:
Budapest Gallery / Bartók 32 Gallery / Körmendi Gallery / Godot Gallery /
Pintér Sonja Contemporary Art Gallery
2001 Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
2001 Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
1997 Vigadó Gallery, Budapest (with Ildikó Várnagy)
1995 House of Arts, Pécs
Hungarian Institute, Bucharest, 1995
1994 Hungarian Institute, Stuttgart
1994 Hungarian Institute, Moscow
1994, 1986 Csók István Gallery, Székesfehérvár
1991 National Széchenyi Library, Budapest
1989 Fészek Club, Budapest
1987, 1973 Uitz Terem, Dunaújváros
1985 Galerie Levy, Hamburg
1984 Vajda Lajos Studio, Szentendre
1977 Kassák Club, Budapest
GROUPED EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2018 Memory and longing, the collection of Gábor Hunya, Kohán Gallery, Gyula
2018 Black, Várfok Gallery, Budapest
2017 Twelve painters from the Artists' Society of Székesfehérvár, Bartók 1 Gallery, Budapest
2016 'Az ostromlás a dolgunk' – A betiltott Mozgó Világ (1975–1983), Ferenczy Múzeum, Szentendre
2016 GÉM/GAMEkapocs, works from the Antal-Lusztig collection with parallels in visual arts, MODEM, Debrecen
2015 Ornament interpretations in contemporary visual art (1990-2015), Várfok Gallery, Budapest
The Contemporary Hungarian Gallery in Dunaszerdahely, Slovakia, is 2014 20 years old.
2009 Four artists from Székesfehérvár, Kornhaus, Schwäbisch‑Gmünd
2008 Bukarest‑Budapest Bridge, Hunya Gábor’s collection, Galeria Căminul Artei, Bukarest
2004 Europe Friz, UngArt, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
1993 Coloured water, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1993 Ten former scholars of the Hungarian Academy in Rome, Magyar Akadémia, Rome
1990 In quotation marks, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
1989 Kunst heute in Hungary, Ludwig Collection, Aachen
1989 XXI International Painting Festival, Cagnes‑sur‑Mer
1987 Surprise... for our readers, I International Artist Book Exhibition, István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
1984 13 Artists from Hungary, Art Fair, Stockholm
Contemporary Art Fair, 1983 Bilbao
1982 Hungarian art of today, Gallery Levy, Hamburg
1980 Hungarian Contemporary Art, Royal Palace, Milan
1979 Art fair, Basel
1978 Painting 77, Palace of Fine Arts, Budapest
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kovács P.: In front of Ujházi's pictures, Art, 1974/7.
Vadas J.: From the view to the idea. Studio Gallery, And, 1974 July 27
Kovács P.: We present Ujházi P.'s drawings, Life and Literature, 1978. February 11.
H. É.: Ujházi Péter. Studio exhibition – Hungarian National Gallery, Art, 1981/3.
Kovalovszky M.: Ujházi Péter – noble portrait, Moving World, 1982/10.
Ujházi Péter, Art, 1983/9
Ladányi J.: Exhibition of Péter Ujházi's collection (catalogue available, Székesfehérvár, 1986)
Kovalovszky M.: Arrangement, Our Life, 1987/3.
Gyárfás P.: Wall colours and the Baroque pit, Moving World, 1987/9
Kovács P.: On Ujházi Péter's art, Vigilia, 1987/7
Fitz P.: ...I wanted to be a normal painter, Árgus, 1993/1.
Sasvári E.: Ujházi Péter, Images and Boxes (catalogue, Székesfehérvár, 1994)
Kovács P.: Pictures and Boxes. P. Ujházi exhibition, Új Művészet, 1995/1.
Sárosdi J.: Portrait (catalogue, Studio 1900 Gallery, 1997)
Gelencsér Rothman Éva: Oil / Canvas (catalogue, Műcsarnok, 1997)
Kovalovszky M.: N.Y.C. Ujházi Péter exhibition, Studio 1900 Gallery, 1999
Kovalovszky M.: Ujház Péter, Székesfehérvár, 2000
Exhibition moments
Images from a shared history
Solo and group exhibitions
Exhibitions at Godot 21
A New Beginning – From Collection to Collection 6.0Új kezdet – Gyűjteményből gyűjteménybe 6.0
11 September 2026 – 31 October 2026
Godot Galéria
Godot Online Kamara Aukció – kiállítás
30 August 2021
Godot Galéria
II. Godot Kortárs Aukció és Kiállítás 2021-04-21 — 2021-05-03
21 April 2021 – 3 May 2021
Godot Galéria
Feltámadás júniusban2020-06-04 — 2020-06-20
4 June 2020 – 20 June 2020
Godot Galéria
#g20 - A Godot 20 éves jubileumi kiállítása - 2019-09-05 — 2019-10-12
5 September 2019 – 12 October 2019
Godot Galéria
Nagykarácsony - Kortárs műtárgyat karácsonyra II.
25 November 2016 – 18 December 2016
Godot Galéria
Ujházi Péter: Új munkák - 2016-10-20 — 2016-11-19 - Godot Galéria
20 October 2016 – 19 November 2016
Godot Galéria
ART MARKET BUDAPEST 2016 – a Godot Galéria részvétele
13 October 2016
Millenáris
Kortárs műtárgyat karácsonyra!
26 November 2015 – 20 December 2015
Godot Galéria
ART MARKET BUDAPEST 2012 – a Godot Galéria részvétele
8 November 2012
Millenáris
ART MARKET BUDAPEST 2011 – a Godot Galéria részvétele
27 October 2011
Millenáris, B csarnok
Ujházi Péter 2011 - 2011-09-21 — 2011-10-22 - Godot Galéria
21 September 2011 – 22 October 2011
Godot Galéria
Zacc?
19 January 2011 – 5 March 2011
Godot Galéria
Kortárs magángyűjtemények XV. – Sáránszki Péter gyűjteménye
26 May 2010 – 19 June 2010
Godot Galéria
Ujházi Péter 2009
11 October 2009 – 14 November 2009
Godot Galéria
Téli tárlat
28 November 2007 – 22 December 2007
Godot Galéria
Ujházi Péter
31 October 2007 – 24 November 2007
Godot Galéria
Individuális petroglifák konceptuális absztrahálása
7 June 2006 – 17 June 2006
Godot Galéria
Ujházi Péter: UP 66
18 May 2006
Godot Galéria
Kortárs magángyűjtemények V.: Balázs Csaba gyűjteménye, Brutál és naiv
8 December 2004 – 7 January 2005
Godot Galéria
Kortárs magángyűjtemények III.: Antal-Lusztig Gyűjtemény
3 December 2003 – 23 December 2003
Godot Galéria