Szilard Huszank was born in 1980 in Miskolc, Hungary. He currently lives and works in Augsburg, Germany. He studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest as well as the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nuremberg, Germany.
Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, the artist’s wooded landscapes are characterized by vivid and vibrant colors, as well as cascading liquid gestures.
Szilard Huszank’s work has been exhibited at several institutions and galleries worldwide including Galerie Tanit Munich (2024), Bucsanyi, Washington DC, USA (2024), Galerie Drees, Hanover (2024), Galerie Tanit Beirut (2023), the Gopea-Kunstraum: Burg Bentheim (2023), Kunstverein Rosenheim and Ludwigsburg (2023), Neue Galerie Dachau (2022), Foley Gallery (2021), Alfred Toepfer Foundation (2019), Galerie Robert Drees (2018), Kunsthalle Schweinfurt (2012), Haus der Kunst (2009) and Kogart Foundation (2009). He is the recipient of the Phonix Art Prize – Evangelische Akademie Tutzing (2016) and the Art Prize of the Nuremberg News (2012). He also received the Alfred Toepfer Scholarship in 2009.
The artist’s work has been the subject of 5 books, all published by Kerber; I Just Keep Painting (2022), Recent Paintings of an Immigrant (2018), A Foreign Land (2015), Fiction Landscape (2014) and Consciously Unconsciously (2011).
Szilard Huszank is represented by Galerie Tanit Munich.