About the Artist
Brigitta Kocsis was born in Hungary. She moved to the UK and learned English in Brixton. After two years there, she relocated to Montreal to pursue her fine arts education at Concordia University. In 2005 she received her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and since 1994 she has been living and working in Vancouver, BC.
Brigitta received a Canada Council Assistance to Visual Artists – Project Grant in 2010 and just returned to Vancouver after spending five months researching and creating in Paris and Berlin. Kocsis is now planning to travel to Geneva, Switzerland in September, 2011 for her first European solo show.
Artist Statement
My work explores the space between figuration and abstraction.The compositions are focused on investigating the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment. Contemporary discoveries in anatomical technologies have profoundly changed how one perceives the human body.In my current project SECRET MECHANISMS, human figures are like actors depicting a kind of abhorrent contemporary beauty in the age where science-fiction and artificial body parts are no longer fiction. SECRET MECHANISMS explores how technology can alter perception by interacting with the methods and processes involved in how the human body works.The tension contained within the bodies of the characters, due to the pervasive technologies, communicates a sense of contemporary environment in its fractured state. -Brigitta Kocsis |
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 SECRET MECHANISMS, Aad Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 SECRET MECHANISMS, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon BC
2011 SECRET MECHANISMS, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 SECRET MECHANISMS, Campbell River & District Public Art Gallery, BC
2007 ON AN INTIMATE DIMENSION, VECC, Vancouver BC
2006 IN THE ALTOGETHER, Maple Ridge Public Art Gallery, curated by Laura Moodie, Maple Ridge BC
1997 THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, Gallery Sansair, Vancouver BC
1995 COOPED, Gallery Sansair, Vancouver BC
1994 TEA PARTY, Fine Arts Building, Concordia University, Montreal QB
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 THE POWER OF LINE, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC [Part of the 2011 Vancouver Drawn Festival]
2010 CELEBRATE THE ART OF CANADA, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008 WINTER-SOLSTICE, Chapel Arts, Vancouver BC
2007 STUDIOSHOP, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver BC
2006 BRITISH COLUMBIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AWARDS, SFU, Vancouver BC
2006 RESONANCE, with M. Lowry, Amelia Douglas Gallery, New Westminster BC
1995 PROFORMA, with Folke Kobberling, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC
2005 ECI GRAD SHOW, Vancouver BC
2004 THRESHOLD, Concourse Gallery, curated by Rina Liddle and Sue Webster, Vancouver BC
2003 THE FIGURATIVE SHOW, Concourse Gallery, ECI, Vancouver BC
2002 Mezzanine Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver BC
1998 BLUE VALENTINE, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver BC
1997 ANNUAL ARTIST SOLSTICE SALE, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver BC
1996 50/50 FUNDRAISING, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC
1995 WALL TO WALL, Or Gallery, Vancouver BC
1988 Marczibányi-téri kör, Budapest, Hungary
Education
2002-05 BFA, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver BC
1997 Western Front Multimedia Program, Vancouver BC
1993-94 VIAR, Concordia University, Montreal QC
1985-88 Private studies with Rita Sik, Fiatal Művészek Klubja (FMK) &
Lajos Szlavik, Marczibányi-téri kör, Budapest, Hungary
Awards
2011 Mac11 Geneve Art Biennal, Geneve, Switzerland
2011 Nuit de Bains, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 Canada Council Visual Arts Travel Grant
2010 Canada Council Assistance to Visual Artists – Project Grant to research & create in Paris & Berlin for a period of 5 months
1998 Vancouver Film School, Residency, Vancouver BC
Publications
2011 Galleries West, issue 2011-03
2011 Preview Magazine, Issue 2011-12
2011 ESCENE, Emily Carr University’s Alumni Magazine
2009 Campbell River Mirror, “The boundary between body and environment.”
2008 ESCENE, Emily Carr University’s Alumni Magazine
2008 The Globe and Mail, “After a rough start…” by Darryl Greer, Vancouver BC
2007 NZ House & Garden, “Home is Where the Art is”, Auckland, New Zealand
1998 Performance Research Magazine, Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupton, “An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act”, Wales, UK
1995 “Proforma”, video archive of the ECI Library, Vancouver BC
1995 “Proforma, GHK, (Art Academy of Kassel) Kassel, Germany |
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