ANDRÁS NAGY-SÁNDOR
Andras Nagy-Sandor (1993) is a Hungarian artist and curator based in London, UK.
The main focus of Andras' practice is unpicking the aspirations and ambivalences within his masculinity through the symbolism of armours as a link between painterly, emotional and conceptual dichotomies. The aesthetic of Andras' armours are narrative, in some cases pseudo-folkloric, however they do not need to be read as armours as they are the results of an intuitive design process, an embodied sensemaking approach that is based on Andras' imagination and memories. They are gestures, edges, shapes, colours, patterns, paint, materials with a conscience enveloping figurative moments, interactions between body parts, characters, groups, anthropomorphic multiheaded beings that float between cultures and identities, folklore and sci-fi.
Education
2022 MFA Fine Art Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UK
2018 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University, UK
Solo Exhibitions
Nov. 2022, TEASE, The Room, London
Feb. 2022, Bizz bennem/Trust me, Fest; Tisztit Gallery, Budapest, HU
Selected Group Exhibitions
Jan. 2023 Who holds the sword?, Hypha Studios, London
Jan. 2023 London Art Fair, Artistellar Gallery, London
Nov. 2022 NOW Introducing 2022, STUDIO WEST, London
Sept. 2022 Extension, VO Curations Angel, London
Jun. 2022 Slade Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London
Apr. 2022 Emergence, The Room, London
Feb. 2022 Dream Baby Dream, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Feb. 2022 I'll Be Your Mirror, Boisdale of Bishopgate, London
Jan. 2022 Why Don't You Dance, ASC Gallery, London
Jan. 2022 Assemble, VO Curations, London
Dec. 2021 Paint Talk presentsWith Love II, online
Aug. 2021 Flirting with the Border Guards, Terrace Gallery, London
Nov. 2020 Paint Talk presents With Love, online
Nov. 2020 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, online due to COVID-19
Aug. 2020 Material Figures, with Grace Mattingly and Lindsey Jean McLean, VO Curations, London
Jan. 2020 Slade Runner, ASC Gallery, London
Feb. 2019 hu, Hungarian Traveling Exhibition, White Conduit Projects, London
Jan. 2019 hu, Hungarian Traveling Exhibition, Abject Gallery, Newcastle
Nov. 2018 hu, Hungarian Traveling Exhibition, GENERATORporjects, Dundee
Nov. 2018 Young Contemporary Talent 2018, Ingram Collection, The Cello Factory, London
Jul. 2018 Newcastle University Degree Show, Newcastle University and Unit 8 at Copeland Park, London
Mar. 2017, Fancy a Cuppa?, Vane Gallery, Newcastle
Other features
2022 Art Aid for Ukraine on WTF? and The Auction Collective
2022 FUNDRAISER FOR UKRAINE on Collective East
2022 Art on a Postcard auction on Artonapostcard
by Brynley Odu Davies
Awards and residencies
2022 STUDIO WEST NOW Introducing 2022 runner up
2022 Mary Rishgitz Award, Slade School of Fine Art
2021 Colart Residency, London
2018 Shortlisted for the Young Contemporary Talent 2018, Ingram Collection
2018 Hatton Prize
Publications
Look at this!-Group of Young Painters (Ezt nezd!-Fiatal Festok Tarsasaga) on artmagazin.hu 2022
Interview with the organizers of project hu (Beszélgetés a project hu szervezőivel) on artportal.hu 202
(Zoom) Studio Visit: Andras Nagy-Sandor WTF? 2020
hu – Hungarian Touring Exhibition on corridor8 2019
hu (Hungarian Travelling Exhibition) podcast on HeyArtWhatsGood 2019
Northern Light, Young Hungarian Artists’ Exhibition in Dundee (Északi Fény. Fiatal Magyarok Kiállítása Dundee-ban) on artportal.hu 2018
Experience
2022 Co-producer alongside Julianna V. Berta of an art workshop/lecture at Cyprus College of Art
2021 Visiting artist at Newcastle University
2020 Co-Organizer of project hu X HOXTON 253 Residency
2020 Co-curator of Slade Runner
2018-2019 Organizer of hu/Hungarian Touring Exhibition
2016-2017 Placement with Newcastle Arts Team
2016-2017 Curator and organizer of Page 1 exhibition at the Marjorie Robinson Library
2014-2015 Intern at Várfok Gallery, Budapest
2013-2014 Intern at ArtPlacc, Tihany