Updated Oct 9, 2016

 

Hungarian young artist Edina Fülöp, Artist-in-Residence at the University of Hawaii at Manoa until recently, was awarded a studio art degree from
the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2013, also working on her MA thesis in Art History
at the Pazmany Catholic University.
As a recently graduated painter she had her debut solo exhibition Report from Turingia
in Budapest in 2014 inspired by her trip to Jena, Germany. Her work was selected for the
juried exhibition The Retrieval of the Beautiful by The Painting Center in New York in
2016. Also appeared in a group show in Honolulu and going to be presented in a
two-person show with abstract painter Debra Drexler in the Hawaii Pacific University
Gallery.
Her art, a fusion of abstraction and figurative art has its roots in the classical academical
studies. Typically uses acrylic and charcoal and chooses her subjects based on her
journeys. Having nothing to do with our “reality” in everyday life her works are intended
to be the most ‘precise descriptions’ through her signature mark-making.