Adam Szentpétery

Adam Szentpétery studied at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. The recorded working language is Slovak. Work by Adam Szentpétery is recorded in the collections of Orava Gallery, East Slovak Gallery and Gallery of Spiš Artists. Distinctions recorded are Munkácsy Prize.

• Name — Adam Szentpétery • Born — 24 February 1956 • Birthplace — Rožňava, Czechoslovakia • Training — Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava • Field — Painting; Art education • Movement — Geometric abstraction; abstract art

Szentpétery was born in Rožňava, Czechoslovakia. From 1971 to 1975 he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Košice (department of graphic arts). From 1976 to 1982, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava at the studio of monumental painting in the course taught by Assoc. prof. Dezider Castiglione and Assoc. prof. Ivan Vychlopen. Since 1999 he is the head of the Studio of Contemporary Image at the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice (since 2004 – associate professor). In 2007 Szentpétery was awarded a “Munkácsy Mihály díj“ (i.e. state prize) in Budapest (Hungary). Nowadays Szentpétery lives and works in Rožňava and Košice.

"When characterizing the works of the prominent Slovak painter Adam Szentpétery (born in 1956), from the very start it is necessary to emphasize that we shall communicate in the visual language of geometry with strong painting coding. Over the course of the 1980s, geometry became the matrix of his works onto which he places individual art outputs and links. The line, color, and surface are the primary building blocks of his picture system. Although in the course of decades Szentpétery has built a key monolithic painting programme in the field of geometric abstraction forming a unique contribution to the contemporary language of painting in Slovakia, it still remains a solitary phenomenon in the home environment." Vladimír Beskid,

Since 1984 until now Szentpétery exhibited his works in numerous solo (21) and group exhibitions (142) around the world, mostly in the countries of the European Union, but his paintings also got exhibited as far as Japan, Korea or Taiwan. The complete list of solo and group exhibitions is available in Adam Szentpétery's catalog. In 2018 / 2019 Szentpétery exhibited his most recent works at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum.

• Východoslovenská galéria, VSG, Košice (Slovakia) • Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava (Slovakia) • Východoslovenské múzeum, Košice (Slovakia) • Banícke múzeum, Rožňava (Slovakia) • Sbírka AVS, Prague (Czech Republic) • Mestská galéria, Cottbus (Germany) • Miskolci Galéria Miskolc (Hungary) • Kortárs Magyar Galéria, Dunajská Streda (Slovakia) • Oravská galéria, Dolný Kubín (Slovakia) • Gyergyószárhegyi Megyei Alkotóközpont – Lăzarea (Romania) • Beratzhausener Sammlung, Beratzhausen (Germany) • Adam Galery, Brno (Czech Republic)