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Adam Magyar is a Berlin-based Hungarian photographer and video artist captivated by time. His process is a symbiosis between technology and creative instinct. He is fascinated by the flow and the endless stream of lives in the world’s biggest mega-cities.
Magyar is captivated by high-tech cities and urban life. He depicts the synergies of city life while embracing it as home to both people and technology. With each of his series, he observes the flow of time, scrutinizing the transience of life and humans’ inherent urge to leave some trace behind. Magyar is keen on adopting and reinventing contemporary devices like industrial machine-vision cameras to produce his unique view of the human experience. Magyar stated, “I study our relationship to past, future, and present moments, reflecting upon how we use and misuse time.”
Magyar’s works have been exhibited in various solo and group shows internationally, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston; New Museum, New York; New York Public Library, New York; Midnight Moment – Times Square, New York; Houston Center for Photography, Houston; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; Vasarely Foundation, France; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester; Light Work, Syracuse; Saitamia Triennale, Japan; Museo Casa Grande, Hidalgo, Mexico; Ethnographic Museum, Budapest.
His work is present in private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; New York City Public Library, New York; Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Canada; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Deutsche Bank; Light Work, Syracuse; Hong Kong Heritage Museum; BNY Mellon, New York; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Beachwood; Bidwell Projects, Cleveland.
IG Ádám Magyar
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Solo exhibitions
2023
– MATTER – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2022
– Urban Times – Stephen Bulger Gallery / Toronto
2019
– Midnight Moment – Times Square Arts / New York
– Stainless – Museo Casa Grande / Hidalgo, Mexico
2018
– Stainless – B24 Galéria / Debrecen, Hungary
2017
– Stainless, Alexanderplatz – Museum of Fine Arts Houston / Houston
2015
– Kontinuum – Julie Saul Gallery / New York
2013
– Kontinuum – Opiom Gallery / Opio, France
– Kontinuum – Griffin Museum of Photography / Winchester
– Kontinuum – Houston Center for Photography / Houston
– Kontinuum – Light Work / Syracuse
2012
– Kontinuum – Faur Zsófi Gallery / Budapest
2011
– Underworld – BSA @ CHB / Berlin
– Beyond Perspective – Karin Weber Gallery / Hong Kong
2006
– Comearound – Retorta Gallery / Budapest
2005
– Taxi Jam – Miro Photo Gallery / Budapest
2002
– Kashi Vishwanath Express – Miro Photo Gallery / Budapest
Selected group exhibitions
2022
– Get out! – Fotobokfestival / Oslo
– Preparing for Darkness, Vol. 7: Selected artists – BSA @ CHB / Berlin
2021
– 20 év, 20 történet, 20 művész – Faur Zsófi Gallery / Budapest
2019
– Rotation 27 – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Kansas City
– New Media 8, Perspectives – 375 Hudson / New York
– Preparing for darkness #vol3, Selected artists – Kühlhaus / Berlin
– Al Obour – Saudi Art Council / Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2018
– Preparing for Darkness #vol2, Selected artists – Kühlhaus / Berlin
– Polylux – Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss / Plüschow
2017
– Immanence – Pictura / Groningen
– Accentuated Reality – Faur Zsofi Gallery / Budapest
2016
– Envisioning the Future! – Saitama Triennale 2016 / Saitama, Japan
– Impact: Abstractions and Experiment in Hungarian Photography – Alma / New York
– Infinite Pause: Photography and Time – Museum of Fine Arts / Houston
– Langoureusement – Association Light Matter / Metz
– Photography and Film Constructs – Ringling College Willis Smith Gallery / Sarasota
2015
– Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photograph – New York Public Library / New York
– Laps – La Carreau de Cergy /
– Night on Earth – BSA @ CHB / Berlin
– Ideas City Conference – New Museum / New York
– Look3 – Festival of the Photograph / Charlottesville
– Subway – Stephen Bulger Gallery / Toronto
2014
– UNKNOWN: Pictures of Strangers – Transformer Station / Cleveland
– Public Eye – New York Public Library / New York
– Urban Spirit, curated by Dr Katia David and Ágnes Lőrincz – Galerie Wedding / Berlin
– Megapolis – Eres Foundation / Munich
– METRO – Julie Saul Gallery / New York
– Trailed Away – Gallery Soso / Seoul
– Lapse, curated by Djeff and Fanny Serain – Vasarely Foundation / Aix-en-Provence
2013
– Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium – Hungarian National Gallery / Budapest
– Love Will Destroy Us In The End – BSA @ Art Suites Gallery / Istanbul
– Light of Day – Transformer Station / Cleveland
2012
– Breaking God’s Heart – BSA @ Liebkranz Galerie / Berlin
– Helsinki Photography Biennial – Helsinki City Museum / Helsinki
Presence in art fairs
2024
– Budapest Contemporary – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Unseen | Unbound – TOBE Gallery / Amsterdam
Works in Collections
Bank of Montreal, Toronto
Bidwell Projects, Cleveland
BNY Mellon, New York
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Beachwood
Deutsche Bank
Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Light Work, Syracuse, New York
Microsoft, Redmond
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
New York Public Library, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Awards, scholarships
2014
– Artist-in-Residence – Gallery Soso / Seoul
2010
– Lens Culture International Exposure Awards, Honorable Mention
2009
– International Photography Award, 1st place in Fine Art – Collage subcategory for Squares, 1st place in Special – Aerial subcategory for Squares
2006-2007
– József Pecsi Scholarship
2004
– Grand Prize, Hungarian Press Photo
Public Speaking Engagements
2019
– Fini International Image Festival, UAEH / Mexico
– Winter Enrichment Program, KAUST / Saudi Arabia
2014
– TEDSalon Berlin, Bits of Knowledge, Adam Magyar: Photographing the Unfolding of Daily Life, Admiralspalast / Germany
– World.Minds Zurich / Switzerland
– TEDx München, Those seconds in between / Germany
TEDx Gateway Mumbai, Can you alter the time? / India
2013
– Pop Tech: Pop Casts, Adam Magyar: Photos of Time / Camden
Press
2022
– How Adam Magyar photograph squares: a series of beautiful photographs by Chris Gampat / The Photoblographer
2019
– Seven Photographers Who Are Rewriting Street Photography’s Rigid Rules by Jon Feinstein / VICE
2015
– A Slice of Times Square, Always in Motion by Jhon Leleand / New York Times
– Alone Together, Adam Magyar’s techno-infused portraits from our invisible moments by Doug Bierend / Medium|Vantage
– Adam Magyar (crowdsourcing) by Andrea Blanch / Musée
• Adam Magyar is also represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto
