ZITA UJHELYI-SEBESTYÉN ART
BIOGRAPHY
Zita Ujhelyi-Sebestyén (b. 1984, Budapest, Hungary) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Luzern, Switzerland. Her practice spans photography, drawing, collage, painting, installation, and performance, incorporating techniques such as cyanotype, monotype, image transfer, and embroidery, as well as digital media including AI and video. Shaped by the political transition in Hungary after 1989, her work is grounded in personal and historical narratives and informed by conceptual art, philosophy, and literature.
With a diverse academic training she has a strong interests in the intersections of religion, visual culture, and human lifestyle, Ujhelyi-Sebestyén explores how belief systems, nature, and social structures shape identity and everyday life. Influenced by Hungarian folk traditions and symbolic scripts, her cyanotypes and paintings bridge traditional and experimental practices.
Working primarily on paper and canvas, she also creates installations that combine ready-made objects and digital elements. Her ongoing series reflect on solitude, the human condition, and connections between botany, biology, philosophy, and spirituality, forming a conceptually coherent body of work that navigates the personal, political, and metaphysical dimensions of contemporary life.
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Zita Ujhelyi-Sebestyén Born in 12.05.1984 in Budapest, HungaryBased and works in Luzern, Switzerland Education/training:2000-2004: Major in performance and performing art, Keleti István Art Vocational School, Budapest, Hunagry2005-2006: Classical drawing and drawing theory, Hungarian Fine Art Gallery for youth and adults, Budapest HU2006-2012: BA degree in religious, philosophy and pastoral studies, Apor Vilmos Chatholic Collage, Vác, Hungary2018 :Fine art and design (Grundlagen der Gestaltung), HSLU Kunst und Design Hochschule, Luzern, Switzerland2025- : MA in Interreligious Dialogue, Unversitá della Swizzeria Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Selected group exhibitions2020 Patterns (curated by Margo Glass), One is a Million, Red Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA2020 Red Art Show https://helvetart.ch2021 Swiss Art Expo digital group exhibition, Zürich, CH2024 Annual group show at S`Atelier Lit, Luzern, CH2024 "Letter from a friend" group show, BACIO Art collective, Bern, CH Art fairs:2023 Kunst im Labor, Zürich, CH Selected collections:Private collections in Switzerland, Spain and Hungary Awards:2020 Luxembourg Art Prize (recognition), The Pinachotéque, Luxembourg, LUX2023 6TH Flower Art Competition (honorable mention), Teravarna, Budapest, HU Selected press:ARTBOX.GROUPS GmbH, Zug, CH, Impressum, Artist Zita Ujhelyi-Sebestyén Catalogue (2021)Professional contributions (art-related jobs, curatorial contributions, teaching, mentorships, member of a board, etc.):2024 Performance design/Creative production/37th of European Film Awards/ Lucerne, Switzerland.
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