Tamás Waliczky

Animation and new media artist. He started out by creating animations at the age of nine. Then he worked as painter, illustrator and photographer. He was artist-in-residence at the ZKM Institute for Visual Media in 1992, and subsequently a member of the Institute's research staff (1993–1997) before taking up a guest professorship at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (HBK) (1997–2002). The Institute of Advanced Media Arts (IAMAS) in Gifu, Japan, chose Waliczky as artist-in-residence in 1998–99. From 2003 until 2005 he was professor at Fachhochschule Mainz. Between 2005 and 2010 he was at HBK Saar again, this time as full time professor. From 2010 till 2020 he was professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Since 2020 he is a freelance artist. His works won numerous international awards, including the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, was shown in several exhibitions worldwide, including the Lyon Biennale, the ICC Gallery Tokyo, the Multimediale Karlsruhe or the Biennial of Seville, and are in different public collections, like the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Kunstmuseum Bonn or the Ludwig Museum (Budapest).Tamas Waliczky was selected to represent Hungary at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.