
Timea Tihanyi
EDUCATION
2003 MFA Ceramics, University of Washington, Seattle
1998 BFA Ceramics, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 1993 Doctor of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 “(s)pace of mind” New work from Kohler, SOIL, Seattle, WA
2010 “The Bornholm Project,” SOIL, Seattle, WA
2009 “Experiments in Being Lost” European Ceramic Work Center, ‘s-Hertogenbosch The Netherlands,
“Protect. Prevent.” Burien Art Gallery, Burien, WA
2008 “Two Spaces, One Body,” International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
“Fuzzy Anatomies (A Large Scale Exploration),” Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Outside In, Inside Out: Seeing Ghosts,” Pratt Gallery at the Tashiro-Kaplan Building, Seattle, WA
“The Unexpected Momentum of Small Things...,” Gallery4Culture, Seattle, WA
2007 “No Trespassing,” Women Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
“In Touch” Sandpoint Gallery, UW and Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
“Casualties of Peace and War,” Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
2006 “intelligentdesign,” Green River Community College, Auburn, WA
2004 “In Between States,” Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA
Tacoma Contemporary: Urban Art installations, Tacoma, WA
“Co•ex•is•tent,” University of Montana, Missoula
TWO-PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 “10x10x10 Tieton,” Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA
Harmony of Silence,” Anchor Art Space, Anacortes, WA
2012 “Crafts National” (juried by Gail M. Brown), Mulvanie Art Museum, Topeka, KS“A Celebration of Washington Artists,” Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
“Softer Side of Death,” Lundgren Monuments, Seattle, WA
“Clay?,” Kirkland Arts Center, (juried by D. Jeck, A. Takamori, J. Walker) Kirkland, WA
2011 Aqua Art Miami, Miami Beach, Florida
“Breath,” Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
“Scattershot,” Eastern Washington University, Chaney, WA
2010 BAM Biennial Exhibition 2010: “Clay Throwdown!,” Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
“Man and Beast,” SOIL, Seattle, WA
European Ceramic Context AiR exhibition, Danish Design School, Bornholm, Denmark
“vs. the Matador,” Soil, Seattle, WA
“Texas National 2010,” Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX (juried by Judy Pfaff)
“Resident Alien,” CoCA, Seattle, WA
“Erotomania,” Candy Coated Center, Philadelphia, PA (in conjunction with NCECA)
2009 “Soft Forms,” Pratt Gallery at the Tashiro-Kaplan Building, Seattle, WA
2008 “Human Condition,” Emerson C. Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida
“Northern National” juried by T. Suhre, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI (Award of Excellence)The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
2007 Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Halpert Biennial, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
“Focus on Fiber: T. Tihanyi and M.Radyk,” Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
“Crud” (curator: Ellen Ziegler), SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Fiberart International 2007” juried by D. Caldwell, N. Kobayashi, L. Moran, SCC, Pittsburgh, PA
Davidson Contemporary (group exhibition with Steve Currie, Ellen Garvens, John Grade) Seattle, WA
2006 “Americas 2000,” juried by Elizabeth Guheen, Minot State University, Minot, ND
"Fiber Fever," juried by Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MS
“Free-form: Sculpture,” Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
2005 “Ergonomicon” Group show (curator: Casey Keeler) Consolidated Works,Seattle, WA
2004 “States of Scarcity and Abundance,” Two-person show, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
“Fluid exchange,” Two-person show (collaboration with Jodi Rockwell) SOIL, Seattle, WA
RESIDENCIES, HONORS, AWARDS
2013 GAP Grant, Artist Trust
2011 Arts/Industry Residency, Kohler Co., John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2010 European Ceramic Context Artist Residency, Bornholm, Denmark
2009 European Ceramic Work Centre Artist Residency, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2008 GAP Grant, Artist Trust 4Culture Individual Artist Projects Grant, King County
2007 Women’s Studio Workshop NEA Residency
2006 4Culture Special Projects Grant, King County CityArtist Grant, Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs
2005 GAP Grant, Artist Trust
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2012 “Open for Construction” Soil gallery, Seattle in conjunction with NCECA
2010 “Man and Beast” sculpture and new media exhibition Soil Gallery, Seattle
2005 Sculpture for the Blind “Touching Art”Jacob Lawrence Gallery, U. of Washington
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
NCECA: Just the Beginning, American Craft Council: http://craftcouncil.americancraftmag.org/post/nceca-just-beginning(s)pace of mind, American Craft Council:http://craftcouncil.org/content/nceca-timea-tihanyi
Jen Graves, Currently Hanging: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/11/23/5618368-currently-hanging-timea-tihanyi
Laura Macomber “Resident Alien”http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&aID=377 March 29, 2010
Adriana Grant, “Design Colony” Seattle Weekly, May 19, 2010
Adriana Grant, “Fuzzy Anatomies” Seattle Weekly, August 6, 2008
Rachel Furnari, Review: TimeaTihanyi at the International Museum of Surgical Science, Newcity Art, Chicago, May 22, 2008
Jen Graves, “Inside/Outside” The Stranger, February 19, 2008
Regina Hackett “Best Bet”Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 22, 2008
“The Unexpected Momentum...” http://hankblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/the-unexpected-momentum-of-small-things/Gary Faigin, KUOW The Beat and also on Artdish June 20, 2007
http://www.artdish.com/blog/default.aspNate Lippens, “’Crud’ artists capture decay in delectable ways” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 29, 2007
Kurt Shaw, “Fiberart international 2007 explores works that evokes the past and future” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 29, 2007