Adam Magyar

Adam Magyar was born in Hungary in 1972. He began taking pictures in his late twenties, when he started wandering Asian cities capturing their street life in images of Indian street vendors, wandering holy men, and students in an exclusive Himalayan school. Obsessed with finding innovative new uses for digital technology, Magyar's work quickly evolved from conventional documentary photography to the radically experimental and surreal.{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/matter/einsteins-camera-88aa8a185898|title=Einstein's Camera|date=Aug 22, 2014|website=Medium.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

Among Magyar's numerous inventions is a way to insert motion into still images.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/nyregion/a-slice-of-times-square-always-in-motion.html|title=A Slice of Times Square, Always in Motion|first=John|last=Leland|date=Mar 26, 2015|access-date=Apr 30, 2020|website=The New York Times}} In his attempt to comprehend the interface of time's infinite flow in the world's modern metropolises, he has developed techniques to capture, on a single visual plane, disjointed, fragmented images of parts of an individual or group on a crowded street.{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/seven-photographers-who-are-rewriting-street-photographys-rigid-rules/|title=Seven Photographers Who Are Rewriting Street Photography's Rigid Rules|first=Jon|last=Feinstein|website=Vice.com|date=Apr 11, 2019|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}} A theme that recurs throughout much of his body of work is based on interlinking yet distinct ideas and techniques that aid us to see the inherent beauty found in the everyday.{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/vantage/your-commute-is-beautiful-and-adam-magyar-can-prove-it-44bbc5b235ab|title=Your Commute Is Beautiful, and Adam Magyar Can Prove It|first=Doug|last=Bierend|date=Apr 7, 2015|website=Medium.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}} His unique vision and technical abilities has inevitably led him to modify and even develop his own hardware and software. In his Urban Flow and Stainless works he uses the slit-scan photography technique, known also for use in photo finish cameras, as well as in other, often industrial, techniques.{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/see-time-stop-and-space-stretch-in-adam-magyars-latest-slit-scans/|title=See Time Stop and Space Stretch in Adam Magyar's Latest Slit-Scans|first=Sophia|last=Callahan|website=Vice.com|date=Feb 23, 2015|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}} He uses a high-speed camera in his video series entitled Stainless, in which he captures at extremely high speeds densely populated urban areas.{{cite web|url=https://ideas.ted.com/ever-feel-alone-in-a-crowded-place-this-artist-gets-you/|title=Ever feel alone in a crowded place? This artist gets you|website=Ideas.ted.com|date=Aug 7, 2014|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}} Magyar's work fuses the objective, even mathematical reality with the purely subjective, creating a unique fusion of technology and art.

Magyar spoke at several image festivals and conferences including TEDSalon Berlin, Bits of Knowledge, Adam Magyar: Photographing the Unfolding of Daily Life, Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany (2014),

TEDxGateway, Adam Magyar, Mumbai, India (2014),{{cite web|url=https://tedxgateway.com/portfolio/adam-magyar/|title=Adam Magyar|website=Tesxgateway.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

PopTech: Pop Casts, Adam Magyar: Photos of Time, Camden, ME (2013){{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/78667444|title=Adam Magyar: Photos of time|date=Nov 5, 2013|access-date=Apr 30, 2020|website=Vimeo.com}}

• 2024 Stainless, - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA{{cite web|url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/116114/stainless | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | }}
• 2024 Matter, - Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, USA{{cite web|url=https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/exhibitions/current/_feature-exhibitions/2024-02-10-adam-magyar-matter.html | }}

• 2023 Matter, - ToBe Gallery, Budapest, Hungary{{cite web|url=https://www.tobegallery.hu/tobe-gallery-artists/adam-magyar|title=Matter | ToBe Gallery Budapest | ToBe Gallery|website=www.tobegallery.hu|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2022 Urban Times, - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada{{cite web|url=https://www.bulgergallery.com/exhibitions/224-adam-magyar-urban-times/overview/|title=Urban Times | Stephen Bulger Gallery|website=www.bulgergallery.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2019 Midnight Moment - Times Square Arts, New York, NY{{cite web|url=http://arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts/index.aspx|title=Times Square Arts: Times Square Arts | Times Square Art|website=Arts.timessquarenyc.org|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2019 Stainless, Museo Casa Grande, Hidalgo, Mexico{{cite web|url=https://www.elindependientedehidalgo.com.mx/el-tiempo-a-traves-de-los-ojos-de-adam-magyar/|title=INAUGURAN STAINLESS DE ADAM MAGYAR|website=Elindependientedehidalgo.com.mx|date=May 4, 2019|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2018 Stainless, B24 Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary{{Cite web|url=https://b24galeria.hu/|title=B24 - Galéria|website=B24galeria.hu|access-date=27 October 2021}}

• 2017 Stainless, Alexanderplatz, 3 channel video installation, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX{{cite web|url=https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/adam-magyar-stainless|title=Ádám Magyar "Stainless"|website=Mfah.org|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2015 Kontinuum, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY{{Cite web |url=http://www.saulgallery.com/artists/adam-magyar/show:exhibitions |title=Julie Saul Gallery - Artists - Adam Magyar |access-date=2019-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904174510/http://saulgallery.com/artists/adam-magyar/show:exhibitions |archive-date=2019-09-04 |url-status=dead }}

• 2013 Kontinuum, Opiom Gallery, Opio, France
• 2013 Kontinuum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA{{cite web|url=https://griffinmuseum.org/show/adam-magyar-kontinuum/|title=Adam Magyar Kontinuum - Griffin Museum of Photography|website=Griffinmuseum.org|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2013 Kontinuum, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
• 2013 Kontinuum, Light Work, Syracuse, NY{{cite web|url=https://www.lightwork.org/exhibitions/adam-magyar-kontinuum/|title=Light Work / Adam Magyar: Kontinuum|website=Lightwork.org|date=17 January 2013 |access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2012 Kontinuum, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

• 2011 Underworld, BSA @ CHB, Berlin, Germany
• 2011 Beyond Perspective, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

• 2006 Comearound, Retorta Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

• 2005 TaxiJam, Miro Photo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

• 2002 Kashi Vishwanath Express, Miro Photo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

• 2019 Preparing for darkness #vol3, Selected artists @ Kühlhaus, Berlin{{cite web|url=http://selected-artists.com/shows/preparing-for-darkness-volume-3|title=Preparing For DarknessVol. 3: I'm Not There |website=Selected-artists.com|date=12 November 2018 |access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2019 Al Obour, Saudi Art Council, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

• 2018 L’équipe du Festival Locomotion, Nancy, France{{cite web|url=http://www.mjcnancy.fr/event/festival-locomotion-soiree-de-lancement/|title=Festival Locomotion – Soirée de lancement |website=Mjcnancy.fr|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2018 Preparing for darkness #vol2, Selected artists @ Kühlhaus, Berlin{{cite web|url=http://selected-artists.com/shows/preparing-for-darknessvolume-2|title=Preparing For DarknessVol. 2: Breaking God's Heart –|website=Selected-artists.com|date=2 September 2018 |access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2018 Polylux, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, Germany{{Cite web |url=http://www.plueschow.de/projekte/jahresprogramm-2018/polylux/ |title=SCHLOSS PLÜSCHOW - Programm der Eröffnung |access-date=2019-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413085848/http://www.plueschow.de/projekte/jahresprogramm-2018/polylux/ |archive-date=2019-04-13 |url-status=dead }}
• 2018 Preparing for darkness, Selected artists at Kühlhaus, Berlin{{cite web|url=http://selected-artists.com/shows/preparing-for-darkness|title=Preparing For Darkness, Vol. 1 – selected-artists|date=25 October 2017 |accessdate=Apr 30, 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kuehlhaus-berlin.com/de/programm/vergangene/jahr2018/preparing-darkness-ausstellung/|title=| Preparing For Darkness – Ausstellung|website=Kuehlhaus-berlin.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2017 Immanence, Pictura, Groningen, Netherlands{{cite web|url=http://selected-artists.com/shows/immanence|title=IMMANENCE |website=Selected-artists.com|date=31 March 2017 |access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.endaodonoghue.com/newsitems/immanence-group-exhibition-pictura-groningen-netherlands-19-march-30-april-2017|title=IMMANENCE - group exhibition Pictura Groningen, The Netherlands - 19 March to 30 April 2017|date=Mar 16, 2017|website=Endaodonoghue.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2017 Accentuated Reality, Faur Zsofi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/show/faur-zsofi-gallery-budapest-photo-festival-accentuated-reality|title=Budapest Photo Festival | Accentuated Reality | Faur Zsofi Gallery | Artsy|website=Artsy.net|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2016 Envisioning the Future!, Saitama Triennale 2016, Japan{{cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/54591/saitama-triennale-2016envisioning-the-future/|title=Saitama Triennale 2016: Envisioning the Future! - Announcements - e-flux|website=E-flux.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2016 Impact: Abstractions and Experiment in Hungarian Photography, Alma, New York, NY
• 2016 Infinite Pause: Photography and Time, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX{{cite web|url=https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/infinite-pause-photography-and-time|title=Infinite Pause: Photography and Time|website=Mfah.org|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2016 Langoureusement, Association Light Matter, Metz, France
• 2016 Photography and Film Constructs, Ringling College Willis Smith Gallery, Sarasota, FL{{cite press release|url=http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/02/25/814208/10160444/en/Ringling-College-Willis-Smith-Gallery-Presents-Photography-Film-Constructs-On-View-from-March-5-April-2-2016.html|title=Ringling College Willis Smith Gallery Presents Photography & Film Constructs On View from March 5 - April 2, 2016|first=Ringling College of Art and|last=Design|date=Feb 25, 2016|website=GlobeNewswire.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2015 Laps, La Carreau de Cergy, Cergy, France
• 2015 Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photograph, New York Public Library, New York, NY.{{cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/public-eye|title=Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography|website=Nypl.org|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2015 Night on Earth, BSA @ CHB, Berlin, Germany{{cite web|url=http://selected-artists.com/shows/night-on-earthcollegium-hungaricum-berlin|title=NIGHT ON EARTH |website=Selected-artists.com|date=4 February 2017 |access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2015 Ideas City Conference, New Museum, New York, NY{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/ideascity/view/ideas-city-conference|title=IDEAS CITY Conference|website=Newmuseum.org|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2015 Look3, Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA
• 2015 Subway, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada

• 2014 UNKNOWN: Pictures of Strangers, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
• 2014 Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photograph, New York Public Library, New York, NY.
• 2014 Urban Spirit, curated by Dr. Katia David and Ágnes Lőrincz, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
• 2014 Megapolis, Eres Foundation, Munich, Germany{{cite web|url=https://eres-stiftung.de/programm/megapolis|title=MEGAPOLIS | ERES-Stiftung|website=Eres-stiftung.de|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2014 METRO, Reinier Gerritsen, Adam Magyar, David Molander, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
• 2014 Trailed Away, Gallery Soso, Seoul, South Korea[http://www.gallerysoso.com/exhibitions/2014/res/exhibition.html] {{dead link|date=October 2021}}
• 2014 Lapse, curated by Djeff and Fanny Serain, Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provence, France

• 2013 Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
• 2013 Love Will Destroy Us In The End, BSA at Art Suites Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2013 Light of Day, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH

• 2012 Breaking God’s Heart, BSA @ Liebkranz Galerie, Berlin, Germany
• 2012 Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki City Museum, Finland{{Cite web |url=http://artdaily.com/news/54068/The-Helsinki-Photography-Biennial-2012-opens-in-Finland#.XST0E5MzZWI |title=The Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012 opens in Finland |access-date=2019-09-21 |archive-date=2019-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213233/http://artdaily.com/news/54068/The-Helsinki-Photography-Biennial-2012-opens-in-Finland#.XST0E5MzZWI |url-status=dead }}

• 2011 Life as it seems, Faur ZSofi Gallery, Budapest, Germany
• 2011 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards:31 Contemporary Photographers, Gallery 291, San Francisco; Speos Gallery, Paris; VII Dumbo, New York, NY
• 2011 Young European Landscape BSA @ CHB, Berlin; BSA @ Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark
• 2011 Flashart, Whart, Toulouse, France

• 2010 Photographie Hongroise Contemporaine, Faur ZSofi Gallery - Institut Hongrois, Paris, France
• 2010 Separated by Daily Life, Rhubarb East at Mailbox, Birmingham, AL

• 2009 Defining Urban Life, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2009 Art Sunday, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

• 2008 Jozsef Pecsi Scholarship Annual Exhibition, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary

• 2007 It depends on your point of view, Metro Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
• 2007 Bits, Bytes and Pixels, Island6, Shanghai, China
• 2007 Jozsef Pecsi Photography Scholarship Winners Exhibition, Hungarian Academy, Rome, Italy

• 2006 I Love LEDs, Island6, Shanghai, China
• 2006 Getting Along, Island6, Shanghai, China

• 2004 Press Photo Exhibition, Ethnographic Museum Budapest

His work is included in several public collections including:

• Light Work, Syracuse, NY
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX{{cite web|author=eMuseum |url=https://www.mfah.org/art/detail/127972?returnUrl=%2Fart%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dadam%2Bmagyar |title=Collections | The MFAH Collections |website=Mfah.org |date= |access-date=2020-04-30}}{{cite web|author=eMuseum |url=https://www.mfah.org/art/detail/116114?returnUrl=%2Fart%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dadam%2Bmagyar |title=Collections | The MFAH Collections |website=Mfah.org |date= |access-date=2020-04-30}}
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO{{cite web|url=https://art.nelson-atkins.org/collections/27511/photography/objects?filter=people:Adam+Magyar#filters|title=Works – Collections – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art|website=Art.nelson-atkins.org|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• New York Public Library, New York, NY{{cite web|url=https://artdaily.cc/news/75261/The-history-of-photo-sharing-explored-in-new-library-exhibition-highlighting-the-social-side-of-photography-#.XeDbuZNKhGE|title=The history of photo sharing explored in new library exhibition highlighting the social side of photography|website=Artdaily.cc|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• Contact Sheet 170: Adam Magyar, Light Work{{cite web|url=https://www.lightwork.org/product/contact-sheet-170-adam-magyar/|title=Contact Sheet 170: Adam Magyar – Light Work|website=Lightwork.org|date=15 April 2013|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}{{cite book|title=Contact Sheet 170: Kontinuum: Adam Magyar, Light Work: 9780935445824: Amazon.com: Books |date= 2012|publisher= Light Work Visual Studies|isbn=978-0935445824 }}{{cite book|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21988945-contact-sheet-170|title=Contact Sheet 170|website=Goodreads.com|date=2012 |publisher=Light Work Visual Studies |isbn=978-0-935445-82-4 |access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}

• 2009 International Photography Award, 1st place in Fine Art - Collage subcategory for Squares, 1st place in Special - Aerial subcategory for Squares,{{cite web|url=https://photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-10868-09|title=IPA 2009 Winner / squares / Adam Magyar|website=Photoawards.com|access-date=Apr 30, 2020}}
• 2006-2007 Jozsef Pecsi Scholarship,
• 2004 Grand Prize, Hungarian Press Photo

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.magyaradam.com/ Adam Magyar's website]
• [https://vimeopro.com/adammagyar/stainless Videos: Stainless]
• [https://vimeopro.com/adammagyar/adam-magyar-array Videos: Array]
• [https://medium.com/matter/einsteins-camera-88aa8a185898 Einstein’s Camera]
• [https://medium.com/vantage/your-commute-is-beautiful-and-adam-magyar-can-prove-it-44bbc5b235ab Medium: Alone Together]
• [https://vimeo.com/78667444 Adam Magyar: Photos of time]
• [https://vimeo.com/110064914 Why Time Needs to Slow Down - Interview with Adam Magyar]
• [https://ideas.ted.com/ever-feel-alone-in-a-crowded-place-this-artist-gets-you/ Ever feel alone in a crowded place? This artist gets you]
• [https://www.vice.com/en/article/see-time-stop-and-space-stretch-in-adam-magyars-latest-slit-scans/ See Time Stop and Space Stretch in Adam Magyar's Latest Slit-Scans]
• [https://www.vice.com/en/article/seven-photographers-who-are-rewriting-street-photographys-rigid-rules/ Seven Photographers Who Are Rewriting Street Photography's Rigid Rules]

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