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Brigitta Kocsis is a Hungarian-born Canadian visual artist. After living in London, UK for two years and learning English in Brixton, Kocsis relocated to Montreal in 1990 to pursue her fine arts education at Concordia University.  Since 1994 she has lived and worked in Vancouver, completing her BFA at the renowned Emily Carr University in 2005.

Brigitta Kocsis is a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, Assistance to Visual Artists - Project Grant in 2010 and recently returned to Vancouver after spending 5 months researching and creating in Paris and Berlin. She returns to Europe to attend her first European solo show and to participate in the MAC 11 Geneva Art Biennale, Switzerland in September 2011. In the mean time the Secret Mechanism series will be exhibited at the Vernon Public Art Gallery between August 4 - November 3, 2011.

EDUCATION

2002-05 BFA, Visual Arts, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
1997 Western Front Multimedia Program, Vancouver, BC
1993-94 Visual Arts Program, Painting, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
1985-88 Advanced drawing courses, with Sik, Fiatal Művészek Klubja (FMK), Szlavik, Lajos, Marczibányi-téri kör, Budapest, Hungary


AWARDS / BIENNALES
2011    Nuit Des Bains Geneva, Switzerland
2011    Mac11 Geneva Art Biennale, Geneva, Switzerland
2011    Canada Council Visual Arts Travel Grant
2010    Canada Council Visual Arts Research/Creation Grant
1998    Vancouver Film School, Residency, Vancouver


SOLO SHOWS

2011    Secret Mechanisms - Hide()Us, AaD Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2011    Secret Mechanisms, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon
2011    Brigitta Kocsis,  Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver,
2009    Secret Mechanisms, Campbell River & District Public Art Gallery
2007    On An Intimate Dimension, VECC, Vancouver
2006    In The Altogether, Maple Ridge Public Art Gallery, Maple Ridge
1997    The Eye of the Beholder, Gallery Sansair, Vancouver
1995    Cooped, Gallery Sansair, Vancouver
1994    Tea Party, Fine Arts Building, Concordia University, Montreal


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2011    Drawing Festival'11, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2010    Celebrate the Art of Canada, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2008    Chapel Arts, Vancouver
2007    Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
2006    Resonance, with M. Lowry, Amelia Douglas Gallery, New Westminster
2006    British Columbia Psychological Association Awards, SFU, Vancouver
2005    ECI Grad Show, Vancouver
2004    Threshold, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver
2003    The Figurative Show, Concourse Gallery, ECI, Vancouver
2002    Mezzanine Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver
1998    Blue Valentine, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
1997    Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
1996    Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
1995    Proforma, with Folke Kobberling, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
1995    Or Gallery, Vancouver
1988    Marczibányi-téri kör, Budapest, Hungary


VIDEOS/SCREENINGS/FESTIVALS

1998    Frenesia Tipica (with SFU composer in residence David Monacchi),
                   Vancouver Community Art Council
1998    Minz & Maunz, (sound by Giorgio Magnanensi)
1998    Imposed Hallucination, (sound by Philip Giborski),
                    SYNC II Film and Video Festival, Toronto,
                    Vancouver Community Art Council,
                    Vancouver Film School,
1998    An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act, (Editor)
                    Grunt Gallery, Vancouver,
                    British group Locus+, Wells, UK
1997    CRT Doodles, (sound by Philip Giborski), OR Gallery, Vancouver
1997    Stylus, Multimedia Group, (Zev Asher, Alex MacKenzie, Phil Giborski),
                    Vancouver Film School,
1995    Proforma, Video broadcast, Production Parade, Rogers Cable
                    ECIAD Media Show '95, Vancouver
1995    Roughage, 10th Improvised Music Festival, Seattle, Washington


PUBLICATIONS

2011        Galleries West, Anniversary Issue, Vol 10 No 3, September 1, Featured Artists: Brigitta Kocsis.
2011        Vernon Morning Star, "Do not adjust your eyes" August 2011
2011        Preview Art Magazine, Issue 2011-02
2011        Escene, Emily Carr University's Alumni Magazine.
2009        Campbell River Mirror, “The boundary between body and environment”, 2009 July
2008        ESCENE, Emily Carr University's Alumni Magazine
2008        Globe and Mail, “After a rough start,...” by Darryl Greer, Vancouver, BC
2007        NZ House & Garden, “Home is Where the Art is”, Auckland, New Zealand
1998        Performance Research Magazin, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun,
                     “An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act”, Wales, UK
1995        “Proforma”, video archive of the ECI Library, Vancouver, BC
1995        “Proforma”, GHK, (Art Academy of Kassel) Kassel, Germany