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János Sugár studied in the Department of Sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1979-84). Between 1980 and 1986 he was actively involved in the exhibitions and performances of Indigo, an interdisciplinary art group led by Miklós Erdély. Sugár has participated in national and international exhibitions since the mid 1980-ies, in 1992 he exhibited at the documenta IX, Kassel, in 1996 Manifesta I, Rotterdam. He completed an Artslink residency at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994, and in 1997/98 a four-month, and in 1999 a three-month fellowship at Experimental Intermedia in New York. His films were screened in 1998 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. http://www.artic.edu http://www.icols.org

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2004 Around Us, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam Retrospective, Vendemiaire, Budapest
2003 Check Your Six, Knoll Gallery, Budapest Budapest Religious Graffities, Liget Gallery Striptease, Project Room, Kunsthalle, Budapest 2002 Convergent Series, Café Europe, Centro di Arte Contemporanea, Rome Attention recycling, Galerija Balen, Slavonskij Brod, Croatia
2000 General Reminder, Art Media Center, TV Gallery, Moscow, with Yuri Leiderman
1999 Calligraphy Powerplant, Galleria Spicchi dell`Est, Rome Context Trap, Artpool, Budapest 1998 Do You Know My Method?, QQ Galeria, Cracow, Poland
1997 Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1996 Studio Gallery, Budapest
1993 Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1992 Knoll Gallery, Budapest

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2004 "Troubled Times", Arte Contemporanea, Trieste "Game", Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest "Softmanipulations", Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2003 "Aura", Millenáris, Budapest "Gravitation", International Public Art Exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2002 "Without emergency exit" Centro Multimedia of Mexico DF, "Vision", Kunsthalle Budapest
2001 "Out of Time", Kunsthalle, Budapest "Werk 01" Bildhauersymposion, Heidenheim, Germany
2000 "Cooperativ", Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany "L'Autre Moitié de l'Europe", Jeu de Paume, Paris
1999 "Aspects/Positions" 50 Years Art From Middle Europe, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria "Perspective" International Media Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle Budapest
1997 "Weight-less", Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1996 Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, Netherlands "The Butterfly Effect", International Media Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest,
1995 "Ostranenie" Dessau, Germany
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1991 Trigon, "8x2 aus 7", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2000 "Big Yes - Big No", Art Media Center, TV Gallery, Moscow 1998 "Big Yes - Big No", Stephen Gang Gallery, New York
1996 "Ariadne Unemployed", Gallery KK im Fisch, Braunschweig, Germany
1995 "The Shortest Labyrinth", Perforium, Intl. Perf. Art Meeting, Budapest
1992 "Strecke durch Zeit", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

FILMS AND VIDEOS
2003 "Check Your Six" digital video, 16 min.
2001 "Typewriter of the Illiterate", digitalvideo, 8 min.
1998 "Do You Know My Method?", BW, 35mm, 10 min, BBS production
1996 "Ariadne Unemployed", video, 13 min.
1993 "Ambigous Window" BW + colour 16 mm, 17 min, (final print: 1996), BBS production
1992 "Camera in Trouble" color, 16 mm, 70 min, BBS production 1987 "Tweedle" (with L. Révész) BW, 16 mm, 5 min. BBS production
1985 "Persian Walk", color, 16 mm, 50 min.(final print: 1989), BBS production
1983 "This Type of Intention is on the Border of Credibility",16 mm, 7min. final print:
1989 BBS SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1991 Ernst Beck: "Hungary After the Soft Revolution" in: ArtNews 91/3 Michael Tarantino: "Sub Voce". Artforum, Dec/91
1998 Susan Snodgrass: Report from Budapest, Art in America 98/10
2003 Interview with János Sugár in: Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks In Dialogue with the Virtual Intelligentia MIT Press, 2002