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EDUCATION
1995-2000: MA in Aesthetics, Russian language and literature; University of ELTE, Budapest

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018- : Budapest Metropolitan University, guest lecturer
2015-2017: International Business School, Budapest, guest lecturer
2015: Független Képzőművészeti Tanszék, Flying Art Courses – guest lecturer (Part of Off Biennale Program)
2011: ICP- New York, Saul Robbins’ workshop ‘Regarding Intimacy’ – guest lecturer
2010: Kontakt Courses in Art Photography in cooperation with Mosoly Foundation: photography workshop in Berlin
2010: Kontakt Courses in Art Photography in cooperation with Mosoly Foundation (guest teacher)
2009: Kontakt Courses in Art Photography (guest teacher)

JURYING AT ART CONTESTS
2013 - 2022: Member of the Jury at Fedél Nélkül (The Shelter Foundation, ’Without a Roof’), The Artwork of the Year tender

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2011: Margins – Poznan Photo Biennale, within the collective BRUN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023: Three Acts, Artista X Artista artist residency, Havana, Cuba
2022: The New 20s: Challenges, Uncertainties and Resistances, University of Evora, Portugal
2022: Captured Liberties – Stories from the Salazar Dictatorship, ICA-D, Hungary
2021: About Love (with Maria do Mar Rego), Imago Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2020: Histories of love (with Maria do Mar Rego), Gallery 2B, Budapest
2020: Greetings from my new home, Budapest Gallery
2017: Stranger in the Middle of Nowhere (with Judit Hidas) – Part of Off Biennale ElevenBlokk
2017: Our House, Gallery 2B, Budapest
2016: Positive, Festival at Bánk Lake (Bánki Tó Fesztivál)
2016: Dazzle , Gallery Inda, Budapest
2015: Positive , Gólya Community House, Budapest (Part of Off Biennale Budapest Program)
2015: Positive, Gallery Liget, Budapest
2014: Feminine Laundry, Gallery 2B, Budapest, Hungary
2013: Foreign Field , Gallery 2B, Budapest
2013: Mother Michael Goes to Heaven - Gallery Liget, Budapest
2011: Life is beautiful - Balint Jewish Community Center, Budapest
2008: Fragments of desire – Gallery Liget, Budapest
2005: Golden Age – Gallery Liget, Budapest
2003: Portraits at a fair–Goethe Institute, Budapest

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2023: VIGYÁZAT, TÖRÉKENY. HANDLE WITH CARE. Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2023: FIRST HALF ‘23 | SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION AT INDA GALLERY, Budapest
2023: UNVEILING, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2023: Let's Pet, Capa Centre of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2022: I hold the table with my hands instead of the broken legs, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022: 14. Manifesta Biennal, with Easttopics, Prishtina, Kosovo
2021: One Artist One Minute, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
2021: Waiting room, SOM, Semmelweis Medical History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2021: Cure, Capa Centre of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2019: No Place Like Home, La Junqueira Artist Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
2019: For Family Reasons MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
2019: Red Umbrella Struggles Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenbourg, Germany
2019: Women in 3 Acts , Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2019: We will not change our show, Dům umění města Brna, Brno, Czech Republic
2018: Vanishing Points 3.0 Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest, Hungary
2018: Women in 3 Acts Gallery INDA, Budapest, Hungary
2018: The Family of No Man, Arles Photo Festival, Cosmos Arles Books, Arles, France
2018: Women in 3 Acts Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
2018: Kibékülés, Pannonhalma Főmonostor, Hungary
2017: The Way We See. An Overview of Hungarian Photography , National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
2016: Our heart is a different country ,The Studio of Young Artists Association Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013: Still , MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
2012: Photo Espana – From Here, Museo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

GRANTS + AWARDS
2023: Artist Residency of Camara Municipal de Lisboa (with the support of Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant)
2023: Selected for Photo-Match Portfolio review, Lodz Photo Festival, Poland
2023: Artista X Artista & Tranzit Artist Residency, Havana, Cuba (2023 January-February)
2022: Nominated for Rosti Pál Award for the Best Photo Book of the Year (with Greetings From My New Home), Hungarian National Museum
2021: Art Defies Violence, 16 days against violence, Salzburg, First Prize
2020: Fotohof Calling Award, Fotohof, Salzburg
2019: Asylum Arts, Research Grant, Lisbon (2020 March – September)
2019: La Junquiera Artist Residency, Lisbon
2019: Hangar Artist Residency, Lisbon
2018: Budapest Gallery Artist Exchange Fellowship, Lisbon (2018 June-July)
2010-2011: Hungarian Eötvös Fellowship, New York, ICP
2008: Descubrimientos PHE08, Madrid
2005: ECB Photography award – Hungary today (third price)

COLLECTIONS
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Contemporary Collection: May you give us this day (2023)
Hungarian National Museum: ‘Greetings from My New Home’ book (2020)
ICP Library, New York: ‘Comrades’ book (2012)
Noorderlicht: Pandora’s Box

FILMS
Sunday afternoon (2019) (14:19)
Blue Center (2018) (8:02)
Uniform (2014) (1:46)
God Bless America, God Bless Israel (2014) (7:30)
Pea Podding (2013) (29:34)

BOOKS
Waiting room (2022), published as part of ‘Waiting Room’ exhibition, SOM, Budapest (2021)
Greetings from my new home (together with Elsa Peralta) (2020) self published book
Histories of Love (2020) - self published book (designed by Zoltán Szmolka)
Daughters (2012), published by FOTOHOF
Mother Michael Goes to Heaven (2011) – self published book
Present continuous (Folyamatos jelen) (2007)
Moszkva square (Moszkva tér) (2006)
One day of Budapest (Budapest egy napja) (2003)

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Elsa Peralta and Lilla Szász. 2021. TRACES. A visual essay with photography by Lilla
Szász and words by Elsa Peralta. Mobile Culture Studies 7 (Materialities): 97–106.

CONFERENCES
Central European University, Baloldali'feminizmus,'baloldal'és'feminizmus'
Konferenciaprogram2015.-május-14-16

Salzburg and Gendup , Center for Gender Studies and Women's Funding, in
cooperation with Fotohof Salzburg: ‘Art Despite Violence’2021, November-December

University of Evora, Portugal The New 20s: Challenges, Uncertainties and
Resistances, 2022 August