Botos Péter

Szobrászművész / Sculptor

Biography


EDUCATION
  • Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary



  • PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  • Hungarian Artists Association
  • Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists
  • Society of Hungarian Glass Artists
  • AHFAA Sculptors Department


  • Prizes

  • 1st International Silicate Art Triennial, Kecskemét, Hungary, 2005: Special Jury Award and Audience Award
  • Hungarian Handicrafts 2005, Special Award in the Applied Arts category
  • Museum of Applied Arts, Zsolnay Jewellery Competition 2011, Special Award
  • SOFA Chicago, selected ‘Spherecross’ sculpture 2014
  • Ferenczy Noémi Award, 2015
  • Hungarian Electrographic Art Association (MET) Prize, 2018. Jointly with ArtFormer Antal Kelle 

  • Exhibitions


    SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2004
  • Square Deal, Üvegpiramis Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2004
  • The Luxury of Light, Üvegpiramis Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2007
  • Transparency in Two and Three Dimensions, co-exhibitor: István Haász, Broft Glass Gallery, Leerdam, The Netherlands, 2011
  • Fragile Light, co-exhibitor: Ágnes Szél, Pepper Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2012
  • Art Market, Budapest, Hungary, 2012, Barabás Collection
  • Galerie ‘In de oude school’, Stroe, The Netherlands, 2012
  • Retina, co-exhibitors: Katalin Haász and István Halmi Horváth, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2012
  • Exhibition jointly with Gábor Erdélyi, Újlipótvárosi Club Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2013
  • Art Market, Budapest, Hungary, 2013, Barabás Collection, with Sándor Kecskeméti
  • Art Market, Budapest, Hungary, 2014, Barabás Collection
  • Shining, Gestalt Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy, 2015
  • Broft Gallery, co-exhibitor: József Zalavári, Leerdam, The Netherlands, 2016
  • Colour Separation, ByArt Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
  • Geometric Baroque, co-exhibitor: Ágnes Szél, Józsefvárosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
  • Rómer Flóris Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary, 2017
  • A selection from five years of sculptures, Érdi Gallery, Érd, Hungary, 2018
  • Art Market, Budapest, Hungary, 2018, co-exhibitor: László Szlávics Jr, Kiskép Gallery and Barabás Collection
  • Art Market, Budapest, Hungary, 2019, co-exhibitor: László Szlávics Jr, Kiskép Gallery and Barabás Collection
  • Lantos Ferenc, Botos Péter, Zsdrál Gallery, Pécs, Hungary, 2020
  • Light spaces, Ybl Budai Kreatív Ház, Budapest, Hungary, 2020
  • Peter Botos, Habatat Galleries, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, 2021




  • GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2005
  • 1st International Silicate Art Triennial, Kecskemét, Hungary, 2005
  • Contemporary Glass Art, NKS Kecskemét, Hungary, 2006
  • Contemporary Glass Art, Ericsson Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2006
  • Hefter Gallery, Pannonhalma, Hungary, from 2007 onwards
  • Geometry, within and beyond, Godot Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2008Abstract and eroticism ’69, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2009
  • Art Enthusiasts, Contemporary private collections 2, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary, 2010
  • Glass today, Headquarters of the Hungarian Federation for Arts and Crafts, Budapest, Hungary, 2010
  • Geomix 2.0, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2010
  • Art Fair Budapest, Párisi Gallery, 2010
  • Art Market Budapest, B55 Gallery, 2011
  • HUGLASS 2012, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  • Events and reflections, Roman Hungarian Academy, Rome, Italy, 2012 
  • Gallery van Loon & van den Del, The Netherlands, 2012
  • Rechnitzer-Gimes collection, Municipal Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary, 2012
  • Hungarian icons, Hungarian Cultural Centre, London, UK, 2012
  • LA Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2012-2013
  • Contemporary Hungarian Glass Art, Municipal Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary, 2012
  • European Art Fair ‘Biennale Tilburg’, The Netherlands, 2012
  • ‘Only Art’, 60 years of Hungarian fine arts, Kévés Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2013
  • Symmetry Festival, 100 years of suprematism, Delft, The Netherlands, 2014
  • International Mobile MADI Museum, Vác, Hungary, 2014
  • Modern Hungarian Glass, Prisma Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 2014
  • Hungarian icons, Várkert Bazár, Budapest, Hungary, 2014
  • PALETTE Contemporary Art and Craft, Albuquerque, USA, 2014
  • SOFA Art-Design, Chicago, USA, 2014
  • HuGlass 2014, Budapest, Hungary
  • Contemporaries: Collectors and artists, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2014
  • Erdész Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary, 2015
  • Avran Art + Design, Laguna Beach, California, USA, 2015
  • Metaphysik der Gegenwart 15 Ungarische Künstler, Villa Berberich, Bad Säckingen, Germany, 2015
  • MÜT 2015,  Hefter Gallery, Pannonhalma, Hungary
  • Shapes, within and beyond, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
  • The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015
  • HuGlass 2015, Hefter Glass Gallery, Pannonhalma, Hungary
  • Kiskép Gallery, from 2015 onwards, Budapest, Hungary, The Castle
  • Prisma Gallery, Modern Hungarian Glass, Feature Exhibition at the Olympia Fair, London, UK, 2015
  • International Festival of Glass, British Glass Biennale, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Stourbridge, UK, 2015
  • Convergenza Frattale, Arte concreta contemporanea ungherese, Daverio, Italy, 2015
  • KOMA Contemporary Hungarian Geometrical Abstracts, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2015
  • Colours, Shapes and Space, Hommage à Ferenc Lantos, Pécsi Gallery, Pécs, Hungary, 2015
  • Art Market Budapest 2015, Bergman Gallery-Barabás Collection and Erdész Gallery
  • Transparency, Hungarian House in Brussels, Belgium, 2015
  • Contemporary Art Project, USA Art, Palm Beach, USA, 2016, Erdész and ICFA Galleries
  • Colours, Shapes and Space II, REÖK Gallery, Szeged, Hungary, 2016
  • Elite Day, Rapallo, Italy, 2016
  • SOFA, Palette Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2016
  • Entropy Forever, Latarka Gallery, Zoltán Fábián’s exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
  • Avran Fine Art Gallery, Art Concept, Miami, USA, 2016
  • Extracts from Hungarian arts at the turn of the millennium 1985-2015, István Hoffman collection, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary, 2017
  • Winter Exhibition, Érdi Gallery, Érd, Hungary, 2017
  • 6th Exhibition of Ferenczy Award Artists at the Hungarian Federation for Arts and Crafts, Budapest, Hungary, 2017
  • Art Market Budapest 2017, exhibition of the Society of Hungarian Glass Artists
  • HUGLASS 2017, St Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest, Hungary, 2017
  • 4th Sculptors Biennale, Mill of Arts, Szentendre, Hungary, 2017
  • Vasarely Hungaricons, Erdész Gallery, Berekei Art Studio, Pécsi Gallery, 2018
  • FUNDAMENT, MKISZ Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2018
  • Konkrete Leto, European trends in geometry, Galeria Umelka, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2018
  • Meridiane. Essingers Art Club, Vienna-Mödling, Austria, 2018
  • Hungarian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou City Library, Beijing HUAWEI Art Center, Beijing Museum of Fine Arts, Hsian City Museum, Chongqing Guotai Museum, 2018
  • Contemporary Hungarian Glass Art, Pesterzsébet Gaál Imre Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • BAUHAUS 100, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • GlassSpring, Tér-Kép Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • ANTIQUE and ART, Erdész Gallery, Millenáris Park, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • THE BOX Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2019 (with a film about the creation of robotic arts, jointly with Antal Kelle Artformer)
  • SuperMADI Exhibition, Saxon Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • Artportal, We also had Bauhaus for 100 years now, photo, 2019
  • Exhibition of the Hungarian Glass Art Society, Glasmuseum, Lette, Germany, 2019
  • Zsdrál Gallery, Pécs, Hungary, 2019
  • Hungarian Federation for Arts and Crafts, Department of Sculptures, AB OVO Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • New Transdanubia Exhibition, Balatonalmádi, Hungary, 2019
  • Innovation and Art, Shining Pace, Beijing, China, 2019
  • Biennial of Handicrafts, Cheongju, South Korea, 2019
  • Zsdrál Design, Antique and Art Salon Exhibition, 2019
  • VA Gallery, Hongkong, Zhaotong, China, Hungarian Contemporary Art Exhibition, 2019
  • Hungarian Institute of Culture, Beijing, China, Exhibition of Hungarian artists, 2020
  • Habatat Galleries, GLASS48 Direct Event, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA, 2020
  • Innovation in arts, hand in hand. Hotel Hyatt, Beijing, China, Hungarian Institute of Culture, 2020
  • Ungarn 2.0, Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau, Germany, 2020
  • In Shining Light, Laczkó Dezső Múzeum, Veszprém, Hungary, 2020
  • GlasSpring, Tér-Kép Galéria - Kiskép Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, 2020
  • Glass 48, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI, USA, 2020
  • Art Market Budapest, Erdész Gallery and Zsdrál Gallery, Millenáris, Budapest, Hungary, 2020


  • ARTWORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
  • Barabás Collection, Budapest, Hungary
  • Rechnitzer Collection, Győr, Hungary
  • International Mobile MADI Museum, Vác, Hungary
  • Konok-Hetey Collection, Budapest, Hungary
  • Hungarikon Collection, Budapest, Hungary
  • Rómer Flóris Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary
  • Laczkó Dezső Museum, Veszprém, Hungary
  • Glasmuseum, Lette, Germany
  • Beijing Hungarian Cultural Institute, China
  • Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, USA



  • PUBLIC ARTS
  • Sentry, Adyváros, Kuopio Park, Győr, Hungary, 2017
  • Bauhaus 100, Bécsi kapu tér, Győr, Hungary, 2018



  • PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  • National Association of Hungarian Artists
  • Hungarian Federation for Arts and Crafts
  • Society of Hungarian Glass Artists
  • Sculptors Department of HFAC
  • Hungarian Electrographic Art Association



  • CATALOGUES, BOOKS AND VIDEOS
  • Catalogue: Square deal. Üvegpiramis Gallery, 2004
  • Catalogue: Shining, Gestalt Gallery, Pietrasanta, 2015
  • Catalogue: Geometric baroque, Józsefvárosi Gallery, 2016
  • Catalogue for ‘A selection from five years of sculptures’ exhibition in Érdi Gallery, 2018
  • Book: Botos, Rómer Flóris Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary, 2017
  • YouTube: Mámor és Rajongás kinetikus installáció (robot-üveg-árnyék) Antal Kelle Artformer and Péter Botos, 2018
  • Catalogue for Collectors, Habatat Gallery, 2019
  • Book: Innovation and Art. Balassi Institute of Culture, Beijing, 2019
  • Zsdrál Gallery. Pécs, Hungary. Péter Botos’s exhibition catalogue, 2020
  • YouTube.com: Ferenc Lantos-Péter Botos-Zsdrál Gallery, Pécs, Hungary, 2020
  • Book: Botos, Open Structures Art Society(OSAS), 2020. 



  • MY WORKS HAVE BEEN REFLECTED IN THE FOLLOWING PRINTED AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA
  • János Csákvári and György Wágner: Péter Botos’s ‘Square Deal’ in Üvegpiramis Gallery, MTI (Hungarian News Agency), 2004
  • Close-up: Interview with the artist, MTV Hungarian National Television, 2004
  • István Wágner: A square deal made of black glass, in the daily Magyar Hírlap, 2004
  • István Palotás: Sensual glass cubes, Web page of the National Federation of Interior Decorators, 2004
  • A square deal? Terasz web page, 2004
  • Discussion about the ‘Square deal’ exhibition in the cultural news, Duna TV, 2004
  • Lajos Barabás: Square deal. Péter Botos’s glass sculptures, Magyar Iparművészet (Hungarian Handicrafts) magazine, 2005/1
  • Vera Varga: Glass between East and West, Magyar Iparművészet, 2005/4
  • Tibor Wehner: Hungarian glass art, 2006
  • Péter Botos makes the glass sculpture intended for Gorbachev’s 75th birthday, MTI, 2006
  • Nóra Szily’s interview with Péter Botos about the sculpture to be given to Gorbachev, Radio Budapest, 2006
  • Béla Bartók’s ‘glass house’, Elite magazine, 2007
  • The luxury of light, about the glass sculptor Péter Botos, Klasszikus Kortárs (The Classical Contemporary) (2008/1)
  • Gyula Rózsa: No sign of a battle in Balaton utca, in the daily Népszabadság, 2011
  • The discovery of monumentality, The Barabás collection. Szalon magazine (2011/1)
  • HuGlass 2012, catalogue
  • Lajos Barabás: “… it would lose its soul, if it were made from any other material“. Szalon (2012/2)
  • Orsolya Tarnóczy: Fragile luxury, Joker magazine, 2011
  • György Szepesi: A time travel embedded in glass, Premier, 2012
  • Biennale Brabant Magazine, Van Loon Galleries, The Netherlands, 2012
  • Context, Additions - How to be a friend of contemporary visual arts, Lajos Barabás, Karton Publishers, 2012
  • http://mutermek.com/uvegmuveszet/botos-peter 2013
  • Only art. Holnap Publishers, 2013
  • Gyula Rózsa: Various heirs. NOL, 2013
  • István Sinkó: Building and rationalising. Újlipótvárosi Club Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. MŰÉRTŐ (Expert) magazine, 2013
  • Art Market Budapest Catalogue, 2013
  • SOFA 2014 Art-Design, catalogue
  • Art Market Budapest Catalogue, 2014 HuGlass 2014, catalogue
  • ‘Glassism’, EchoTV, 2014
  • Péter Emőd: Contemporary Hungarian artists in exhibitions abroad VII and IX, Artportal.hu, 2015
  • Art Market Budapest 2015, catalogue
  • Che cosa sta preparando Péter Botos, Corriere della Sera, 2015 
  • Hungarian contemporary glass I, Erdész Gallery and Design, 2015
  • Hungarian icons 120 idea. Tamás Kárpáti’s catalogue to present works of art made in commemoration of famous Hungarians, 2015
  • Péter Emőd: Contemporary Hungarian artists in exhibitions abroad XIX, Artportal.hu, 2016
  • Be a friend of contemporary arts! Part VI: An interview with the glass artist Péter Botos, Műtárgy.com and Portfolio.hu, 2016, rerun in 2020
  • RTL II: This is how the Comet Prize is made, 2016
  • Mobile MADI Museum catalogue, Vác, Hungary, 2016
  • Extracts from Hungarian arts at the turn of the millennium 1985-2015, catalogue, 2017
  • The ‘Sentry’ of Adyváros, the first geometric glass sculpture in Hungary, Győr, 2017
  • HuGlass 2017, catalogue
  • Vasarely Hungaricons. Catalogue, 2018
  • Art Market Budapest 2018, catalogue
  • Hungarian Contemporary Art Exhibition in China. Catalogue, 2018
  • Ecstasy and devotion (Robot-Glass-Shade) KelleArtformer, YouTube.com
  • https://www.veszpremtv.hu/tv-musor/uvegnap
  • ARTrium Cultural and Art Magazine, Péter Botos glass, 2019
  • New Transdanubia Exhibition, Balatonalmádi, Hungary, catalogue, 2019
  • Artportal, 100 years of Bauhaus. Vasarely Museum
  • Art Market Budapest catalogue, 2019
  • Művészetkövető (Art Followers), The sculptor Péter Botos, 2019
  • Artportal, The auction season is coming to a close, 2019
  • Művészetkövető: Special favourites in 2019, runner-up: Péter Botos, 2020
  • HVG, Lantos Ferenc és Botos Péter, 2020
  • ÚjMűvészet, Optical minimalism, Szöllősi-Nagy András, 2020
  • Art Market Budapest : Public art on billboard in collaboration with JDCeaux and Art Market Budapest . 2020
  • Kossuth Rádió : Kroo Norbert speaks with Botos Péter, Szöllősi Nagy András about art, science and technology connections'. 2020
  • Mosoly Alapítvány-Virág Judit árverési katalógus. 2020




  • ONLINE SURDACESWebsite: www.peterbotos.hu / www.peterbotos.com

    Facebook: Péter Botos / www.facebook.com/peter.botos.79

    Instagram: @peterbotosglass


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