Bedécs, Mónika (1958 - )

Ceramic and porcelain artist. She was born in Budapest in 1958. She first studied under ceramicist Éva Kun and later under Károly Szekeres at the Városlőd Majolica Factory. In 1977?1978, she worked at the Museum of Ethnography under the direction of Mária Kresz. In 1984, she graduated in ceramics from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts (today: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design), where she studied under master ceramicist Árpád Csekovszky. In 1989, she began teaching in the plaster modelling workshop of the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, and today she is a teacher and head of the workshop in the Design Institute at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. In 1993, she was a founding member of the DeForma Group. Her works can be found in several Hungarian public collections.