Nagy, Márta (1954 - )

Ceramic and porcelain artist, professor emerita. She was born in Budapest in 1954. She received an award of excellence when she graduated in 1979 with a specialization in porcelain from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts (today: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design), where she studied under master ceramicist Imre Schrammel. In 2000, she received a DLA degree from the University of Pécs. Between 1992 and 1996, she taught in the master’s programme of the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts. In 2001 she became an associate professor in the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts of the University of Pécs. She was awarded a post-doctorate in 2003. Since 2005, she has been a core member of the Doctoral School of Music and the Visual Arts. In 2007, she was named university professor. Between 2010 and 2013 she was director of the Institute of Media and Applied Arts. From 2013 to 2019 she headed of the Department of Ceramics and in 2020 she was named professor emerita. She was designer at the Hollóháza Porcelain Factory from 1979 to 1984 and at the Granite Polishing Stone and Earthenware Factory in Budapest from 1984 to 1988. Since 1996, she has been a contract designer for the Herend Porcelain Manufactory. Between 1998 and 2010, she participated in several design programmes at the Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactory. In 1991?1992, she was a founding member of the TERRA Group. From 1993 to 1996, she was a member of the DeForma Group. Since 1999, she has been a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC-IAC, Geneva). Her main professional distinctions include awards at the National Triennial of Silicate Design, Kecskemét, Hungary (1985); the National Ceramics Biennial, Pécs, Hungary (1988, 1992, 2000, 2004); the International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan (1992); International Triennial of Silicate Art, Kecskemét, Hungary (2008, 2011); and Hungarian Ceramics 2012, Pécs, Hungary (2013). She has also been awarded the Bavarian State Prize, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany (1988); the Noémi Ferenczy Prize (1999); the Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2009); a Fulbright Scholarship (2015); and the Vilmos Zsolnay Prize (2017). She has held solo exhibitions in Hungary, other parts of Europe, and the United States of America. Her works can be found in major public collections worldwide.