Szabolcs Bozó

Szabolcs Bozó (b. 1992, Pécs) is an artist based in London. Bozó’s oeuvre revolves around the fields of drawing and painting. Completely without inhibition, his iconography displays a regressive and joyously school-boyish attitude, whose more subversive flipside emerges from beneath this apparent innocence. In a short space of time, Bozó has forged a style that is immediately recognisable. His flashily coloured zoomorphic creatures are set against a white background that is not always perfectly clean, but whatever the case, the essential idea is to communicate energy, abundance and humour.

Painted in large format, his characters often seem cramped within their frames, as if inflated by an excess of tenderness. Taken as a whole, his oeuvre appears as a gallery of endearing creatures, with a human expressiveness that is occasionally all too human.

Solo exhibitions include 'Tüke', Almine Rech, New York (2024); 'Faces Instead of Names' Palazzo Cavanis, Venice (2023); Marfa Invitational, Carl Kostyál, Dallas (2023); 'Balaton', Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (2022); 'Must You Dance', M Woods Museum, Beijing (2022); Untitled Miami, Carl Kostyal, Miami (2022); 'The Explorer', Carl Kostyál, London (2022); 'Busójárás (Carnival), Almine Rech, Brussels (2021); Art021, Shanghai, Carl Kostyal (2021); 'Home Again', L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (2020); 'Big Bang', Semiose Gallery, Paris (2020); Art Market Budapest, ACB Gallery (2020).

Bozó’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad (2023); WOAW, Singapore (2023); Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (2023); Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2023); Q Contemporary, Budapest (2022); Carl Kostyál, Budapest (2022); Almine Rech, Shanghai (2021); Carl Kostyál, Stockholm (2021); Primary Projects, Miami (2021); Kenny Schachter, New York (2021); Ross+Kramer, New York (2021); L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (2020).