János POLYÁK

1967, Budapest

glass and porcelain artist

In 1992 he received his master’s degree from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts. From 1997 he was a member of the board of trustees of the DeForma Foundation, an organizer of symposia on glass art, from 1998 a member of the board of trustees of the Goszthony Mária Foundation in Bárdudvarnok. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a teacher of the Secondary School of Visual Arts in Budapest, and until 2003 he was a senior lecturer at the Hungarian University of Applied Arts. He won the Noémi Ferenczy Award in 2006. Since 2014 he has been an associate professor, since 2019 also a head of department at the University of West Hungary. Since 2019 he has been heading the Department of Designat the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design. He has participated in numerous exhibitions both in Hungary and abroad, and his works are included in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (USA).