Balázs SIPOS

1979, Tapolca

glass artist

He graduated from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts in 2003. After graduation, he worked for two years as a designer at Ajka Kristály company, where he was involved in the factory application of the casting technique. It was also the place where his Prima Primissima Public Award was produced. He then built his own workshop, which provides him with the technological background to produce his sculptures and other applied glassware. He was a recipient of the Lajos Kozma Scholarship between 2007 and 2009, and won the Noémi Ferenczy Award in 2011. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and symposia, and his work has twice been selected for the New Glass Review. He was a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design between 2012 and 2017.