Legrady

George Legrady was born in Budapest, Hungary, grew up in Montreal, Canada, and currently resides in Paris, France, and Santa Barbara, California where he is Distinguished Professor in the Media Arts & Technology graduate program, and directs the Experimental Visualization Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Legrady’ background was in conceptual-based photography, and he acquired computational practice in the studio of the Artificial Intelligence pioneer Harold Cohen in the early 1980s. Since that time, he has internationally exhibited his works as interactive computational driven installations. For his pioneering work, Legrady received a John Simon Guggenheim Visual Arts Fellowship in 2016.
His works are in the collections of the Pompidou Center, Paris, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, the ZKM (Center for Art & Media Museum), and others.
Selected one – person exhibitions
2024 George Legrady, RCM Galerie, Paris, France
2024 Image & Fiber Synthesis, Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank
2020 The Continuity of the Image, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018 The James Bay Cree in 1973, University of California Art & Architecture Library, Santa Barbara
2015 Day & Night, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Voice of Sisyphus | Slice, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
2013 Swarm Vision, Run Run Shaw Media Centre, Hong Kong
2010 Refraction & Slice, ArtWithoutWalls, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
2008 Algorithmic Visualizations, Telic Exchange, Los Angeles
2004 Algorithmic Visualizations, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2001 Pockets Full of Memories / Souvenirs plein les poches, Centre Pompidou, Paris, traveling to Aura: After the Age of Technical Reproduction, Budapest (2003), Ars Electronica (2003), Museum of Contemporary art, Kiasma, Helsinki (2004), Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester (2005), Museum of Contemporary art, Taipei (2006)
1999 Transitional Spaces, Rotunde, Siemens Headquarters, Munich
1998 George Legrady: from Analogue to Digital, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and Canadian
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
1997 Tracing, Kunst und Austellunghalle, Bonn, also Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1984 Stock Footage, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1981 Staged Photography, Projects Studios One (PS1), Long Island City
1976 George Legrady / Miklos Legrady, A Space, Toronto (two person)
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Digital Witness, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Getty Art + Science Collide)
2024 Art of the Unseeable, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (Getty Art + Science Collide)
2023 En d’infinies variations, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
2023 Voice of Sisyphus in Topologies of the Real, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2017 Voice of Sisyphus, in Datumsoria, ZKM (Center for Art & Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
2015 We Are Stardust, in Infosphere, ZKM (Center for Art & Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
2015 AutoVision, in Fotofest Mannheim, Heidelberg, Kunstverein, Germany
2015 Imagining Macondo, International Book Fair, Bogota, Colombia
2012 Slice in Emoçao Art.ficial 6.0, Itau Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 We Are Stardust, at CODE Live, Vancouver Olympics, Vancouver BC
1997 Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunstforum, Berlin, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, PS1, NY
1996 The Butterfly Effect, Mücsarnok Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
1995 Fotografie nach der Fotografie, Siemens, Munich (traveling)
1995 Slippery Traces, 3rd Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon
1994 Les Hypermédias, Revue Virtuelle, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1993 Iterations: The Digital Image, International Center for Photography, New York
1989 The Photography of Invention American Pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
1988 Digital Photography: Captured Images, Volatile Memory, New Montage, SF Cameraworks, San Francisco
Selected public commissions
2008 Data Flow, Corporate Executive Board, Arlington, VA
2006 Kinetic Flow, Santa Monica / Vermont Station, Red Line Metro, Los Angeles
2003 Making Visible the Invisible, Seattle Central Library, Seattle