BARTA Zsolt Péter Eger, 1962.06.23.

1980: graduated at the Hospitality Secondary School, dealing with photography from this year.

1982: completed the MTV Assistant School

from 1984: freelance photographer

1984-89: member and management member of the Studio of Young Photographers

from 1989: member of the Hungarian Association of Photographers

1991-1994: he was awarded the József Pécsi Art Academy scholarship, in 1993 the Art Academy scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome, in 1993 the artistic scholarship of Magyar Hitel Bank Rt.

from 1944: member of the Art Foundation, today MAOE

1994-1999: he was an art editor until the cessation of the Fotó, and later Fotográfia monthly magazine

Several articles have been published in: Fotóművészet, Új Hölgyfutár, Fotó, Playboy, Photographers International, Imago, Fotomozaik, Fotográfia, Erato, Új Művészetben and Zoom Magazin.

His subsequent images are characterized by pure compositions, delicate lights, aesthetic performance, moving on the real and abstract borders. His photos are close to nature, as Barta says, organic, sometimes science-oriented. He groups his picture into the topics of Human, Animal, Plant and Subject.

2018: corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA)

Exhibitions:1988 Body [with Ágnes Bozsogi, ceramics artist, István Kalász], Duna Gallery Budapest; 1992. Natures mortes, Galerie Focale, Nyon / Switzerland; 1993. Natures mortes II, Dorottya Gallery Budapest; Ken Damy Museum, Brescia; 1995. Natures mortes III. Vasarely Museum, Pécs

1996. New Works Bolt Gallery Budapest, 1998 Codex (Human) Bolt Gallery, Budapest. 2005. Pause Miró Gallery, Fészek Gallery, Budapest, 2006. Codex II. City Gallery, Székesfehérvár, 2007.

Codex. Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét. 2007. Hall Nessim Gallery, Budapest

CODE 2009X Nessim Gallery, Budapest, 2018. CodeX (Plant) Museum Collection, Heviz

Awards:1991-94 József Pécsi Photo Art Award, 1992 Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Rome, 1993 Prize of Szerencsejáték Rt., 1993. Artistic scholarship of Magyar Hitel Bank Rt.

1996. Special Prize of the X. Esztergom Photographic Biennial, 1996. Scholarship of André Kertész, National Cultural Fund, Paris, 2008. Creative scholarship of the National Cultural Fund, 2010. Rudolf Balogh Prize, 2012. XVIII. Prize of the Biennial of Photography in Esztergom.

Pictures from public collections:Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, International Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, USA, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét, Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy , Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico, USA, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Books:Zsolt Péter Barta: CodeX Hungarian Museum of Photography, 2007, Zsolt Péter Barta: Hall / Hall private edition, 2009.