Ferenc Joachim was a Hungarian painter of portraits and landscapes in oil, watercolors and pastels on canvas, board and paper. He studied and painted in Budapest and Western Europe. As an untitled member of the minor nobility, Joachim was entitled to bear the honorary prefix Csejtei, so prior to the Communist abolition of honorifics in 1947 his name might be found in the form "Csejtei Joachim Ferenc" in Hungarian, or in German "Franz Joachim von Csejthey".
Attila Dargay was an animator from Hungary. He was born in Mezőnyék.
Mai Cheng is a Norwegian painter. She is educated both in China and in Norway. Belonging to the first class that was admitted to China Central Academy of Fine Arts when this institution was reopened after the Cultural Revolution in 1977, she continued her education at the State Academy of Arts in Oslo, Norway, where she is now a citizen. In April 1992 Mai Cheng had one of the first exhibitions of abstract art in the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing. Today she works in a style she calls Feng-shui Art, combining calligraphy and elements from Chinese history with signs and symbols from Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythology. Apart from Norway, where most of her work is displayed and sold, she has exhibited in France, Germany (Hamburg), Belgium (Brussels), United States, as well as Iceland (Reykjavík). Her calligraphy has been used in decorating the outside walls of Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Since 2001 Mai Cheng has had her studio in Menton, France.
Hungary has had a notable cinema industry from the beginning of the 20th century, with Hungarians who affected the world of motion picture both inside and outside the borders. The former could be characterised by directors István Szabó, Béla Tarr, or Miklós Jancsó, the latter by William Fox, who founded Fox Studios, Alexander Korda, playing a leading role in start of Britain's film industry, or Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures. Examples of successful Hungarian films include Merry-go-round, Mephisto, Werckmeister Harmonies, and Kontroll.
Péter Forgács is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest, Hungary. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films based on home movies from the 1930s and 1960s, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off screen.
Amerigo Tot was a Hungarian sculptor and occasional actor. He was born in Fehérvárcsurgó, Austria-Hungary and moved to Rome, where he lived for the rest of his life. He studied in Budapest under Ferenc Helbing and György Leszkovszky from 1926 until 1928, and at the Bauhaus in Germany. As the Nazis came to power he moved to Rome and worked sculpting memorials on a stipend from the Roman Hungarian Academy, where he eventually became an adviser. He fought in the Italian resistance movement starting in 1943.
Ilona Kolonits was a Hungarian documentary film director and international news correspondent. She was one of the first women war correspondents amongst the first women film directors in Hungary. Kolonits' films were known for their lyrical treatment of grand historical events as well as the lives of ordinary people. Ilona Kolonoits received numerous awards and nominations throughout her career, including international film festivals in Paris, Moscow, Oberhausen, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Berlin, Leipzig, Mexico City and Budapest. Ilona Kolonits has been awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations and the 'Pro Virtue' Award for Courage of the Republic of Hungary for saving the lives of many during the Second World War.
William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director who is an inductee of the American Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.
Klaudia Kovacs is a film & theater director known for her documentary Torn from the Flag.
Zsuzsa Szikra is a Hungarian painter whose works are marked by their poetic abstract character. She is also well known for her portraits. Zsuzsa Szikra is a member of the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists, in Hungarian Magyar Alkotóművészek Országos Egyesülete – MAOE.
Katalin Ladik is a Hungarian poet, performance artist and actress. She was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia and in the last 20 years she has lived and worked alternately in Novi Sad, Serbia, in Budapest, Hungary and on the island of Hvar, Croatia. Parallel to her written poems she also creates sound poems and visual poems, performance art, writes and performs experimental music and audio plays. She is also a performer and an experimental artist. She explores language through visual and vocal expressions, as well as movement and gestures. Her work includes collages, photography, records, performances and happenings in both urban and natural environments.
Serge Strosberg is a Belgian painter living in SOHO, NYC since 2008. His oil portraits have been featured at the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam, The Norton House, the Musees de Pontoise, and The Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück Germany,
András Kepes is a Hungarian author, television host, documentary filmmaker and academic. He is Professor of film and media and Chair of the Council of Arts of the Budapest Metropolitan University (METU).
Béla Nagy Abodi was Hungarian painter, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca.
Shell Beach is a post-hardcore band from Budapest, Hungary. The band has released two full-length albums and an EP.
Csaba Káel is a Hungarian film director and CEO of Müpa Budapest. He was awarded the Kálmán Nádasdy Prize in 2013.
Imre Czomba is a highly respected composer, film composer, orchestrator, music producer and musician. A prominent figure in the International music scene since 1993. He has several successful Theatre Shows and he has scored numerous Film and TV productions. He was born in Hungary, but he lives in Los Angeles, California. He has composed the Hungarian National Day's Fireworks in 2008 and 2009.
Tamás Szén Molnár is a Hungarian interior designer and architect.
Fu Wenjun graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is a contemporary artist who works on photography, digital art, installation art, sculpture and oil painting. Currently he lives and works at Chongqing. He has developed his concept and practices of “Digital Pictorial Photography” art style.
Diana Groó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
