Brigitta Kocsis is a Hungarian-born Canadian visual artist. After living in London, UK for two years and learning English in Brixton, Kocsis relocated to Montreal in 1990 to pursue her fine arts education at Concordia University. Since 1994 she has lived and worked in Vancouver, completing her BFA at the renowned Emily Carr University in 2005.
Brigitta Kocsis is a recipient of the Canada Assistance to Visual Artists - Project Grant in 2010 and recently returned to Vancouver after spending 5 months researching and creating in Paris and Berlin. She returns to Europe to attend her first European solo show and to particapate in the Mac 11 Geneva Art Biennal, Switzerland in September 2011.
Brigitta Kocsis recent work focused on investigating the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment. Contemporary discoveries in anatomical technologies have profoundly changed how one perceives the human body. Secret Mechanisms explores how technology can alter perception by interacting with the methods and processes involved in how the human body works. Kocsis' interested in the process of finding a place between abstraction and representation through creating elaborate layers of images, patterns and colors on canvas. In Secret Mechanisms she is creating a series of characters with multi-part anatomical and technological allusions with a specific “trade” or “trait” assigned to each character; like dysfunctional poetic super-heroes in a contemporary comic strip. The graphic images are painted in a layered, collage-like style combined with painterly expressions. The tension contained within the bodies of the characters due to the pervasive technologies, communicates a sense of contemporary environment in its fractured state.
Brigitta Kocsis is a recipient of the Canada Assistance to Visual Artists - Project Grant in 2010 and recently returned to Vancouver after spending 5 months researching and creating in Paris and Berlin. She returns to Europe to attend her first European solo show and to particapate in the Mac 11 Geneva Art Biennal, Switzerland in September 2011.
Brigitta Kocsis recent work focused on investigating the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment. Contemporary discoveries in anatomical technologies have profoundly changed how one perceives the human body. Secret Mechanisms explores how technology can alter perception by interacting with the methods and processes involved in how the human body works. Kocsis' interested in the process of finding a place between abstraction and representation through creating elaborate layers of images, patterns and colors on canvas. In Secret Mechanisms she is creating a series of characters with multi-part anatomical and technological allusions with a specific “trade” or “trait” assigned to each character; like dysfunctional poetic super-heroes in a contemporary comic strip. The graphic images are painted in a layered, collage-like style combined with painterly expressions. The tension contained within the bodies of the characters due to the pervasive technologies, communicates a sense of contemporary environment in its fractured state.
1966 born in Sarospatak, Hungary
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2005 BFA, Studio Art, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, BC
1997 Western Front Multimedia Program, Vancouver, BC
1993-94 Visual Arts Program, Painting, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
1985-88 Advanced drawing courses, with Sik, Rita, Fiatal Művészek Klubja (FMK) and Lajos, Szlavik,
Marczibányi-téri kör, Budapest, Hungary
AWARDS/RESIDENCY
2010 Canada Art Council Visual Art Project/Research grant to create a series of new works in
Paris and Berlin during a period of 5 months.
1997 Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, BC
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