Brigitta Kocsis is a Hungarian-born Canadian visual artist, best known for her large-scale paintings investigating the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment. At the beginning of her career, Kocsis’s artistic interests included video installation art. In the...
Read MoreBrigitta Kocsis is a Hungarian-born Canadian visual artist, best known for her large-scale paintings investigating the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment. At the beginning of her career, Kocsis’s artistic interests included video installation art. In the late 1990’s she exhibited large-scale multimedia installations and screened several videos nationally. In 2000, she started focusing on painting, integrating abstract and figurative elements. She received her BFA in Vancouver from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2005 and has dedicated herself to painting since then.
Kocsis’ work has been included in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Geneva Art Biennale; the Balassi Institute, Finland; Szeged University, Hungary; Harcourt House, Edmonton; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby; Grunt Gallery, Vancouver; Brooklyn Expo Center, New York; Outremont Art Gallery, Montreal, and the Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver. She participated in residencies in Paris, Berlin, Vancouver, and Vermont, and received several grants and awards. Her Contingent Bodies and #techboyz series were published in a catalog by Grunt Gallery, and by the Vernon Public Art Gallery in British Columbia, Canada. Latterly, she was a co-curator of the exhibition at the Diefenbunker Museum in Ottawa, which highlighted the cultural contributions that Hungarian-Canadian artists have made in Canada. Kocsis currently resides in Montreal, Quebec.
