George Legrady

1950–

George Legrady is Professor of Interactive Media in the Media Arts & Technology Graduate program at UC Santa Barbara. He studied Visual Anthropology, eventually receiving a Masters of Fine Arts degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. His digital interactive installations have been exhibited internationally since the early 1990s, most recently at the Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Ars Electronica, Austria; DEAF03, Netherlands; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Canada and other venues. He has received awards from Creative Capital Foundation; the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technology; the Canada Council; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Introduction

George Legrady (Légrády György, Tamás, Antal, Tivadar, born January 8, 1950) is a multidisciplinary digital media artist and university professor in photography and computational media arts.

Wikidata identifier

Q3101713

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Country of birth

Hungary

Roles

Artist, photographer

ULAN identifier

500067943

Names

George Legrady

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On view
Online

First acquired
2005

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