Anikó Boda

Anikó Boda studied at the School of Visual Arts and The Art Students' League in New York after graduating from the Medical University of Szeged in Hungary. She exhibited in one of the major institutions of figurative art MEAM (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern) in Barcelona, besides in New York, London, Prague, Budapest and at art fairs like the Volta Basel. In 2021 after the international portrait painting contest of the MEAM, she was chosen one of the best 400 portrait painters. In 2023 she was a finalist in the New York-based16. International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition and her work was featured in the renowned American magazine 'Fine Art Connoisseaur'. She is also the winner of the 2023 Visual Artists Association Great Britain (VAA) International Exhibition and Scholarship Prize.

Resonating across time with the traditional painting schools of Florence and St. Petersburg, Michael Trieger's precise technique and the spirit of contemporary artists like Odd Nerdrum, Boda's update of trompe l'oleil painting reflects the process of their making. With a penchant for experimentation, Boda expands her repertoire of painterly media. And then she deploys her 'inventions' creating fresco-like 'weatherbeaten' surfaces and lively objects. Her iconoclastic work is based on general psychological and philosophical questions of human existence, but always with a twist.