József Mélyi is an art historian and critic. He is professor of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and visiting lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest. He is currently completing his PhD at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His work focuses on public art, institutional critique, and Eastern-European art of the 1960s and 1970s. He has published numerous articles on the topic of Hungarian contemporary art, and translated into Hungarian the work of writers such as Walter Benjamin and László Moholy-Nagy. Selected curated exhibitions include: Outer Space, co-curated with Eszter Kozma and Márton Pacsika, 2013; Amerigo Tot—Parallel Constructions, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2009; and Kempelen—Man in the Machine, Kunsthalle, Budapest and ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2007. Mélyi lives and works in Budapest. [Last updated 2015]
