1985.12.19. Debrecen, Hungary | dodi.vekony@gmail.com | dorottyavekony.com

education
2021 – Multimedia Art (Doctoral Degree), Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (HU)
2012 – 2014 Photography (Master of Arts), Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (HU)
2013 – 2014 Photography (Erasmus Scholarship) Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universadide de Lisboa (POR)
2008 – 2012 Photography (Bachelor of Arts), University of Kaposvár, Department of Visual Arts, Kaposvár (HU)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Everything is More than Meets the Mind - duo show with Réka Lőrincz
2023 Rites of Letting Go, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2019 Average Deviation AQB Project Space (HU)
2018 Mouth Spreader, ENA Viewing Space, Budapest (HU)
2015 INVAREBEST, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest (HU)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023

Leopold Bloom Art Award shortlist exhibition, Kiscell Museum, Budapest (HU)
The Tent, Useless Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2022
An eclectic attempt to create a torso in my head, UGM Studio, Maribor (SLO)
2021
Let’s eat, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center Budapest (HU)
2020
The Elevator Chats - International Exhibition by Futures and Capa Center at Art Market Budapest (HU)
2019
Parallel Vienna Art Fair, Vienna, (AUS) (represented by Everybody Needs Art)
Paperlust Photobook Festival, Krakow (PL)
Photo London, Peckham 24, London (UK)
10x10 Photobook, HWS Project Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (FR)
2018
Time of our lives?, Modem, Debrecen, (HU)
Parallel Vienna, Vienna, (AUS) (represented by Everybody Needs Art)
How We See: Photobooks by Women Photographers, Museum of Fine Arts Boston NY Public Library, New York, (USA)
Charismatic Ordinariness, Central European University, Budapest (HU)
BODIES, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest (HU)
2017
József Pécsi Art Scholarship Exhibition, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest (HU)
Splash, AQB Project Space, Budapest (HU)
Artlocator Magazine No.4 Launch, Andrássy 66., Budapest (HU)
I love you, Hybridart Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Photo.book 3.0, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest (HU)
New Generation, Eugene & William Gallery, Göthenbourg (SE)
2016
Imprinting, Modem, Debrecen (HU)
Pécsi 25, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest (HU)
C/O Berlin Book Days, Newton Foundation, Berlin (GER)
Mammavore Photobooks, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, FERi Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Photobook 2.0, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest (HU)
2015
Macar Biberi – Türk Kahvesi, Balassi Institute, Istanbul (TR)
Definitions in Canon, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Photobook 1.0, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest (HU)
Focus Photography Festival, MUSE Gallery, Mumbai (IND)
2014
Second Skin, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest (HU)
Vanilla, Karton Gallery Budapest (HU)
Art Market, Millenáris Budapest (HU)
2013
Fotofestival »horizonte zingst « Kurhaus Gallery, Zingst (GER)
Bears in honor of spring, UK Parobrod Belgrade (SRB)
Hungarian Mounth of Photography, Műterem Gallery, Debrecen (HU)
II. International Symposium, Nádor Gallery, Pécs (HU)
FKSE introducing exhibition, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Biennal of Student Poster and Photography, Vojvodina, Novi Sad (SRB)


PUBLICATIONS
2023
∙ Básthy Ágnes: Több, mint amit az elme felfogni képes, Artportal (online-in Hungarian)
∙ P. Szabó Dénes: Anyagba öntött gondolatok, Népszava (in Hungarian - online + print: 150. évfolyam, 144. szám)

∙ Mélyi József: Egy pohár víz, Élet és Irodalom, (in Hungarian - online + print: LXVII. évfolyam, 23. szám)
∙ Széplaky Gerda: A terméketlenség történetei, Új Művészet (in Hungarian – print, 23/4-5)
∙ P. Szabó Dénes: Kapuk és tabuk, Népszava (in Hungarian - online + print: 150. évfolyam, 99. szám)
∙ ARTFORUM - Critics' Picks by Krisztián Gábor Török
Erdei Krisztina: Nehéz ösvény, Magyar Narancs (in Hungarian - online + print: 35. évfolyam, 11.szám)
Kránicz Bence interjúja Vékony Dorottyával, 24.hu (online in Hungarian)
Mélyi József: Részvétel és együttérzés, Élet és Irodalom, (in Hungarian - online + print: LXVII. évfolyam, 10. szám)
∙ Básthy Ágnes: A bennünk élő titkokról, Artportal (online-in Hungarian)
Rítusok és mítoszok: Vékony Dorottya és Horváth Gideon beszélgetése szubverzív stratégiákról, Új művészet (online in Hungarian)
∙ Bihari Ágnes: Test, lélek, társadalom labirintusai, HVG (online in Hungarian)
∙ Jankó Judit: Az elengedés rítusai, Országút (online in Hungarian)
2021
∙ Fruzsina Kigyós interview with Dorottya Vékony on Secondary Archive
2020 
∙RESET: Questioning the Image, the market, and the role of representation, Futures Photography, Vandejong (print)
2019
∙ Test - Vékony Dorottya kiállítása, M5, videó interjú (in Hungarian)
∙ Eric David: “Average Deviation”: Dorottya Vékony’s Hauntingly Corporeal Exhibition in Budapest, Yatzer (online)
∙ TESTHATÁROK: Vékony Dorottya Átlagos eltérés című kiállításáról, prae.hu (online in Hungarian)
∙ Magócsi Anikó: Vékony Dorottya: „A magunk módján mind különlegesek vagyunk”, interjú, Papageno (online in Hungarian)
∙ A hónap alkotója: Vékony Dorottya, Capa Központ (online in Hungarian)
2018
∙ How we see: Photobooks by woman Photographers, 10x10 Photobooks, New York (print)
2017
∙ Der Greif (issue 10., print) 
2016
∙ A személyesség határai és a mesterséges közösségek jelensége Vékony Dorottya munkáiban, Fotóművészet (no. 3., 2016, print - in Hungarian)
2015
INVAREBEST - Vékony Dorottya kiállítása a Robert Capa Kortárs Fotográfiai Központ Project Roomjában,
Artmagazin, video interjú (in Hungarian)

2014
∙ Portrait photographs for Artmagazin (no.10., 2014. print - in Hungarian)
∙ A Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem Fotográfia szakos végzős hallgatói, Fotóművészet (no.2., 2014. print - in Hungarian)
∙ Type Object by Barbara Brownie, Artpower International Publishing in cooperation with Lajos Major (print)
∙ Balkon, Contemporary Art Journal (no.2., 2014, print - in Hungarian)
2013
∙ The Room Magazine, Issue 18, in cooperation with Júlia Farkas (print)
2011
∙ Type Player 2, Sandu Publishing Co., Hongkong, in cooperation with Lajos Major (print)
∙ Parafrázisok Pécsi József műveire, Fotóművészet (no.2., 2011, print - in Hungarian)
2010
∙ Mélyi József: A budai oldal emlékezete – Vékony Dorottya fotóival, Artmagazin (no.5., 2010, print - in Hungarian)

AWARDS
2020 Selected artist for Futures Photography
2020 Pál Rosti Award for the best Photobooks, Hungarian National Museum – Shortlist
2018 József Pécsi Art Photography Scholarship 
2017 József Pécsi Art Photography Scholarship 
2015 József Pécsi Art Photography Scholarship 

RESIDENCIES
2021 INTERCONNECTIONS, 27th symposium of jewellry and other media, Kremnica (SK)
2020 Futures programme nominated by Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest (HU)
2019 Mezőszemere Artist Residency, (HU)
2018 Budapest Gallery, artist exchange programme Helsinki, (FIN)
2016 International Artist in Residence of Debrecen
2015 Balassi Institute: residency program, Istnabul (TUR)

MEMBERSHIPS
2021 Secondary Archive: platform for woman artists from Central and Eastern Europe
2020 Futures: a Europe-based photography platform
2011 Studio of Young Photographers Budapest (HU)
2011 - 2015 Studio of Young Artists Association Budapest (HU)