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Zsuzsanna Ardó is Hungarian by birth, European by existence, human by inclination, humorous by nature—and an artist, curator and author by profession. She has curated many installations and exhibitions, and has been invited to serve as portfolio reviewer and on juries of art competitions internationally.
As Artist in Residence at the Digital Art Centre in Spain, she collaborated on digital art and on a multimedia interactive feature with soundscape, based on her short story and photographs, published by Arts and Cultures in openDemocracy. Her photograph, “Shifting Sand of History on the Wall” was featured in their Photo of the Week series. Her work is in private and public collections and has been published internationally. As a visual artist, she has been invited to painting, mixed media and photography artist-in-residencies internationally, including the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany, the André Kertész Photography Museum in Hungary, Kapadokya and Istanbul in Turkey and Milano in Italy.
She has had exhibitions in Hungary, the UK, the US, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg and India, including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi, Amnesty International, the 12 Star Gallery, the British Film Academy and the Royal Institution in London, the European Commission and the European Parliament in Brussels, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Her recent exhibitions include Everything Is Interconnected, which was featured in November at the Cultures in Support of Humanity International Conference in Tehran, Iran.
She is the founding Chairman of the Hampstead Authors Society, and the Editor of HASNotes. Her books and articles have been published in various languages, in the UK, US, Hungary, Germany, Russia and Singapore. She has worked as an academic, journalist, editor, and broadcaster; she has translated and edited over 100 feature films, from James Bond to Shakespeare. Her broadcasting experience includes European-wide satellite television series on intercultural communication and management. Her play, The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger premiered at Harvard and she wrote and directed a short film Allegro Barbaro, a triple-flashback visual poem to music. Culture Shock! Hungary, her social anthropology-cum-travel book, is in its third, expanded edition worldwide, illustrated by her photos. How to be a European: Go Hungarian, and Love Blues: Hungarian Rhapsodies are cultural satires on Hungarians, published as English and Hungarian parallel texts.
Zsuzsanna can be reached by e-mail at zsu@ardo.org
