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György Kepes

György Kepes

Artist

WA-00027871

PhotographyPhotography

Representation

None documented

11

Institutional Exhibitions

17

Works in Collection

29

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Publications Referenced

90%

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WikidataQ721633 ULAN500028012

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Edward Steichen Photography Center

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1962

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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959

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Photographs from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1958–1959

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Signs in the Street

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Abstraction in Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1951

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Good Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1950–1951

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Collage

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1948

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Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1947–1948

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New Photographers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1946

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How to make a Photogram

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1942

About

Why this artist matters now

György Kepes was a Hungarian-American artist and designer whose practice spanned photography, painting, light installation, and graphic design. A key figure in postwar American modernism, he developed a systematic approach to visual organization rooted in Gestalt psychology and the integration of art with architecture and urban space. His work emphasized the constructive potential of light, color, and geometric form as vehicles for both aesthetic and social purpose. Kepes founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, establishing a laboratory model for interdisciplinary art practice that influenced generations of artists and designers.

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (17)

György Kepes letterhead (Letter to Arthur Cohen)

1982 · Letterpress

11 × 8 1/2" (27.9 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Christmas Greeting)

Untitled (Christmas Greeting)

1971 · Hand-painted gelatin silver photogram

Image/paper: 27.7 × 22.2 cm (10 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Abstraction

1951 · Gelatin silver print

15 3/4 × 19 1/2" (40 × 49.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1941 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 35.4 × 28.4 cm (13 15/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Abstraction

1940 · Gelatin silver print

sight 19 3/8 × 15 1/16" (49.2 × 38.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Abstraction--Surface Tension #2

Abstraction--Surface Tension #2

1940 · Gelatin silver print

14 × 11 1/8" (35.6 × 28.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 16 × 10.7 cm (6 5/16 × 4 1/4 in.); Mount: 40.5 × 33 cm (16 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Monuments

1939 · Gelatin silver print

14 × 11 1/8" (35.6 × 28.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Juliet's Shadow Caged

Juliet's Shadow Caged

1938 · Gelatin silver print

8 3/8 × 6 3/4" (21.2 × 17.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Abstraction

1938 · Gelatin silver print

13 7/8 × 11 1/16" (35.3 × 28.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Juliet with Peacock Feather

Juliet with Peacock Feather

1937 · Gelatin silver print with gouache

Image/paper: 15.3 × 11.5 cm (6 1/16 × 4 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1937 · Gelatin silver photogram

Image/paper: 50.5 × 40.5 cm (19 15/16 × 16 in.); Mount: 71.2 × 55.9 cm (28 1/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver photogram, with applied paint

Image: 50.6 × 39.1 cm (19 15/16 × 15 7/16 in.); Paper: 50.6 × 40.5 cm (19 15/16 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Solarization

1933 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 32.9 × 28.2 cm (13 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Street Pavers, Berlin

Street Pavers, Berlin

1931 · Gelatin silver print

6 3/8 × 4 7/16" (16.2 × 11.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1926 · Gelatin silver photogram

Image/paper: 35.5 × 28 cm (14 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

6 1/4 x 3 3/4" (15.9 x 9.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Solarization (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Solarization (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

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Movements1

Collections2

Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago