Judit Szendrei
Artist Bio
Judit Szendrei lives and works in Debrecen, Hungary, and in London.
As a creative philatelist-cum-Pop Collagist, Judit often works collaboratively with other members of her family to create intricate papiers collés mosaics made entirely from repurposed stamps.
For many years, Judit worked professionally as an economist in her local town of Debrecen, Hungary, and, having held a fascination for stamps since her childhood, began making stamp mosaics in 2015. She held her first exhibition in 2018, showing 35 works to wide acclaim in her local town and to audiences far and wide.
In 2020, one of Judit Szendrei’s works was presented to Pope Francis and now hangs in Vatican City. This important event was followed in 2021 by the exhibition titled Towards the Light in Palazzo Falconieri in Rome.
Showing her devotion towards art, Judit’s exhibition held in the Hungarian city of Pecs in 2021 was titled Artistic Inspirations.
A number of her pictures have become part of major private collections and museums. Interestingly, the first was her early picture, the Cirque, which can now be found in the Royal Palace in Tirana, Albania. The Hungarian Stamp Museum, which possesses one of the largest stamp collections in the world, organized an exhibition of Judit’s pictures in 2020. This favour of the museum was honoured by Judit by donating her picture, Taormina, as I view it, to the museum, and it became part of the museum’s permanent exhibition.
Judit is also proud of having her picture titled God Save the Queen! made to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s birthday in 2022 hangs on the wall of Wardawn Museum in Luton, United Kingdom.
Last year, she had four exhibitions in China, visited by more than 1.5 million people.