Janos Enyedi was an internationally known artist whose paintings, sculpture and drawings celebrated his fascination with industrial landscapes and ports in the United States and Europe. He created art over 4 decades.

One Person Exhibitions 

2022

• Rust to Rust: Janos Enyedi and the Architecture of Industry, opening Sept 16- Dec 23, 2022 at Dunedin Fine Art Center. Dunedin, FL  

2020

• Images of Industry/Small Works by Janos Enyedi, Mirella Cimato Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL 

2018

• Made in the USA, ArtsXchange, curated by Diane Bailey Morton & Diana Enyedi, St. Petersburg, FL 

2014

• Disappearing Landscapes, curated by Lynn Whitelaw, the Leepa-Rattner Museum, Tarpon Springs, FL

2014

• Janos Enyedi: Images of Industry, retrospective, co-curators, Roy Slade and Diana Enyedi, Allyn Gallup/Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL 

2012

• Janos Enyedi, Memorial Exhibition, works on loan from DC area collectors, curated by Erich Keel, Education Director, The Kreeger Museum, DC, shown at The Arts Club of Washington, DC

2011

• Shuttered Furnace Road Studio, VA and moved to Furnace Road Studio, St. Petersburg, FL

2008

• PORTS: NORFOLK AND ODESSA digital prints, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2007

• WORK BOATS digital watercolors by Janos Enyedi, Nauticus, the National Maritime Center, Norfolk, VA

2006

• Selected works from Working on the Water, General Assembly Building, Richmond, VA 
• Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project, on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, Alexandria, VA

2005

• Working on the Water: Maritime Commerce in the Hampton Roads Region–New Works by janos Enyedi, Contemporary Art Center of VA, Virginia Beach, VA
• Made in America, The Carillon, Charlotte, NC
• The American Industrial Landscape—Reconstructed: POWER, STEEL, CONCRETE, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
• Made in America: The American Industrial Landscape—Reconstructed,  The American Institute of Architects, Headquarters Gallery, DC

2004

• Janos Enyedi—MADE IN AMERICA: The American Industrial Landscape–Reconstructed, traveled to: Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, organized by the Smithsonian Affiliate, National Museum of Industrial History / Morris Museum, Augusta, GA/ Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH/ American Institute of Architects, AIA, Washington, DC

2003

• Working Spaces – Working Places; AFL-CIO Headquarters, Washington, DC

2001

• Memories of Milltown: A Twenty-Five Year Survey, Oglebay Institute Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV

1999

• Selected Works, The Project Room, M-13 Gallery, NY, NY

1998

• Industrial Strength Landscapes, The Bonfoey Company, Cleveland, OH

1996

• Bridge Variations & Hohenzollern Bridge Series, Artists’ Museum, Wash., DC

1995

• Made in America, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Washington, DC

1995

• Industrial Strength Landscapes, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC

1993

• Made in America, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC

1991

• Industrial Strength Icons, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC

1988

• Industrial Strength Landscapes, Foxley/Leach Gallery, Washington, DC

1986

• Images of Industry, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA

1978

• Large Scale Welded Steel Sculpture, The Wolfe Street Gallery, Wash., DC

1975

• Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, The Wolfe Street Gallery, Washington, DC
• Drawings and Sculpture, Dupont Center, Corcoran School of Art, Wash., DC

Two Person Exhibitions

2004

• Tom Nakashima & Janos Enyedi, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA

2001

• Eye of the Beholder:, David Levy and Janos Enyedi, State Museum of Art, Dortmund, Germany 

1986  

• Sculpture, Janos Enyedi and Dennis O’Neal, Gallery 200, Columbus, OH

1984

• Industrial Building Facades, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC

Group Exhibitions

2018

• Petit Fours, Sculpture Maquettes, Leslie Curran Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL

2014

• Washington Art Matters II: 1940s-1980s, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC 2007  
• The World of Photography, works from the permanent collection: The Chrysler Museum, VA
  Art in Embassies Program: Kiev, Ukraine/Bogota, Colombia/Zagreb, Croatia
• Eastern Light: Photographs of the Chesapeake Bay & the Northern Neck, Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA

2006

30th Anniversary Gallery Artists Exhibit, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC

unRappahannock County, VA, The Middle Street Gallery, curated by Jane Livingston, Washington, VA

2003 

• U.S. State Department Art in Embassies Program, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2002

• True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit, Meridian House International, DC, and Intl Tour

2002

• Uncommon Ground, East, West, North South; curated by Janos Enyedi for the Oglebay Institute., Stifel Fine Arts Ctr.

1999

• Casting Creativity, Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WVA

1998

• Pittsburgh at Work, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1997

• Manfestation D’Art Nouveau & Form, Manif Seoul ’97, Intl, Seoul Arts Center

1996

• A Legacy Envisioned: A Century of Modern Art to Celebrate Hungary’s 1100 Years, World Bank, Washington, DC; Sponsored by Philip Morris Companies, Intl. Organized by Janos Enyedi for the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, DC.
• The Sargasso Sea Series, Pardo View Gallery, New York, NY

1995

• Bridge Variations, Okuda Gallery, Washington, DC
• Industrial Strength Landscapes, Gallery Erdesz, Budapest, Hungary           
• Industrial Strength Landscapes, Gallery Eremitage, Berlin, Germany 

1994

• Industrial Strength Landscapes, Okuda Gallery, Washington, DC
• Industrial Strength Landscapes, The Cologne Art Fair Cologne, Germany           
• Small Works Show, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC

1987

• Industrial Strength Landscapes, Foxley/Leach Gallery, Washington, DC

1986

• The Artist Obsessed — Architecture Perceived, Fendrick Gallery, Wash., DC 

1984

• Sculpture of Washington Square, Sponsored by the Public Trust, Wash., DC 

1982

• Jack Rasmussen Gallery, Washington, DC

1981

• Sculpture, The Kinston Art Center, Kinston, NC Group Exhibition

1980

• 22nd Annual Area Exhibition: Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash., DC
• Arts for Architectural Spaces, The Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• International Sculpture Conference, Dept. of Commerce, Washington, DC

1979

• Group Sculpture Exhibition, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA 1978
• 21st Annual Area Exhibition: Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1975

• Group Sculpture Exhibition, Wolfe Street Gallery, Washington, DC
• USIA—Art in Embassies, Middle East, North Africa, & India

1973

• Washington Artists, Hodson Gallery/Tatem Art Center, Hood College, Frederick, MD

Commissions

• Uniwest Construction, Inc. Falls Church, VA
• Cardinal Virginia Concrete, Springfield, VA
• Mascaro Corporation — Corporate Headquarters, Pittsburgh, PA
• Eisbaren Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• ARMCO — Corporate Headquarters, Pittsburgh, PA
• Meade Paper Company, Washington, DC
• Bearing Point — Virginia, Texas, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Georgia, Australia

Collections: Corporate and Institutional

• Eichleay Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
• Equitable Real Estate Trust, Atlanta, GA
• Ohio Edison, Akron, OH
• Ohio Savings Bank, Cleveland, OH
• National Association of Machinists Pension Fund, Wash, DC
• International Association of Machinists &  Aerospace Workers, Geneva, Switzerland 
• The Department of State, Washington, DC, Paris and Germany
• The Northern Virginia Community College,  Annandale, VA
• Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Washington, DC
• Student Loan Marketing Association, Washington, DC
• Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC
• Howrey & Simon, Washington, DC
• The George Washington University, DC
• Champion Paper Company, VA
• KPMG Consulting, Tysons Corner, VA
• Andersen Consulting, Tysons Corner, VA
• Lee Technologies, McLean, VA
• Jones, Day, Revis & Pogue Pittsburgh, PA
• AFL/CIO, National Headquarters, DC  
• Katzen Arts Center, American Univ, DC (steel sculpture, gift: Jim & Deba Leach) 
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
• The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
• The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Butler Inst. of American Art, Youngstown, OH
• Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
• Capital One, McClean, VA
• Dominion Terminal Associates, Newport News, VA
• Colonna’s Shipyard, Norfolk, VA
• T. Parker Host, Inc., Norfolk, VA
• Anders Williams Shipping Agency, Norfolk, VA
• Cardinal Virginia Concrete, Springfield, VA
• Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
• McKenzie Group, Cleveland, OH
• Deloitte & Touche, Pittsburgh, PA
• Phillip Morris Companies, Hdqtr., NY, NY
• Mascaro Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
• Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

Autobiography

2017

• The Most Unknown Famous Artist You Will Ever Meet, co-authored by Janos and Diana Enyedi available on Amazon Books: https://www.amazon.com/Most-Famous-Artist-Will-Ever/dp/1547273429

Education

• 1965-70 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
• 1973-75 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, Bachelor of Fine Arts
• 1977-78 Graduate School, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Grants and Awards

2011 

• The first Janos Enyedi Artist of the Year Award, was given by the Washington Area Lawyers for outstanding service to the community. Janos co-founded the organization in 1983.

2007  

• Ad hoc Cultural Emissary, U.S. State Depart., Art in Embassies Program, Kiev, Ukraine

2004

• Virginia Commission for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting, Richmond, VA

1984

• Second Prize, Works on Paper, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA

1975

• Artist in Residence, LeMusee d’art Hatien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

1975

• Corcoran School of Art Academic Awards: Mary Lay Thom Sculpture Prize
• Individual Project Award Research: German Expressionism Scholarship – Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Scholarship —The Arts Club of Washington, DC
• Ford Foundation Grant, Post Grad. Fellow in Sculpture

Lectures

2007

• Several lectures: The Ins and Outs of Being an Artist, Washington Contemporary Art, 30 Years of Artmaking by Janos Enyedi, as first cultural emissary to Ukraine through the US Dept of State.   

2005

• Working on the Water, Urban Waterfronts Conference, Savannah, GA and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

2003

• Art and the Computer, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

1993

• Founders Address: 10th Anniversary, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, JF Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC

1982

• Opening Address: 75th Anniversary Celebration, The Arts: Creation and Appreciation, The Madeira School, Greenway, VA

1981

• Address: The Need for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Organization, The Corcoran School of Art, DC

1979 

• Post World War II American Abstract Sculpture, The Madeira School, Greenway, VA

1976

• The Work of David Smith, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Teaching Experience

1981-84

• Instructor, Art Department, The Madeira School, Greenway, VA

1977-78

• Instructor, Three-Dimensional Design, Ohio University, Athens, OH

1975-76

• Teaching Assistant, Printmaking, Corcoran School of Art, Wash., DC

Other Experience

2007

• Cultural Emissary through the US Department of State, Art in Embassy program

1995-96

• Organizer: A Legacy Envisioned: A Century of Modern Art to Celebrate Hungary’s 1100 Years, The World Bank, Washington, DC for the Government of the Republic of Hungary, sponsored by The Philip Morris Companies, International, shipping DHL International, curator Dr. S.A. Mansbach

1992-93

• Curator of Exhibitions, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC

1983

• Co-Founder and VP of the Board, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, Wash, DC