1994–1996       
DLA Training, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting

1987–1994       
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting

Levente Baranyai is primarily interested in the landscape, mostly the landscape inhibited and created by people but depicted without the people, together with all its social and philosophical implications. He often uses already manipulated photographs to create his paintings heavily burdened by paint, which, besides being embodiments of complicated questions on the aesthetics and epistemology of visual media, are shockingly real and astonishing works of art. His large canvases – almost without exceptions – depict the ground from a bird’s eye view, as aerial photographs do, many times using satellite pictures as a basis. This distant point of view enables him to present details and phenomena that are impossible to see and to show from up-close, from “being inside.” His paintings operate on this principle too; that is, when standing close to them, they fall apart into abstract dashes of color, and paint textures, while when observing them from the right distance, the traces and peculiar shapes become clear.

2022     
Night life and flower kingdom,HegyvidékGallery,Budapest, Hungary

2020     
In the shadow of the Homotirannus, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2019     
Falling deep into the slaughterhouse, FUGA Budapest Center of Achitecture, Budapest, Hungary
On the trail of Tyrannussapiens, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Istanbul, Turkey

2017     
Aero Sapiens, A38 Ship, Budapest, Hungary

2016     
National Land Art, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2014     
Intercontinental Dazzle, Hotel Nemzeti, Budapest, Hungary

2013     
Diving Planes, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Chaos And Psyche, Karinthy Szalon, Budapest, Hungary

2012     
Solo Exhibition, Scheublein Fineart, Zürich, Switzerland

2011     
Industrial May Day, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2010     
Agoraphobia, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2008     
Continental Currents, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
 
2007     
Meatland, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2006     
At the Fringe of the Town, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
"We Are Fresh And Young, We Go To See The Desert...", Museum Kiscelli, Budapest, Hungary

2004     
Rainbow Manifesto, Matáv Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Agricultural Mandala, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2003     
Peripheries, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2002     
Moving Targets, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
 
2001     
Still Lives, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2000     
Wild Life, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1999     
Biogeometry, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1998     
Flying Carpet, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1996     
Vox Cafe, Budapest, Hungary

1995     
Snow Depot, Lágymányosi Community House, Budapest, Hungary

1993     
Tam-tam Club, Budapest, Hungary 1989 Municipal Community House, Budapest, Hungary

1988     
University Stage, Budapest, Hungary  

2018     
Of the past let us wipe the slate clean, Studio 2018 - Salon, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

2017     
Standing in front of objects, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2015     
Imago Mundi, The Benetton Collection, Venice, Italy
Vacation Simulator, ICA-D, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary

2014     
Labirinth, ArtMill, Szentendre, Hungary

2012     
3x2, Klauzal 13 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian Paintings Day, National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Á La Carte, Gastronomy in The Hungarian Fine Arts, Kepes Institute, Eger, Hungary

2011     
Hungarian Paintings Day - Painting of The Carpathian Basin, Művészetmalom, Szentendre, Hungray
Symptomatix Presence, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2007     
Budapest, Oktogonart Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2006     
Ten-Year-Anniversary of the Strabag Painting Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2005     
New Scales, Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

2004     
Technoreal, ICA-D, Institute For Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary

2003     
Freshly Painted, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

2002     
Green Flow, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Budapest - Contemporary Hungarian Painting, Moscow, Russia

2001     
Touch, A.P.A.!, Budapest, Hungary
Cream, MEO Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest, Hungary
Inner Landscapes, Vigadó, Budapest, Hungary

2000     
XO Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Oil-Canvas, Municipal Community House, Chisinau, Moldova
Oil-Canvas, Municipal Community House, Skopje, Macedonia
Oil-Canvas, Municipal Community House, Novi Sad, Serbia
Municipal Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary

1999     
Oil-Canvas, Municipal Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovakia
Now, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Budapest, Fészek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
ARCO Madrid (Dovin Gallery), Madrid, Spain
Budapest- Berlin 99, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

1998     
Obserwatorium, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland   
Das Modell, Hungarian House, Berlin, Germany
Honey of Sin, Municipal Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary
Artus Studio, Budapest, Hungary

1997     
Trafik, Bruno Trafik Linz Trafik, Eisenstadt, Austria
Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Oil-Canvas, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

1996     

Istro Art '96, Slovakian National Gallery, Bratislava
C, as Chimera, Municipal Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary

1995     
Snow Depot. Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1994     
Wuk, Wien Award Winners, Wien, Austria
Körmendi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Tűzoltó street, Budapest, Hungary

1993   
Vajda Lajos Studio, Szentendre, Hungary
Tam-tam Club, Budapest, Hungary

1992     
Soundflow, Budapest, Hungary

1991     
Renovation, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

1990     
Tölgyfa Gallery, Budapest Young Artists' Club, Budapest, Hungary

1989   
Brontosaurus-night, Szeged, Hungary

 

1998     
Hungarian Bitumen / Strabag Prize For Painting - 1st Prize

1997     
Gyula Derkovits Fine Art Scholarship

1996     
Kondor Béla Award

1994     
Herman Lipót Award