Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions worldwide, among them in the USA (2020), China (2018), France (2013), Italy (2016), Turkey (2011), Romania (2025, 2024, 2023, 2015, 2011) and Finland (2019). Beata’s paintings have been featured in a number of art fairs, group and solo shows in Hungary: The Space Gallery (2025), Budapest Art Market (2012, 2013), Kunsthalle Budapest (2015), Herman Otto Museum (2014), Hungarian National Museum (2013), Godot Gallery (2013), IX-XI Gallery (2013), MÜPA (2010), Ari Kupsus Gallery (2020, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012), and many more.
Her works have received a number of awards and scholarships, like the Apáczai Csere János Scholarship, Cluj-Napoca (2005), Székely Bertalan Award, Budapest (2010), Amadeus Kisalkotói Scholarship, Budapest (2011), Communitas Scholarship, Târgu Mureș (2012).
Beáta's paintings are included, among others, in the art collections of the Xu Beihong Art Committee, Beijing, China, the Hungarian National Museum, the collections of Semmelweis University and Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, and a number of private collections worldwide.
In haiku-like restraint, Beáta Székely's paintings are meditations on the timeless struggles of living beings, reframed through poetic or humorous release.
Inspired by classical European vanitas art, the symbols of bounty and aspiration are often depicted in the moment of ruin or transfiguration.
Precisely chosen and nuanced symbolic resonances, sometimes with human intimation, get elevated to dimensions of intellectual reflection by a neutral spatial context. Trompe l'oeil realism is met by surrealist play, echoing both the intimately familiar and unfathomable layers of existence.
Such meticulous rendering doesn't just serve the contemplative exploration of reality, but it is a gracious defiance of the futility generated by adversity and impermanence.
Born in 1985 (Romania), she studied at the Cluj University of Art and Design, and later at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest. Beáta lives and works between Romania and Budapest, Hungary.