Sylvia Plachy

♀ *1943 / Hungary

Works

Solo exhibitions

Gifts from the 20th Century and Beyond

Capa Center, Budapest (HU)
5 Apr 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
Echoes and Omens

Bronx Documentary Center, New York (US)
29 Sep 2023 – 5 Nov 2023
When Will It Be Tomorrow

Capa Center, Budapest (HU)
23 Jun 2018 – 2 Sep 2018
When Will it Be Tomorrow

Museo Trastevere, Roma (IT)
23 Jun 2018 – 2 Sep 2018
THE HUNGARIAN CONNECTION

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton (US)
18 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017
Dancing with ghosts

Blanca Berlín, Madrid (ES)
24 Sep 2013 – 10 Nov 2013
Room 246

Andrew Freeman Home, New York (US)
5 May 2012 – 5 Jun 2012
Waiting

Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
28 Jun 2011 – 26 Aug 2011
Waiting

Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin (DE)
7 Feb 2010 – 7 Apr 2010
De reojo (Out of the Corner of Her Eye)

<a href="http://www.phedigital.com" target="_blank">PHotoEspaña 2007</a>

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (ES)
31 May 2007 – 1 Jul 2007
Chinesische Impressionen

Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
4 Apr 2006 – 29 Apr 2006
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ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
1 Mar 2005 – 9 Apr 2005
Self portraits with cow going home

Hunter/Fox Fine Photography, New York (US)
13 Jan 2005 – 26 Feb 2005
Verso - Photographs: 1964 - 2002

June Bateman Gallery, New York (US)
24 Oct 2002 – 30 Nov 2002

Group

American, born Hungary

Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
26 Sep 2025 – 1 Mar 2026

with Robert Capa, Nicholas Hàz, Gyoergy Kepes, Andre Kertesz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Martin Munkacsi, Nickolas Muray, Marion Palfi
A Personal History of Photography

Curated by Michelle Dunn Marsh

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland (US)
3 Jul 2025 – 2 Aug 2025

with Robert Adams, Endia Beal, Paul Berger, Elinor Carucci, Catherine Chalmers, Adrain Chesser, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, Jeff Dunas, Larry Fink, Marina Font, David Hilliard …
The Beauty of Lines

Masterpieces from the Gilman and González-Falla collection

Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
20 Jun 2019 – 29 Sep 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Laurent Elie Badessi, Lewis Baltz, Ilse Bing, Julie Blackmon, Karl Blossfeldt, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Wynn Bullock, Edward Burtynsky …
By the book: 9 Designers

Photographic Center, Seattle (US)
10 Sep 2018 – 13 Dec 2018

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Elinor Carucci, Imogen Cunningham, Lee Friedlander, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Andres Serrano, Stephen Shore, Alfred Stieglitz
BROWSE...Circles

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (US)
4 Nov 2017 – 23 Dec 2017

with Peter Bialobrzeski, Will Brown, Larry Burrows , Luca Campigotto, Adam Fuss, Miguel Angel Garcia, Fred Herzog, Yoko Ikeda, Helen Levitt, Wendell MacRae, Daniel Ranalli, Simone Rosenbauer …
Whose Streets? Our Streets!

New York City, 1980-2000

Bronx Documentary Center, New York (US)
14 Jan 2017 – 5 Mar 2017

with Nina Berman, Bill Biggart, Frank Fournier, Lori Grinker, Gabe kirchheimer, Carolina Kroon, Andrew Lichtenstein, Thomas McGovern, Clayton Patterson, Mark Peterson, Richard Renaldi, Joseph Rodriguez …
THE BIG APPLE

From Tycoons To Raccoons

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jan 2017 – 25 Feb 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Luca Campigotto, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Jefferson Hayman, Steven Hirsch, Betsy Karel, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Neal Slavin, Kenneth Snelson …
ECHOES

City, Society, Conflict & Self in Hungarian Photography

Alma Gallery, New York (US)
24 Jun 2016 – 30 Jul 2016

with Andras Bankuti, Mate Bartha, Brassai, Robert Capa, Akos Czigany, Luca Goeboelyoes, Karina Horvitz, Andre Kertesz, Imre Kinszki, Adel Koleszar, Gábor Arion Kudász, Gyoergy Loerinczy …
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
5 Dec 2015 – 20 Feb 2016

with Slim Aarons, Eve Arnold, Rene Burri, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Elliott Erwitt, Horst P. Horst, Franz Hubmann, Yousuf Karsh, Robert Lebeck, Helen Levitt, Paolo Pellegrin, Edward Quinn …
Pictures by Women

A History of Modern Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
7 May 2010 – 4 Apr 2011

with Berenice Abbott, Rogi André, Emmy Andriesse, Claudia Andujar, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Gertrud Arndt, Anna Atkins, Tina Barney, Uta Barth, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Valerie Belin …
Working Shifts: Photography from the Collection

Queens Museum of Art, New York (US)
4 Apr 2010 – 31 Dec 2010

with Berenice Abbott, Felice Beato, Josef Breitenbach, Peter Henry Emerson, Roger Fenton, Jean Louis Garnell, Fritz Henle, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Pedro Meyer, Dulce Pinzon, Herbert G. Ponting …
PHotoEspaña 2007 (PHE07)

PHotoEspaña, Madrid (ES)
30 May 2007 – 22 Jul 2007

with Shelby Lee Adams, Miguel Angel Rios, Peter Beard, Bruce Davidson, Lynn Davis, Jean-Marie del Moral, Raymond Depardon, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Lourdes Grobet, Guillaume Herbaut, ZHANG Huan …
Cuba on the Verge: An Island in Transition

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
6 Jun 2003 – 31 Aug 2003

with Niurka Barroso, Ernesto Bazan, Virginia Beahan, Carlos Garaicoa, Abelardo Morell, Rene Pena, Manuel Piña

Events

BUDAPEST PHOTO FESTIVAL 2025

Budapest Photo Festival, Budapest (HU)
28 Mar 2025 – 11 May 2025

with Vladimir Birgus, Balázs Deim, Tamas Dragon, Eniko Gabor, Eva Kelety, Bea Kolozsi, Gábor Arion Kudász, Saul Leiter, Peter Lindbergh, Eleanor Macnair, Sergey Melnitchenko, Philippine Schaefer …
30th year of the Month of Photography Bratislava

House of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
2 Nov 2020 – 30 Nov 2020

with Jan Durina, Arkadiusz Gola, Isabel Munoz, Vik Muniz, Klaus Pichler
FotoLeggendo 2018

Associazione Culturale Officine Fotograf, Roma (IT)
8 Jun 2018 – 15 Jul 2018

with Mathieu Asselin, Cedric Calandraud, Weronika Gesicka, Matthieu Gafsou, Dario Mitidieri, Carlos Spottorno, Mayumi Suzuki
DR.-ERICH-SALOMON-PREIS 2009 DER DGPH

Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin (DE)
6 Feb 2010
15th Noorderlicht International Photofestival

Behind Walls, Eastern Europe before 1989

Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
7 Sep 2008 – 26 Oct 2008

with Alen Aligrudic, Gustal Aulehla, Andrej Balco, Ivan Blazhev, Anja Bohnhof, Michal Cala, Natasha & Valery Cherkashin, Bevis Fusha, Balázs Gárdi, George Georgiou, Ion Grigorescu, Jiri Hanke …
Self Portrait With Cows

The Photographers - The Lecture Series

School of ICP International Center of Ph, New York (US)
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ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)