Szmrecsányi Veszely Beáta

She is the mother of three boys and lives and works with her family and horses in a small village called Barnag in the Balaton Uplands in Hungary.

The central theme of her artistic activity was determined during her university studies: the various interpretative possibilities of the relationship between horse and human, as well as the appearance, phenomenon, symbolism, and cultural significance of the horse in art.

She studied visual arts at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, then at Goldsmiths College, University of London, graduating in 2000. She began her doctoral studies there as well and defended her doctoral dissertation in 2017 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.

She has taught at several university art departments in the UK and Hungary. She lived abroad for eight years, first in Glasgow, Scotland, where she taught at the Glasgow School of Art's painting department, and later in London, where she became an active participant in the international art scene. In 2004, she moved back to Hungary permanently and, with the help of Rector Farkas Ádám and Prof. Gerard Hemsworth, founded and led the TIPP (Tihany International Postgraduate Program) collaborative research initiative of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and Goldsmiths College in London, for five years at the university's artist residency in Tihany.

She has exhibited her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in her home country and internationally, including at Modern Art Oxford, the Royal Palace in Prague, the Secession in Vienna, ICA in London, Camden Arts Center in London, Cornerhouse in Manchester, Inverleigh House in Edinburgh, Project Art Center in Dublin, as well as in private galleries and museums – in Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Saint Etienne, Vienna, Berlin, Tokyo, Auckland, New York, Milan, and in Hungary at the Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) and Ernst Museum, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, where her work is part of the permanent collection. Additionally, her works can be found in several public collections such as the Albertina in Vienna and Neue Galerie Graz, as well as in international private collections.

In 2015, together with her husband Szmrecsányi Márton, she launched the Horse and Art Research Program (HARP) international artist residency program in Barnag, which is gaining increasing interest in the international art scene. In 2022, they opened the Lovarda Gallery, which hosts exhibitions related to horses.

Since 2017, she has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (Magyar Művészeti Akadémia), and since 2023, a member of the Academy's Veszprém reginal studio, where she is public representative from 2025.

She has been riding since childhood. Since 2005, she has been a member of the Kassai Equestrian Archery School, and from 2018 to 2022, she was a lecturer at the National Riding Academy. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Academic Art of Riding Hungary.