Márton Nemes was born in 1986 in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.  After studying Industrial Design at the Budapest Technical University, he joined the Department of Painting of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2013, and graduated in 2018 with a master’s degree from Chelsea College of Arts, London. A year later, he was awarded the prestigious Esterházy Art Award for emerging artists. He lives and works in New York and Budapest.

Márton Nemes is one of the most innovative representatives of the young generation of painters, who experiments with a 21st century reinterpretation of the image, pushing the boundaries of traditional painting in material and space. His work is influenced by techno subcultures; the explosion and rearrangement of the pictorial field gives a psychedelic character to his abstract paintings that evoke the visual atmosphere of today’s nightclubs. Combining painterly and sculptural elements, his multimedia installations create a hypnotic spatial dynamic that propels the viewer from the harsh, real world into a fluid, dizzying, fluorescent colour field.

Nemes represents Hungary at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.His work has been exhibited in several European galleries (acb Gallery, Budapest; Fold Gallery, London; Annka Kultys Gallery, London, 193 Gallery, Paris and Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest) as well as public institutions in Hungary. He has participated in such international exhibitions as Haunting Monumentality at MSU Zagreb (2014), Falling Out the Rythm at BWA Warsaw (2019), Abstract Hungary at Künstlerhaus—Halle für Kunst und Medien in Graz (2017), as well as Place Value—New Acquisitions at Ludwig Museum—Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest (2022) and New Mediations at Modem in Debrecen (2022-2023).