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(22. May 1975., Fehérgyarmat – )

Hewas an orphan in the children’s home in tiszadob, where he studied painting and welding. His teachers recognized his talent early. At school he created his and orphan companions - Zsolt Vári and Kálmán Horváth - created a self-educating scholarly circle. That was a productive age in their life, and enhancing in their development. He graduated and applied for the picture-graphics branch at the University of Fine Arts in Hungary. He had two important teachers in his life, who revealed him the basic know-how of art: Mrs. Gitta Tomonyák Rózsavölgyi, the drawing teacher, and his professor, Róbert König, graphic artist. After earning his diploma, he was working on giving a new meaning to biblical works, like Lajos Szalay’s Jacob’s Fight with the Angel. his work of art, The Gipsy Woman’s Dance with the Angel is kind of an absolution, trying to keep the balance and giving a solution to the problem.

Balogh, who is also a prosperous painter, lives and works in Budapest. Having finished his studies at the university, in 2003 he started to work as a publication designer at the Capital Community’s Gypsy House. He hada lot of collective exhibitions: several times in Andrássy Castle, at Balázs János Gallery, in the Barcsay Gallery, at Fészek Club and at the Valley of Arts Festival.

He participated in The Hidden Holocaust exhibition in the Műcsarnok, at the Contemporary Hungarian Gypsy Art in the Collegium Hungaricum of Berlin in 2004 and in the gypsy pavilion at the Biennale of Venice in 2007. In 2007 the Zwack family bought one of his painting,titled Gypsy Boy with Construction, to make it part of their private colllection.