Gabor Szilasi
Biography - Gabor Szilasi
Szilasi, a self-taught photographer, has had more than 30 one-man shows in various parts of Canada and Europe and participated in 60 Canadian and international group shows. He has received grants from the Canada and Quebec arts councils. He taught at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, Concordia University, the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland, and Stanford University in California. Born in Budapest in 1928, he came to Canada in 1957. Says Szilasi: “My main interest has always been people and their environment, including portraits, interiors and architecture.”