Naomi Devil

Naomi Devil with her oil painting "Temptation" in the background (2013)

Naomi Devil (born March 10, 1987 in Budapest ), originally Noémi Ördög , is a Hungarian painter and graphic designer who has lived in Vienna since 2002 . The stage name Naomi Devil is a translation of her maiden name into English.

Career

Naomi Devil was born in Budapest in 1987 as the second child of her parents. The grandfather László Ördögh Senior was like her father also an artist. Devil attended elementary school in Budapest and from the second semester of the tenth grade became a private student in the grammar school. She spent the summer in Salzburg, where she attended a five-week course at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg with Caroline Broadhead . Here she decided to become an artist. She completed the last two classes of high school in one year as a private student. She passed her Abitur at the age of 17 and was accepted into the contextual painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna that same year . She began her studies in 2002 with Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum and later studied with Elke Krystufek and from the third year with Ashley Hans Scheirl . She graduated with a diploma in 2008. In the meantime, the artist spent two more summers in Salzburg and attended the courses given by Rivka Rinn and Andrea Fogli at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts .

Parallel to her painting studies, the artist studied architecture from 2006 to 2010 at the Technical University of Vienna . From 2011 she studied graphic design in Oliver Kartak's class at the University of Applied Arts . In 2015 she received her second diploma.

Artistic activity

The artist works mainly as a painter, but has also completed projects as a graphic designer. She has worked on several film productions with digital 3D animations. Particularly noteworthy are the digital reconstructions of Nicolas Schöffer's lost or never realized works for the film Nicolas Schöffer and his wonderful world . The film was shown on the occasion of the Expo 2015 in Milan .

Devil also works as a curator. She organized several cross-border exhibitions.

Her work has been exhibited in more than a dozen countries since 2002. In February 2019, the Kunsthalle Budapest presented a retrospective exhibition of her works. The curator of the exhibition was Zoltán Rockenbauer.

Awards

EGA Women's Art Award
Art Award 2017 of the professional association of visual artists in Austria
VI. Víz és Élet Nemzetközi Képzőművészeti Biennálé Craft Art special price
La Femme 50 Tehetséges Magyar Fiatal
Red Carpet Art Award

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Devil, Naomi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ördög, Noémi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest

[1] Schöffer Film

[2] Virtual tour

[3] Zoltán Rockenbauer: curatorial text on the exhibition Spaces (ap) art Naomi Devil in the Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest, 2019, (last accessed: March 4, 2020, 11:16 am)

[4] EGA Women's Center Large Work Show Naomi Devil, (last accessed: March 4, 2020)

[5] Art Award 2017 of the professional association of visual artists in Austria

[6] Víz és Élet Nemzetközi Képzőművészeti Biennale

[7] 10 years of the Red Carpet Art Award