Fanni Somogyi is a Baltimore-based artist exploring metamorphosis, resilience, and interdependence through electroformed biomorphic copper sculptures. Her work ranges in scale from tabletop pieces to large public work. In the electroplating technique, copper migrates from the anode to the cathode, and decay and growth unfold simultaneously, mirroring natural cycles found in fungi and lichen. Up close, these works resemble bodily interiors; from a distance, they read as landscapes, blurring boundaries. Her artworks create a sense of merging, showing how building, body, and terrain are not separate systems but interconnected ones continuously reshaping each other. 

 

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Transformer (Washington D.C.), Gallery Out of Home (Budapest), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Fjord (Philadelphia), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Upstate Art Weekend at Mother-in-Law’s Gallery (Germantown, NY), New Collectors (NYC),  the Broom Factory (Detroit), Explora Salta (Argentina), and Creative Alliance (Baltimore). Public art commissions have included Capitol Hill Arts Project (Washington D.C.) and Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN). She has been a resident at Franconia Sculpture Park, Torpedo Factory Art Center, and Annmarie Sculpture Garden. Somogyi earned an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MA from the Node Center (Berlin). Artist talks and lectures include Target Gallery, DC Art Center, and Latela Curatorial. Academic appointments include University of Maryland Global Campus. She has taught studio practice workshops in metal casting, fabrication, and sculpture as well as kinetic art at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Franconia Sculpture Park. Somogyi has been awarded two Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Material Awards and a Research Fellowship at the Maryland Institute College of Art.