Brigitta Kocsis is a Canadian painter born in Hungary. She received her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2005. Kocsis' work has been included in group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including the Geneva Art Biennale, the Balassi Institute, Finland, Szeged University, Hungary, Harcourt House, Edmonton, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby and the Grunt Gallery, Vancouver. In 2010, she spent five months creating in Paris and Berlin, and she is the recipient of a number of grants and awards. Her most recent series, "Contingent Bodies", was published in a full-colour catalogue. Kocsis' work makes painting its subject and its medium. She is interested in unfolding the implications of the structural and theoretical formations within the painting process by challenging the expectations of conventional abstraction and figuration. She lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.