Baker Artist Portfolios

Fanni Somogyi is a Baltimore-based artist exploring metamorphosis, resilience, and interdependence through electroformed biomorphic copper sculptures. In this plating technique copper migrates from the anode to the cathode, and loss and accumulation 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 desire is for the viewers to sense this merging, to feel how building, body, and terrain are not separate systems but interconnected ones, continuously reshaping each other through processes of decay, resilience, and renewal. Her work ranges in scale from tabletop pieces to large public sculpture for Capitol Hill Arts Project (DC) and for Franconia Sculpture Park (MN). Somogyi earned an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MI) and an MA from the Node Center (DE). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Transformer (DC), Gallery Out of Home (HU), Cranbrook Art Museum (MI), Fjord (PA), Vox Populi (PA), Mother-in-Law’s Gallery (NY), New Collectors (NY),  the Broom Factory (MI), Explora Salta (AR), Creative Alliance (MD), Annmarie Sculpture Garden (MD), DC Arts Center (DC), Latela Curatorial (DC),  and Maryland Art Place (MD). She has been a resident at Franconia Sculpture Park, Torpedo Factory Art Center (VA), and Annmarie Sculpture Garden. Somogyi has been awarded two Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Material Awards and a Research Fellowship at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Somogyi is an adjunct professor of drawing at the University of Maryland Global Campus.