Király Iosif is a Romanian visual artist, architect, and educator. He works both independently and within the subREAL group. Favourite media: photography, installation, performance, and drawing. His work investigates the relationship between perception, time, and memory. In 1995, he was among the founders of the Department of Photography and Media Arts at the National University of Arts (UNArte) in Bucharest, where he is presently a professor. Király has an extensive international exhibition record, and his works are found in numerous private and public collections. Since 2013 he has also been teaching in the Master of Visual Studies programme at the National School of Political Science and
Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest. He has initiated, coordinated, and, together with architects,
visual artists, and anthropologists, participated in research projects related to the changes having occurred in post-communist Romania: D-Platform, RO-Archive, Triaj, Tinseltown, etc. Király has held lectures, seminars, creative workshops, and artist introductions at universities, museums, and art centres, including: Regensburg University, Department of South-Eastern European Studies, Germany (2016); New York University, Department of Comparative Literature, New York, USA (2015); Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2013); School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, London, UK (2011); Tehran University, Iran (2008); FRI SE Künstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany (2008); Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania (2004–2008); West University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Timişoara, Romania (2007); University of Bucharest, master’s programme “Image Science”, Romania (2003–2005); F+F School for Art & Media Design, Zurich, Switzerland (2004); Mobile Akademie, Berlin, Germany (2004); SKC Beograd, Serbia (2003); Art & Tech Institute, Linz, Austria (1999); Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany (1998); School of Film and Photography, Gothenburg University, Sweden (1997).