Agnes Szentgyörgyi Gallus (May 15, 1930-August 8, 2010) was a Hungarian Canadian artist^[1] at the height of the Saskatchewan abstract expressionist movement of the 1970s. Born in Hungary, she fled during the 1956 uprising and arrived, as a refugee, with her young family, in Regina. She studied art at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, with artists Kenneth Lochhead and Ted Godwin, and taught classes at the university in the 1970s and ’80s^[2].

A contemporary of The Regina Five, she participated in numerous Emma Lake Artist's Workshops ^[3] with Harold Cohen (1966), Frank Stella (1967), Michael Steiner (1969) and Roy Kiyooka (1972), and group shows including the Dunlop Art Gallery^[4] and Saskatchewan Arts Board.^[5] Her drawing, Flowering Rhubarb (SK Arts Permanent Collection) was reproduced in the book, Saskatchewan Dyes. ^[6]

In 2005, she moved to Toronto and continued her art practice until her death, in 2010. Her work was posthumously exhibited in 2013 at Artscape Wychwood Barns^[7] in Toronto and at the SK Arts 2021 group exhibitions Until Spring^[8] and There’s an Artist in the Garden^[9] in Regina, with fellow Saskatchewan artists Wynona Mulcaster, Mina Forsyth, Donna Kriekle, and Russel Yuristy.

Her art is now held in public and private collections, including the University of Regina President’s Art Collection, Shumiatcher Donation^[10][11] , SK Arts and the MacKenzie Art Gallery.