dr. Máriás is a Hungarian visual artist and musician born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Working across painting and performance, he is known for his provocative, darkly comic canvases that place historical monsters and political figures in absurd, often surreal juxtapositions — Stalin as Manager of the Year, a feminist Mussolini, vampire George Soros. His work draws on decades of living inside and against authoritarian systems, from Tito's Yugoslavia to Orbán's Hungary, where he was effectively blacklisted from state institutions for over a decade. His 2026 exhibition Long Live Dictatorship opened alongside the publication of his memoir, marking both a personal retrospective and a reckoning with Hungary's political transformation.