Néray was a Széchenyi Award-winning art historian died who organised hundreds of exhibitions in Hungary and abroad and regularly wrote for Hungarian and foreign professional publications. She enjoyed a high profile in Hungarian cultural life.
Néray was director of the Műcsarnok between 1984 and 1992 before being appointed to head the Ludwig Museum in 1993. She was curator of the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale five times, and she chaired the Hungarian National Committee in the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) for ten years. She was a member of ICOM (International Council of Museums), CIMAM (International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art), the C3 Centre for Culture and Communication board and the Art Historians' Committee in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In recognition of her achievements, she was presented the Munkácsy Award in 1988, the Hungarian Republic's Order of Merit Officer Cross in 1998, the Polish Culture Minister's Klára Martyn Award in 1999 and the Széchenyi Award in 2005.
Néray actively contributed to promoting Hungarian and international contemporary art in Hungary and abroad. Her death is a great loss to the contemporary Hungarian art world, the Ministry of Education and Culture said in a statement.
