Tihanyi holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, a BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington.

Her work has been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. She has received received the Neddy Award in Open Media in 2018, a 2018-19 Bergstrom Award, and a New Foundation travel grant. In Seattle, her work has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions at Gallery 4Culture, CoCA, Consolidated works, Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Gallery, Linda Hodges Gallery, Davidson Contemporary, and SOIL Gallery.

Tihanyi is a Teaching Professor in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts program at the University of Washington. She is the founder and director of Slip Rabbit, a unique mentoring space for experimentation and learning at the intersections of art, design, architecture, science, and engineering. Slip Rabbit is the first technoceramics studio in the Pacific Northwest. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.

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