Éva Bednay (Budapest, 1 May 1927 – Bonn, 21 June 2017) was a Hungarian painter known for her mixed-media works, in which she layered paint and lacquer and attached pieces of metal, plastic and textile. She trained in Budapest and, after a period in the United States, settled in Bonn, where she spent much of her career.
She graduated in 1946 from the College of Applied Arts in Budapest, having studied with several teachers. Married to Dezső Bednay, with whom she taught art to young people with disabilities, she moved from an Art Nouveau style towards modern abstraction in the 1950s, drawing on Chagall, Matisse, Modigliani and Picasso. Her work stayed apart from expressionism and pop art. She held a solo show in Budapest in 1968, but in 1972 the couple moved to New York in search of artistic freedom.
In 1974 they settled in Bonn. From there she exhibited in Germany, Switzerland and the United States, and in the 1980s she began making portraits and imaginary landscapes with silk and oil pastels. In 1981 she took part in a show of the Hungarian diaspora at the Műcsarnok in Budapest, and in 2010 the first retrospective in her homeland since the early 1980s was held in the Hungarian capital. Her works are held in public collections in Germany and the Netherlands.