Paintings by Péter Kovács have been regularly shown at exhibitions and prestigious biennials both in Hungary and abroad for three decades. Several of the artworks were purchased by collections such as the Ludwig Collection of Aachen, the Riz Collection of Bolzano or the National Gallery of Hungary.

Péter Kovács was granted the Derkovits scholarship in 1971. In the eighties, he was a scholar in Switzerland, Sweden and Italy at the Hungarian Academy in Rome. In 1985, he was awarded with the most prestigious art prize in Hungary, the Munkácsy Prize. In 2000 he received the Merited Artist Awards, in 2008 the Kossuth Prize.

At the beginning of his career, he painted with oil and made story book illustrations. But the most important pillar of his art is his sensitivity at drawing, his graphic-like compositions he makes with only a few lines. He gives symbolic meaning to his lead characters with traditional means of artists.

The greatest virtue of Péter Kovács's art is his high scale honesty with which he pictures the duality of human nature, makes the immovability and wish for purity into a visually heightened vision lacking pathos portraying the inevitable decay of man living with no spirit.