György Ezüst was born in Békéscsaba on 4 April 1935. He first encountered visual arts at the open school led by József Mokos. He went to secondary school to the predecessor in title of present day Evangelic Grammar School. Later on he graduated from the Training Collage of Eger. His master was János Jakuba. Later he went to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.

He taught in Békéscsaba, then from 1971 he moved to Budapest where he has lived and worked since. Ever since His first showing in 1957, György Ezüst regularly shows at exhibitions. He held his first solo exhibition at the Munkácsy Mihály Museum in Békéscsaba in 1961. He took part in nearly one hundred and fifty exhibitions as an artist, both in Hungary and abroad. He was always faithful to the town of his birth, the county, nature, people who live in the regions. These all affected his life and career. He did a number of field trips abroad, all over Europe.

He was honoured with a number of prizes, medals, just to mention a few: 1962 Munkácsy Memorial Medal, 1963 The Town of Szeged Prize, 1967 Medgyessy Memorial Medal, 1971 The Town of Békéscsaba Special Prize, 1981 National Portrait Biennial, bronze diploma, 1986 SZOT Prize, 2003 Knight Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic .