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Jan Tichy (1974) is a Chicago-based artist and educator, born in Czechoslovakia.
Biography
Jan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator working in video, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied art in Israel before moving to Chicago.
Education
Tichy studied at the Musrara School of Photography and New Media in Jerusalem and at the Advanced Studies in Fine Art and Photography program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Photography.
Solo exhibitions
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- 2019
Weight of Light, Museum Bensheim, Germany
- 2014
aroundcenter, Chicago Cultural Center
- 2013
Politics of Light, No Longer Empty & Richard Gray Gallery, NYC; Overlap, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv; Jan Tichy, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, WA
- 2012
MATRIX 164, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; 1979:1-2012:21, Museum of Contemporary Photography; Project Cabrini Green, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
! 2011 Installation No.13, Nathan Gottesdiener Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art;
- 2010
01:37:24:05, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Installation No. 10, Spertus Museum, Chicago
- 2009
Installations, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; Recent Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, Israel
- 2008
12*12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 2007
1391, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
- 2004
Beton, Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem
Public collections
- Museum of Modern Art
- MAGASIN III
- Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Israel Museum Jerusalem
Awards and Prizes
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2012 Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 Gold Award in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education
2010 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize
2009 MFA Fellowship Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
References
External links
- Jan Tichy
- "Jan Tichy". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved August 26, 2013.