Jan Tichy
Jan Tichy (Czech, b. 1974) works at the intersection of video, sculpture, architecture, sound and photography; many of his works combine these elements. Using video projection as a time-based source of light, Tichy creates physical and psychic spaces in which he explores themes of concealment, obscurity, and the seen and unseen. Tichy’s use of photography in his work, tempered by his strictly formal and minimalist visual language, results in installations in which the narrative is open to interpretation.
Born in Prague, Jan Tichy moved to Israel in the mid 1990s. After studying Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tichy studied photography at Musrara School of Photography in Jerusalem and Advanced Studies in Art at Bezalel Academy in Tel Aviv. In 2007 he moved to Chicago where he earned MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Center for Contemporary Art-Tel Aviv, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and the Spertus Museum, Chicago. Over the past three years his work has been included in exhibitions in Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Paris, Prague, Stockholm, Venice, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, New York, Portland and Washington, D.C. Tichy’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Magasin 3 Stockholm Kunsthall; MoBY - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam and Spertus Museum, Chicago.
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
laboral - Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial
Gijón, Spain
October 28 - April 9, 2012
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity
June 30 - September 23, 2012
The Wadsworth Atheneum
Jan Tichy / MATRIX 164
April 5 – August 5, 2012
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Installation No. 4 (Towers) on view from the permanent collection.
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Jan Tichy Idiolect
2009
January 28 - April 3
Wood Street Galleries
Pittsburgh, PA
March 28 - April 24, 2011
Beginning on the evening of March 28, the last high-rise building at the Cabrini-Green housing projects (1230 N. Burling St., Chicago) will be lit up in the form of 134 LED lights, one for each apartment in the building. The light installation will be visible in the evenings during the four-week demolition period. As the building is razed, the lights will be demolished along with the building.
May 25, 2011
The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Israel’s most important private prize for the arts has been awarded annually to an Israeli artist under the age of 40 since 1995.
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