20. 12. 2023 seminar of accidental wisdom: Jan Tichý
seminar of accidental wisdom: Jan Tichý
20.12.2023
JJan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator working at the intersection of video, sculpture, architecture, and photography. His conceptual work is socially and politically engaged. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied art in Israel before earning his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Photography and the Department of Art & Technology Studies.
Tichy has had solo exhibitions at various institutions, including the MCA Chicago, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, CCA Tel Aviv, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Chicago Cultural Center. His works are included in public collections such as MoMA in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
In addition to his gallery exhibitions, Tichy has also been involved in large public art projects that engage communities and provide platforms for sharing.
Tichy was one of the inaugural artists for Art on theMart in 2018. In 2019, he co-edited and curated Ascendants: the Bauhaus Handprints collected by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and published by IIT Press.