Dry No.2, 2005, digital chemical print, 11.81 x 7.1 inches

Jan Tichy
Jan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator who works with video, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Israel before moving to Chicago in 2007, where he earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute and where he now teaches. Tichy has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; and the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv. Over the past years his work has been included in exhibitions in Barcelona, Basel, Berlin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Jerusalem, New York, Paris, Prague, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Venice, and Washington, D.C. His work, Bats (2007), was recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has been nominated for the 2011 Gottesdiener Prize of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and in the March 2011 issue, Art Review named Tichy one of the Future Greats. This spring, Tichy will launch his largest installation to-date, Project Cabrini Green (2011), a community-based art project to light up the last high rise building at the Cabrini Green Housing Projects in Chicago.

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