JAN TICHY

Born in Prague, 1974
Lives and works in Chicago

Education
2007-2009 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture Department, MFA
2005-2007 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv, Advanced Studies in Fine Art
1999-2002 Jerusalem School of Photography & New Media, Photography Department
1995-1999 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Political Science and General Studies

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Fridman Gallery, NYC
SBMA, Santa Barbara, CA
Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin
Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2015 Sur-round-things, Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin
On the Decomposition of a Plane, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Aroundcenter, Chicago Cultural Center
2013 Overlap, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
Politics of Light, No Longer Empty & Richard Gray Gallery, NYC
Jan Tichy, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, WA
2012 1979:1-2012:21, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Project Cabrini Green, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
MATRIX 164, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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

Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 MoCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Bene. F. Action, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2015 Paper Plains, Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin
Behind the Fence, Beit Bialik Museum, Tel Aviv
At the headwaters, Gardner Center for Arts, Gary, IN
First Year, Fernwey Gallery, Chicago
The Shape of Things to Come, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
RAY 2015, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
After Today, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Currents, with Shawn Decker, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM
Signifiers of Place, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
2014 Informal Forms, Aran Cravey Gallery, LA
Light3
, Fridman Gallery, NYC
Through a Glass Darkly, Simon/Neuman2 Gallery, NYC
Visions and Nightmares, Film Museum Dusseldorf
On Location, Hygienic Galleries, New London, CT
Spotlight, Elmhurst Museum of Art
The Towering Inferno, Tel Aviv University Gallery
Home Before Dark, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 Beyond No Man’s Land, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY
ExpoVideo, Expo Chicago, Chicago
Blackbox, West Jerusalem
10×10, threewalls, Chicago
Quarantine, Hansen House, Jerusalem
La citta nuova, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
Light and Shadow, Science Museum, Jerusalem
Aircraft Carrier, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY
The Eye of the Blackbird, Art House, Tel Aviv
Beginning of a Collection, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel
2012 Material Translations, Tadeo Ando Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago
Suitcase Art, Künstlerhaus Speckstrasse, Hamburg, Germany
Muse, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
IN/SITU, 12th Expo Chicago
Aircraft Carrier, 13th Architecture Biennale, Venice
Skyscraper: Art And Architecture Against gravity,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Galicia Mon Amour, SOKOL Cultural Center, Nowy Sacz, Poland
Luma, Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv
Grid 2012, International Photography Biennial, Amsterdam
Where the fall winds blow, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
True Stories, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Soundscapes, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
Closing Party, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Magic Lantern, The Israel Museum Jerusalem
Happiness Project, Loop Alliance Pop Up Gallery, Chicago
Social Housing-Housing the Social, SKOR foundation, Amsterdam
Experimental Station, LABoral, Gijon, Spain
ARTLV biennale, Herzliya, Israel
Urban Imaginarium, Marwen Gallery, Chicago
In/Ex/Change, ARTSTAYS 9, Slovenia (in collaboration with Shawn Decker)
Hang In There, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
Islands, Worlds, Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem
Experimental Station, CA2M, Madrid
Without You I Am Nothing – Interactions, MCA Chicago
White Light, Black Light, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
Out of Place, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2010 Place, Origin, Landscape, AMU Gallery, Prague
Immaterial Architecture, PPOW Gallery, New York
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland
MusraraMix #10, International Art Festival, Jerusalem
Moholy: An Education of the Senses, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago
(exhibition design in collaboration with Helen Maria Nugent)
Disquieted, Portland Art Museum
Family/Tree II, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2009 ArtTLV Biennale, Tel Aviv
Learning Modern, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago – in
collaboration with Helen Maria Nugent
Dreary Structures, Dreamy Structures, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel
After Architecture: Typologies of the Afterwards, Centre d’Art Santa Monica,
Barcelona
Family/Tree I, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Cent Ans de Dialogue par l’Art, Orangerie du Senat, Paris
The Age of a Different Re-Action: New Israeli Art Scene, Galerie Davide Gallo,
Berlin
Paperworks, The Israel Museum (Beit Ticho), Jerusalem
Annual MFA Graduate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 Additions, La Biennale di Venezia, 11th International Architecture Exhibition,
Israeli Pavilion
Access to Israel, The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Can Art Do More?, Art Focus 5, Jerusalem
LAYLA: Young Israeli Artists, INGA Gallery, New York
Future Perfect, International Triennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery,
Prague
Blind Spot, Petach Tikva Museum of Modern Art, Israel
60 Years, Arc Gallery, Chicago
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, the Israel Museum Jerusalem
Young Artist Awards, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Personal Landscapes, The American University Museum, Washington D.C.
Twosidedness, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
First Show: Contemporary Art from The Israel Museum, Beit Mani, Tel Aviv
2007 Forks and Napkins, G2 Gallery, Chicago
Jerusalem of One’s Eye, The Social Gallery, Jerusalem
Herzliya Biennale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
VideoMarina, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam
Artic 9, Tel Aviv University Gallery
Salame 007, Graduate Show MFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts, Tel Aviv
Fleeing Away From What Bothers You Most, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
2006 Normality, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv
CzechPoint, NOD Gallery and Cs2 Gallery, Prague
Liquorish Light, Saloona, Tel Aviv
Paperworks, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv
Collaboration on Site, ARS 06 Biennale, Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
Israeli Salon of Photography, Agripas Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
Vacation, Tarbut High School Gallery, Rishon Lezion, Israel
Courtain, Venta Gallery, Jerusalem
2005 Natures Mortes, Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem
2004 Real Time, Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem
2003 Jerusalem a Vif, Le Passage de Retz, Paris
Mi churvotich ibnech, Time for Art Museum, Tel Aviv
Artic 5, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Arting Jerusalem, International Art Project, Jerusalem
Hearat Shulaim 5, Sergei Courtyard, Jerusalem
Bab El Musrara, Musrara Community Gallery and Morel Derfler Gallery,
Jerusalem
(in collaboration with Alon Cohen-Lipshitz and Halely Mazor)
2002 Israeli Video Art, Display Gallery, Prague
Kav HaTefer, Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem
Space 0I, Opal Gallery, Tel Aviv
Final Projects, Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel
Mother’s Tongue, Israel Festival, Jerusalem
Biut HaTeva (Domestication of Nature), Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem
2001 Ber Mekfet, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem
2000 HP Digital Photography Awards, Budapest, Barcelona, Moscow
1999 Short cuts, Art Space in Yavne Street, Tel Aviv
Obviously, HaZira, Jerusalem

Selected Projects
2015 Heat Light Water Project (HLWP), collaboration with Dr. Jeffreen Hayes
reclaiming and repurposing a building in Gary, IN
2014 The Expanded Moment, The Art Assignment, PBS Digital Studios
Young Changing Chicago, collaboration with high school photography programs
2013 Build Your Own Light and Public Light & Lower East Side, collaboration with No
Longer Empty youth outreach
Project Tesla Orava, collaboration with students from art&tech high school Nizna
on a proposal of public art project for the village, Nizna, Slovakia
2012 The MoCP Tagging Project, collaboration with MFA students from SAIC, CCC,
UIC and UofC at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Lighten Up, public art project in collaboration with the Amistad Center for Art and
Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2011 Project Cabrini Green, public art project in Cabrini Green, Chicago IL and at MCA
Chicago – in collaboration with Efrat Appel and students and faculty from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 The Gate Project, Near North Montessori School, Chicago – with Merav Argov
Delineations II, College Art Association (CAA) Conference closing event, Sullivan
Galleries, Chicago – in collaboration with Helen Maria Nugent
2009 Lighting The Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago – with MFA
International students
Interpretation of The Collection of SSAC, Reavis Elementary School, Chicago –
with Drea Howenstein and students from the School of the Art institute of Chicago
2008 Tzofia, light design, Tel Aviv – in collaboration with Ernesto Pujol
2006 IPO 70, three-channel video installation for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
Tel Aviv – in collaboration with Nevet Yitzhak
2005 Stop Motion, photo dance performance, Duncan Centre, Prague – in collaboration
with Oren Tischler
MusraraMix , 6th International Art Festival
2002-2005 Prozdor Student Gallery in Musrara Community Center, Jerusalem
2004 Blow Up, photo dance performance, HaZira, Jerusalem – in collaboration
with Oren Tischler and Vertigo Dance Company
2002 Hafra’a Video Gallery, HaZira, Jerusalem
2001-2003 Hafra’a, community video art magazine – with Ran Eisenstadt,
Liron Meshulam and Lael Kline

Selected Honors
2012 Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 Gold Award in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for
Public Light & Space Catalog by SAIC
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
2007 The Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture
Rich Foundation Scholarship
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
2003 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
2002 Mayor of Jerusalem Award for Excellence in Art Studies
2000 HP Digital Photography Awards
Scholarship for Excellence in Studies, Jerusalem School of Photography,
Musrara
Public Collections
American University Museum, Washington DC
Asdod Museum of Art, Israel
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
The Israel Museum Jerusalem
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, New York
SONS, Antwerp, Belgium
Spertus Museum, Chicago
The Shpilman Institute of Photography
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Selected Bibliography
2015 Shapira, Sarit. Babel: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv
University Press, Tel Aviv
Tsai, Joyce. The Painting of Moholy-Nagy The Shape of Things to Come, Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, California
Lunsford, Celina. Ray 2015 Imagine Reality, Herausgeber Publisher, RAY
Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain
2014 Irvine, Karen. Jan Tichy: Chicago Projections, US Equities and Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2013 De Michelis, Marko. La Citte Nuova, City of Como Press
Pokorny, Martin. Speech: A Contribution to Situational Phenomenology, Jitro
Publishing
Biton, Yuval. Beginning of a Collection, Ashdod Museum
2012 Jacob, Mary Jane and Baas, Jacquelynn. Chicago Makes Modern, University of
Chicago Press
Yariv, Amon, Gordon II Gallery, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Moshenson, Edna. About Paper, Israeli Contemporary Art, Postmedia, Milano
Handel, Dan and Aviram, Milana. Aircraftcarrier, American Ideas and Israeli
Architecture after 73 Hatje Cantz
Darling Michael, Szupinska Johanna. Skyscraper, Art and Architecture Against
Gravity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Heller, Danna. Galicia, Mon Amour, BWA Sokol, Nowy Sacz, Poland
Lurie, Aya. Luma, Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv
Hickson, Patricia. Night Visions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford,
CT
Wei, Lilly. True Stories, Locks Art Publications, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Pascual, Pablo Martin and Torrente Virginia. Experimental Station, Madrid:
CA2M.
Tichy, Jan and Appel, Efrat. Project Cabrini Green, Chicago: Project Cabrini
Green.
Beste, Amy and Ginton Ellen. Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation The Israeli Art
Prize 2010, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Horne, Murray. White Light/Black Light, Pittsburgh: Wood Street Galleries.
2010 Trainor, James and Edelzstein, Sergio. Jan Tichy – 01:37:24:05, Tel Aviv: Center
for Contemporary Art.
Manning, John and Tichy, Jan. Public Light & Space, Chicago: The School of the
Art Institute of Chicago.
2009 Abir, Leah. Idiolect. Bat Yam: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Peran, Marti. After Architecture: Typologies of the Afterwards, ACTAR and Arts
Santa Monica, Barcelona.
Gedalyovich, Michael Kessus. The Tel Aviv-Yafo Biennial. Tel Aviv.
Slome, Manon, and Joshua Simon. The Aesthetics of Terror. Milano: Edizioni
Charta.
Sorek, Ronit. Paperworks. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum.
2008 Art Focus 5. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Foundation.
Arenós, Xavier, Domènec, and Martí Perna. Roulotte: 05. Barcelona:
Roulette:ACM
Atlan, Eva and Raphael Gross. Access to Israel 2: Israel Contemporary Art. Köln:
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
Cederbaum, Michael and Nitzan Kalush Checkick. Architecture Along A
Continuum. Tel Aviv: A.R. Press
Hartmann, Ivan, Svètlana Michajlová, Katarina Rybková. International Triennial of
Contemporary Art. Prague: KANT for the National Gallery in Prague, CZ
Mendelsohn, Amita. Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008. Jerusalem, The Israel
Museum
Prologue. Tel Aviv: ART TLV
Volk, Carmella Jocoby and Einat Manoff. Blind Spot. Petach-Tikva Museum of Art
Volk, Carmella Jacoby and Iftach Aloni, et al. Block #5/The Shiny Nose.
2007 Freiman, Katz Tami. The Winners 2007, Haifa Museum of Art.
Kassovsky, Daria. The First Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art. Herzliya: The
Department of Culture, Youth and Sports, City of Herzliya, Gov Productions Ltd.
Selected Press
2016 The Window, February 2016, Jan Tichy – On the Decomposition of a Plane by
Smadar Shefi
2015 Chicago Reader, October 2015, Can Chicago artists salvage Gary, Indiana by
Ruth Lopez
NewCity Art, July 2015, Review: After Today/Gallery 400, Noah Hanna
Chicago Reader, Juner 2015, ‘After Today’ at Gallery 400 combines art and
activism, Kate Sierzputowski
2014 ArtNews, September 2014, Light3
, by Amanda Church
NewCity, September 2014, 50 Chicago’s Artists’ Artists
Studio International, June 2014, Light3
, by Kelly Robbins
FNews, March 2014, “Behind Open Doors”, by Alexia Casanova
Chicago Reader, February 2014, “A Tichy Scavenger Hunt”, by Danna Isaacs
ArtNews, January 2014, “Politics of Light – review”, by Emily Nathan
2013 ArtReview, December 2013, “Jan Tichy: Politics of Light”, by Orit Gat
Huffington Post, December 2013, “Revisiting Power: The Aesthetics of Public
Policy”, by Sarah Lehat
New York Times, December 2013, “Art in Review”, by Martha Shwendener
FlashArt International Czech Edition, Fall 2013, “Jan Tichy – It is about thinking
as much as about feeling” by Katarina Kottova
& magazine for Art and Culture, “installation no.4 (towers)
Broadband Magazine, September 2013, “Jan Tichy – Tagging Project”
Sixty Inches From Center, January 2013, “Testing Thresholds” by Tempestt
Hazel
Selvedge, January 2013, “Material Translations” by Jessica Hemmings
ARTmargins, January 2013, “Light Source” by Susan Snodgra
2012 ChicagoMag, December 2012, “The best of Art 2012” by Jason Foumberg
The Columbia Chronicle, December 2012, “Featured Artist leads MoCP
retrospective” by Senah Sampong
TimeOut Chicago, November 2012, “Jan Tichy at MoCP” by Lauren Weinberg
Photograph, November 2012, “1979:1-2012:21” by Jason Foumberg
Art in America, September 2012, “Quality Over Quantity” by Susan Snodgrass
Artforum, September 2012, “Artforum Picks: Jan Tichy” by Rotem Rozental
NewcityArt, September 2012, “Chicago’s Artists’ Artists” by Jason Foumberg
Haaretz, September, “Structural drifts in Chicago” by Galia Yahav
Chicago Gallery News, September 2012, “Artist Insights: Jan Tichy” by Laura
Miller
Art New England, June 2012, “Jan Tichy/MATRIX 164” by Stephen Vincent
Kobasa
NBC Connecticut, May 2012, “Art Project Causes Bomb Scare in Hartford”, by
Todd Piro
Haaretz, May 2012, “Showcasing New Vision”, by Daniel Dauchwerger
The Hartford Courant, April 2012, “ Jan Tichy – MATRIX 164” by Susan Dunne
2011 Art Asia Pacific, July 2011, “Illuminated Demolition” by Jason Lazarus
Midnight East, June 2011, “Darkness Visible” by Graham Lawson
Domus Israel 013, May 2011, cover – front and back: “Dry 2007”.
A5 – Jerusalem Edition, May 2011, “Untitled (terminal)” from the C of A.
The Art Newspaper, May 2011, “The Lights Go Out on Cabrini Green” by Ruth
Lopez.
Associated Press, April 2011, “With Lights, Poems, Teens Say Goodbye to
Cabrini” by Sharon Cohen.
Chicago Tribune, April 2011, “At Cabrini’s last high-rise blinking lights tell a fading
history” by Mary Schmich.
ARTslant Chicago, April 2011, “Poetics of Light” by Robyn Farrell Roulo.
TimeOut Chicago, April 2011, “Jan Tichy organizes Project Cabrini Green” by
Lauren Weinberg.
New York Times, March 2011, “Cabrini-Green to Exit with poetry and Lights” by
Kari Lyndersen.
Chicago Reader, March 2011, “As the Walls Come Down” by Brian Costelo.
ArtReview, February 2011, “Future Greats” by Jonathan T.D. Neil
2010 New York Times, August 2010, “Art in Review”, by Holland Cotter
The Art Newspaper, June 2010, “ It’s about more than Matisse” by Lindsey
Pollock.
Artforum, May 2010, “Night Watchman”, by James Trainor
ARTslant, March 2010, “Rack Room: The Slant on Jan Tichy,” by Abraham
Ritchie.
Art in America, January 2010, “exhibition reviews: Jan Tichy at Richard Gray”, by
Susan
Snodgrass
Art in America, January 2010, “Learning styles”, by Susan Tallman
Frieze Magazine, Issue 128. January – February 2010, “Jan Tichy”, by Jason
Foumberg
ARTnews, Volume 109. January 2010, “Reviews: Jan Tichy, Chicago”, by Ruth
Lopez
2009 Time Out Chicago, December 18, 2009, “Art Review: Jan Tichy,” by Lauren
Weinberg.
Artnet, November 17, 2009, “Chicago A Go-Go,” by Brook S. Mason.
ARTslant Chicago, November 17, 2009, “Illuminating a Recession,” by Dan
Gunn. New City, November 11, 2009, “Best gallery show in the last year.”
Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2009, “Art in empty spaces,” by Lori Waxman.
New City, October 12, 2009, “Eye Exam: Twenty-First Century Ruin,” by Jason
Foumberg.
The Huffington Post, October 14, 2009, “Fresh Art Breadth,” by Paul Klein.
The Guardian, September 17, 2009, “Welcome to Tel Aviv’s first biennial,” by
Marisa Mazria Katz.
Programma, September 1, 2009, “Gaza Via Tel Aviv,” by Vardit Gross.
Barcelona Free Art, July 13, 2009, “After Architecture-Typologies of the
Afterwards.”
Modern Art Notes, August 12, 2009, “’Uncle Rudi’ and the response to terror,” by
Tyler Green.
Artis (Arts Israel), 2009, “An Interview with Jan Tichy,” by Kathryn Hixson.
The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2009, “Paper perfection,” by Lauren Gelfond
Feldinger.
2008 Domus, July 2008, “Facility 1391.”
New City, May 2008, “Review: Jan Tichy,” by Amy Dittmeier
2007 Haaretz International, June 15, 2007, “Beauty is a self-aware exterior.”

Jan Tichy – CV