Jan Pohribný

Jan Pohribný (born 1961) is a Czech photographer.

Education

 * 1976–1980 Secondary school for Graphic Arts in Prague (line Applied Photography)
 * 1981–1986 Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (the Department of Artistic Photography)
 * 1985–1986 6 Months study program at University of Applied Arts in Helsinki (FIN)

Experience
Since 1986 he works as a freelance photographer-artist. On top of his artistic works he works predominantly in the field of design and illustration photography. He co-operates with a number of leading agencies, companies and magazines at home-country and abroad. Since 1990 he is a member of Professional Photographers Association and a member of Prague House of Photography, where he acted (1992–1997) as a lector as well as main coordinator at Summer Workshop Program of PHP. Since 2003 he is a member of its executive board Since 1995 he is a founding member and president of Society for Únětician Culture Renovation. Since 1998 he works as part-time teacher at Silesian University, Institute of Creative Photography. He leads number of workshops home and abroad.

Since 2000 he gives regularly the lectures at Polytechnic Art School in Imatra (FIN). In 2006 he was working as artist in residence in Finland's Southern Savonia region.<!-- commenting out - way too long

Collections
Participation in collections:
 * La Mission de la Photographie, Paris (F)
 * Moravská Gallery, Brno (CZ)
 * Municipal Gallery, Prague (CZ)
 * Musée de l‘Elysée, Lausanne (CH)
 * Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA)
 * Museum of Arts, Benešov u Prahy (CZ)
 * Museum of Arts, Olomouc (CZ)
 * National Museum of Photography (CZ)
 * Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague (CZ)
 * North Bohemian Museum in Liberec (CZ)

Exhibitions

 * Individual exhibitions:
 * 1984 – FAMU, Prague (CS)
 * 1986 – Gallery Finnfoto, Helsinki (FIN)
 * 1986 – Gallery Baszta, Boleslawiec (PL)
 * 1987 – Exhibition room Semafor, Prague (CS)
 * 1987 – Gallery J.K. Tyla (together with R. Ciglerová), Kutná Hora (CS)
 * 1989 – Gallery Nahoře, České Budějovice (CS)
 * 1989 – Panský dům (together with M. Nechalová – Fashion Design), Uherský Brod (CS)
 * 1990 – Theater Kruh, Plzeň (CS)
 * 1991 – Gallery Brotfabrik, Berlin (D)
 * 1991 – County Museum (together with S. Kasalý – Jewellery), Pelhřimov (CS)
 * 1991 – M+K Gallery (together with S. Kasalý – Jewellery), Jihlava (CS)
 * 1992 – Information and Culture Centre ČSFR, Berlin (D)
 * 1993 – Prague House of Photography (together with John C. Hesketh), Prague (CZ)
 * 1993 – Gallery ARS Temporis (together with S. Kasalý – Jewellery), Klagenfurt (A)
 * 1994 – County Museum in Benešov u Prahy (CZ)
 * 1995 – Gallery Pro Arte Kasper, Morges (CH)
 * 1995 – Gallery Ambrosiana, Brno (CZ)
 * 1995 – Little Gallery of spořitelna in Kladno (CZ)
 * 1995 – Tearoom Miyabi (together with J. Činčera – paper objects), Prague (CZ)
 * 1995 – Gallery IVO (together with J. Činčera – paper objects), Frankfurt a.M. (D)
 * 1997 – Gallery G4, Cheb (CZ)
 * 1998 – Klenová Castle (together with J. Činčera – paper objects), Klenová (CZ)
 * 1999 – Gallery Opera, Theater Jiřího Myrona, Ostrava (CZ)
 * 1999 – Czech Centre New York, N.Y. (USA)
 * 2000 – Imatra Culture Centre, Imatra (FIN)
 * 2000 – Sovinec Castle, Sovinec (CZ)
 * 2000 – Bludov SPA, Bludov (CZ)
 * 2001 – IP Deutschland (together with B. Hobusch a N. Rovderová), Köln a.R. (D)
 * 2002 – House of Arts (together with J. Činčera – paper objects), Opava (CZ)
 * 2002 – Culture Club, Film Summer School, Uherské Hradiště (CZ)
 * 2002 – Czech National Bank, Prague (CZ)
 * 2003 – Jolly Jaunt Gallery, Pec pod Sněžkou (CZ)
 * 2003 – Gallery of Artistic Photography, Moravská Třebová (CZ)
 * 2003 – Castle's Gallery Buchlovice, Buchlovice (CZ)
 * 2004 – Ambit of Moravian Gallery Brno, Brno (CZ)
 * 2005 – Neue Rathaus (together with Kamil Varga), Weiden (D)
 * 2005 – Gallery G4, Cheb (CZ)
 * 2005 – Gallery Fotart, Szczecin (PL)
 * 2005 – Atmosphere, Prague (CZ)
 * 2005 – Gallery Spodki, Bialystok (PL)
 * 2006 – Gallery PlaceM, Tokyo (JAP)
 * 2006 – PatriotX, Praha (CZ)
 * 2006 – Gallery of Healthy City, Karviná (CZ)
 * 2007 – Gallery FOMA, Hradec Králové (CZ)
 * 2007 – Gallery Bazilika, České Budějovice (CZ)
 * 2007 – Czech centre, Stockholm (S)
 * 2008 – Taidemuseo, Mikkeli (FIN)
 * 2008 – Czech centre, Praha (CZ)
 * 2008 – National Museum of Photography, Jindřichův Hradec (CZ)
 * 2009 – Gallery U Rytíře, Liberec (CZ)

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 * Collective exhibitions (selected):
 * 1983 – 11 fotografen aus Prag, Darmstadt, Frankfurt (D)
 * 1984 – „Photography.“ (3. grade FAMU), Fotochema Gallery, Prague (CS)
 * 1984 – Aspects of Czechoslovak Photography, Thackerey+Robertson Gallery, San Francisco (USA)
 * 1984 – Photography from FAMU Prague, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
 * 1985 – Fotografie absolventů FAMU, Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno (CS)
 * 1986 – The Young Czech Photography, Gallery Aréna, Arles (F)
 * 1987 – Fotografie absolventů FAMU, UPM Prague (CS)
 * 1987 – Koncentrace, Gallery Finnfoto, Helsinki (FIN)
 * 1987 – Art is TEĎ, Fine Room Gallery, London
 * 1987 – Contemporary Czech Photography, Aarhus (DK) a SICOF, Milano (I)
 * 1988 – Vision, Cheb, Liberec a Brno (CS)
 * 1988 – 11, Fotochema, Prague (CS)
 * 1988 – 7 Czech Photographers, Bruxelles (B)
 * 1989 – Tuctová výstava, Gallery Na můstku, Prague (CS)
 * 1989 – Stage photography, Fotofest 89, Žďár nad Sázavou (CS)
 * 1989 – Junge fotografen aus ČSSR, Gallery TKK, Berlin (D)
 * 1989 – 37, Junior klub Na Chmelnici, Prague (CS)
 * 1989 – Czechoslovak November, Mánes, Prague, Wien (A), Lausanne (CH)
 * 1990 – Czech Symbolism, ÚLUV, Prague (CS)
 * 1990 – Tchécoslovaquie a Arles, R.I.P. Arles (F)
 * 1991 – Plastic Photography, Fotobiennale Enschede (NL)
 * 1991 – The Real and Reproduced, Gallery 410, Lowell (USA)
 * 1991 – Mystery in Photography, Gallery 4, Cheb (CS)

Awards
Award of City Arles, R.I.P. Arles (F), 1990
 * 2. prize in Czech Press Photo, Art and Culture Category, Prague (CZ), 1995
 * 2. prize in Czech Press Photo, Nature and Environment Category, Prague (CZ), 1997
 * 3. prize in Czech Press Photo, Art and Culture Category, Prague (CZ), 2001
 * Title Qualified European Photographer, by FEP, Brussel (B), 2001
 * A. Uimonen: Ensineet letävät ranalla, Helsingin Sanomat, 7.5. 1986
 * J. Pacek: Tři cykly Jana Pohribného, Čs. fotografie 7/87, p. 304
 * /pl/: Fotografie jiným pohledem – J. Pohribný, Magazín MF 2/87
 * B. Kovaříková: J. Pohribný, Tvorba 15/88
 * A. Fárová: „11“,catalogue for the exhibition in Gallery Foma, Prague, 1986
 * M. Rooksová: La fantasie en couleurs J. Pohribný, La Vie 1/90
 * /ds/: Místa přistání, Svět v obrazech 20/91, p. 24–27
 * /an/: Magische Lichtspuren, Berliner Zeitung, 15.5. 1991
 * /rola/: Surreale fotografien, Taz Berlin, 16 May 1991
 * P. Olszowka: Filme ohne kino, Der Tagesspiegel, 22.5. 1991
 * M. Pacina: J. Pohribný – Nová doba kamenná, Fotografie 8/91, p. 29–32
 * P. Olschewski: Landschaft als Inszenierung (Workshop mit J. Pohribný), Photographie 4/92, p. 50–53
 * Vl. Rohan: Pohribného Stone Art, text for the exhibition in Prague House of Photography, April 1993
 * P. Volf: kultura, MF Dnes, 17.4. 1993
 * S.E. Pastor: kultura, Lidová demokracie, 19.4. 1993
 * S.E. Pastor: Za dvorkem – Původní cesta do Ameriky, Fotografie 5/93, p. 21–28
 * J. Kroutvor: Fotografické rituály Jana Pohribného, Atelier 10/93, p. 5
 * J. Moucha: PHP: John C. Hesketh, Jan Pohribný atd., Revue fotografie 2/93
 * P. Volf: Kámen jako nevyčerpatelné poselství, Playboy 7/94, p. 18–19
 * /jlg/: Visions fantastiques, La Côte, 22.2. 1995, p. 7
 * FB: Photos et peintures, Journal de Morges No 15, 24.2. 1995
 * V. Ambroz: Nová doba kamenná, Atelier 12/95, p. 7
 * M. Janata: Duchovní kadlub numinózních krajin, Atelier 12/95, p. 7
 * A. Pohribný: Where the ways of actions meet, text for the exhibition in gallery IVO Frankfurt a.M., December 1995
 * J. Pecák: Objekty v prostoru, Fotografie magazín 2/96, p. 17–26
 * P. Klazarová: Mezi nebem a zemí, Domov 4/97, p. 40–42
 * M. Janata: Krajina jako hra božských a profánních sil, Atelier 12/97, p. 5
 * N. Rovderová: Halle meets Prag, text k výstavě v Halle, říjen 1997, p. 22
 * M. Fišer: „Jan Činčera a Jan Pohribný“, text for the exhibition in gallery Klenová, July 1998
 * J. Pohribný: „New Stone Age“, Aperture 152, fall 1998, p. 68–73
 * T. Pospěch: Pohribný a Fekar do hradu patří, MF Dnes, 29.8. 2000
 * R. Fryšarová: Jan Pohribný, Foto Video 11/2000, p. 12 – 15
 * K. Honnef: Gespräche mit Göttern und Geistern, catalogue for the exhibition in IP Deutschland, 5/2001,
 * M. Bharathi: The Dream Weaver (Interview with J. Pohribný), Better Photography No.9, 2/2002, p. 32 – 39
 * L. Liebovich: Jan Pohribny: Photographs of the Spiritual Realm,research projec,Northwestern University's
 * Art History Program in Chicago, Illinois, USA
 * Špánek Petr: Jan Pohribný, Digitální foto 11/07
 * Volf Petr: Kamenná posedlost, REFLEX 47/2007 – vyšlo 22. 11. 2007
 * Dvořáková Barbara: Magické kameny, Šarm (SK)
 * Heller Jiří: Magické kameny Jana Pohribného, fotografovani.cz
 * Hawthorn: Magic Stones, Druidnetwork
 * Burnham Andy: Win the new Magic Stones, Megalithic Portal
 * Guryča Richard: V hodině mezi psem a vlkem (rozhovor s Janem Pohribným), Fotografie magazín 5/2008
 * Pillai Samira: The Illusionist, Better Photogaphy, 3/2010, p. 92–97