Jan Tichy

Jan Tichy (1974) is a Chicago-based artist and educator, born in Czechoslovakia.

Biography
Jan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator working in video, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied art in Israel before moving to Chicago.

Education
Tichy studied at the Musrara School of Photography and New Media in Jerusalem and at the Advanced Studies in Fine Art and Photography program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Photography.

Solo exhibitions
Weight of Light, Museum Bensheim, Germany
 * 2019

aroundcenter, Chicago Cultural Center
 * 2014

Politics of Light, No Longer Empty & Richard Gray Gallery, NYC; Overlap, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv; Jan Tichy, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, WA
 * 2013

MATRIX 164, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; 1979:1-2012:21, Museum of Contemporary Photography; Project Cabrini Green, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
 * 2012

! 2011	Installation No.13, Nathan Gottesdiener Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art;

01:37:24:05, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Installation No. 10, Spertus Museum, Chicago
 * 2010

Installations, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; Recent Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, Israel
 * 2009

12*12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
 * 2008

1391, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
 * 2007

Beton, Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem
 * 2004

Public collections

 * Museum of Modern Art
 * MAGASIN III
 * Museum of Contemporary Photography
 * Indianapolis Museum of Art
 * Israel Museum Jerusalem

Awards and Prizes
2012	 Faculty Enrichment	Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2011	 Gold Award in	the Council for	Advancement and Support of Education

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