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Klára Sedlo (* April 16 1993 Prague) is a Czech academic painter.

Life
Klára Sedlo is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. She studied painting at Michael Rittstein's studio (2014 - 2018) and continued at Jiří Petrbok's studio (2018–2020). Sedlo finished her studies with a master's thesis called Rituals, obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree (MgA.). She lives and creates in Prague.

Work
She works mainly with oil painting and classical two-dimensional painting. However, she also slips beyond her scope into writing books and short stories, in which she develops her themes further (for example, the comic book Make a Wish, 2020). Her work is peripherally linked to happenings at "Live Painting" events, such as Colours of Ostrava in 2019 or the Vanguard Prague event (also in 2019), when she created a mural on the House of Fashion at Wenceslas Square in Prague.

Sedlo has been actively exhibiting since her student years. She has had more than 40 solo exhibitions and an equal number of group exhibitions. Her works have been displayed in the Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, United Kingdom and USA. In 2019, she was among the finalists of the Berlin BBA Artist Prize and the same year among the finalists of MostynOpen21 in Mostyn Gallery, Wales. Sedlo is represented in over 100 private collections in Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia and USA. In 2022, she published her short story called Lami. She also illustrates books.

Her most common themes include objects reflecting contemporary kitsch, bizarre objects, folklore and rituals (as well as their psychology). In her master's thesis, she worked on the topic of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Based on a fragment of reality, she creates new stories and fabricated absurd legends (such as "The Legend of Bugsy the Evil"), which she transfers to her canvases. Since 2019, she has also been working on the Voynich Manuscript. This series of paintings has been presented in two solo exhibitions throughout the year 2020 (Czech Business Club a Barley Gallery).

Exhibitions (selection)
An overview of exhibitions:

Solo exhibitions

 * 2022: Behind the Curtain of Dreams, Town Theatre, Varnsdorf
 * 2022: Endless Landscape, Zet Gallery, Velká Bystřice
 * 2022: Re/Creations, Palladium Shopping Mall, Prague
 * 2022: 24 dreams per second, Slavonice
 * 2022: The Amazing Eel-Man, TwinArt Gallery, Prague
 * 2022: Night trip, Dolmen Gallery, Prague
 * 2021: The Voynich Garden, Crears Gallery, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
 * 2021: The Movie No One Has Seen, UFFO Gallery, Trutnov
 * 2021: In Love (Again), Toyen Gallery, Prague
 * 2021: Ritual, Crears Gallery, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
 * 2020: Voynich's botany, Barley Gallery, Prague
 * 2020: Monsters, Gallery 1, Prague
 * 2020: Voynich's Greenhouse, Czech Business Club, Prague
 * 2020: Small, Cute Darkness, City Library in Prague, Prague-Opatov
 * 2020: Klára Sedlo: Selection, Ministry of Agriculture, Prague
 * 2019: Inside Walls, TÜV SÜD Gallery, Bratislava
 * 2019: Skeleton in the closet, Barley Gallery, Prague
 * 2019: The Truth is at the bottom of the well, Donuterie, Prague
 * 2019: Sweet Demonica, Dudes&Barbies Gallery, Kavárna co hledá jméno, Prague
 * 2019: Klára Sedlo, The Monastery Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Sokolov
 * 2019: Forged Rituals, Michail Ščigol Gallery, Prague
 * 2019: Bizarre Treasures, Ministry of Agriculture, Prague
 * 2019: Castles in the Mountains, Bar/ák Gallery, Prague
 * 2019: Heaven isn&amp;#39;t just above, Dramatic Theatre Studio, Ústí nad Labem
 * 2018: Subliminal notification, Gallery na Miladě, Prague
 * 2018: Sweetest Dream, Donuterie, Prague
 * 2018: Darkness under the Sun, Artery Gallery, Prague
 * 2018: The Light outside and the darkness in us, Gallery of Theatre 29, Pardubice
 * 2018: The exterior of the inside, Ministry of Agriculture, Prague
 * 2017:About superficiality, Sladovna Gallery, Písek
 * 2017: Exhibition at Gallery na Miladě, Prague
 * 2016: Absurdness, Dobrá trafika Café, Prague
 * 2013: Barrandov, Gallery of Theatre Na Prádle, Prague

Group exhibitions

 * 2022: Here Kitschy Kitschy, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach
 * 2022: Art Prague, Hrzán Palace, Prague
 * 2022: Leave a Trace, Palazzo della Cancelleria Vaticana, Rome ​
 * 2022: International Contemporary Art Fair Monaco 2022, Monaco ​
 * 2022: Plenitude, Museo Diocesano San Matteo, Salerno
 * 2022: Horror Festival, Gallery-Wine Shop Sýpka, Buštěhrad
 * 2022: Make Art Not War, Vnitroblock, Prague
 * 2022: Vanish 2022, virtual exhibition, Victory Art, The Netherlands
 * 2022: Mysterons, The Holy Art Gallery, London
 * 2021: Vogue Third Edition, Boomer Gallery, London
 * 2021: The Annual Spooky Art Show, HIVE artspace, York, Pennsylvania
 * 2021: Last year..., Vnitroblock, Prague
 * 2021: Art Emperor: Štech, Sedlo, Franta, Anders, Eastern-Czechia Muzeum, Hradec Králové
 * 2021: Elements, Saint Ambrose Church, Hradec Králové
 * 2021: Artvarium, Czech Design Arcade, Prague
 * 2020: Art Prague, Náměstí Republiky, Prague
 * 2020: 7um, Špejchar Gallery, Chomutov
 * 2020: AVU Graduates, AVU, Prague
 * 2020: Contemporary Czech and Slovakian painting, NTK Gallery, Prague
 * 2020: The Muse of muses: Woman, Pod radnicí Gallery, Ústí nad Orlicí
 * 2020: On the wings of art, Art Restaurant Mánes, Prague
 * 2020: Miracle Factory, Pod Palmovkou Gallery, Prague
 * 2019: Painting III, Vltavín Gallery - Millennium Gallery, Prague
 * 2019: live painting at H&M zone, Colours of Ostrava, Ostrava
 * 2019: Mostyn Open 21, MOSTYN Gallery, Llandudno
 * 2019: YouAllDroveMeCrazy Vol. 2 Butterfly Effect, 54. International film festival, Karlovy Vary
 * 2019: Girls, Girls, Girls..., Černá labuť Art & Event Gallery, Prague
 * 2019: From the Studio Floor, St. Barnabas Church, Cambridge
 * 2019: Art Prague, Náměstí Republiky, Prague
 * 2019: BBA Artist Prize 2019, BBA Gallery, Berlin
 * 2019: Pulp Fiction, Vnitroblock, Prague
 * 2019: Tra figurativo e informale, Galleria Merlino, Florence
 * 2018: AVU student drawing and painting exhibition, foyer Rudolfinum, Prague
 * 2018: Art Prague, Clam-Gallas palace, Prague
 * 2018: ArtSafari, Bubec Studio, Prague
 * 2018: Heart for Heart's Sake, Artery Gallery, Prague
 * 2018: 32/36, Karlin Studios, Prague
 * 2018: In half, Viaart Gallery, Prague
 * 2018: Focus, Litera Gallery, Prague
 * 2017: Atribute, Hybernská 4 Gallery, Prague
 * 2017: ArtPrague 2017, Kafka's House, Prague
 * 2016: Žák, Honz, Sedlo, Wojnar, GAVU Gallery, Prague
 * 2016: Natural world, Prague House in Brussels
 * 2016: ArtPrague, Kafka's House, Prague
 * 2016: Figurama 16, Katowice
 * 2015: Josefská 7, Gallery 1, Prague
 * 2014: A near miss, Josef Liesler Gallery, Kadaň
 * 2011: Exhibition at the festival Literární Vysočina, Havlíčkův Brod