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Irena Juzova (Irena Jůzová) (*1965) is a Czech sculptor.

Her life
Irena Jůzová is a graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She graduated from Prof. Aleš Veselý‘s School of Monumental Art, where she studied during the years 1990 – 1994 and from 1995 to 2006 she worked as an assistant professor in the same school. In 2008 she became an associate professor in the field of Visual Art – Intermedia Art and became an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During her studies, she received several studio awards from the AFA in Prague and participated in many exhibitions. In 1992 at the European Biennale of Young Artists Germinations 7 in Grenoble, France, she received the award for the best interactive work entitled Table for Twenty Players (1992). In 1993 she was selected by the AFA in Prague to participate in the 4th Biennale of European Academies of Visual Arts in Maastricht.

She has won many scholarships and participated in many residencies, such as at Sculpture Space, INC., NY, USA, Arts Links Residencies of LBMA Video Annex, Museum of Art Long Beach, CA, USA and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

In 2007 she was the first artist to represent the Czech Republic at the 52nd Biennale of Modern Art in Venice, Italy, with her independent project. The work in the Series Collection was designed for the space of the Czechoslovak pavilion in the Giardini di Biennale gardens. The Series Collection became a significant part of the exhibit and was mentioned in many oreign journals. She was praised by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic at the National Gallery in Prague for her project and its successful presentation abroad. In 2008 the National Gallery in Prague organized an exhibit in the Trade-Fair Palace of Irena Jůzová‘s work entitled Echoes of the Venice Biennale, which traced the origin of the long-term Series Collection project.

She presented her current works in independent exhibits, such as Venice Screen, the Interactive Becher‘s Villa in Karlovy Vary in 2012, 16599, at the Klenová Palace, the Klatovy Klenová Gallery in 2011 and We Like Them Better Than Jewels, We Prefer Them Over Gold in the main hall of the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové in 2010 – 11. The Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové published a catalog of the exhibit, mapping the artist’s work during the years 2007 - 2010 with many color reproductions and academic texts by Milan Knížák, Tomáš Vlček, Lucie Šiklová, Jiří Machalický, Lucie Jandová and Martina Vítková.

Irena Jůzová is one the holders of the scholarship endowed by the Jana & Milan Jelinek Foundation. With the support of the foundation, the interactive work Places I. (1993) was exhibited at the Media Art Biennale WRO 97 in Wroclav, Poland, and since 2006 it has been a part of the modern art collection of the National Gallery in Prague. Irena Jůzová’s work is part of many national and private collections in the Czech Republic and abroad, such as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové, AJG in Hluboká nad Vltavou, the Klatovy Klenová Gallery, Shoes Or No Shoes?, Belgium.

She is currently involved in the ISWA 2011 – 2013 interdisciplinary international project supporting art, science and technology. As part of the project, she is creating new works out of unique nanofibres and preparing an exhibit in cooperation with the Karlovy Vary Gallery of Art scheduled for 2014.