ARTIST PROFILE

Martina Smutná

  • Czech Republic (b. 1989 in Kyjov)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

2020

  • Tired, DOLE, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2019

2018

2017

  • Loss, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic.

2016

  • Portofele, Portofele, 209 Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.

2013

  • Die Klasizistischen Strukturen, Berlínskej model, Prague, Czech Republic.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • Tapping the Egg: Columbus Then and Now, Galerie moderního umění, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
  • Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2022: All that is solid melds in the air, National gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Personal mytologies, Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • DeSchool!, Arsenal gallery, Białystok, Poland.
  • Bordeline case: Contemporary Reflections on Central-Eastern European Identity, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary.

2021

  • Pokorná, Exile, Vienna, Austria.
  • Baltic Triennial 14: "The Endless Frontier", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2020

2019

2018

  • Leisure under Control, INI Project, Prague, Czech Republic.

2017

  • Ripple Effect, Futura , Prague, Czech Republic.

2016

  • Against Nature, National Gallery , Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Open Call, UM Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2015

  • EXIT Art Award, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
  • Diplomanti AVU, National Gallery , Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Carpe Diem, Fait Gallery PREVIEW, Brno, Czech Republic.

2014

  • Young Painters Art Award, Galerie Kritiků, Prague, Czech Republic.

2013

  • Nachslag, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany.

LOCATION

  • Born 1989 in Kyjov, Czech Republic.
  • Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

  • 2019 - 2022
    Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
    Doctoral programme in Visual Arts (Josef Bolf)
  • 2014 - 2015
    Academy of Arts, Architecture and Desing, Prague, Czech Republic
    Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Porcelain (Maxim Velčovský)
  • 2014 - 2014
    Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
    Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts
  • 2013 - 2015
    Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
    Master of Fine Arts in Painting (Vladimír Srepl)
  • 2013 - 2013
    Kunsthochschule Berlin Weisenssee, Berlin, Germany
    Master of Fine Arts in Painting (Friederike Feldmann)
  • 2011 - 2012
    Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic
    Master of Fine Arts in Painting (Jiří Černický)
  • 2009 - 2011
    Academy of Fine Arts , Prague, Czech Republic
    Master of Fine Arts in Painting (Jiří Sopko)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2023
    Award holder of Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2022
    Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2022
    Scholarship holder
    Bayhost / BTHA, München, Germany
  • 2020
    Aktion Österreich-Tschechien, AÖCZ-Semesterstipendien / scholarship holder
    OeAD, Vienna, Austria
  • 2018
    Scholarship
    Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic
  • 2015
    Finalist of EXIT Art Award
    Fakulta umění a designu Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
  • 2014
    Finalist of Young Painters Art Award
    Cena Kritiky za mladou malbu, Prague, Czech Republic

RESIDENCIES

  • 2022
    Artistic residency, Kunsthall Oslo / Tranzit.cz, Oslo, Norway
  • 2018
    Collective in Residence , INI Project, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2017
    Artist in Residence at Izolyatsya Residency Program, Izolyatsya, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2015
    Artist in Residence at Czech centre, Czech centre , Bucharest, Romania

MEMBERSHIPS

  • 2016 - 2018
    Fourth Wave, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2016 - 2019
    Studio without master, Prague, Czech Republic