ARTIST PROFILE

Valentýna Janů

  • Czech Republic (b. 1994 in Prague)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.

REPRESENTATION

  • lítost
  • Prague, Czech Republic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • Zip the Lip and Sleep, City Surfer Office, Prague, Czech Republic.

2018

  • I'm sry, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Is Your Blue the Same As Mine?, Prague City Gallery, Start Up, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Salty Mascara, Fait Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • You are soooo hot, Ukradená galerie, Prague, Czech Republic.

2017

  • Paralepsis, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Expectations–Reality Gap, Galerie Jelení, Prague, Czech Republic.

2016

  • Sun above the Horizon, Vitrína Deniska, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • PAF London, PAF, London, United Kingdom.

2019

  • One Season Inner Outer Space, EXILE Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
  • Run the World (Girls), Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy.
  • The Hills Have Eyes, HotDock Project Space, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • (Dis)connection, Kunstvereiniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, Netherlands.

2018

  • A Guding Dog for a Blind Dog, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Where Do We Go From Here, Galerie Miroslava Kubíka, Litomyšl, Czech Republic.
  • Liquid Bodies, AQB Project Space, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Papers and Plum, INI Project Space, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Day after the St. Valentine's , Malteada La Vida, Monterrey, Mexico.

2017

  • Game rules, Czech Center Wien, Vienna, Austria.
  • Medium: Figure, Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Slaves on holidays, Fotopub, Novo Mesto, Slovenia.

2016

  • If you print gold, it’s always brown., Berlínskej Model, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Cities and Velocities, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium.
  • The most impossible of renunciations, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, United States.
  • Last reference, JEDNA DVA TŘI Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2015

  • Mass of Photography, Prospekto, Vilnius, Latvia.

LOCATION

  • Born 1994 in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

  • 2018 - 2020
    Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
    Master of Fine Arts in Studio of Intermedia Work II (Studio of Pavla Sceranková & Dušan Zahoranský )
  • 2018 - 2018
    The Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design, Prague, Czech Republic
    internship in The Object of Post Performance Future (Studio of the guest professor Marie de Brugerolle)
  • 2016 - 2016
    École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
    internship in Arts
  • 2014 - 2017
    Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
    Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography (Studio of Jiří Thýn)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2018
    the Winner of Other Visions CZ 2018
    PAF Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

RESIDENCIES

  • 2019
    INI Project Space, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2018
    Symposium Litomyšl, Galerie Miroslava Kubíka, Litomyšl, Czech Republic