Jiří Černický (born 1 August 1966) is a Czech visual artist. He is known for experimental

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projects involving

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, visual

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and

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. He is a winner of the

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, the

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Award and the 48th October Salon Award (in

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, Serbia), and was a finalist for the Alice Francis Award.

Career

Černický first studied art in

Ústí nad Labem Ústí nad Labem (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 91,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Ústí nad Labem Region. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway junction. ...

from 1987 to 1990, before moving to

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in 1990 to attend the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, moving to the

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in 1993, where he studied until 1997. He first received attention for outlandish projects, such as, in 1993, collecting tears from people in the street, which he then took to an Ethiopian

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. His projects are varied, but usually depict hypothetical subjects. Černický combines various media in exhibitions, alternating between easel painting, objects, video and photography. He also uses action art and new media technologies. His work often features strong emotions, social commentary, and ironic humor. Other examples of Černický's works include tools for taking drugs made of cut glass, a tattooed sausage, a glass model of a nuclear explosion, a striped series of paintings, an ornamental series on terrorism, monochrome images with a silicon structure, a monument in the form of an information board at a railway station with philosophical texts, videos about the movement of the speed of light, the “ Gagarin Thing”, and a white motorcycle helmet imitating Munch’s ''

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''. In 1998, Černický won the

. In 2015 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art and Design,

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (, abbreviated as UJEP) is a public university in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. The institution was established on 28 September 1991. It bears the name of famous Czech scientist J ...

Awards

* 2007 – 48th October Salon Award, Beograd, Serbia * 1998 – The

, Prague * 1996 – The

Award, Prague * 2012 – Finalist of the Alice Francis Award

Exhibitions

Public collections

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, Czech Republic * Prague City Gallery, Czech Republic * Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA * Museum for Applied Art / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria * Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France

Private collections

* Richard Adam, Prague * Pavel Kneppo, Prague * Thomas Day Newbold, Prague, Washington, USA * Bert-Jan van Egteren, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Santiago Eder, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Kenneth L. Freed, Boston, USA * Habib Kheradyar, Los Angeles, USA * Jerry Speyer, New York, USA

Exhibitions

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, Prague, Czech Republic, "Jiří Černický: Wild Dreams" (2016).

Residencies

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, Berlin, Germany * Tent Gallery and MAMA Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands *

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, San Francisco, USA * Vivid Gallery, Birmingham, UK * Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, USA * Futura Gallery, Třebešice Castle, Czech Republic

Selected works

Vazby.jpg, Binds 2006, unspecified dimension, Combined technique Sopl-1.jpg, The Gop, 2006, 250x100x50 cm, Combined technique Schyzofrenie.jpg, First Schisophrenia produced in series, 1998, 23x23x23 cm, compozite, acryl, fabric W6B7425.jpg, Curtain, 2014, 400x400 cm, fabric, reflective glass TOM5057.jpg, Minimax 2, 2012, 204x147x47 cm, combined technique Photoflash.jpg, Photoflash (paparazzi sculpture) – 1998, 500x200x120 cm, polyuretan, silicon, glass, precesual tools, water, cleaners, light

References

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