{{More footnotes needed|date=May 2023}} '''Jan Tichy''' (born 1974) is a Chicago-based artist and educator, born in Czechoslovakia.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

== Biography == Jan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator working in video, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied art in Israel before moving to Chicago.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

== Education == Tichy studied at the Musrara School of Photography and New Media in Jerusalem and at the Advanced Studies in Fine Art and Photography program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Photography.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

== Solo exhibitions == {{BLP unreferenced section|date=May 2023}} ; 2019 ''Weight of Light'', Museum Bensheim, Germany

; 2014 ''aroundcenter'', Chicago Cultural Center

; 2013 ''Politics of Light'', No Longer Empty & Richard Gray Gallery, NYC; ''Overlap'', Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv; ''Jan Tichy'', Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, WA

; 2012 ''MATRIX 164'', Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; ''1979:1-2012:21'', Museum of Contemporary Photography; ''Project Cabrini Green'', Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

! 2011 ''Installation No.13'', Nathan Gottesdiener Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art;

; 2010 ''01:37:24:05'', Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; ''Installation No. 10'', Spertus Museum, Chicago

; 2009 ''Installations'', Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; ''Recent Works'', Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, Israel

; 2008 ''12*12'', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

; 2007 ''1391'', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

; 2004 ''Beton'', Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem

== Public collections == * [http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=37621 Museum of Modern Art] * [http://www.magasin3.com/en/artist/jan-tichy-2/ MAGASIN III] * [http://www.mocp.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=tichy&record=0 Museum of Contemporary Photography]{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} * [http://www.imamuseum.org/collections/artist/jan-tichy Indianapolis Museum of Art] * [http://www.imj.org.il/imagine/collections/AZSearch.asp?let=T&artist=Tichy,%20Jan,%20Israeli,%20born%20Czec Israel Museum Jerusalem]

== Awards and Prizes == {{BLP unreferenced section|date=May 2023}} 2012 Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2011 Gold Award in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education

2010 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize

2009 MFA Fellowship Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2008 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www.jantichy.com Jan Tichy] * {{IMJ-IAC|id=277067|name=Jan Tichy|accessdate=August 26, 2013}}

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