biography, photos from exhibitions, contact, presentation in galleries
Galleries where you can see some of my paintings all year round:
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Gallery Es
Nuselská 297/5, Prague 4 (in the gallery and in the depository)
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Dolmen Gallery (depository)
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Ink Gallery, Wales
7 Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay
United Kingdom
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CV
MgA. Jirka Houska
MgA. Jirka Houska Born 1985 in Prague, studieded Václav Hollar Secondary School of Art and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in the studio of prof. Zdenek Beran. Represented in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague since 2013. In 2015, his series of paintings on the theme of mysterious animals was published, as an illustration in the book Paths of Mysterious Animals by a leading Czech cryptozoologist Ing. Jaroslav Mareš. Since 2020, a member of S.V.U. Manes. He is mainly devoted to figure painting, mostly portraits. Among his frequent subjects are landscapes, but sometimes also freer paintings from the field of sci-fi, inspired by natural sciences and mythology.
Solo exhibitions:
2009 Galerie u Zlatého kohouta, Prague
2009 Sedlec-Prčice
2010 Houska castle
2010 Galerie u Zlatého kohouta, Prague
2011 Galerie u Zlatého kohouta, Prague
2011 Floors and darkness - Galerie Pokorná, Prague
2013 Mostly in the wild - Galerie Mainerová, Prague
2013 Semi-hidden - Galerie Pokorná, Prague
2013 Breasts and mammoths - Alex Art Gallery (Knupp Gallery) Prague
2014 Full moon and half portraits - Alex Art Gallery (Knupp Gallery) Praha
2015 From mammoths to the moon - Artinpark Gallery, Pruhonice castle
2015 Along the paths of mysterious animals - Knupp gallery, Prague
2016 From eyes to eyes - Knupp gallery, Prague
2017 Absorbed by the jungle -Galerie Via Art, Prague
2017 Solticelefants - Knupp Gallery, Prague
2018 Ballance - Knupp Gallery, Prague
2019 Breathing sky, Impact Hub Prague, Koperníkova 10
Common exhibitions:
2009 Galerie Dolmen, Prague: common exhibition with Jiří Vávra and Jitka Nesnídalová
2012 Galerie Dolmen, Prague
: Through the city and the forest, common with Jitka Nesnídalová
2015: Prague riverside, (A)void gallery: Vhltava, common with Blanka Novákov
2016: Prague riverside,
(A)void gallery: common with Jitka Nesnídalová
Some of collective exhibitions:
2008: Prague, New Town Hall, "Defenestrace"
2010: Prague, Chemistry Gallery 2010: Prague, Auction exhibition for Konto BARIÉRY
2010: Poland: Traveling exhibition to the plein air, on the anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald
2011: Prague, Figurama 2011
2011: Prague, Artpro gallery, exhibition "HYPE-R-R"
2012: Prague, National Gallery, Exhibition Palace: AVU Graduates 2012
2012: Strakonice: Museum of Central Pootaví, Students and alumni at. prof. Beran
2012: Klatovy Klenová: Gallery at the White Unicorn, "Original Perspectives"
2012: London, represented by the eS gallery, at the exhibition of Czech artists, in the Czech Center for the Olympics The exhibition then continued at the Gambit Gallery in Prague
2012: Brno, Reduta, Kafka and other birds
2012: Kroměříž, Gallery 77, exhibition "Zoo"
2013: Prague, Artinbox Gallery
2017: Prague, New Gallery, Landscape 2017
2019: Art safari, Řeporyje
2019 - 2020 Dialogues, Gallery of Cooperatives, Prague
2020 - Portrait in Bohemia from the perspective of two centuries, Prague Castle Imperial Stables
2020 - S.V.U. Mánses, Rabas gallery Rakovník
2021 - S. V. U. Mánes generation, in the church of St. Anna in Jablonec nad Nisou
2022 - Ateliers, Kooperativa Gallery, Pobřeží 665/21, Prague 8 Karlín
2022 - The world? Joint exhibition of the members of S. V. U. Mánes and Art Talks, Chorus of Czech Brothers, Mladá Boleslav
Art Fairs:
Art Prague 2010 - 2022 represented by Galerie eS, Knupp Gallery
Photos from exhibitions:
Prague, 2022, Kooperativa Gallery - my paintings on collective exhibition - Studios
2019 - 2020 - Portrait in Bohemia from the perspective of two centuries, Prague Castle Imperial Stables (my paintings on collective exhibition)
Prague, 2019, Kooperativa gallery, my paintings on collective exhibition
Prague, 2019, Impact Hub
2018, Prague, Knupp Gallery, Ballance
2017, Prague, Knupp Gallery, Solsticelephants
2016, Prague, Knupp Gallery
2016: Prague riverside
2016, Chomutov
2015, Prague, Knupp Gallery
2015, Prague riverside
2015, Pruhonice
2014, Prague, Knupp Gallery
2013, Prague, Knupp Gallery
2012, Dolmen, Prague
2011, Dolmen, Prague
2010, Houska castle
2009, Sedlec - Prčice
Some photos from colllective exhibitions