2018
Online Viewing Room
JAN TICHY
Jan Tichy (Czech, b. 1974), was born in Prague and studied in Israel before earning his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Photography and Department of Art & Technology Studies.
Solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), and the MSU Broad Museum of Art.
Tichy’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Israel Museum, Magasin 3 Stockholm Kunsthal, Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt), Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago).
Bowery Print XV
2020
Silver gelatin print
7" h x 5" w
Bowery Print XVII
2020
Silver gelatin print
7" h x 5" w
Bowery Print XIX
2020
Silver gelatin print
7" h x 5" w
Bowery RAW [excerpt]
2019
Two-channel video installation with sound
13:17 minutes
Bowery Raw is a two-channel video installation that composes a photographic portrait of the evolving Lighting District. The photos are made audible by translating the underlying RAW image files into sound, and in doing so calling our attention to the untold and invisible story of light.
In contrast to Tichy’s photographic works, which examine collection of light, and video projections, which are based on reproduction of light, the new neon sculptures can be understood as the artistic means by which he creates and shapes physical light with his own hands and breath.
