1948   Born in Czechoslovakia
1967   Shortly after his graduation from High school he emigrated to the USA
1970   He started to work in New York as a makeup artist for fashion photographers (Horst P. Horst, Glaviano, Castel, etc.) and for magazines like Harpers Bazaar, Donna, Seventeen, Mademoiselle
1984   Started to work as a freelance photographer in New York, Paris, Milan
1990   Returned to Prague, Czechoslovakia
1996–2003   He worked as a creative director for the Czech edition of Elle
2004–2009   He worked as an art director of Czechoslovak Models
2009   He works as a freelance photographer in Prague, Czech Republic.
2010   He was awarded The European Trebbia prize for creative activity

2013  The Platinum Collection – selection, Marck Chagalls centre in Vitebsk, Belarus; Minsk, Gomel and Brest
2013  The Platinum Collection – selection, Gaudia, Prague
2013  The Platinum Collection – selection, Museum in Litoměřice
2013  The Platinum Collection – selection, Strakonice
2012  The Platinum Collection – selection, A House gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2012  The Platinum Collection – selection, UJAK gallery, Prague
2012  The Platinum Collection – selection, Galerie 4, Cheb
2012  The Platinum Collection – selection, Festival of Photography Moravská Třebová
2012  The Platinum Collection – selection, Czech Center Budapest, Hungary
2012  The Platinum Collection – selection, Kryt Gallery, Klášterec nad Ohří
2011  The Platinum Collection – selection, Regional Museum, Šumperk
2011  The Platinum Collection – selection, Czech-German Club, Konstanz
2011  The Platinum Collection – selection, Town Prachatice
2010  The Platinum Collection – selection, Mimoň
2010  The Platinum Collection – selection, Museum of Prácheň, Písek
2010  The Platinum Collection – selection, Biennale Moscow
2010  The Platinum Collection – selection, Art Center Chagall, Ostrava
2009  The Platinum Collection, Gallery Mánes, Prague
2009  The Platinum Collection, Leica Gallery Prague, Prague
2008  Pictures, Gallery Librex, Ostrava
2007  Inventory, Ponrepo, Brno
2006  Portraits, Film Festival Olomouc
2006  Pictures, Cafe~Cafe, Prague
2005  Platinum Boys, Radost, Prague
2004  Pictures, Karlovy Vary Film Festival
1999  In Bed with Milan, Radost, Prague
1999  Inventory, Gallery Miro, Prague
1998  Inventory, Slovak Institute, Prague
1997  Intermezzo, Radost, Prague
1995  You and I, Radost, Prague
1994  Adršpach, Gallery in Celetna, Prague
1993  Boys and Roses, Radost, Prague
1992  Love You from Prague, Albatros, Prague
1991  Love You from Prague, Gallery M, Bratislava
1989  Nudes, Sagar Gallery, New York
1986  Boys, McCree Gallery, London
1985  Nudes, Krigier Gallery, Milan
1984  Nudes, Sagar Gallery, New York

2010 Robert Vano, Artfoto

2010 Cook book for boys, Computer Press

2009 The Platinum Collection, Karmasek

2008 Sometimes paradise, XYZ

1992 Boys and Roses, Scarabeus

1991 Love You from Prague, Radost

The Platinum Collection contains two hundred original photographs printed  by means of a special procedure. These have been manufactured by hand  by Robert Vano as unrepeatable originals for gallery purposes. For maximum longevity and artistic effect, he uses special cotton paper without cellulose, manufacturing them through an extraordinarily costly procedure based  on platinum and palladium. Negatives prepared in a special way in advance are copied onto this emulsion by means of a contact method so that maximum details and the largest spectrum of half-tones could be preserved.

During 2009 – 2010 Petr Ulrych took photos for humanitarian projects of UNICEF in Asian Bhutan, and New York. He exhibits both in the Czech Republic and abroad, e.g. in 2007 and 2008 he had exhibitions in the Czech National Building in New York. He has also taken part in a number of group exhibitions. In 2008 he won two awards (one for the best Nude) at the L´ETE DES PORTRAITS festival, conducted by the French Professional Photographers´ Association. In the year 2011 Petr Ulrych recieved the first price in the prestigious “Calendar of the year” competition in the photography category. This traditionall competition is organized by the Typografia magazine and MIP Group every year.

2011  Prague Photo 2011, Prague

2010  Prague Photo 2010, Prague

2010  Výběr II, Gallery Diamant SVU Mánes, Prague

2010  Edice 100, Leica Gallery Prague

2009  Prague Foto 2009, Prague

2009  Atrium, Bratislava

2008  L’ete des Portraits, Bourbon-Lancy, France

2008  Czech & Slovak Contemporary Photography, Gallery Montmartre, Prague

2008  Prague Foto 2008, Prague

Since 1998 he has been a freelance photographer. He has portrayed world mu- sic icons such as e.g. Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Luciano Pavarotti, Lou Reed, Sting and many others. He has photographed front pages, fashion editorials and created CD covers for music publishers. He is also well-known thanks to his photographs for great advertising campaigns.

Jiří Turek also devotes himself to pedagogical work. He taught at Silesian University and now he conducts photography workshops, which are set up by Leica Gallery Prague, or South Moravia Photoworkshop Association, of which he is a co-founder.

From 2002 to 2006 he lived and worked in New York, where he continued with his work for magazines and publicity. Here he applied himself to free creation, in which he returns to original reportage principles and black-and-white photography. He works with a number of “forgotten” techniques, above all with “lithprints” technology.

In 2006 he exhibited his work in the prestigious Leica Gallery New York. It concerned a collection of emotive reportages from New York, and “a fashion on the verge of nudity”. This exhibition was followed up by another one at the Leica Gallery Prague in 2008, and subsequently by another exposition in the Habitat Centre in New Delhi in India.

At present, Jiří Turek takes photographs of art reportages from various cities of the world, which he concisely named as cityLAB. New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam – they are the places where he takes photos of people in the streets, where he tries to capture the atmosphere of the city, and desires that this photograph should address and recall these known places, respective emotions and enjoyments linked to them.

Czech Press Photo: 1st prize Art and fashion (1998, 1999)
“LOUSKACEK” advertising photo award (2001 T – Mobile Click)
“LOUSKACEK” 2007 – Safety Line

In 1991, he began photography studies at Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Department of Still Photography in Prague, initially part-time and then full-time beginning in 1993. He spent a part of studies in France and in Japan at the invitation of the Japanese Photographic Association. He completed his M.F.A. degree at FAMU in 1999, where he is now preparing his doctoral thesis. He has had extensive stays in the US from 2000 to 2004. The Leica Gallery Prague, who he works closely with, has represented him for several years. He also works as a freelance cameraman.
Daniel Šperl specializes in black and white and documentary photography, and publishes at home and abroad.

2007   Everyday Celebrations
Czech Center, Haag, Niederland

2007  …borderless
Czech Center Haag, Culturel Center Dank en Hoop Leimuiden, Netherlands

2007  Everyday Celebrations
Beseda Gallery – Ars Pragensis, Prague

2007  Seniors
Sušice Charity

2006  American Lifestyle
Artists Gallery, kino Art Cihlářská 19, Brno

2006   American Lifestyle
Školská 28, Communication space Prague

2006  American Lifestyle
Café Therapy, Školská Street, Prague

2006  Japanese Lifestyle
Tea room Školská Street, Prague

2006  Everyday Celebrations
Aero Cinema, Prague

2006  American Lifestyle
Ivan Olbracht Theatre, Tábor

2006  Everyday Celebrations
Czech Center Tokyo, Japan

2005  Everyday Celebrations
Galerie auf der Pawlatsche, Vienna, Austria

2004  American Lifestyle
G7 Gallery,Ostrava

2004  …borderless
Town Hall, Strmilov

2004  …borderless
Elementary School Chodov, Prague

2004  Japanese Lifestyle
Cafe Orange, Prague

2004  French Lifestyle
Cafe Samsa, Prague

2003  Everyday Celebrations
Oskar Nedbal Theater, Evarium Gallery, Tábor

2003  Our Seniors
Department Caritas Sušice, Volšovy Castel

2003  Everyday Celebrations
Fons Gallery, Pardubice

2003  …borderless
U Mloka Gallery, Olomouc

2002  …borderless
Alstra Gallery, Prague

2002  …borderless
Zvíkov Castle

2002  Refugees
In the cooperation of the Czech Helsin’s committee, Štvanice, Prague

2001  Coziness
Exhibited alongside art by people with disabilities, Dobra Trafika, Prague

2001  Everyday Celebrations
Long term presentation in Gema Company, Prague

2001  Japanese Lifestyle
Oskar Nedbal Theater, Tábor

2001  French Lifestyle
Gallery Pod kamennou žábou, České Budějovice

2000  Among Us
exhibited alongside art by people with disabilities, Jelení Gallery, Prague

1999  Japanese Lifestyle
Interkamera 99 Exhibition, Prague

1999  Everyday Celebrations
Moravian Gallery, Brno

1999  French Lifestyle
French Culture Festival, Oskar Nedbal Theater,Tábor

1999  Japanese Lifestyle
Pod Věží Gallery, Bílina

1999  Everyday Celebrations
RH Bar, Žihle

1998  Japanese Lifestyle
Miyabi Restaurant, Prague

1998  French Lifestyle
Aero Cinema, Prague

1998  Japanese Lifestyle
Hvězda Cinema, Uherské Hradistě

1998  The Alphabet of Life
M.F.A. degree project, FAMU, Prague

1998  With Foma in Japan
Foma Gallery, Hradec Králové

1998  Japanese Lifestyle
Žlutá Ponorka, Znojmo

1997  French Lifestyle
Theatre Oskar Nedbal, Tábor

1996   Joy in Rozkvet
Šternberk Gallery

1996  There were Five of You, or Attempt at a Self-Portrait
Hermit Gallery, Prague

1993  One Day in the Life of a Police Horse
FAMU, Prague

1992  Police Academy
Oskar Nedbal Theater, Tábor

1992  Police Academy
FAMU, Prague

1990  Prague 1989
Senior project (book), Institute of Creative Photography, unique copy

2007  Nights in the Train Stations
Theatre photography, with Yoshimi Yokoyama, Central Station, Prague

2006   …borderless
Písecká brána, Prague

2006  In Honour of František Kupka
Opočno castle

2006  Nezapomenutelní absolventi
ŠVF Brno a IVF SČF, Opava

2005 It Is Stil Me
Ambit Gallery, Jungmanovo náměstí, Prague

2005  East-West
High School Sternberk

2005  Czech Photography of 20. Century
Town Library Prague

2004   Merging
Portheimka Gallery, Prague

2004  What You Need to Know about Czech Republic
Ministry of Exterior, Czech Republic

2003   From the Margin to the Center
C. K. Solnice Gallery, České Budějovice

1998   Objectivity
Gallery U Řečických, Prague

1998  Everyday Celebrations
With J. Štreit, A. Dvořáková and V. Fischer, Plasy Monastery

1998  50 Years of Communist Devastation
Benedictine Monastery, Rajhrad

1998  Hidden Treasures / Liturgical Year
Zvíkov Castle

1998  Everyday Celebrations
with J. Štreit, A. Dvořáková and V. Fischer, Zvíkov Castle

1998  Our World
Portheimka Gallery, Prague

1998  M.F.A. degree project
Richters‘ House, Prague

1998  Exhibition of Art
to support ICN, a Czech non-profit organization, Golem

1997  Workshop with Jindřich Štreit
Galéria K-91, Košice, Slovakia

1997  25 + 5
Institute of Creative Photography, National Technical Museum, Prague

1997  Near The Beginning
International Artist Symposium, Plasy Monastery

1997  Around the Center
with I. Hlavinka, J. Melzer and J. Zoubek, Malostranská Beseda Gallery, Prague

1997  Hidden Treasures – Liturgical Year
Art House, Brno

1996   Workshop with Jindřich Š
Summer Film School, Uherské Hradistě

1996  Never-ending Opening
Hermit Gallery, Prague

1996  25 + 5
Institute of Creative Photography, Poznaň, Poland

1996  25 + 5
Institute of Creative Photography, Štětín, Poland

1996  Graduate Student Final Exhibition, Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU)
Palác Lažanských, Praha

1996  Urban Obscenities
Exhibit together with Andrew Hersher, Praha

199525 + 5
Institute of Creative Photography, Opava

1995  25 + 5
Institute of Creative Photography, Ostrava

1995  25 + 5
Institute of Creative Photography, Cheb

1994   People from Olomouc County
With Jindřich Štreit and Libuše Rudinská, Medlov

1994  People from Olomouc County
With Jindřich Štreit and Libuše Rudinská, Horní Loděnice

Everyday Celebrations, KANT Publisher, 2003

…borderless, Non Profit Organization Dagda, 2001

Photographer Tono Stano’s name is now a world-renowned brand. He became famous primarily thanks to his monochrome female nudes, celebrity portraits as well as advertising and applied photography. His photographs are favourite with private collectors, and they also constitute a part of a number of public collections both in the Czech Republic and abroad. He has arranged many solo and group exhibitions on prestigious exhibition premises all over the world. The work of Tono Stano has been published in several monographs.

The white shadows of Tono Stano’s photographs crowded the walls of the Václav Špála Gallery at Národní třída in Prague. The author constantly adds to the series of photographs whose origins date back to 1991. Together with Pavel Lagner, the exhibit’s curator, Stano has chosen about 60 photographs made between 1992 and 2011 for the Václav Špála Gallery. Their characteristic trait is that all that is black is actually white, and vice versa. This is the first time that the photographs have been exhibited in the Czech Republic on such a broad scale.

The introductory address for the exhibit at the Václav Špála Gallery comes courtesy of poet, writer and musician Jáchym Topol: “Tono Stano, in whose works we are used to perceive the pulse of feminine beauty, has now dragged his models, most often girls and ladies, in from a masquerade, a wild carnival, or perhaps straight from the ghostly women’s Ship of Fools. Or maybe he just ran into them on Petřín. Yes! It must have been at a slightly weird feast, most likely in moonlight, in the grass between the trees on the top of Petřín. They grimace and distort their faces, naked or dressed in whatever was available in the studio. They are provocative, dreamy and wild-looking, the denizens of the world where shadows are white.”

2004

Institut Fran¢ais, Budapest, HUN

Galerie Baudelaire, Antwerp, BEL

2002 

Fascination, Galerie G4, Cheb, CZE

Galerie Waldburger & Slovak Institute & Czech Centre, Berlin, DEU

Fascination, Dům umění, Brno, CZE

Czech Centre Bratislava, SVK

Fascination, Galerie Fiducia, Ostrava, CZE

2001 

Fascination, Prague House of Photography, Prague, CZE

Photo l.a., booth of Galerie Waldburger/Photofront, Los Angeles, USA

2000 

Schoren, St. Gallen, CHE

1996 

Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, NLD

Dom kultury, Bratislava, SVK

1995 

National Technical Museum, Prague, CZE

1993 

Ambrosiana, Brno, CZE

1992 

Galerie U Řečických, Prague, CZE

1990 

Le pont neuf Gallery, Paris, FRA

Centre Culturel des Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mouson, FRA

Galerie G4, Cheb, CZE

Mala Gallery, Warsaw, POL

Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Lyon, FRA

1989

Musée Lapidaire, Lectoure, FRA

Galerie G4, Cheb, CZE

1988 

Galerija Ars, Ljubljana, SVN

1987

Galerie Fabrik, Hamburg, DEU

1986 

Fotochema, Prague, CZE

1985

Walbrzyska Galeria Fotografií, Walbrzych, POL

1984 

FAMU, Lázaňský palác, Prague, CZE

Galeria Fotografií Okno, Legnica, POL

2005

The Nude in Czech Photography, Kostis Palamas Hall, Athens, GRC

2004

Umělecká beseda Slovenská, Bratislava, SVK

2002

Dom umenia, Bratislava, SVK

Fotobiennale, Moscow, RUS

Czech Centre, Paris, FRA

2000

The Nude in Czech Photography, Císařská konírna Pražskékeho hradu, Prague, CZE

1999

Czech photography in the 1990s’, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA

Vartu, Vilnius, LTU

Mücsarnok, Budapest, HUN

Czech and Slovak Staged Photography, Czech Centre, New York, USA

Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photography, David Scott Gallery, Toronto, USA

1998

Czech Photography in the 20th Century, The Eli Lemberger Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai, Israel

1997

The Body in Contemporary Czech Photography, Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow, GBR

Salmovsky palace, Prague, CZE

10 ans de photographie , Reims, FRA

1995

Galerie G4, Cheb, CZE

The Nude in Czech Photography, Kostis Palamas Hall, Athens, GRC

1994

After the Velvet Revolution: Contemporary Czech and Slovak Photography, The Photography Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AUS

Prague House of Photography, Prague, CZE

1993

In & Out of Czechoslovakia, The Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, GB

Preview, Galerie Marzee, Nijimegen, NLD

A la recherché du père, Nouveau Forum des Halles, Paris, FRA

Czech & Slovak Photography, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA

Between Image & Vision, Ironworks Gallery, Coatbridge, GBR

What’s new: Prague, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

1991

Slovak Staged Photography, Museum of Dance, Stockholm, SWE

Zeitgenössische Tschechoslowakische Fotografie, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, DEU

Photographie Tchécoslovaque 1940-1990, Centre Culturel, André Malraux, Vandeouvre-lès-Nancy, FRA

Photographie Tchécoslovaque 1940-1990, L’Aubette, Strasbourg, FRA

Die neue Kontinuität 1970-1990, Progressive Fotografie in der Tschechoslowakei, Städtisches Museum, Mühlheim, DEU

Contemporary Czechoslovak Photography, Exposition Park, Tokyo, JAP

1990

La Tchécoslovaquie à Arles, Palais de l’Archevêché, Arles, FRA

Photographie progressive en Tchécoslovaquie 1920-1990, Galerie Robert Doisneau, Nancy, FRA

Slovak Photography of the 1980s’, Warsaw PLN and Moscow RUS

Positivität, Fotogalerie, Vienna, AUT

Vision d’Homme, Chatêau d’Eau, Toulouse, FRA

Czech Symbolism, Výstavní síň Uluv, Prague, CZE

1989

Prix Air France, Ville de Paris, Paris, FRA

French Institute, Prague, CZE

Prager Trio, Czechoslovak Centre, Berlin, DEU

Junge Photographen aus der CSSR, Galerie Treptow, Berlin, DEU

Four Photographers from Prague, Aix-en-Provence , FRA

1988

Preis für junge europäische Photographen, Galerie Faber, Vienna, AUT

De Prague et de Bohême, Espace Jules Verne, Brétigny sur Orge, FRA

Questioning Europe, Photography Biennale, Rotterdam, NLD

Fotochema, Prague, CZE

1987

Preis für junge europäische Photographen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DEU

Galerie G4, Cheb

1986

La jeune photographie Tchécoslovaque, Arena, Arles, FRA

Mánes, Prague, CZE

Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, CZE

1985

27 Contemporary Czechoslovak Photographers, The Photographer’s Gallery, London and Bristol, UK

Ursprung und Gegenwart tschechoslowakischer Photographie ,Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, DEU

Il nudo nella fotografia dell’Est Europa, Torina Fotografia ’85, Torino, IT

1984

FOMA, Prague, CZE

His main focus lies in portraiture and documentary photography with the occasional landscape when travelling. Most of his work is done in black & white by both analogue and digital methods, preferrably using largeformat cameras and antique photographic processes. These interests combined led him to open his own wet plate collodion portrait studio in Prague earlier this yearBorn in 1979 in Karlovy Vary, studied at the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia. Lives in Prague and is currently in the third year of the Bachelor‘s degree of Creative Photography at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. His main focus lies in portraiture and documentary photography with the occasional landscape when travelling. Most of his work is done in black & white by both analogue and digital methods, preferrably using largeformat cameras and antique photographic processes. These interests combined led him to open his own wet plate collodion portrait studio in Prague earlier this year

2015 – Blatná, Blatenský fotofestival – 10th volume (Tìr: large formats from northern Scotland)
2014 – Ostrava, Jiří Myron Theatre (Still Life?, presentation of students from Silesian Univesity – The Institute of Creative Photography)
2008 – Prague, café Lalibela (Nudes, with Karel Richtr)
2007 – České Budějovice, Kotva cinema, Fotojatka festival (Ukrainian orphanage)
2006 – Vyškov, Museum of Vyškovsko (Children of Zálučí)
2005 – Dobřichovice castle (Children of Zálučí)

The public is most familiar with his landscapes: the land with its memory, exploited by people, with tilled fields and the remains of vanished civilizations, with cultural accretions and changes. Apart from landscapes, Ságl searches for inconspicuous corners in cultural metropolises, particularly in Paris. Working with international agencies and periodicals (including Zeit Magazin, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic) he is continuously on the road. The works he has made strictly for himself developed from his being in contact with the art scene, which he first became part of as a photographer for art periodicals, and then in the artistic design of concerts by psychedelic bands, which he executed with his artist wife, Zorka Ságlová. After the Soviet-led intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 the Ságls found themselves socially isolated, and decided to move to the countryside, where Ságl’s fully developed his conception of landscape photography. His artistic endeavors are to some extent influenced by trends in conceptual art, but he is primarily concerned with the expression and context of what is photographed, rather than merely summarized abstracted form.

2011 Krajina /Landscape/ – Municipal House Opava /Obecní dům Opava/

2010 Zorka Ságlová – Jan Ságl Krajina /Landscape/ The Topič Salon, Prague  /Topičův salon, Praha/

2009 Variace a paralely /Variations and Parallels/ 29^th Zentiva Salon, Zentiva Administrative Building, Prague  /29. Salon Zentiva, Administrativní budova Zentiva, Praha/

2009 Luminiscence /Luminescence/, Kotelna Karlin Gallery, Prague

2009 Luminiscence I /Luminescence I/, Nostress Gallery, Prague

2008 Starénové /Oldandnew/, National Heritage Institute, Bítov Castle /Národní památkový ústav, Státní hrad Bítov/

2008 Krajiny /Landscapes/, Ars Pragensis – Municipal Gallery Beseda, Prague /Ars Pragensis – Obecní galerie Beseda, Praha/

2007 Starénové /Oldandnew/, Golden Goose Gallery, Prague /Galerie Zlatá husa, Praha/

2007 Starénové /Oldandnew/, The Brno House of Arts, Brno /Dům umění města Brna, Brno/

2005 Spolu /Together/ Vernon Gallery, Prague /Galerie Vernon, Praha/

2004 Zorka Ságlová a Jan Ságl /Zorka Ságlová and Jan Ságl/, Municipal Gallery Beseda, Prague /Obecní galerie Beseda, Praha/

2001 „Tak tedy Paříž…“ /”And so Paris…”/, The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Prague /Poslanecká sněmovna, Praha/

2001 Art Cult, Czech Centre, Vienne /České centrum Vídeň/

2000 Art Cult, Chapel Gallery, Bruntal /Galerie v kapli, Bruntál/

2000 Der Blick von Aussen (with Inge Morath), Städtische Galerie, Leerer Beutel, Regensburg

1998 Prag im Wandeln seiner Architektur, Czech Centre, Berlin /České centrum Berlín/

1998 Prag im Wandeln seiner Architektur, Galerie Moderner Zeiten, Dresden

1997 Proměny Prahy /Prague Metamorphoses/, Gallery of Josef Sudek House of Photography, Prague /Komorní galerie Domu fotografie Josefa Sudka, Praha/

1992 Krajina, galerie a katedrály /Landscape, gallery and cathedrals/, Prague House of Photography, Prague /Pražský dům fotografie, Praha/

1992 Jan Ságl, The Brno House of Arts, Brno /Dům umění města Brna, Brno/

1990 Galerie Coupoule, (with Zorka Ságlová), Neu-Isenburg

1987 Barevný svět /Colourful World/, (with Jan Saudek and Miro Švolík), Maxim Gorki Colonnade Gallery, Marienbad /Výstavní síň kolonády M.Gorkého, Mariánské Lázně/

1987 Tunis /Tunisia/, (with Otakar Jiránek), The Museum of Czech Literature, Prague /Památník národního písemnictví, Praha/

1987 Tváře krajiny /Faces of the Landscape/, (with Jaroslav Kořán), Junior Club at Chmelnice, Prague /Junior Klub na Chmelnici, Praha/

1987 Karel Čapek Bookshop, Prague /Knihkupectví Karla Čapka, Praha/

1985 Fotografie 1980 –1985, The National House of Vinohrady, Prague /ÚKDŽ, Praha/

1981 Schröder-Saal des CVJM, Hamburg

1979 Jan Ságl: Fotografie, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague /Ústav makromolekulární chemie, Praha/

1976 Baňka, Janovský, Ságl, Gallery in the Prague Gate, Melnik /Galerie ve věži, Mělník/

1969 Někde něco /Somewhere Something/ (with Jiří Kolář, Běla Kolářová and Zorka Ságlová), Václav Špála Gallery, Prague /Galerie Václava Špály, Praha/

Jihočeská krajina (South Bohemian Landscape), Pressfoto 1984

Severozápadní Čechy (Northwest Bohemia), Panorama 1984

A co Paříž? Jaká byla? (And what about Paris? What Was It Like?) Pressfoto 1987

Krajina (Landscape), Kant 1995

Art Cult, Kant 2002

Jan Ságl, Torst 2009

Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, FR

Deutsche Photographishe Gesellschaft, Köln am Rhein, DEU

Zlatá husa Gallery, Prague, CZE

Moravian Gallery in Brno, CZE

Museen der Stadt Regensburg, Regensburg, DEU

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Muzeum of Art and Design, Benešov u Prahy, CZE

The Polaroid Collection, Lausanne, France

Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, CZE

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB

The Olomouc Museum of Art, CZE

In the ´70s and ´80s he was an activist in the Union of Jazz Musicians´ Section, in which he took part in the realization of publications and printed matter. He also cooperated on the Prague Jazz Days festival organization. From 1991 to 2005 he worked on visual and publishing concept of Bonton music publishing (later Sony BMG Music Entertainment). At present, apart from photography, visual designs and realization of printed matter, he is also engaged in the production of audiovisual carriers, books, exhibitions, concerts and festivals.

He exhibited his photographs at several group and solo exhibitions. As an author, he participated in the publishing of a number of books (Jiří Moravčík: “Celtic music”, “In the African crocodile´s muzzle”, “When a song beats windows with its wings”, Jiřina Chrastilová: “Nine Jewish ways”, Zdeněk Vřešťál: “No, Stainless does not get rusty”, Ondřej Bezr and Michal Šanda: “… and that´s blues”).

Ivan Prokop is a member of the Association of Professional Photographers and Syndicate of Journalists.

She has tried a number of ways of artistic expression, from painting and drawing she got to printing, graphics, typography and photography. She still enjoys the possibility of free choice of the media, mixing them together or choosing the sort of image that suits the concept of the work in question in the best way. She started to get more involved in photography during her studies at the Higher Vocational School of Graphic Arts. It wasn´t a part of her curriculum, but she used photography as such as a basis for illustrations and independent pieces of graphic art, she also used it to make collages and completed them with drawing. She gradually created more and more images with photography as the final form, therefore she decided to apply for studies at The Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. She likes photography for its ability to clearly present the initial objective, for the function of the human memory assigned to it. She also appreciates its openness to further changes and interventions.

2012 – an exhibition of an assembly In Between Time in Prague Prokopka Gallery and Elpida centre and in Brno in Photo-genia Gallery.

2004 – participated in the Graphics of the Year exhibition

2004 – joint graphics exhibition in Prague in a showroom of Antalis company, placed as 3rd with

 a bibliophilism of Umberto Eco – „Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”  in a competition organized by this company

2010 – participated in the „Unigeo Art Festival“

2012 – participated in an exhibition dedicated to the self-portrait „I“ and “Interpreting the nude” organized by The Institute of Creative Photography

2012 – participated in the „Off festival“ in Bratislava

2013 – participated in the „Frame 2012” exhibition in Leica Gallery Praha and received a special award from the Leica Gallery Prague

2011 – published photographs in the Digifoto Magazine, issue 11/2011

2012 – an article in „In Between Time“ in the Atelier Journal 10/2012

2012 – an article in „In Between Time“ in the composite book “Seniors and culture”

The Figures and Shades in his work overlap and are a reflection of thought processes that are typical for traditional Western culture. The author intentionally enters into familiar iconographical situations to – somewhere just slightly, elsewhere radically – alter, jumble, rename, empty or cloak them, or sometimes just see them in another light. Pinkava ignores the established view of ancient and biblical characters, and behind the historic scenes, he finds something common that is valid for both the present and the future – the prototype of human insecurity of their own physical impermanency. Eventually, it all comes down to a personal coping with death. If the nudity of the youth in Pinkava’s photographs is pictured as wasteful and self-centered on one hand, it is presented in sharp contrast with death on the other hand. Everyone walks alone and in silence to its inevitable end. The word “heroism” is losing its appearance so characteristic for the history and the legends and acquires an intimate and pathetic meaning.

2010 – More Space – Wasteland
ZPC Gallery Pilsen, together with Josef Bolf, Pilsen

2009 – Silence, Silence, Dream and Three Mattresses
Vernon international & in  Stage, Padova, Italy

2009 – The Insecurity of the Centre
Galerie 5. patro (Gallery 5th Floor), Prague

2008 – Cafe Club 102, Lodz, Poland

2007 – Salome
The South Gardens of Prague Castle, Prague

2006 – Heroes – choice
Central exhibition hall „Manesh“, Moscow

2006 – Ivan Pinkava, David Moješčík
Gallery Ars, Brno

2004 – Heroes – Ivan Pinkava
Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague

2004 – TNF
Atelier of Josef Sude, Fotograf v zahradě (Photographer in the Garden), Prague, Czech Republic

2004 – Theatre of Lost Soul
Mesaros Gallery, Morgantown, WV, USA

2004 – Adam and Eve
Gallery Fiducia, Ostrava, Czech Republic

1999 – Cain and Abel
Gallery Allan, Vienna, Austria

1999 – Cain and Abel
Tschechisches Zentrum (Czech Centre), Berlin, Germany

1999 – Ivan Pinkava
Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia

1998 – Cain and Abel
Gallery JNJ, Prague, Czech Republic

1997–8 – Ivan Pinkava
Centro de la Imagen, Palatio Bellas Artes, Mexico

1996 – ECCE HOMO
Gallery Pusta, Katowice, Poland

1996 – Ivan Pinkava
Gallery G4, Cheb, Czech Republic 

1996 – Portraits
Frederiks Bastion Gallery, Kobenhavn, Denmark

1995 – Portraits
Gallery Pallas, Prague, Czech Republic

1995 – Memento Mori
Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (joint project with V. Jirásek and R. Novák), subsequent shows in Mexico

1992 – Dynasty
Pražský dům fotografie (Prague House of Photography), Prague, Czechoslovakia

1992 – Ivan Pinkava
Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinky, Finland

1990 – Ivan Pinkava – Fotografien
Fotogalerie in der Brotfabrik (Photographs, Photogallery in the bread factory), Berlin, Germany

2010 – Darkness for Light
Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010 – Decadence Now, Beyond the Extreme
Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague

2009  – Black and White Golden City 09
Topičův salon (Topič lounge), Prague

2009 – Tschechische Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts (Czech Photography of the 20th Century)
Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik  Deutschland (Art and Exhibition Hall) Bonn, Germany 

2008 – The Third Side of the Wall
Moravská galerie (Moravian Gallery), Brno   

2008 – New Urbanism
Gallery Seiene 51, Paris

2007 – My Favorites Photography
Seine 51 Gallery, Paris

2006 – Closed Eyes
Museet for Fotokunst, Copenhagen

2005 – Czech Photography of the 20th centrury
Municipal Library of Prague

2004 – Il Nudo, Fra Ideale e Realita
Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna

2004 – Gods Becoming Men
Frissiras Museum, Athens

2003  – Naked before God
The Museum of New Art, Pärnu 

2002 – Czech and Slovak Photography of the 80´s and 90´s of the 20th Century
Museum of Fine Art, Olomouc

2001 – Czech Photography
Benham Studio/Gallery, Seattle

2001 – GoEurope: the kaleidoscopic eye
Kunsthalle des Artmax, Braunschweig 

2001 – Vintage & Contemporary Czech Photography
S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland

2000 – Gallery Replica
Stockholm

2000 – Portrait
New Gallery, Houston, Texas

2000 – The Nude in Czech Photography
Imperial Stables, Prague Castle, Prague

1999 – Czech Photography in the 20th Century
The Eli Lemberger Museum of Photography at Tel-Hai Industrial Park, Israel

1999 – Czech Photography of the 1990‘s
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

1999 – Czech and Slovak Photography
Czech centrum, New York

1998 – Body and Photography
Salmovsky Palace, Prague

1996 – Soudobá fotografie NOX 1996
National Gallery, Palace Kinských, Prague

1996 – Facing the End of the Centure
Five Czech Photographers, Taitemia Gallery, Kuopio, Finland, Later shown in Tatlin, Panevezys, Siauliai, Pécs, Den Haag, Cottbus, Poprad

1996 – Certainty & Searching in Czech Photography of the 90’s
Prague Castle, Prague, Later shown in Berlin, Bratislava, Chicago Cultural Center

1996 – The Body in Contemporary Czech Photography
Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow, Later shown in Braga, London

1995 – Portrait II
Fotogalerie Wien, Wien

1994 – V ostrém světle
Prague House of Photography, Prague

1993 – Fotofeis
MacLaurin Art Gallery, Glasgow, Later shown in EBRD London, Lisabon, Porto, Salamanca

1993 – Presences, The Photographer`s Gallery
Bill Brandt Room, London

1992 – Photographes européens forts de leur Histoire
Salle des Fetes, Arles

1992 – Bratrstvo, Gabina, Ivan Pinkava
Fotogalerie Wien

1991 – Plastic Photography
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Foto Biennale Enschede

1991 – European Photography Award 1991
Berlin

1990 – Choice
Fotofest, Houston, USA

1990 – Tchechoslowakische Photographie der Gegenwart
Museum Ludwig, Köln

1990– La Tchecoslovaquie a Arles
Palais de l’Archeveché, Arles

1990 – Vision de l’homme
Galerie Municipale du Château d’Eau, Toulouse

1989 – 37 Photographers at Chmelnice
Chmelnice Club, Prague

1989 – Contemporary Czech Photography
Nieuwe Kerk, Foto 89 Amsterodam

1988 – Vize
Moravian Gallery, Brno

1988 – “11”
Gallery Fotochema, Prague

Where the place – Upon the Heath, Ivan Pinkava / Josef Bolf
Petr Vaňous, Petr Jindra:Západočeská galerie v Plzni (Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen), 2010

Czech Photography of the 20^th Century
Vladimír Birgus, Jan Mlčoch, Kant, Prague 2010

Heroes
Introduction by Martin C. Putna, Prague, Kant, 2004 (Awarded The most beautiful Czech artistic publication of 2004), (Awarded The best photo book published in the central and eastern Europe 2003-2004 at Month of photography Bratislava)

Il Nudo, Fra Ideale e Realita
Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna 2004

Gods Becoming Men
Edward Lucie-Smith, Frissiras Museum, Atheny 2004

Političtí vězni 50. let
Galerie Langhans, Prague 2003

Das Lexikon der Fotografen 1900 bis Heute
Knaur, Germany, 2002

Česká a slovenská fotografie 80. a 90 let 20. století
Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2002

Black and White Photography
James Luciana, Rockport Publishers, Inc., Gloucester, 2000

Czech Photography of the 1990s
Vladimír Birgus, Kant, Prague, 1999

Memento Mori
V. Jirásek, R. Novák, I. Pinkava, text by Bohdan Chlíbec, TORST, Prague 1998

Contemporary Czech and Slovak Photography
Aperture # 152, New York, 1998

Certainty and Searching in Czech Photography of the 1990s
Vladimír Birgus, Miroslav Vojtěchovský, Kant, Prague, 1997

Dynastie – Ivan Pinkava
text Josef Kroutvor, ERM, Prague 1994
(Awarded The most beautiful Czech artistic publication of 1994)

The sea inside the skin
Min Tanaka, photo J. Krejčí and I. Pinkava, TORST, Prague 1992

During the normalization period he was taking photohraphs for some magazines and state enterprises. Following the velvet revolution he stood at the emergence of the Signum Photographic Group, and in 1996 he became a member of  Bilderberg Hamburg agency. In 2006 he founded the Jakura publishing.

2016 –  Prague – Sudetenland, Czech Photo Centre Gallery

2014 – Písek – Meetings, moments of solitude, Prácheň Museum

2013 – Prague – As I met people, Old Palace, Prague Castle

2013 – Bielsko-Biala – As I met people, B&W Gallery

2013 – Prague – Face to Face, Chlubilové, Lucerna, Klub Koníček

2013 – Blatná – Meetings, moments of solitude, Castle in Blatná

2011 – Moravská Třebová – Selection of works, Moravská Třebová Museum

2010 – Praha – Black-and-White
/Prague 1969-2010/ – Leica Gallery Prague, Prague

2010 – Prague – Meeting
Post Minigallery of the Gentlemen´s Club Žižkov

2010 – Hořice v Podkrkonoší – Meetings, Moments, Solitude
Hořice Museum

2010 – Levice – Jaroslav Kučera
Doboóvský mansion (kaštěl)

2009 – Praha – 10 Portraits
Literary Coffee Lounge U Řehoře Samsy

2009 – Praha – Black-and-White
Literary Coffee Lounge U Řehoře Samsy

2009 – Roztoky – Tavern gaieties
Academic Gallery

2009 – Praha – People I have met
/with sculptor Václav Frydecký/ – 32^nd Saloon Zentiva

2009 – Praha – Totality (Totáč)
/with Jiří Egert/ – Gallery Smart

2009 – Praha – New Old Photos
Gabfest (Beseda) – Ars Pragensis

2006 – Brussels – People I have met
Prague´s House

2004 – Lvov  – Bohemia is also like this
Palace of Arts

2003 – Praha – Selection from People I have met
Galerie Na schodech / Mironet /

2003 – Berlin – 1970s and Communist Holidays
Czech Cultural Centre

2002 – Kladno – From Prague´s taverns
Little Gallery of the Savings Bank

2002 – Praha – People I have met
Old Town Hall

2001 – Praha – World Web Photo Gallery
www.wwg.cz

2001 – Plzeň
Town Hall

2001 – Sarajevo
Gallery of Coffee Lounge Čulhan

2000 – Praha – 1970s
Amadeus Prag

2000 – Berlin
Czech Cultural Centre

1999 – The Hague
Consulate of the Czech Republic

1999 – Duisburg – Sudetes
Wasserturn Gallery

1999 – Wessel – Sudetes
Wasserturn Gallery

1999 – Bratislava
House VPN / with Jan Šibík /

1998 – Berlin – Prague is also like this
Czech Cultural Centre

1998 – Dresden – Prague is also like this
Neue Zeiten Gallery

1998 – Vilnius
Lithuanian Photographic Company Gallery

1996 – Praha – Sudetes
“13” Gallery

1996 – Praha – Prague is also like this
Prague House of Photography

1995 – Amiens
Jacques Tati Gallery

1995 – Kladno
Little Gallery of the Savings Bank

1995 – Cheb – Sudety
G 4 Gallery

1994 – Freiburg – Sudety
Schwarzeskloster Gallery / with Dana Kyndrová /

1994 – Basel
No Name Gallery

1994 – Denver 
Temple Emanuele

1992 – Brno
House of Arts

1990 – Basel
No Name Gallery

1990 – Freiburg –  Wie durch ein Wunder
Stadtbibliothek

1983 – Praha
Fotochemy Exhibition Hall

1979 – Olomouc
Arcade Gallery

1977 – Praha
Unicorn Gallery (galerie U jednorožce) / with Jan Všetečka /

1977 – Brno
Funk´s study

1975 – Praha
Fotochemy Exhibition Hall

1975 – Olomouc
Arcade Gallery (galerie V podloubí)