Jan Šerých
born 13. 5. 1972 in Prague
Studies, stipends
1992–1999 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
2008 ISCP, New York, USA
2005 PROGR, Bern, CH
1996–2002 Member of the artist group BJ (Bezhlavý jezdec / Headless Rider) — with Josef Bolf, Ján Mančuška and Tomáš Vaněk
Solo shows (selected)
2024 ANE, hunt kastner, Prague
2023 On Exactitude in Science, Fait Gallery MEM, Brno
2018 Cokoli II (Whatever II), Luxfer Gallery, Česká skalice
2016 Maketa (Mock-up), Cube x Cube Gallery, Liberec
2016 Limbo, hunt kastner, Prague
2016 Qwerty, Sokolská 26 Gallery, Ostrava
2014 Theory of Relativity I, Soda, Bratislava, SK
2014 Pustina (Desert), Berlínskej model, Prague
2014 Čtvrt na jedenáct (Quarter Past Ten), Set Gallery, Liberec
2014 Wysiwyg, Plato, Ostrava
2013 Jan Šerých, videoroom, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín
2013 Tma (Darkness), Bistro 8, Prague
2013 Cokoli (Whatever), Kabinet T. Gallery, Zlín
2013 !sey ,lleH, Jelení Gallery, Prague
2012 Tisíciúhelník (Chiliagon; with Alena Kotzmannová), Fait Gallery, Brno
2011 Lies and Layers (with Esther Stocker), hunt kastner, Prague
2011 Dnes (Today), etc.Gallery, Prague
2010 Nejlepší ze všech špatných řešení (The Best of Bad Solution), Gallery Blansko
2009 Beep Beep, Labor, Budapest, HU
2009 Paramnesia, Gallery Caesar, Olomouc
2009 Paramnesia, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
2009 Ano (Yes), Old Town Hall, City Gallery Prague
2008 Vasil Artamonov, Jan Šerých, NoD, Prague
2008 The Last Frame, The Studio of Josef Sudek, Prague
2008 The Architecture of a Chance, ISCP, New York, USA
2007 Takemehome, Hunt Kastner Artworks, Prague
2006 Gotohell, Gallery Na Bidýlku (Gallery on Perch), Brno
2006 Jednoho krásného rá... (One Lovely Morn...), Gallery die Aktualität des Schönen, Liberec
2006 Zakázané uvolnění (Icing / Forbidden Release; with Michal Škoda), Wannieck Gallery, Brno
2005 Double Feature Picture Show (with Josef Bolf), Galerie České pojišťovny, Prague
2005 Abbey Road 2:45, Pražák Palace (Atrium), Moravian Gallery, Brno
2004 That‘s It!, A. M. 180, Prague
2003 Kdopak to mluví? (Look Who‘s Talking), House of Art České Budějovice
2003 Bla, Gallery 761, Ostrava
2003 Galerie Na Bidýlku (Gallery on Perch), Brno
2003 10 rad, jak vypadat skvěle při sexu (10 Tips How to Look Great During Sex), G99, House of the Kunštát Lords, Brno
2002 Placebo, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague
1999 Dial, Trade-Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague
Group shows (selected)
2024 Mucha Today, The Gočár Gallery, Pardubice
2024 Planet ID: Vzpomínky na Zemi, The Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem
2024 Blind Pew, Cursor Gallery, Prague
2023 4+4 Days in Motion: Places of Act / Everything's Everyones, Erpet, Prague
2022 The Palace of Concrete Poetry, Writers’ House of Georgia, Tbilisi
2022 Measurement Terror: 1392 Hours of an Exhibition, open for 237 of Those, Fotograf Gallery, Prague
2021 No Art Today? New Acquisitions from the Collections of Prague City Gallery, Municipal Library, Prague City Gallery
2021 Vladimír Skrepl: Remixed & Reimagined, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2020 LUCA2020 Karpuchina Gallery, Prague
2019 Quodlibet 2, hunt kastner, Prague
2019 For the Truth..., Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Prague
2019 Orient 2, Kunsthalle Bratislava, SK
2019 Monologue of a Chimneysweep from a Chimneyless Town, Nevan Contempo, Prague
2019 Kuna nese nanuk — The Art of Reading Art, 8smička, Humpolec
2019 Moving Image Department #10: Based On Real Events, National Gallery Prague
2018 Civilization at the Crossroad: Engineers of Scientific-Technical Revolution, Display, Prague
2018 Who is the Victor?, GVUO, Ostrava
2018 Temporary Structures 1 — Mutual Investigations, Plato, Ostrava
2018 Conditions of impossibility IV/VII — Alogorrhea, Cursor Gallery, Prague
2017 Places of Act, 4 + 4 Days in Motion — 22nd International Festival of Contemporary Art, Karlín barracks, Prague
2017 Conditions of impossibility I/VII — Loss of time, Cursor Gallery, Prague
2017 Absolute Beginners, Svit, Prague
2017 Neue Schwarze Romantik (New Black Romanticism), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2017 Neue Schwarze Romantik (New Black Romanticism), Stadtgalerie Kiel, DE
2017 Noul romantism negru (New Black Romanticism), Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României, Bucharest, RO
2016 Jazyk (Language), Galerie Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem
2016 Ten dům sem nepatří (That Building Doesn’t Belong Here), Karlin Studios, Prague
2015 Exakta, NoD, Prague
2015 Sign, Letter, Code, NTK Gallery, Prague
2015 Supple Mentalities, NoD, Prague
2015 Česká malba generace 90. let 20. století, Adam Gallery, Brno
2014 Kometa (Comet), Gallery Futura, Prague
2014 Prostory narace (Spaces of Narration), NoD, Prague
2014 Svět práce (Live in Your Head), Galerie U Dobrého pastýře, Brno
2014 VII. New Zlín Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín
2014 Čtení (Reading), Tic Gallery, Brno
2013 Pro mnohé uši (For Many Different Ears), Fait Gallery, Brno
2013 Lapidarium, Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Prague
2013 Blind Spot, NTK Gallery, Prague
2013 Um Pretérito Imperfeito, Galerie Presenca, Porto, PT
2012 Ř! Czech National Identity in Contemporary Art, University of Applied Arts Gallery, Prague
2012 Na houby / For John Cage, Bludný kámen, Opava
2012 4 + 4 Days in Motion — 17th performing arts festival, Casino, Prague
2012 Homo Mathematicus, NTK Gallery, Prague
2012 Islands of Resistance: Between the First and Second Modern 1985–2012, Trade-Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague
2011 12 bodů (12 points), 35m2, Prague
2011 Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis, hommage à Ján Mančuška, Gallery Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, FR
2011 VI. New Zlín Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín
2011 Brno Art Open: Sculpture in the Street III, The Brno House of Arts
2011 Generator, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
2011 Casual, Formal, Playful, Czech Center New York, USA
2010 Economy of Unwanted Amity, Karlin Studios, Prague
2010 4 + 4 Days in Motion — 15th performing arts festival, ÚLUV, Prague
2010 Ears Like Loops, Zona sztuki aktualnej, łódź, PL
2010 On Altruism, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
2010 Game Phenomenon, NTK Gallery, Prague
2010 Hotline, Václav Špála gallery, Prague
2010 Gaspard of the Night, Futura, Prague
2009 Something Of Myself, Hunt Kastner Artworks, Prague
2009 Prague Biennale 4, White Paper Black Bride, Karlin Hall, Prague
2009 Intertext, Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, SK
2008 They Stood and Waited Until He Appeared, Gallery NoD, Prague
2008 Contemporary Czech Cubism, Staroměstská radnice, Gallery hlavního města Prahy
2008 Die Gehilfen (The Aides), Gallery At the White Unicorn, Klatovy
2008 Intro 518 teď 69 teď* teď 180 Bonus Q Track!, Karlin Studios, Prague
2008 .txt, Šternberk Gallery, Šternberk
2008 Reflecting the Words, Letohrádek Hvězda, Prague
2008 VI. Biennial of Young Artists Zvon, House at the Stone Bell, City Gallery, Prague
2008 Bad Moon Rising Special, ISCP, New York, USA
2008 Czech Sources, Prague House in Brussels, BE
2007 Indexes of Delight (festival M@narchia), CDCH, Moscow, RU
2007 Punctum, Gallery Futura, Prague
2007 Gross Domestic Product, Municipal Library, City Gallery, Prague
2007 Still — Another Exhibition of Painting, Gallery Futura, Prague
2007 I Don‘t Exist When You Don‘t See Me, Futura, Prague
2006 Frisbee, House of the Kunštát Lords, Brno
2006 Collection of R. Adam, Wannieck Gallery, Brno
2006 Blind Men Measuring an Elephant, Gallery c2c, Prague
2006 Acne, Collection of R. Adam, Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague
2006 I invited some friends to come and watch, Galerija Nova / Galerija M. Kraljevič, Zagreb, HR
2005 V. Biennial of Young Artists, House at the Stone Bell, City Gallery, Prague
2005 Prague Biennale 2, Definition of Everyday, Karlin Hall, Prague
2005 J. Chalupecký Award — Finalists 2005, Municipal Library, City Gallery, Prague
2005 1811197604122005, Plan B, Cluj, RO
2004 Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity, Rockwell, London, UK
2004 Neutral, Motorenhalle, Drážďany / Dresden, DE
2003 Survey '03, Futura, Prague
2003 Československo (Czechoslovakia), Slovak National Museum, Bratislava, SK
2003 To the Letter, Czech Centre, New York, USA
2003 J. Chalupecký Award — Finalists 2003, Futura, Prague
2003 Perfect Tense — Painting Today, Prague Castle Riding School
2002 The Glory of the Cosmonauts Being Covered by Dust — BJ group show, Šternberk Gallery, Šternberk
2002 Hedonistic Abstraction, Pražák Palace (Atrium), Moravian Gallery, Brno
2002 Fair (Glued Intimacy), Project PAS, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2002 IV. Biennial of Young Artists Zvon 2002, Forum of Independent Galleries, City Gallery, Prague
2002 Laboratory of Contemporary Tendencies, Trade-Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague
2002 From Prague, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg, FR
2002 D’un printemps l‘autre, Belfort, FR
2001 20 % Sale, House of Art České Budějovice
2001 Laboratory of Contemporary Tendencies, National Gallery in Prague
2001 Art Moscow — skupina BJ (BJ group show), House of Artists, Moscow, RU
2000 Women Come and Go, Only We Sci-Fi Writers Remain — BJ group show, 761 Gallery, Ostrava