As the world outside accelerates, Tereza Zelenkova's black and white analogue photographs evoke a sense of stillness and dust. Curious objects and historic interiors in her images become vessels of enigmatic narratives, evoking a world both familiar and hauntingly surreal. In her work, Zelenkova brings together collections of images that speak to the palpable presence of history, where eclectic subjects transform into symbols, inviting viewers to unravel the mysteries that lie beneath their surface. Through her work, she reminds us that history is not just a series of events but a living, breathing entity that continues to shape our understanding of the world around us.
Tereza Zelenkova has received several awards and her work has been exhibited on four different continents. Her photographs are held in the collections of Victoria & Albert Museum, Foam Photography Museum, Musée de l’Élysé, Saatchi Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Her work was commissioned by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Financial Times and Hothsoe magazine among others.
Interview for The Nearest Truth podcast available to listen here.
Education
2010 - 2012 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007 - 2010 First Class Honors, BA Photographic Arts, University of Westminster, London, UK
Public Collections
V&A Museum, London, UK
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, CH
PPF, CZ
National Bank, CZ
Commisioned work
The New Yorker
The Atlantic
Der Greif
The Financial Times
Hotshoe
Awards
2023 Recipient of the Artist stipend, Ministry of Culture, CZ.
2016 ING Unseen Talent Awards, NL. (finalist)
2015 Jerwood Photoworks Award, UK. (winner)
2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Élysée, CH. (finalist)
2012 1000 Words Magazine Award, UK. (winner)
2012 Saatchi New Sensations, UK. (finalist)
2012 Metro Imaging Award, UK. (winner)
2012 Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH. (finalist)
2011 Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed, The Photographer’s Gallery, UK. (finalist)
2011 Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, UK Honorable Mention.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Memory and desire, stirring (with Özlem Altin), Fotograf Gallery, Prague, CZ.
2022 Maladies of The Infinite, Berlínskej Model, Prague, CZ.
2022 Maladies of The Infinite, Kulturni Centar Beograda, Belgrade, RS.
2021 The Double Room, Campbell House Museum, Contact Photography Festival, Torornto, CA.
2020 Dead Language, Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Prague, CZ.
2018 The Essential Solitude, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.
2018 A Snake that disappeared through a hole in the wall, Foam, Amsterdam, NL.
2017 Had, ktery zmizel v dire ve stene, NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ.
2016 Two and two is five, Rough Print Gallery, London, UK.
2014 Two and two is five, Galerie Jeleni, Prague, CZ.
2013 The Absence of Myth, Legion TV, London, UK.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Traces of Labour, Industra Gallery, Brno, CZ.
2023 Monochrome, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.
2022 One of a Kind, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.
2022 The Lore, Have a butchers, London, UK.
2021 Known and Strange, V&A Museum, London, UK.
2021 a Handful of Dust, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, TW.
2020 Le Cabaret du Néant, Frac île-de-france, Le Château, Paris, FR.
2019 Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, NL.
2019 a Handful of Dust, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, CA.
2019 Gothic Fictions, Silver Eye Photography Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
2019 Tender, Czech Center New York, New York, USA.
2018 a Handful of Dust, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA.
2018 Jaipur Photography Festival, Jaipur, IN.
2017 a Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
2017 At Home She’s A Tourist, Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
2016 Jerwood / Photoworks Award, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
2016 ING Unseen Talent Awards, Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, NL.
2016 Jerwood / Photoworks Award, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, UK.
2015 Jerwood / Photoworks Award, Jerwood Art Space, London, UK.
2015 a Handful of Dust, Le Bal, Paris, F.
2015 reGeneration 3, Museo Amparo, Mexico.
2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, CH.
2014 Re-becoming, Flowers Gallery East, London, UK.
2014 Continental Shift, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2013 Unnatural Selection, Unseen Photography Fair, Amsterdam, NL.
2013 New Order, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2013 Thresholds, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, UK.
2012 Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China.
2012 RCA Show 2012, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2012 Black Thorns in The White Cube, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA.
2012 Hijacked III, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, AU.
2011 The Wonders of The Visible World, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK.
2011 Altitude +1000 Festival de Photographie de Montagne, Rossiniere, CH.
2011 The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, USA.
2010 This Must be The Place, Jerwood Art Space, London, UK.
2010 Women in Art Photography U.K., Taaschen, London, UK.
Residencies
2013 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK.
2011 School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, USA.
2011 Altitude 1000+, Rossiniere, CH.
Selected Publications
Artist Books
2021 The Essential Solitude (VOID)
2018 The Essential Solitude, (self-published)
2013 The Absence of Myth (self-published)
2012 Index of Time (self-published book - with P. Watkins and O. Shamlou)
2011 Supreme Vice (Morel Books)
Group Publications
2015 a Handful of Dust, by David Campany (MACK Books)
2012 Seeing for Others (Black Dog Publishing)
2012 Hijacked III (Big City Press)
2011 The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography (HAFNY)
Tereza Zelenkova has received several awards and her work has been exhibited on four different continents. Her photographs are held in the collections of Victoria & Albert Museum, Foam Photography Museum, Musée de l’Élysé, Saatchi Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Her work was commissioned by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Financial Times and Hothsoe magazine among others.
Interview for The Nearest Truth podcast available to listen here.
CV
Education
2010 - 2012 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007 - 2010 First Class Honors, BA Photographic Arts, University of Westminster, London, UK
Public Collections
V&A Museum, London, UK
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, CH
PPF, CZ
National Bank, CZ
Commisioned work
The New Yorker
The Atlantic
Der Greif
The Financial Times
Hotshoe
Awards
2023 Recipient of the Artist stipend, Ministry of Culture, CZ.
2016 ING Unseen Talent Awards, NL. (finalist)
2015 Jerwood Photoworks Award, UK. (winner)
2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Élysée, CH. (finalist)
2012 1000 Words Magazine Award, UK. (winner)
2012 Saatchi New Sensations, UK. (finalist)
2012 Metro Imaging Award, UK. (winner)
2012 Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH. (finalist)
2011 Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed, The Photographer’s Gallery, UK. (finalist)
2011 Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, UK Honorable Mention.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Memory and desire, stirring (with Özlem Altin), Fotograf Gallery, Prague, CZ.
2022 Maladies of The Infinite, Berlínskej Model, Prague, CZ.
2022 Maladies of The Infinite, Kulturni Centar Beograda, Belgrade, RS.
2021 The Double Room, Campbell House Museum, Contact Photography Festival, Torornto, CA.
2020 Dead Language, Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Prague, CZ.
2018 The Essential Solitude, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.
2018 A Snake that disappeared through a hole in the wall, Foam, Amsterdam, NL.
2017 Had, ktery zmizel v dire ve stene, NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ.
2016 Two and two is five, Rough Print Gallery, London, UK.
2014 Two and two is five, Galerie Jeleni, Prague, CZ.
2013 The Absence of Myth, Legion TV, London, UK.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Traces of Labour, Industra Gallery, Brno, CZ.
2023 Monochrome, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.
2022 One of a Kind, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.
2022 The Lore, Have a butchers, London, UK.
2021 Known and Strange, V&A Museum, London, UK.
2021 a Handful of Dust, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, TW.
2020 Le Cabaret du Néant, Frac île-de-france, Le Château, Paris, FR.
2019 Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, NL.
2019 a Handful of Dust, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, CA.
2019 Gothic Fictions, Silver Eye Photography Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
2019 Tender, Czech Center New York, New York, USA.
2018 a Handful of Dust, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA.
2018 Jaipur Photography Festival, Jaipur, IN.
2017 a Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
2017 At Home She’s A Tourist, Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
2016 Jerwood / Photoworks Award, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
2016 ING Unseen Talent Awards, Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, NL.
2016 Jerwood / Photoworks Award, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, UK.
2015 Jerwood / Photoworks Award, Jerwood Art Space, London, UK.
2015 a Handful of Dust, Le Bal, Paris, F.
2015 reGeneration 3, Museo Amparo, Mexico.
2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, CH.
2014 Re-becoming, Flowers Gallery East, London, UK.
2014 Continental Shift, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2013 Unnatural Selection, Unseen Photography Fair, Amsterdam, NL.
2013 New Order, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2013 Thresholds, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, UK.
2012 Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China.
2012 RCA Show 2012, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2012 Black Thorns in The White Cube, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA.
2012 Hijacked III, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, AU.
2011 The Wonders of The Visible World, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK.
2011 Altitude +1000 Festival de Photographie de Montagne, Rossiniere, CH.
2011 The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, USA.
2010 This Must be The Place, Jerwood Art Space, London, UK.
2010 Women in Art Photography U.K., Taaschen, London, UK.
Residencies
2013 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK.
2011 School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, USA.
2011 Altitude 1000+, Rossiniere, CH.
Selected Publications
Artist Books
2021 The Essential Solitude (VOID)
2018 The Essential Solitude, (self-published)
2013 The Absence of Myth (self-published)
2012 Index of Time (self-published book - with P. Watkins and O. Shamlou)
2011 Supreme Vice (Morel Books)
Group Publications
2015 a Handful of Dust, by David Campany (MACK Books)
2012 Seeing for Others (Black Dog Publishing)
2012 Hijacked III (Big City Press)
2011 The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography (HAFNY)
Contact:
For sales and commissions contact me via email:
tereza.photography@gmail.com
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