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Tereza Zelenková (*1985 in Czech Republic) is an artist based between Prague and London. She is best known for her black and white photographs, inspired by literature, mythology, and history. Central to her practice is the combination of photography with her own writing; a fertile relationship that draws together her influences of the lyrical alongside a commitment to research, resulting in often wide-ranging and complex lines of enquiry.
She 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.
CURRENT:

Maladies of The Inifinite, solo show at Berlinskej Model, Prague, CZ, 16th - 26th November 2022
The Essential Solitude, artist book published by VOID: November 2021
Known and Strange: Photographs from the collection, group exhibition, V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom: November 2021
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b. 1985 in Ostrava, Czech Republic
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
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
Awards
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 TBC, 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
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)
Educational work
2019 - present SOŠG and VOŠG Hellichova, Prague, teacher, History of Photography
2021 Royal College of Art, London, visiting lecture
2021 UMPRUM, Prague, student tuition
2020 Farnborough College of Technology, visiting lecture
2020 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen, MA Photography, guest reviewer
2019 Krakow Photobook Festival, Paperlust, workshop leader
2018 University of Westminster, BA Photography, visiting lecture, tutorials
2018 Foam Photography museum, Amsterdam, artist presentation, workshop leader
2017 University of Westminster, London, BA Photography, visiting lecture, tutorials
2017 University of Plymouth, BA and MA Photography, visiting lecture, tutorials
2017 Swansea College of Art, BA and MA Photography, visiting lecture
2017 University of Brighton, MA Photography, visiting lecture, tutorials
2017 Belfast School of Art, BA and MA Photography, visiting lecture, group crits
2016 London College of Communication, BA and MA Photography, visiting lecture, tutorials
2016 University of Westminster, London, BA Photography, visiting lecture, tutorials
2015 University of Westminster, London, BA Photography, visiting lecture, tutorials
2013 - 2014 University of Portsmouth, BA Photography, Lecturer in Photography (fixed term)
Contact:
tereza.photography@gmail.com
Gallery:
The Ravestijn Gallery
Westerdok 824
1013 BV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 (0)20-5306005
E: info@theravestijngallery.com
Copyright: Tereza Zelenkova, 2022
