EDUCATION
Master of Arts: Curatorial Practice | California College of the Arts | San Francisco 2015-2017
Bachelor: Theory and History of Visual Art | Charles University | Prague 2011-2015
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Mehringlatz 20 | Berlin since 2021
- a continuation of the Kottbusser Damm 68 apartment gallery
The Hologram | everywhere | since 2020
- a collective social practice art project that developed a peer-to-peer health monitoring protocol
It’s All About Education | Studio Alta | Prague 2021 and 2022
- a free university of post-artistic practices, co-curated with Petr Dlouhy
Kottbusser Damm 68 | Berlin 2020 - 2021
- an apartment gallery presenting a loose series of exhibitions around Creating Post-Capitalist Worlds
Feather Through Generations | Royal Cultural Center | Amman 2019
- an exhibition celebrating the 10-years anniversary of the Karama Human Rights Film Festival
The Peculiarity of the National Hunt | Desfour Palace | Prague 2019
- an exhibition on emerging Czech artists focusing on the notion of national pride
- part of the annual emerging artist showcase Pokoje
Accessibility Note exhibition series | Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts | Prague 2018-19
- six exhibitions addressing exclusivity/inclusivity of galleries through socially engaged art
featuring: Cassie Thornton, Katy Jalili, Coven Berlin, David Brna, and more
Aline Schwibbe: Fearless Flowers | White Pearl Gallery | Prague 2018
Black Light | CCA Curatorial Practice program | Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts | San Francisco 2017
- an exhibition on African-American artist-run spaces
- travelled to Gallery 400, Chicago
featuring: Rodney McMillian, Community Futures Lab, Kahlil Joseph, Indira Allegra, and more
The Room | San Francisco 2016-2017
- program of bi-weekly duo exhibitions + monthly lecture evenings focusing on critical approach to space
featuring: Woody Othello, Linsay Tunkl, Nkiruka Oparah, Courtney Trouble, Flavia d'Urso, and more
The Orange Box | San Francisco 2015-2017
- program of weekly installations and performances by CCA graduate students in a re-purposed shipping container
featuring: Lorenzo Cardim, Ann Chen, Kate Robards, The Lost Rug project, Yvette Dibos and many more
Queer Performance Evenings | The Grand Opera House | San Francisco 2016-2017
- studio space turned into an artist-made venue by Ryan F. Hueston to promote queer performance
Atlas of Possible Futures | San Francisco and Oakland 2015
- program of pop-up exhibitions, at: Academy of Science; Brainwash Laundromat; College Av Galleries,…
featuring: Ben Quinn, Inigo Guzman, Jayce Wyatt, and more
Contain[Era] - Transfer of Materialized Information in Post-Internet Era | Art Direct NGO 2015-2016
- international exhibition project taking place in partnership with local galleries in public spaces
in Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, Zurich, and Rome
featuring: Carlo Zanni, Adela Souckova, Till Koenneker, Angela Kaiser, Janos Bruckner, and more
WHYRWEHERE, Art as Agency | Academy of Fine Arts in Prague | Chateau Třeboň 2013
Žádnápodívaná (No Show) | K4 Gallery; Inkubátor Gallery | Prague and Ústí n. Labem 2013
- exhibition on traditional practices employed by emerging Czech artists
featuring: Tomas Kotrba, Tomas Tichy, Alexandra Karpukhina, Pavel Skrott, and more
SELECTED WRITING AND LECTURES
“Is the Art World the Church?” lecture | care-orrism Study Day, by Re-Imagining Value Action Lab | Berlin 2022
“The Hologram, autonomous peer-to-peer health” lecture | Rupert | Vilnius 2021
“Contextualizing The Hologram” in Cassie Thornton: The Hologram, Feminist Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future (London: Pluto Press, 2020)
“Curating with Care and the Social Practice Art Turn | Academy of Arts, Design, and Architecture | Prague 2019
“How to Hack the Art World” workshop | Prehlidka Pokoje | Prague 2019
“Curating with Radical Empathy”, lecture | Academy of Fine Arts | Prague 2019
“Labor of Love: To Curate Is To Care" panel discussion with Taraneh Fazeli | Institute for Critical Inquiry | Berlin 2018
“Curating in Empathy and Addressing the White Walls” essay for Book About The Room catalog 2017
“Working at Navajo Mountain. The Implications of Social Practice” lecture | Open Engagement | Chicago 2017
“Curating and the Methodology of Intersectional Care“ graduate thesis | CCA Curatorial Practice program 2017
“Curating ~ Care. An Intersectional Methodology” lecture | CCA Graduate Thesis Symposium | San Francisco 2017
“Curating with Empathy” lecture | The Room gallery | San Francisco 2016
“Exhibition as a Transfer of Information in the Post-Internet Era” lecture | Contain[era] symposium | Prague 2015
“Transfer of Information in the Post-Internet Era“ essay | Contain[era] catalog 2015
“Self-Portrait. Vivisection of One's Own Image“ bachelor thesis | Art History and Theory program 2015
“Art in Time” organizer of Art History and Theory student conference| Academy of Science | Prague 2015
“Art as Agency” essay | WHYRWEHERE, Art as Agency catalog 2013
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS FEATURING INDIVIDUAL ART WORKS
Feather Through Generations | Royal Cultural Center | Amman 2019
How Long Is Forever performance evening | Kunstler, Kunstlerin | Berlin 2019
Certain Kind of Darkness performance evening | Cross Attis | Prague 2019
Project Space Festival | Gruentaler9 | Berlin 2018 (with Ella Schoefer-Wulf)
2017 Commencement Exhibition | CCA | San Francisco 2017
The Early Days | Kreuzberg Pavillon gallery | Berlin 2017
Video Art Works | The Texas Pearl Project Space | Berlin 2017
Queer Burlesque | Grand Opera House | San Francisco 2016
Outside Ourselves, Ourselves Out | 1340 Bryan St | San Francisco 2016
International Student Exhibition | College Av Galleries | Oakland 2016
SELECTED EVENTS AS THE MOTHER TONGUE PROJECT COLLECTIVE
Show Me Yours embroidery workshop & The Song My Mother Sang to Me song circle | Anchorage Museum | Anchorage 2019
A Story about My Mother (Tongue) workshop | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley 2018
Songs about Distance | original Instagram series | online 2018
What We Offer Is a Song | Hubbell Street Galleries | San Francisco 2017
VIP Breakfast | 2017 Open Engagement | Chicago 2017
Open Mother Tongue UN Meeting | Art Night SF Grand Finale |San Francisco 2017
Mother Tongue Guided Tour at Asian Art Museum | San Francisco 2017
Mother Tongue Therapy Sessions |Parking Lot Art Fair | San Francisco 2016
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
President's International Student Scholarship | California College of the Arts | 2016/17
IMPACT Social Enterpreneurship Award for 10.000$ | Navajo Mountain School Project | Center for Art and Public Life | 2016
Merit Scholarship | California College of the Arts | 2015/16
Creative Europe, Large Scale European Collaboration Projects | Contain[era] project | European Union | 2015
SELECTED TRANSLATION WORK
ENG>CZ Hal Foster, Zítra bude hůř (Prague: CSU, Cena Věry Jirousové, 2021)
ENG > CZ Bojana Kunst, “Umělcův čas. Projektová časovost,” in: Návrat do budoucnosti, V. Jánoščík, E. Skopalová (eds.) (Prague: UMPRUM Publishing, 2019)
ENG > CZ Boris Groys, “Soudruzi času,” in: Zpátky do budoucnosti, V. Jánoščík, E. Skopalová (eds.) (Prague: UMPRUM Publishing, 2019)
CZ > ENG Jan Samec, “The World of Kamil Lhoták”, in: Svět Kamila Lhotáka v malbě, kresbě a filmu, exhibition catalog (Karlovy Vary Gallery, 2018)
ENG > CZ Levi R. Bryant, “Ontický princip: Nástin objektově orientované ontologie”, in: Mysl v terénu: Filosofický realismus v 21. století , V. Jánoščík, L. Likavčan, J. Růžička (eds.)(Prague: Edice VVP AVU, 2017)