Jan
Tichy

Artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty

Portrait of a White man in a black t-shirt.
Portrait of a White man in a black t-shirt.

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Jan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator. Working at the intersection of video, sculpture, architecture, and photography, his conceptual work is socially and politically engaged. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied art in Israel before earning his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is now Associate Professor at the Department of Photography and the Department of Art & Technology Studies.