Ivana Dostal

ARTIST STATEMENT:
„The Selection of Artworks from Czech Award Winning Professional Photographer And Visual Artist With Foreign Exhibition Experiences And The Works Represented In The Collections Worldwide. With Various Artistic Languages With The Signs Of Symbolism and Experiment Reflecting Social And Psychological Questions, And Today´s World. Three main Areas of Photographic Study And Research Are: The Self Study, The Other Study, and The World Of a (Day)Dreamer. Work Reflects The Self And The Interaction With The Society And „The Other“ And The Critical Searching For The Self in Times of Instant Instagram Happiness. As A Part Of Self Study Uses Self-Portraits And Searching For Personal Identity During Earlier Stages Of Psychosocial Development.

„My art-works which I can define as a Part III of My Work (The World of a (Day)Dreamer), beside of my classical photography works and projects, represent my seeing of myself-my the self in the confrontation with today´s society of consumption and „Instant Instagram happiness“ where I feel that there is no place for dreamers. So, I have to put on my artist´s trousers and to create my own world full of deep true love.“

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Neurobiology, Physiology

PGCert Therapeutic Photog...

Charles University Prague, Czech Republic (DSc, PhD, Biomedicine, Neurobiology, Physiology).

Therapeutic Photography, Robert Gordon University, Scotland (PGCert)

9/2022 Berlin Photo Week with Cultural Partner Magnum Photos (represented by BBA Gallery)
04/2021 The Other Art Fair Los Angeles Virtual Edition - Selected For The Best Of The Fair Collection
11/2020 Secrets of Baby Cot, Solo Exhibition, PROSTOR, Prague
10/2020 Color Of Woman, Prague Photo Fair, nám. Republiky 7, Prague
04/2020 The Other Art Fair Los Angeles presented by Saatchiart - postponed to Spring 2021 - presented in Online Studios
03-10/2020 PLAY! Solo Exhibition, ...škoda nezajít, Mlada Boleslav, CZ
11/2019 2nd Place CZECH PRESS PHOTO AWARD
11/2019-1/2020 Czech Press Photo Exhibition, Staroměstská radnice, Praha 1
11/2019-1/2020 PLAY! Solo Exhibition, PROSTOR, Prague
10/2019 Heaven is a Place on Earth...Sometimes, Reduta Jazz Club, Národní, Praha, Solo Exhibition
05/2019 Dreamers and Waiters Exhibition, XII. Prague Photo Fair, nám. Republiky 7, Prague
February-March 2019 - We are all dreamers...But must live in the real world, SOLO Exhibition, Dudes and Barbies Gallery, Prague
November 2018 - Czech Press Photo Exhibition, Old Town Hall, Prague
September 2018 - The Other Art Fair Chicago, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
April 2018 - We are all dreamers, Photograph...