Jaro Dufek

Jaro Dufek does not regard the image as a final object, but as an interface between visible reality and the relationships that remain hidden. A Czech interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and art director based in Prague, he works across photography, painting, objects, and digital media.

Drawing on his experience in art direction, he approaches each medium as part of a broader visual and conceptual system rather than in isolation. Working with light, geometry, rhythm, and chance, he explores the tension between order and chaos, rationality and intuition, and material reality and its underlying structures. He understands art as a form of inquiry—a means of making perceptible relationships that can be intuitively sensed but are difficult to name.

He studied creative photography, new media, and interactive art. For more than a decade, he worked in the film industry, contributing to Czech and European feature films and documentaries—an experience that continues to inform his approach to image, light, composition, and visual storytelling. Alongside his independent artistic practice, he works as an art director, curator, and initiator of interdisciplinary cultural projects. He has been a member of the Association of Professional Phot...

2025–present — Member, Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic (APF)
2016–2018 — School of Astrology for the Brave; Humanistic and Transpersonal Astrology, Pavel Turnovský and Martina Lukášková
2007–2010 — MgA., Studio of New Media and Interactive Media, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem
2004–2007 — Bc., Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava
2001–2003 — Fine Art Photography, People’s Conservatory, Ostrava
2001–2003 — Special Education, Palacký University, Olomouc

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND ART PROJECTS

2024 — Hory, řeky a doliny (Mountains, Rivers and Valleys), Horní Pramen, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic
2023–present — Komunikace uměním (Communication Through Art), ongoing collaborative project with Galerie Za Sklem, Czech Republic
2022 — Bratři (Brothers), Prague and Bystřice pod Hostýnem, Czech Republic
2021 — COVID Ateliéry, series of private site-specific installations, Czech Republic
2018 — Czech in America, New Haven and New York, USA
2018 — Tria Occulta Lumina, Brno, Czech Republic
2015 — Štryo, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 — Tina B, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 — Fotofestival Plzeň, Plzeň, Czech Republic
2011 — No Time for Heroes, Czech–Polish–Italian international project
2011 — Art in Box, Rome, Italy
2010 — Reality Ends Here, Tina B, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 — Polyecran, M.odla Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 — 20 Flashes on Freedom, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland
2009 — Project on Freedom, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland
2006 — Light and Delight, Rauha, Imatra, Finland
2006 — Con-fusion, Photomonth Kraków, Poland
2005 — Nation Communication, Gallery Spot, Zagreb, Croatia