Jiri Strachota

Born 1961 in Zlin, Czech republic. Curently living and creating in Bratislava, Slovakia. Focused on traditional painting and drawing. Partial self-taught, for whom the visual arts became a lifelong passion, a way of self-realization and intense work full of doubts, searching for and joy.
Member of Slovak Union of Visual Arts, member of IAA

2010-2012 - Two-year supplementary study - painting studio, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia
2009-2011 - Summer Academy, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2021 - Town gallery Otrokovice, Czechia (in colaboratoin with Hanka Zurkova)
2021 - Gallery F7 Bratislava, Slovakia (in colabioration with Stanislav Sislak)
2019 - Palffy Palace Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 - Arthouse Arteska Detva, Slovakia
2019 - The Chapelle of Gothic Manor Kotešová, Slovakia
2018 - Gallery Trafačka Nitra, Slovakia (in colaboration with Andrea Koncova)
2017 - Gallery of The National Bank of Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 - Gallery F7, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 - Gallery of Slovak Broadcast and Television, Bratislava (in colaboration with Fr.Hauskrecht)

Biennials - Exhibitions:
2021 - 7th European artists´prize - finalist; Leverkusen, Germany
2020 - 8th Biennial of Creative Visual Arts, Slovakia
2020 - Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2020, North Macedonia
2018 - 7th Biennial of Creative Visual Arts, Slovakia

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021 - Galery 33, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland – „Alternatywy 33“ X. International Art Rewiew
2021 - Lobby Office Centrum CPI Property Group, Prague, Czechia
2020 - Galery 33, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland – „Alternatywy 33“ IX. International Art Rewiew
2020 - Umelka Gallery - XXIX. SVVU Salon of Visual Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia ...