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

Art Symposiums:
2020 - VIII. International art symposium hotel Kormoran, Samorin, Slovakia
2019 - V. international art symposium hotel Lipa, Stara Tura, Slovakia

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

Competition Exhibitions:
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:
2020 - Galery 33, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland – „Alternatywy 33“ IX. International Art Rewiew
2020 - Umelka Gallery - XXIX. SVVU Salon of Visual Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 - Kotesova castle – „Kotesova plein air“ - 5th international meeting of visual artists, Slovakia
2019 - Umelka gallery - XXVIII. SVVU Salon of Visual Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 - Jozef Kollár Berggericht gallery, Banská Štiavnica – „Greeting to the city of culture“
2018 - Slovacke museum gallery - “What Czechia, Slovakia and Moravia are talking about”, exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of founding of Czechoslovakia, Uherské Hradište, Czech Republic
2018 - Umelka gallery, Bratislava - XXVII. SVVU Salon of Visual Arts
2017 - "Hodvábnou cestou" Chinese - Slovak Exhibition in Gallery of Slovak Broadcast and Television, Bratislava
2017 - Umelka gallery Bratislava - XXVI. SVVU Salon of Visual Arts, Slovakia
2016 - Kotěšová Castle, Slovakia
2016 - (c)dv/Atelier, Gallery F7, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 - Doudleby nad Orlicí Castle, Czech republic
2006 - Gallery Codum and Global, Bratislava, Slovakia