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Vladimír Kokolia

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Vladimír Kokolia
close-up of Vladimír Kokolia wearing his glasses atop his head, looking down and left of camera
Kokolia in 2018
Born (1956-11-27) 27 November 1956 (age 67)
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Poet
  • teacher
  • writer
  • painter
Awards

Vladimír Kokolia (born 27 November 1956) is a Czech contemporary painter. Kokolia has also worked across a variety of other mediums, most notably printmaking and drawing, and is also a poet and musician.[1]

Academic work

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Kokolia was educated at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, going on to become a lecturer at the academy, and in 1992, the studio head lecturer in graphics. He was appointed to a professorship in 2006.[1]

Music

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Kokolia was a singer and lyricist with the Czech alternative underground music group E in Brno from 1984 to 1997.[1]

Contemporary art

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Kokolia's work has been included in a number of high+profile exhibitions. Between 1990 and 1991, he exhibited alongside Ivan Kafka and Tomas Ruller at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[2] In 1990, he was the first recipient of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for young artists.<[3]

Two of his works, Bez názvu (Untitled - 1990) (a colour linoprint and mixed media) and Barevny (Colourful - 1993) (a colour linocut), can also be found in the US National Gallery of Art collection.[4]

Kokolia maintains a blog in Czech and a wiki called "Kokopedia".[5] As of 2018 The wiki contains photographs of 35 graphics works, 23 drawings, 54 paintings, plus 9 watercolours, as well as 117 uncategorised pictures. There are also lyrics, articles, videos, and lists of people who are connected to Kokolia in some way.[5]

From July until September 2018, a major exhibition of Kokolia's paintings took place at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Vladimir Kokolia – Biography". rogallery.com.
  2. ^ "Three Artists from Bohemia: Art Against False Consciousness". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Laureáti ceny Jindřicha Chalupeckého" (in Czech). Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
  4. ^ "Artist Info". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b Kokolia, Vladimir. "Kategorie:Obrazy (Category: Paintings)". Kokopedia. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Ikon Vladimír Kokolia". Ikon Gallery.
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