Jan Tichy (1974) is a Chicago-based artist and educator, born in Czechoslovakia.
Jan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator working in video, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied art in Israel before moving to Chicago.
Tichy studied at the Musrara School of Photography and New Media in Jerusalem and at the Advanced Studies in Fine Art and Photography program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Photography.
! 2011 Installation No.13, Nathan Gottesdiener Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art;
2012 Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 Gold Award in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education
2010 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize
2009 MFA Fellowship Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship