Jakub Sýkora (*1984, Rakovník) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studied at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Kankaanpää, Finland, and has participated in numerous artist residencies in the Czech Republic and abroad. In 2013, he received the Jan Zrzavý Award, and in 2014 he was a finalist for the Critics’ Prize.
His work, primarily painting-based, draws on a variety of structural systems, including geometry, data- and music-based patterns, and crystalline grids. These principles are present in his paintings, but they are not applied mechanically; instead, they are often disrupted or shifted, opening up and activating the composition.
His practice operates between order and disruption and is not confined to a purely technical or design-oriented approach. His paintings can also be understood as an attempt to capture a reality that, while grounded in certain rules, cannot be fully reduced to them.
The artist regularly presents his work in solo and group exhibitions in Prague and throughout the Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited, for example, at Kvalitář Gallery in Prague (2024), in a two-person exhibition with Jiří Sopko at AMB Gallery in Hradec Králové (2022), and at the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Český Krumlov (2021). His works are held in both public and private collections in the Czech Republic and internationally.
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curricullum vitae
born 6 February 1984 Rakovník, Czech Republic
• lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic
studies:
• 2010 internship – Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Kankaanpää, Finland
• 2008–2012 AVU, painting I, Prof. Jiří Sopko
• 2006–2008 AVU, new media II, Veronika Bromová
• 2004–2006 postgradual of the graphic design – Hellichova, Prague
• 2000–2004 high school of the graphic design – Hellichova, Prague
• 1995–2000 high school of Zikmund Winter, Rakovník
awards:
• Critics Award for Young Painters 2014 (finalist)
• Jan Zrzavy Prize 2013 (1st prize)
residencies and symposiums
• 2025 Aleš South Bohemian Gallery, Frantoly
• 2023 Telegraph gallery, Olomouc
• 2020 Egon Shiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, two months residency
• 2016 Czech-austrian stars, Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl
• 2012 Erquy, France, třítýdenní rezidence
solo exhibitions:
• 2025 Mapping the Depth, Jan Čejka Gallery, Prague
• 2025 Construction of Memory, Kladno Chateau Gallery, Kladno
• 2025 Mechanical & organic structures (with Jan Vasilko), Artefin gallery and Expost gallery, Prague
• 2024 Vertical horizon, Kvalitář gallery, Prague
• 2024 Small talk (with Karolína Jelínková), Tag gallery, Písek
• 2023 Data array, Galerie Artefin, Měšice u Prahy
• 2023 Drátěná kaluž, URX gallery, Praha
• 2022 A changing Situation, Rabas gallery, Rakovník
• 2022 A Dialogue in Color (with prof. Jiří Sopko), galerie AMB, Hradec Králové
• 2022 Do not talk to the driver while driving, Sokolská 26 Gallery, Ostrava
• 2022 IN-STRUKT, Dub gallery, Pelhřimov
• 2021 Unclear, Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov
• 2018 Save as untitled, Garage gallery Karlín, Prague
• 2018 8 a 1/2, Jan Cejka Gallery, Prague
• 2018 Rubber Trouser IKEA3000, PRÁM, Prague
• 2017 Save as, Papacoffee, Plzeň
• 2017 Screensaver Walk, Pracovna, Prague
• 2016 Radiator in the bushes, Galerie Vyšehrad, Prague
• 2014 Couch is a couch, Galerie Dole, Fiducia, Ostrava
• 2013 finnish Berounka river, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Gallery, Prague
• 2010 Jakub Sýkora, Pori, Finland
• 2007 decomposition of the landscape, Palác Akropolis, Prague
group exhibitions:
• 2025 Natural Selection, Artefin Gallery, Prague
• 2025 Contemporary Czech and Slovak Serigraphy, Koloman Sokol Gallery, Liptovský Mikuláš (SK)
• 2025 New Generation, Prague Design Week, Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague
• 2025 Sets, TOSTA Gallery, Plesná
• 2025 The Colour of Time (Jiří Sopko and His Students), Portheimka Gallery, Prague
• 2024 EduArt Popup, Pragovka Gallery, Praha
• 2024 Blízce vzdáleni, Coco gallery, Dobrš
• 2022 Rhythm, U Bílého jednorožce gallery, Klatovy
• 2021 Trip, Bold Gallery, Prague
• 2020 Color phonetics, Industra gallery, Brno
• 2020 Techno-color, with Šárka Pelikánová and Jan Poupě, OGV – Alternativa, Jihlava
• 2020 Salon 2020, Mariánská Týnice
• 2019 Better to collect butterflies?, Pražák Palace, Brno
• 2019 Mining of Tailings, with Karolina Jelínková and Kateřina Ondrušková, Atrium Žižkov, Prague
• 2019 SSV 2019, Rabasova galerie, Rakovník
• 2018 Vy, já a velmi nepravděpodobná partička, Nová galerie, Praha
• 2018 SSV 2018, Rabasova galerie, Rakovník
• 2017 Metastázy obrazu, Topičův salon, Praha
• 2017 SSV 2017, Rabas gallery, Rakovník
• 2016 Czech-austrian stars, Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl
• 2016 SSV 2016, Rabas gallery, Rakovník
• 2015 Merry christmas II, Nau Gallery, Prague
• 2015 Association of the central bohemian’s artists, Rabas gallery, Rakovník
• 2015 Černý koně, Richard Adam gallery, Brno
• 2014 Graduates of Vienna and Prague Academy, Egon Schiele centrum, Český Krumlov
• 2014 Exhibition of the finalists Critics Award for Young Painters, Critics gallery, Adria palace, Prague
• 2013 Jan Zrzavy Prize, Czech centre, Paris /France/
• 2013 Horyna, Misař, Sýkora, OGV Jihlava
• 2012 Jan Zrzavy Prize, Erquy Gallery /France/
• 2012 Asociation of the Artist from Central Bohemia, Rabasova galerie – Nová síň, Rakovník
• 2012 Graduates od the Academy of fine arts in Prague, National gallery of Prague
• 2011 Nývlt, no, Galerie Dorka, Domažlice
• 2010 Best of Klausury, Chemistry Gallery, Prague
• 2009 Normal landscape, with Matěj Lipavský, Ponec theatre, Prague
• 2009 sv. Vavřinec in Klatovy church
• 2008 exhibition of the new media II studio, Czech national bank, Prague
• 2008 KGB+VB, Hala-C, Prague
• 2007 exhibition of AVU, National gallery of Prague
• 2007 Bohnise, together with Ira Svobodová, Maya Roztočilová, Vladivojna La Chia, V. kolona, Bohnice, Prague
• 2006 Six / Six photographic schools, galerie PHP – house of the photography, Prague
• 2005 Project Socrates-Comenius, Amsterdam
• 2005 design to the dark, national technical museum, Prague, New York, Budapest
publications & literature
• Andrea Otevřelová – Mechanical and organic structures, 2025, 84 pages
• A changing situation, 2023, 40p., ISBN 978-80-88454-22-9
• A Rain of Diamond Cylinders, 2021, 72p., ISBN 978-80-270-9771-5
• 61-5102, 2016, 32p., ISBN 978-80-270-0335-8
• So that the topic does not overshadow, Revolver revue, volume 17, 2012, No. 89, winter, pp. 109–121