Miroslav Klivar

Born in 1932 in Košice, Czechoslovakia; lives in Prague • Graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1955 • 1955–1960: Assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague • 1960–1969: Assistant at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague • 1970–1974 Visiting professor at the Secondary School of Industrial Arts in Prague • 1974–1978 Visiting assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava • 1969–1990 Researcher and designer at the Institute of Industrial Design in Prague • Since 1990 Art teacher • 1994 Visiting lecturer at the University of West Bohemia, Plzeň
Awards/Prizes: 1969 Applied and Industrial Arts of the Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists • 1975 Honourable mention (Inscrit aux palmares) at Art contemporain International, Lyon • 1983 Medal: Vit‘zslav Nezval, Prague • 1990 Czech-Bavarian Artistic • 1992 Jaroslav Moravec, Prague • 1994 Grand Prix, 1st European Festival of Video Art in the Czech Republic
Solo exhibitions (selection): 1960 Place du Théâtre, Paris • 1963 Pec pod Sněžkou, St Petersburg • 1973 Workers’ Club, Sluknov • 1974 Immediate Gallery (with Jiri Valoch), Calgary • 1974 Kleine Galerie, Bueltmann und Gerriets, Oldenburg • Reservation Sarka, Prague • 1975 Gallery IPD, Prague • Centrosei, Bari • Gallery Repassage, Warsaw • Biblioteca comunale, Milan • Student Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade • 1976 Gallery IPD, Prague • 1977 Gallery Stempelplaats, Amsterdam • Gallery GAG No. 1, Coburg • 1980 State Castle and Gallery, Duchcov • 1984 Galerico, Rosenheim • IPD Gallery (with Zdenka Cechov), Prague • 1985 IPD Gallery (with Dusan Grecner), Prague • 1988 Foyer of the Small Stage at the House of Culture, Ceske Budejovice • 1991 Central Bohemian Museum, Roztoky (near Prague) • 1992 Galerie Vavrys, Prague • 1993 Prague, Canto Club • Prague, Victoria Publishing • Villasanta, Milan, Studio Synthesis • Villa Zoia, Concorezzo, Milan • 1994 Art Medica, Monza (Milan) • Academy of Sciences, Prague • Art Beco Gallery, Vienna • 1995 Galerie 9, Prague