Jan Valik
Jan Valik, 'Forest Mind', 2025, oil and acrylic on linen, 130 x 100cm
A believer in the ephemeral, Jan Valik describes his paintings as fluid and fictive territories moving between perceptual ambiguities and evocation of otherness.
Essentially rooted in traditions of both abstract and landscape painting and drawing life-long inspiration from both Eastern and Western philosophies and their respective insights into the nature of perception, I explore and investigate painting’s complex potential as a multifaceted ecosystem of meanings, marks and sensations. True to the painting’s alchemical spirit and principles, the idea of transformation of the intangible into visual and conjured, my paintings traverse the interplay between external environments and internal feelings, creating fluid, evoked spaces and sensed atmospheres emerging from the nature of the medium.
Education
2023 - 24 MA in Painting, Royal College of Arts, London, UK 2020 - 22 Turps Studio Programme, London, UK 2012 MA in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, CZ
Solo exhibitions
2024 Suju Gallery, Karuizawa, JP 2023 Amart Gallery, 'Small Infinities', Vienna, AT 2022 L.L.Contemporary, 'Breakthrough', Toronto, CA 2022 Husk Gallery, 'Shifting Places', Brussels, BE 2021 Amart Gallery, 'Landscapes', Vienna, AT 2020 Husk Gallery, 'Verge', Brussels, BE 2019 Industra Gallery, 'Temporary Neighborhoods', Brno, CZ 2019 Cin Cin Gallery, 'Seeing Triple', Bratislava, SK 2017 NICHE Gallery, 'Plethora and a Quiet World', Tokyo, JP
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Norito Gallery, 'Moving Stones Gather No Moss', London, UK | 2024 NoHo Gallery, 'Hazy Horizons', London, UK | 2024 L.L. Contemporary, 'Both: Inwards and Out There', Toronto, CA | 2024 Mezzanine Gallery at the Royal College of Art, 'Vedanā', London, UK | 2024 Terrace Gallery, 'Nudge It', London, UK | 2024 The Bhavan, 'Transient Traces', London, UK | 2024 Amart Gallery, 'Abstract on Paper', Vienna, AT | 2023 L.L.Contemporary, 'Sunshine and Rain', Toronto, CA | 2023 Adah Rose Gallery, 'Carte Blanche', Washington D.C., US | 2023 Pragovka Gallery, 'Echo of the Depth in Space', Prague, CZ | 2022 London Paint Club x Koppel Project, 'Selects pt.2', London, UK | 2022 Studio West Gallery, 'Now Introducing', London, UK | 2022 London Paint Club x Hoxton253, 'Select Pt.1', London, UK | 2022 Abstract on Paper II, Amart Gallery, Vienna, AT | 2022 Unit 1 Gallery, 'Contemporary British Painting Prize | 2021', London, UK | 2021 Huddersfield Art Gallery, 'Contemporary British Painting Prize | 2021', Huddersfield, UK | 2021 Five Sparks Arts Centre, 'Mediated Landscapes', Harvard, US | 2021 Husk Gallery, 'Panta Rhei', Brussels, BE | 2021 Art Exchange Gallery, 'Of Other Places', Colchester, UK