Ivan Pinkava

Bio

Ivan Pinkava (*1961) studied at the Secondary Industrial School of Graphic Arts in Prague from 1977 to 1981 and subsequently at Art Photography at FAMU. In 1989, together with other photographers, he co-founded the Prague House of Photography (PHP), and from 2005 to 2007 he worked as the head of the Photography Studio at the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. In addition to Czech institutions, he is represented in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Gernsheim Collection in Texas, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Kinsey Institute Art Collection in Bloomington, The Dali Photo Museum in China, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and many others.