
Jiří Houska
I'm part of the SALON exhibition
Born in 1985 in Prague. He studied at the Václav Hollar Secondary Art School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in the studio of Prof. Zdeněk Beran, where he graduated in 2012. Since 2013, represented in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague. In 2015, his series of paintings on the theme of mysterious animals was published, as illustrations in the book Stezkami záhádných zvířat, by the Czech traveler and researcher Ing. Jaroslav Mareš. Since 2019, he has been making educational videos on Youtube, mainly on the topic of art technologies and art history, but also natural sciences. In the years 2012 - 2022, he taught drawing and painting in courses for the public. Since 2020, a member of S.V.U. Mánes. He is primarily dedicated to realistic figurative painting, portraits and landscapes, but also to freer subjects inspired by natural sciences or mythology.
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