Born 1977, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Education
1994-2001
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, classical painting studio of Zbyněk Beran & the conceptual media studio of Miloš Šejn
Awards & Stipends:
2009
Best Animated Film (Lost Architect, 2008) at 2009 PAF Festival for Animated Films in Olomouc
2007
Mattoni Award for the best new young artist at the Prague Biennale3
2005
Video, Europa Spot Prize
2004 - 2005
Kulturkontakt Austria – artist’s residency Vienna, AU
2004
Henkel prize, Vienna, AU
2001
Nuova Academia Milan, IT
1996 and 1999
Academy prize for the best student work of the year
Solo exhibitions:
2019
Daniel Pitín A Paper Tower, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, curator: Petr Nedoma
2018
Confessional,St. Salvator church, Prague
Broken Windows, House of Art, České Budejovice, curated by Jen Kratochvil
Grotto, Charim gallery, Vienna, AT
2017
Daniel Pitín, The Mechanical Flowers, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Crystal Gardens, GRIMM, Amsterdam Netherlands
2016
Baroque Office, hunt kastner, Prague
2013
Traps, Charim Gallery, Vienna, AU
2012
Cover Story, BMOCA – Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Bolder Colorado, USA
KUNSTWERKE, hunt kastner, Prague
Daniel Pitín – solo show, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011
Garrison’s Landing, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, N.Y., USA
2010
Private Ceremony, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, BE
Mrs. Roberts is Gonna Be Late (with Tomáš Svoboda), curated by_Vienna 2010, Charim Galerie, Vienna, AU
2009
Men in the Garden, hunt kastner, Prague
Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008
Lost Architect, Charim Ungar Contemporary (CUC), Berlin, DE
Daniel Pitin: Painter on a Stage, Guekins & De Vil, Antwerp, BE
2007
Adaption II, Charim Gallery, Vienna, AU
2006
Adaption, Futura gallery, Prague, CZ
Charim Gallery (with Wolfgang Wirth), Vienna, AU
2003
Motion Picture, Futura project room, Prague
Art Decoration, National Gallery at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
1999
Picture and Screens, Academy of Fine Arts gallery, Prague
group exhibitions:
2019
Moving Image Department #10: based on real facts, curated by Adam Budak, Prague National Gallery, Trade Fair Palac
Retina, 8smička, Humpolec
2018
New Acquisitions from the Collections of Prague City Gallery, Municipal Library exhibition hall, Prague
Criticon, curated by Vladimir Beskid, Muzeum Vojtecha Löfflera in Košice
Formal Encounters, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania
2017
Le nuove frontiere della pittura, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Fondazione Stelline, Milano, IT
Making windows where there were once wall, curated by Jane Neal, ArtMill, Szentendre, HU
A painter’s doubt: painting & phenomenology, curated by Seamus Kealy, Salzburger Kunstverein, AU
New Acquisitions from the Collections of Prague City Gallery, Municipal Library exhibition hall, Prague
2016
Reason and Resistance, Contemporary slovak and czech art from the collection of Milan Dobňák, curator Gabriela Kisová, Košice City Gallery, Slovakia, SK
A Question of Perspective, curated by Jane Neal, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015
The Mass Ornament, Glimpses from the Bible of Visuality, Nitrianska galeria, Slovakia, SK
Art From Heart, curated by Miroslav Ambroz, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, China
The Importance of Being A (Moving) Image, curated by Adam Budak and Jan Kratochvil, Prague National Gallery at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
Hommage to Otto Gutfreund, curated by Pavel Banka, Rabasova galerie, Rakovnik
2014
Pocitová Teplota, curated by Caroline Krzyszton, Bohnice Pradelna, Prague
This Side of Paradise, curated by Jane Neal, Sotheby’s #S2, London, UK
2013
Nightfall, New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, curated by Jane Neal, Rudolfinum, Prague
The Butterfly Effect? The Image as a Multifaceted Deconstruction of a Whole, curated by Petr Vanouš, Rudolfinum, Prague
2012
Film. Directed by Artists, Nitrianska galerie, SK
Nightfall, New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, curated by Jane Neal, MODEM, Debrecin, HU
Citation and Interpretation II – Painting, curated by Jiří Machalicky, NoD gallery, Prague, CZ
Making Familiar, curated by Robert Armstrong and James Merrigan,Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IR
Point of Entry, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011
Mutating Medium: Photography in Czech Art 1990-2010, curated by Pavel Vančat, Rudolfinum, Prague
Through A Glass Darkly, curated by Jane Neal, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
East ex East, curated by Jane Neal, Brand New Gallery, Milano, IT
SKUTR III, Biennale of Young Artists, curated by Vladimir Beskid, Koppel Villa, Jan Koniarek Regional Gallery, Trnava, SK
To Deceive Death, To Swallow the Night: Martin Gerboc, Jiří Petrbok, Daniel Pitín, Nitrianska Regional Gallery, Nitra, SK
Memoria Variable, curated by Gigliola Foschi and Carla Pellegrini, Galleria Milano, Milano, IT
2010
After the Fall, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
The Cassini Cruise II, Ardi Poels Project, Maastrict, NL
Re-Romantic 2, Galerie Šternberk, Šternberk
Bad Industry, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Year One and In Standard Time, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2009
Der Innere Blick, Kunsthalle, Tubungen, DE
Eccentric Paths II / The Arsenāls, The Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, LT
After Velvet, curated by Sandra Baborovska, long-term exhibition at the Prague City Gallery at the House of
the Golden Ring, Prague
Spectator Novus, Galeria Kritiku, Prague
Something of Myself, hunt kastner, Prague
PAF Film Festival of Animated Films, Olomouc
2008
Resetting / New Ways to Reality, curated by Petr Vanouš, Prague City Gallery at the Municipal Library, Prague
Eccentric Paths: Young Artists from Central and Eastern Europe, Barardo Colllection Museum, Lisbon, PT
2007
Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale3, curated by Helena Kontova, Karlin Hall, Prague
2006
Sovereign European Art Prize Finalists – London, UK
2005
Daniel Pitín und Markus Krottendorfer, Charim galerie, Neue Heimat, Vienna, AU
2004
Kulturkontakt exibition, Vienna, AU
2003
Martinů Reloaded, Prague Academy of Performing Arts gallery, Prague
Need of Touch, Word DV film festival, Prague
2002
Academy of Fine Arts graduates exhibition, National Gallery, Veletržní Palace, Prague
2001
Student exhibition, Lima, Peru
Academy of Fine Arts exhibition, Mánes, Prague
2000
4 + 4 days in Motion Festival, Prague
1999
Kolín Czech Paintings, Art gallery U prstenu, Prague
People of the XX.century, Prague City Center
Art Gallery of Young Artists, Olomouc
1997
Art Gallery U prstenu, Prague
1996
Academy of Fine Arts students exhibition, Mánes, Prague
1993
Music-pictures show, Alterna Komotovka, Prague
Biennale of the Young, Altkirch, FR