Biography
Born in 1941 in Prague. Lives and works in Prague.
Education: 1958–1963 Czech technical university in Prague
Represented in the following collections: PPF Art, Prague, Czech Republic; Moravian Gallery/ Museum, Brno, Czech Republic; North Bohemian Muzeum, Liberec, Czech Republic; Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium; S. Blues Museum of Fine Arts, Mineappolis, USA; Art Institute of Chicago, USA; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA; The Buhl Collection, USA; Paris Audio Visual, Paris, France; Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; ICP Collection, New York, USA; International Centre for Photography Collection, New York City, Gersheim Collection, Austin, Texas, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Musée de l‘Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y., USA; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; Polaroid Collection, Offenbach, Germany
Teaching
1995 - Head of the Fine Photography program in University of J. E. Purkyne, Ustí nad Labem, Czech Republic
2005–2008 - Visiting Professor in European Photography at Derby University, UK
2002 -Visiting Artist and Teacher at University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
1999 - Visiting Artist and Teacher at Oregon College of Art and Crafts, Portland, USA
1992–1993 - Visiting Artist and Teacher at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
1991 - Visiting Artist and Teacher at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 "Blízkost", GHMP, Prague House of Photography, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
"Loud and Quiet", with Jindra Viková, Prácheň museum, Písek, Czech Republic
"Between Figuration and Absraction, with Jindra Viková, studio scene, Kolín theater, Kolín, Czech Republic
2016 "Reflection – Photographs", Ceramic sculptures, with Jindra Viková, Schilt Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Reflexe", Josef Sudek Studio, Prague, Czech Republic
"Reflexe – Jam session", Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
2014 "Early Figurative Work", with Jindra Viková, Josef Liesler Gallery, Kadaň, Czech Republic
2013 "At the Edge of the Day", Moravská Třebová Festival of Photography, Czech Republic
"Their Photography", dialogue with fifteen guests, Gallery 1st Floor, Prague, Czech Republic
"Infinity – Beyond Infinity", RTR Gallery, Paris, France
2011 "Pavel Baňka: Marginalia and More", Dum umeni mesta Brna, Brno, Czech Republic
“On Photography”, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 "Pavel Baňka: Z meho zivota", 5th floor Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 "Pavel Baňka: Photographs", presented by 5th floor Gallery, Photo of Prague, Manes Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 Pavel Baňka, from the collection of PPF ART, Louvre Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 "Pavel Baňka: In the Landscape", with Jindra Viková, České kultury Gallery, Česky Krumlov, Czech Republic
"Pavel Baňka: Transfigurated Night", Feducia Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic
"Pavel Baňka: Marginalia", Czech Cultural Center, Paris, France
"Pavel Baňka: Infinity", Czech Cultural Center, Paris, France
2005 Pavel Baňka; Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgique
2003 Pavel Baňka: “Terezin/Mansfield“, National Gallery, Palace Veletrzni, Prague, Czech Republic
"Pavel Baňka: Infinity", City Gallery, Bratislava, Month of Photography Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York, USA
Pavel Baňka “Infinity”, Hospice Comtesse, Festival Les Trans-photographiques de Lille, France
Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002 Moscow Biennale of Photography, Russia
Regensburg Art Museum, Germany
Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Pavel Baňka: “Infinity”, Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
“Pavel Baňka”, Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York, USA
Selected group exhibitions
2019 "Enthrallment with Africa", Moravian museum, Brno, Czech Republic
2018 "Who’s the winner?", Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2014 "Homage to Otto Guttfreund", Rabasova Gallery, Rakovník, Czech Republic
2013 "Pavel and his students", U Rytíře Gallery, Liberec, Czech Republic
“Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography”, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium
2011 “Mutating Medium”, Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 “Czech Photography of 20th Century”, Vladimír Birgus and Jan Mlcoch, Bonn, Germany
2008 “Fotogenie identity, Dum pánů z Kunštátu”, Brno, Czech Republic
Art Karlsruhe (presented by Lenka T, I Gallery), Germany
2007 IPAD show, Miami/Basel Art Fair, Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC, USA
2006 Bohatstvi, Galerie u Bileho jednorozce Klatovy, Czech Republic
2005 Czech Photography of 20 century, Prague City Gallery, Czech Republic
