Curriculum

Markéta Luskačová

• 1944 born in Prague

• 1958-1961 A Levels in Czech, Russian, Mathematics, History in Chrudim, Prague

• 1961-1967 degree in Sociology of Culture, Charles University, Prague

• 1966-1969 postgraduate course in photography, FAMU, Prague

Work

• 1968 Became a freelance photographer photographing:

• 1964-1972 Pilgrims in Slovakia

• 1967-1974 Series from Šumiac, a mountain village in Slovakia

• 1968 Jazz Club Reduta, Prague

• 1970-1972 Divadlo za branou (Theatre Beyond the Gate), Prague

• 1972-1973, 1985 Photographing in Ireland

• 1974 -1975 Photographing London Street Markets

• 1974-2023 In Brick Lane East London, Spitalfields

• 1976-1980 Nomineé Photographer with Magnum Photos, Paris

• 1976-1978 In Chiswick Women’s Aid, London refuge for battered women and children

• 1975-1990 London Street Musicians

• 1977 Son Matthew Emanuel was born

• 1977-1980 In Northeast England: People on Beaches and Juvenile Jazz Bands

• 1986-2000 Citizen 2000, Channel 4 programme documenting the life of twenty children in Britain

• 2000 Commissioned by Durham Cathedral to photograph there and in Chorister School

• 1998-2014 Children in the Czech Republic

• 1998-2024 Carnivals in the Czech Republic, especially those of the Roztoč group, Roztoky

Selected one woman shows

• 1971 Divadlo za branou (Theatre Beyond the Gate), Prague, CZ

• 1978 Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (+ Sirkka L. Kontinnen), GB

• 1983-1984 Victoria and AIbert Museum, London. GB (catalogue Pilgrims)

• 1985 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, GB

• 1986 Ksiaz, PL

• 1989 Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, London, GB

• 1989 Galeria Visor, Valencia, ES

• 1991 Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB (catalogue Photographs from Spitalfields)

• 1991 Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, GB

• 1991 Dům U Kamenného zvonu, GHMP, Prague, CZ

• 1992 Municipal House in Murcia, then Madrid, Salamanca, Jerez, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES

• 1994 Staroměstská radnice, Prague, CZ

• 1994 Stills Gallery, Sydney, AU

• 1994 Divadlo Karla Pippicha, Chrudim, CZ

• 1995 Východočeská galerie, Pardubice, CZ

• 1996 Galerie 4, Cheb, CZ

• 1998 Stills Gallery, Sydney, AU (catalogue Unknown Remembered)

• 1999 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, GB

• 1999 EIi Lemberger Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Galilee, IL

• 2000 Pražský dům fotografie, Prague, CZ

• 2001 Dom fotografie, Poprad, SK

• 2001 The British Council, Prague, CZ

• 2001 Galerie Fait et Cause, Paris, FR

• 2001 Focus Gallery, London, GB

• 2004 Muzeum, Soběslav, CZ

• 2011 Středočeské muzeum v Roztokách, CZ (catalogue On Death, Horses and Other People)

• 2011 Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Ml, US

• 2013 Piper Gallery (+ Francis West), London, GB

• 2014 National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids. lA, US

• 2014 Leica Gallery, Prague, Cl (catalogue Photographs 1964-2014)

• 2015 Galeria 19, Bratislava, SK

• 2016 Latitude, Huelva, ES

• 2016 Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque, Binche, BE

• 2017 Czech Centre, Paris, FR

• 2017 Palacio de Pimentel, Valladolid, ES

• 2018 Czech Centre ,Munich,G

• 2018 -2019 Tate Britain , London , GB

• 2019 Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, GB (book By The Sea, RRB Photobooks, 2019)

• 2021 Kestle Barton Gallery, Heaton, GB

• 2021 Artinbox, Prague, CZ

• 2023 Stills Gallery Edinburgh, GB (catalogue Children, Bluecoat Press, 2023)

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 1969 Fotografické cykly a seriály, Obecní dům, Prague, CZ

• 1972 Tři fotografové, Galerie umění Roudnice nad Labem (+ Ivo Gil, Pavel Štecha), CZ

• 1975 Women of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US

• 1983 Personal Choice: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB

• 1989 Through the Looking Glass, Barbican, London, GB

• 1990 Spišské muzeum (+ Peter Župník, Janusz Moniatowicz), Levoča, SK

• 1993 An Historical Survey, Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, US

• 1995 Luz y Tiempo, Centro Cultural del Arte contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX

• 1995 Der geduldige Planet, Zürich, CH

• 2000 Photography and Time, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB

• 2002 Česká a slovenská fotografia 80. a 90. rokov 20. Storočia, Dom umenia, Bratislava, SK

• 2003 Les choix d'Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, FR

• 2006 Closed Eyes, Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, DK

• 2008 Fotogenie identity, Paměť české fotografie, Pražský dům fotografle, Prague, CZ

• 2010-2011 Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY,US

• 2012 Another London, Tate Britain, London, GB

• 2014 Witches and Wicked Bodies, Scotish National Gallery, GB

• 2016 Feminine!, Artinbox, Prague, CZ

• 2016-2017 In Your Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Filled with Joy, touring show, Hayward Gallery, London, GB

• 2017-2018 Collected Shadows, touring show, Hayward Gallery, London, GB

• 2018 Another Europe, Austrian Cultural Centre , London , GB

• 2018-19 Modern Nature, Hepworth Museum, Wakefield,GB

• 2018-19 Distinctly, Williamson Gallery, Merseyside,GB

• 2018 Women by Women, Baltic, GB The part of the Great Northern Show

• 2019 Distinctly, Williamson Gallery, Liverpool, GB

• 2020 Picturing People, Dublin, NGI, IR

• 2020 New Perspectives Acquisitions 2011-2020, NGI, Dublin, IR

• 2022 Lost Cites, Found Objects

• (Arts Council touring exhibition) Birmingham Museum and City Gallery, GB

• 2022 Lindisfarne Gospels, Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

• 2022 James Hyman Gallery, London, GB

• 2023 Centre for British Photography, London, GB

• 2024 Unchartered Streets from the collection of James Hyman, Ben Uri Gallery, London, UK

Works In Public Collections

• Archive of Modern Conflict, London, GB

• The Collection of the Arts Council of Great Britain, London, GB

• Art Gallery, Benešov, CZ

• Arthur Andersen, London, GB

• Blbliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, FR

• Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, DK

• Bodleian Library Oxford, GB

• Bruce Bernard CollecAon, GB

• Chicago University School of Economics, USA

• Clifford Chance, London, GB

• Collection of Henri Cartier -Bresson FoundaAon, FR

• Booth School of Economics Collection, Chicago University, USA

• Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US

• Eric Franck Fine Art Collection, London, GB

• Foundation Cultural, Mexico City, MX

• FRAC Rhone-Alpes, FR

• George Eastman Museum Collection, Rochester, NY, US

• IVAM, Valencia, ES

• Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL

• James Hyman, London, GB

• Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

• Martin Parr’s FoundaAon, Bristol, GB

• Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, US

• Moravská galerie, Brno, CZ

• Museum of Art, Ein Harod, IL

• Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque, Binche, BE

• Museum of Modern Art New York, NY, US

• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU

• National Media Museum, Bradford, GB

• National Portrait Gallery, London, GB,

• National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, IR

• Royal Festival Hall, London, GB

• Royal Institute of British Architects, London, GB

• Salamanca University, Salamanca, ES

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

• Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

• Slovenská národná qaléria, Bratislava, SK

• Spišské museum, Levoča, SK

• Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL

• Tate Britain, London, GB

• The British Council, Valencia, ES

• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, Prague, CZ

• University of Newcastle, AU

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB

• Washington National Gallery, USA

• Wilson Centre for Photography, London, GB