SELECTED EXHIBITS
Spring Round Up, The Proposition, New York, NY, 2011
Ancient Sci-Fi Update (2-person show), The Proposition, New York, NY, 2011
M55 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival 2010
OK Harris, NYC, Soho – “ARCHAEOLOGY / EXCAVATION”
AAC, NC – “CHANDELIER”
AAC, NC – “LEVITATION”
OK Harris, NYC – “ARCHAEOLOGY 2004”
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC – “THE INVISIBLE IN THE VISIBLE”
Bond Gallery, NYC – “LEVITATION”
Oakton College, IL – “MONUMENT AND FRAGMENTS”
5+5 Gallery, NY – “OFFERINGS & BOOKS”
Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland – “UNREACHABLE DISTANCE”
Lonnstromin Museum, Rauma, Finland – Identity – “RECORDS”
Caldas da Rainha, Simppetra2002, Portugal – “MONUMENT”
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY – “SEX DEATH OFFERINGS/TRANSFIGURATION”
United Nations, NYC – “WALL”
Robert Pardo Gallery, Chelsea, NYC – “GRAVITY”
Robert Pardo Gallery, Chelsea, NYC – “SEX DEATH OFFERINGS/LEVITATION”
D.U.M.B.O. Art Center, NYC – “RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY”
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY – “ARCHAEOLOGY/CATHEDRAL”
OK Harris, NYC, Soho – “ARCHAEOLOGY” 2000
London Czech Center, England – “HUMAN FACTOR”
The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic – “CODES AND SIGNS”
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY – “ARCHAEOLOGY II”
Kunsthall, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic – “BY POUND PER PIECE”
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY – “6+1″
Manes, Prague, Czech Republic – “SEX DEATH OFFERINGS”
Joyce Goldstein Gallery, NYC, Soho – “BOOKS OF LEAD AND HONEY”
Galerie Gambit, Prague, Czech Republic – “REMAINS OF THE FUTURE II”
Galerie Gema, Prague, Czech Republic – “NEW ITEMS”
Exquisite Corpse, Burlington, VT – “SEX AND DEATH OFFERINGS”
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY – “MONUMENT”
Embassy of Czech Republic, Washington, D.C. – “REMAINS II”
The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic – “REMAINS OF THE FUTURE”
Joyce Goldstein Gallery, NYC, Soho – “REMAINS OF THE PRESENT”
Czech Center New York, NYC – “REMAINS OF THE PAST”
Site Specific Installation, Works of Lead, Galerie U Bileho Jednorozce, Klatovy, Czech Republic
No. B.I.A.S., Bennigton, VT
Art Institute of Chicago
Gallery K, Washington, D.C.
Brandeis University Art Exhibition, Washington, D.C.
Crux Gallery, Chicago, IL
Czech Permanent Mission of the United Nations, NYC
DBN Exhibition Space, Washington, D.C.
Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Embassy of U.S.A., Paraguay
Exile in New York, Galerie Spalova, Prague, Czech Republic
Foster Peet, NYC
G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art in U.S. Embassies Program
Galerie Klatovy / Klenova – International Sculptor Symposium, Czech Republic
Griffin McGear Gallery, NYC
Lansburgh’s, Washington, D.C.
Sally Hawkins, NYC
Seda Cihla 66/1994 Exile, Prague, Czech Republic
101 Wooster Exhibition, NYC
808 Penn Modern, Pittsburgh, PA
PROJECTS AND REALIZATIONS
Santa Barbara, CA – “TREASURES/OFFERINGS” 2009 – 7 48” outdoor and interior installation for private collector
Beverly Hills, CA – “FOUNTAIN” 2009– 34” outdoor sculpture installation for private collector
Charlotte, NC – “CHANDELIER” 2006 – permanent mylar indoor installation for AAC
Charlotte, NC – “LEVITATION” 2007 – permanent glass outdoor installation for AAC
San Francisco, CA – “ARCHAEOLOGY 2005” – outdoor landscape installation
Honolulu, Hawaii – permanent sculpture installation for private collector
Trio Atelier, Evanston, IL – restaurant interior
Tribeca, NYC – interior/installation for private collector
Baltimore – installation for private collector
EDUCATION
MFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1977
Graduate Studies, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1976
Masters Program, Brno University, Czech Republic, 1968
B.S., Institute of Technology, Plzen, Czech Republic, 1966
TEACHING / LECTURING / SYMPOSIUM
Simppetra2002, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, symposium – “Monument”
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY – “Sex Death Offerings/Transfiguration”
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY – “Archaeology/Cathedral”
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY – “6+1″
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY – Monument”
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
“Pavel Kraus – Public Art 2006 in Review, Art in America, Annual 2007-2008, August 2007
“Pavel Kraus – OK Harris Gallery”, Art in America, February, 2007
“Pavel Kraus – Bond Gallery”, Art in America, December, 2005
Chicago Tribune, October, 2004
Diversion, October, 2004
Case da Abitare, December, 2002
A&W Architektur & Wohnen, October, 2002
Gazeta das Caldas, August, 2002
“12/15 in “6 + l”: Better Late than Never”, Art in America, April, 2000
“Pavel Kraus at Manes”, Art in America, November, 1999
“Zivot ve smrti – Obetiny, Atelier, October, 1999
“6 + 1″, Atelier, July, 1999
“Pavel Kraus – Sex a smrt”, Atelier, January, 1998
“Ancient Mysteries”, Seven Days, December, 1997
“Imaginary Archaeologies”, Vox, December, 1997
“Pavel Kraus at Joyce Goldstein Gallery in New York City”, Art in America, October, 1997
“Vaclav Blaha and Pavel Kraus”, TimeOut, NewYork, March, 1997
“Souzneni v romanskem podzemi – Pavel Kraus – Zbytky budoucnosti”, Atelier, March, 1997
“Kraus se nevraci ze sentimentu”, MF DNES, February, 1997
“Romanske sklepy”, MF DNES, February, 1997
“david ebony’s new york top ten”, ArtNet Worldwide, January, 1997
“Mozky a jine zbytky”, Reflex, December, 1996
“Pavel Kraus (New York – Praha)”, Labyrint, December, 1996
CATALOGUES
Offerings/Redemption, LuLu Press, Pavel Kraus, 2009
Crossing Boundaries, University of Wyoming Art Museum, WY, 2002
6 + 1, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1999
Sex Death Offerings, Praha, Manes, 1999
Pavel Kraus Hearts’ and Minds’, The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, 1996
Seda cihla, Galerie Klatovy – Klenova, 1994
Exil v N.Y., Galerie Vaclava Spaly, 1993
Works of Lead I, Pavel Kraus, 1993
Works of Lead II, Pavel Kraus, 1993
KRAUS, paintings, 1990
VIDEO TAPE AND DVD
5-Part NY ArtBeat Documentary Vermont Studio Visit, 5-8/2010
NY ArtBeat Live Stream Studio Interview, 4/11/2010
Pavel Kraus: New Works, 2009
TrioAtelier, 2004
Pavel Kraus by David Ebony, 2003
Sex and Death/Offerings, Exquisite Corpse, 1998