JENNY DOLEZEL
Painter and printmaker Jenny Doležel was born in Auckland in 1964 of New Zealand / Czechoslovakian ancestry. She graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1987, and received her first QEII Arts Council Grant that year. In 1988 TVNZ's art programme Kaleidoscope made a documentary on Doležel's art (director Roger Price). The Fresno Art Museum in CA, USA made another documentary in 1993 (director Mark Alvis) to accompany her exhibition at the museum – this being her first exhibition in the USA. Doležel has taken up artist-in-residence programmes including the Rita Angus Cottage in Wellington, and the Goethe Institute in Berlin, Germany, as a cultural scholarship.
Doležel has won 21 awards so far, the first being the Rosemary Grice Award in 1983. These awards included being the Paramount Award Winner in the 1996 Wallace Art Awards; winning the Overseas League Overseas Award in London the same year where her painting was given the highest honours of all the Commonwealth countries' entries; 2006 saw the winning of 1st Prize in the Parklane Art Awards as well as being the Supreme Winner in the 2006 Team McMillan BMW Bonnet Art Awards.
Doležel lectured in Printmaking and Painting at Elam School of Fine Arts during the mid-90's but left to take up other opportunities such as painting a mural in Sydney, and ongoing artistic projects.
Doležel's murals grace many city spaces, having received numerous public art commissions: “The City Dreaming”, SkyCity, Auckland; “The Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay” for 'The Boathouse', Sydney; and “The Circus of Life”, Aotea Arts Centre, Auckland.
She exhibits widely throughout New Zealand and has participated in many international group exhibitions including Print Biennale and Triennales in Kracow, Indiana, Ljubljana, Lviv, Melbourne, Nuremberg, Tokyo, Valparaiso and Zaarendijk.
Her work is represented in collections in most public galleries in New Zealand, and also in Australia and Ukraine, as well in many private collections throughout the world.
Source: http://www.jennydolezel.com/
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