KAMILA ŽENATÁ

Between 1968 and 1973, she attended the *gymnázium* (grammar school) in Čáslav. Subsequently, from 1973 to 1979, she studied graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in the studio of the renowned Professor Ladislav Čepelák. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was known primarily for her graphic work; from 1991 to 2013, she was a member of the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists. She held her first exhibition of paintings in 2001 at the Nová síň Gallery. She has also exhibited abroad—in Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and the Netherlands—as well as in the exhibition spaces of the Czech Centres.

From 1995 to 2005, she led a seminar titled "Self-Expression Through Visual Means" at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Since 2001, she has been a visiting member of the Czech Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Since 2001, she has also been engaged in literary work.

In 2005, she expanded her range of artistic expression to include photography, video, and installations. In 2007, she created a conceptually ambitious, multi-media installation at the Mánes Exhibition Hall titled *Learn to Stand on One Leg*, in which she offered an artistic interpretation of her personal understanding of the Chinese *Book of Changes* (I Ching)[2]. In 2009, she co-curated—together with Milena Slavická and in collaboration with the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art—the exhibition *Čtrnáct S* (Fourteen S), which presented works by fourteen contemporary Czech artists, including a video installation by Kamila Ženatá.

In 2007, she founded the civic association (registered association) Schrödingerova kočka / Schrödinger’s Cat.

In 2009 and 2014, she was an artist-in-residence at the Cill Rialaig Arts Centre in Kerry, Ireland.

She has been working at Karlin Studios since 2009.