The Signature Commission Series is an initiative of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University that invites internationally renowned artists to immerse themselves in university life and research. Through these experiences, the artists are commissioned to create a new work that also responds directly to the iconic architecture of the Julie and Edward Minskoff Gallery. As a part of their efforts to provide world-class, unparalleled art experiences, the series includes multiple points of engagement between the artist and our campus and community audiences.
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Jan Tichy is a contemporary artist and educator. Working at the intersection of video, sculpture, architecture, and photography, his conceptual work is socially and politically engaged. Born in Prague in 1974, Tichy studied art in Israel before earning his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is now Associate Professor at Department of Photography and Department of Art & Technology Studies. Tichy has had solo exhibitions at the MCA Chicago; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; CCA Tel Aviv; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Chicago Cultural Center among others. His works are included in public collections of MoMA in New York and Israel Museum in Jerusalem among others.
This is Tichy’s return to Michigan State University. In 2017, Beyond Streaming: a sound mural for Flint at the MSU Broad Art Museum brought teens from Flint and Lansing to share their experience of the ongoing water crisis.