Jaroslav Malina

Professor Jaroslav Malina was born in Prague in 1937 and is a set and costume designer, a painter, printmaker and teacher. He studied from 1957–1961 in the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague, an from 1961–1964 in the department of stage design of the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Professor František Tröster, later teaching there himself (1990–2000) and serving as Rector (1996–1998). He has served as a professor at universities in USA, Japan, Finland and Great Britain where he received an Honorary Doctorate from Nottingham Trent University (in 2002). In 1991, 1999, and 2003 he was the General Commissioner of the Prague Quadrennial. His activities at home and abroad (Finland,Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Spain, USA) include nearly 400 of theater, film and TV sets, nearly 30 of one man exhibitions (scenography, paintings, graphics, posters) and dozens of participation at group exhibitions, for which he has won numerous awards including the Gold Medal at the Seventh International Triennial of Stage Design in Novy Sad in Serbia in 1984. His art work is represented in the collections of The National Gallery, The National Museum, The Museum of Decorative Arts, The Museum of Czech Music and The Theatre Institute (all in Prague), The Theatre Research Institute Columbus, San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, The McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio, Liberec Art Gallery, Semily Art Gallery, Sasakawa Peace Foundation and many other private colections at home and abroad. His works were published many times in professional magazines (TD&T, BTR, Interscena), in La Scene Moderne by Giovanni Lista, Edition Carre, Paris, 1997, in Stage Design by Tony Davis, RotoVision, London, 2001 and in his monograph Jaroslav Malina by Vlasta Gallerová, Věra Ptáčková, Jiří Machalický, Prague Stage, Theatre Institute, Prague, 1999.