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    David Černý

    Czech artist (born 1967)

    David Černý (born 15 December 1967) is a Czech artist. His works can be seen in different locations around Prague as well as in his own, Prague-based museum, called Musoleum.

    Early life

    Černý was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

    David cerny franz kafka biography and works

    From 1988 to 1994, he studied at the Kurt Gebauer Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, and in 1995 and 1996, he participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York, US. In 1994–1995, he took the PSI artists residence in New York, and in 1996, he received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.

    In 1991, he took a residency of the Swiss government in Boswil.[1]

    Career

    Černý gained notoriety in 1991 by painting pink a Soviet tank that served as a war memorial in central Prague.[2] His act of civil disobedience was considered vandalism, and he was briefly arrested.

    Another of Černý's conspicuous contributions to Prague is Tower Babies (2000), a