The artist-in-residence exhibition, Like provisional things with no need to leave, opens with an artist talk in the Loew Auditorium, VAC, at 4:45 p.m., followed by an opening reception in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, on Thursday, Sept. 24. 

Jaromír Novotný works within an extended field of painting, analyzing the basic categories of material and technique. He builds his visual language by exploring the sensory impact of diverse processes used in media of painting, drawing and photography, together with employing certain associative and memory based properties of objects.

Solo museum and galleries exhibitions include Brno House of Arts; Fait Gallery, Brno; Hunt Kastner, Prague; Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp and Hong Kong; Museum der Wahrnehmung, Graz; Annex 14, Zürich; Georg Kargl, Vienna; Church of the Holy Saviour, Prague; Kolumba, Cologne. He showed at group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Prague; Rudolfinum, Prague; Prague City Gallery; 8smička, Humpolec; Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris; Palazzo Fortuny, Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia; Convent of La Tourette, Eveux; The National Gallery in Prague; The Gdańsk City Gallery; Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín.

Jaromír Novotný was born in 1974 in former Czechoslovakia, works and lives close to Prague, Czech Republic. He received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1999. He is represented by Hunt Kastner, Prague and Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp & Hong Kong.