Author's photographs are an important part of the Czech art scene. His work from the 1970s was classified as part of the Czech photographic visualism, while during the 1980s he developed a synthesis of conceptual approach and reflection on the photographic medium. Grygar's work represents a possible position among the many post-conceptual tendencies of Czech photography, stimulated by minimalism and conceptualism. In recent years, his work has been characterised by a strong inclination towards the use of colour photography, working with bright surfaces. Intensive colours becomes an important expressive element.

Bio

Štěpán Grygar lives and works in Prague and Brussels. He graduated from FAMU in 1979 and later worked at the Department of Photography from 2002 to 2014. In 2008 he was appointed as a professor.
 He is currently the head of the Photography Studio at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art. He has held more than 50 solo exhibitions in Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Munich, London and Houston. He is represented in a number of important collections at home and abroad. Last year he was featured in the exhibition Noir & Blanc, une estétique de la photographie at the Grand Palais in Paris, in a selection of photographs from the collections of the Bibliotèque Nationale de France.