Dominika Jackuliaková (1989, Lučenec) is a Slovak photo-based artist and educator. She grew up in the small, south-central town of Lučenec, a region which is geographically and historically relevant in many of her long-term documentary series. She is interested in aspects of mobility and shifting relationships with land and home in Slovakia, its countryside, and abroad. An autobiographical component is always present in her stories and often influences the places and people she photographs.
In 2023, Jackuliaková received the Urbanautica Institute Award, in the category of Anthropology and Territories, for her series R2. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship Research Grant in 2019, a Latitude Artist-in-Residency in 2016, and several scholarships from the Slovak Arts Council (2017, 2020, 2023).
Her work has been exhibited in the Filter Space Gallery (Chicago, USA), Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, Slovakia), Gallery Kurzor (Prague, Czech Republic), Gallery of City Blansko (Czech Republic), and Photoport Gallery (Bratislava, Slovakia). It is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava.
Solo exhibition
2023
R2, Curator: Eduard Kudláč, City Museum, Lučenec, Slovakia
R2, Curator: Eduard Kudláč, Platform 1-12, Topolčany, Slovakia
2022
A History of Dis/appearing, Curator: Zuzana Janečková, Diera do sveta, Liptovský mikuláš, Slovakia
R2, Curator: Eduard Kudláč, Flatgallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2021
R2, Curator: Tomáš Werner, Vitrínky - ARTA Piešťany, Slovakia
2019
The Blue of Distance, Curator: Ivana Hrončeková, Gallery of city Blansko, Czech Republic
4500 ft - Locating Maxine Barr, Curator: Filip Vančo, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018
Lom, Filter Space Gallery, Chicago (IL), USA
2016
Janek's pallet (with Juraj Gábor), Curator: Lucia Štrbáková, Young Artists' Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Keep an Eye on, Beastro, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015
Recursion (with Barbora Tomíková), Photogether Gallery, Zlín, Czech Republic
2014
Portraits of Nature, Curator: Nina Vrbanová, Photoport Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Group exhibition (selected)
2024
OKSVOLNES SVOLNES LOVS, Curator: Eduard Kudláč, Pisztory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023
Schadenfreunde, Arte Misia, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
Earth, Curator: Ondřej Horák, Atrium Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2022
Shirt Skirt Skin Kin, Curator: Jan Zálešák, Cursor Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2021
Rock (Online exhibition), Curator: Emily Cappa and Christine Marie Serchia, Valentine Editions
Lens 2021, Curator: J. Gibran Villalobos, Perspective Gallery, Evanston (Il), USA
2020
Like a Picture, Curator: Filip Vančo, Photoport Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Smoke and Mirrors, Curators: Ema Hesterová, Oksana Hosko, Barbora Komarová, Miroslava Urbanová a Ľuboš Kotlár, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Document 2020, GMAB, Trenčín, Slovakia
Summer Selection, Flat Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019
The Qualities of Light - Exhibition Flat File Drawers, Curator: Rebecca Senf, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson (AZ), USA
Paperlust Photobook Fest, Krakow, Poland
2018
Useful Photography. Photography in Contemporary Slovak Art, Curators: Aurel Hrabušický and Filip Vančo, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, Curator: Caroline Picard, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago (IL), USA
Tatrahundert, The Central Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Residencies and Awards
2023 Urbanautica Institute Award 2022, Category: Anthropology and Territories
2020/2021 Visual Arts Scholarship, Slovak Arts Council, Slovakia
2019/2020 Fulbright Fellowship for Visiting Research at Columbia College Chicago (IL), USA
2018/2019 Visual Arts Scholarship, Slovak Arts Council, Slovakia
2016 Artist-in-Residence at Latitude, Chicago (IL), USA
Select bibliography
2023 Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022, Texts by Steve Bisson, ISBN: 978-88-32108-23-1
2021 JRNL | Issue 10, Ed. Paul Schiek, FotoFilmic, Bowen Island CA ISSN 2562-7724
2020 Postcards from the Pandemic, Skylark Editions, Chicago, USA
Collections
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Center for Creative Photography Exhibition Archive, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
dominika.jackuliakova@gmail.com
+421 915 113 408