Alena Kucerova ( April 28, 1935, Praha, Czechoslovakia ) Czech graphic artist, ... Parents imprisoned by Bolshevik regime in socialist Czechoslovakia (Father sentenced to death). From early 70's. years up to year 1989 had Alena Kucerova forbidden to exhibit. Study: 1954-1959 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, prof. Antonín Strnadel. Membership: UB 12 Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1965, Galerie na Karlove namesti; 1968, Alena Kucerova ( with Jiri Kolar and Jiri John ), Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; 1969, Alena Kucerova – grafika, Museum Folkwang, graficky kabinet, Essen; 1990, Alena Kucerova: Grafika – plechy. GHMP, Staromestska radnice, Praha; 1995, Autres regards tcheques… ( Blabolilova, Kucerova, Michalek), Musee provincial Felicien Rops, Namur, Belgie; 2005, Kaltes Wasser, Ceske centrum ve spolupraci s Galerii Pecka, Viden; Galerie Klatovy / Klenova, Galerie Pecka, Praha; 2006-2007, Alena Kucerova, Dum umeni mesta Brna a Galerie Jaroslava Krale Brno; 2007, Alena Kucerova: Summary. Prints, metal plates, objects, Dum U Kamenneho zvonu, Praha. Selected Group Exhibitions: 1962, UB 12, Galerie Ceskoslovenskeho spisovatele, Praha; Jaro 1962, Mánes, Praha; 1964, UB 12, Nová sin, Praha; 1964, International Biennale of Prints, Tokyo, Osaka; 1965, Biennale des Jeunes, Musee d´Art Moderne, Paris; 1965, Tschechoslowakische Kunst heute, Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum; 1966, Salon de Mai, Musee de la Ville de Paris, Paris; 1966, Tschechoslowakische Kunst der Gegenwart, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; 1967, Exposition Universelle, Montreal; 1967, Biennale des Jeunes, Paris; 1968, Nová citlivost - Krizovatka a hoste, Manes, Praha; 1973, Modern Art in Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York; 1977, World Print Competition ´77, Museum of Art, San Francisco; 1981, Eleven Contemporary Artists from Prague, New York University, New York and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 1993, Inter – Kontakt – Grafik - Praha ´93, Mánes, Praha; 1994, Természetesen (Naturally - Nature and Art in Central Europe ), Ernst Museum Budapest; 1994 - 1995, Nova citlivost, Galerie moderniho umeni Roudnice nad Labem, galerie vytvarneho umeni Litomerice, Oblastni galerie Vysociny Jihlava, Východoceska galerie Pardubice, Moravska galerie Brno, Muzeum umeni Olomouc; 2003, Prace na papire, GHMP, Dum U kamenného zvonu, Praha; 2004, Strukturálni grafika 60. let, Alsova jihoceska galerie, Ceske Budejovice; 2004, Sedesata / The sixties, Dum umeni mesta Brna; 2004-2005, Blizka vzdalenost / Közeli tavolsag / Proximate Distance, Szent Istvan Kiraly Muzeum, Szekesfehervar; 2005, Rozbit hranice. Kresba a grafika ze sbirek CMVU v Praze 1957 - 1969, Galerie Frantiska Drtikola, Pribram; 2005, Euvres graphiques des années 60, Centre tcheque Paris; 2006, Amor vincit omnia, Saarländische Galerie – Europäisches Kunstforum, Berlin; 2006, Ceské umeni XX. století: 1940-1970, Alsova jihoceska galerie v Hluboke nad Vltavou, Hluboka nad Vltavou; 2006, Ceska grafika 60. let, Galerie Hollar, Praha; 2007, Moderní a povalecne umeni. Soucasne umeni. Fotografie, Galerie Louvre, Praha; 2011-2012, Umelci Archivu, DOX, Praha; 2012, Pohyblive iluze ´60, Galerie Moderna, Praha; Selected Awards: 1965, Biennale des Jeunes Paris, mention d'honneur; 1967 Premio internazionale Biella per l´incisione; 1967 Cena Svazu ceskoslovenskych spisovatelu; 1968, Cena mezinarodniho bienale mladych, Bratislava; 1997, Cena Vladimira Boudnika, Nadace Inter-Kontakt-Grafik. Selected Literature: KLIMESOVA, Marie: ALENA KUCEROVA. Galerie Pecka, Praha, 2005.