Vera Ryklova

Originally from the Czech Republic, Vera was brought to Ireland on a journey of personal discovery and since 2007 she has been living and working here. In 2021 she completed an MA in Art + Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire IADT. In 2015 she graduated from the same institute with BA (Hons) in Photography.  

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Vera Ryklova is a Dublin based artist who works in lens-based media. 

In 2020 she was one of five selected Irish Talents to represent PhotoIreland at FUTURES, a Europe-based platform for photography. In 2017 she won the Hotron Art Works Prize for work by a recent graduate and in 2016 she was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize, which exhibited at the NGI. 

Vera has exhibited in several exhibitions, both solo and group, held in Ireland and the UK, including the FiLiA Feminist Conference. Her work has been featured in photography journals and art publications and is included in the OPW State Art Collection and in the art collections of Trinity College Dublin and The Arts Council Ireland.  

In her practice Vera explores the concept of the self and the events that impact its social construction. Her work is particularly concerned with emotional conflict that results from the clash between two realities. One reality is designed and dominated by socially constructed expectations, roles and practices, while the other is desired and formed through the concept and perception of one self.

Originally from the Czech Republic, Vera was brought to Ireland on a journey of personal discovery and since 2007 she has been living and working here. In 2021 she completed an MA in Art + Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire IADT. In 2015 she graduated from the same institute with BA (Hons) in Photography.  

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