Mila Furstova

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1975
Born in the Czech Republic

1996- 1999
University of Gloucestershire in UK, a BA (HONS) course in Fine Art Printmaking
1999 – 2001
MA Royal College of Art, London
1994 - 2000
Charles University in Prague, (MA in Fine Art, English and Pedagogy)
2001-2002
Research Fellow at the University of Gloucestershire
2002 – 2008
Artist in Residence at the Cheltenham Ladies' s College; a visiting lecturer for Coventry University
Member of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers in London

COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham
Royal College of Art, London Embassy of the Czech Republic, London
Collection of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II
Barclays Bank, Contemporary Art Collection, London
Fidelity PLC, London

AWARDS
2010 Julian Trevelyan Memorial Award, "Originals", Mall Galleries, London
2009 Elected the youngest Academician at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2008 Art Residency Award at Scuola Grafica, Venice, Italy
2005 Fenton Arts Trust Award, "Originals", Mall Galleries, London
2004 London Print Studio Prize, Open Print, RWA, Bristol
2004 Curwen Prize, Originals, Mall Galleries
2003 Print of the Year 2002,Grafika Roku, Prague
2002 Royal Society of Painters - Printmakers Award
2001 Royal College of Art Society Award,
2001 Printmaking Council Award
2001 Augustin Martin Prize
2001 Waterloo Wine Company Prize
2000 E.D & F Man Interim Show Prize
1999 Tim Mara Printmaking Award
1999 John Purcell Paper Prize
1997 Hockerill Educational Foundation Bursary to Study in Britain
1996 All Saints Educational Trust Award
1996 Open Society Fund, Prague - Travelling Grant
1995 Agon, Award for High Academic Achievement, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Poetry of Light, jaggedart, London
2010 Venice Diaries, Martins Gallery, Cheltenham
2009 “Míla Fürstová, New Works", The Air Gallery, Mayfair, London 

2009 " Míla Fürstová, Martins Gallery, Cheltenham

2009 "Celeste", Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham

2009 "In Between Dreams II", Gallery 10, Washington, USA
2008 "In Between Dreams", Gallery 94, Fitzrovia, London
2008 "History in the Making", Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, UK
2007 'Oeuvres Graphique de Mila Judge-Furstova', The Embassy of the Czech Republic, Paris
2007 'Of Myths and Mind Games', Czech Centre, New York
2006 The Embassy of the Czech Republic, Washington
2006 Galerie Anderle, Prague
2005 "Czech Dream", The Embassy of the Czech Republic, London
2005 "Works on Paper", Winchester College, Winchester
2004 "Flow", A Gallery, Wimbledon
2004 "Reverie", Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham
2003 "Etchings", Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham
2003 "New Works", Number Nine the Gallery, Birmingham
2002 Bon Bonnard Gallery, Cheltenham
2001 "Frail Structures", MAC, Birmingham
1999 IPB Bank, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
1998 "Grafiky", Gallerie Rondo, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
1998 Gallery Hogo Fogo, Prague

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 "Originals", Mall Galleries, London
2010 "Celebrating Paper", Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2009 "Summer Show", Royal Academy of Art, London

2009 "Autumn Exhibition", Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2007-2008 "Mapping the Imagination", Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2005 "Originals", Mall Galleries, London
2005 "Contemporary Czech Printmaking", Casa de la Cultura, Michoacan, Mexico
2005 "Contemporary Czech Printmaking", Bogota, Colombia
2004 "Open Print", Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2004 "Originals", Mall Galleries, London
2004 "Grabado Checo Contemporaneo", San Jose, Costa Rica
2003 "Conflict", Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham
2003 Open Print Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2003 Print Space, London
2003 Royal Society of Painters - Printmakers Annual Show, London
2003 "Graficke Bieanle", Zagreb, Croatia
2003 “Grafika Roku”, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries, London
2002 "Welf", Pittville Pump Rooms, Cheltenham
2002 England &Co. Notting Hill, London
2002 "Hot off the Press", Curwen Gallery, London
2001 "CHASE" – Charity Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
2001 BCA Gallery, Cork Street, London
2001 Final Year Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
2001 “Border Crossing”, University of Texas at Austin, USA
2001 “Grafika Roku”, Prague, Czech Republic
1998 Drawing Network, Touring Exhibition, Cheltenham and Gloucester College
1997 National Printmakers’ Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1997 4th Open Print Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1995 "In Memory of Jan Hus", Husinec