Miro Švolík

Dotyk / výstava

Biography

Miro Švolík (1960, Zlaté Moravce) studied Applied Photography at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Bratislava, graduating in 1979, and subsequently studied at the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague, where he graduated in 1987. He lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic, and has been a freelance photographer since 1988. In 1990, he received the ICP Award in the Young Photographer category at the 6th Infinity Awards, organised by the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. From 2009 to 2017, he was Head of the Studio of Creative Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Since 2018, he has headed the Photography Studio at the Art & Design Institute in Prague.
Since 1984, he has held 78 solo exhibitions and participated in 163 group exhibitions. His photographs have been exhibited in various European countries, as well as in Asia and several times in the United States. In 2005, he published Cesta do středu (Journey to the Centre), a book of black-and-white analogue photographs. On the occasion of his exhibition at the House of Arts in Bratislava, held as part of the Month of Photography 2026 festival, a book entitled Miro Švolík, 1975–2025, Dotek/Touch will be published by Argo (Prague).