Vera Ryklova is a Dublin-based visual artist.
She is one of the current Annual Studio Residency awardees at The Dean Art Studios (Dublin). In 2022 she received the Artist Prize from Making and Momentum (Wexford). In 2020 she was one of five Irish Talents that represented PhotoIreand 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 National Gallery of Ireland.
Vera presented three solo exhibitions, in 2021 at Custom House Studios + Gallery (Westport) and at the Irish language, arts and cultural centre Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich (Belfast), and in 2018 at Triskel Arts Centre (Cork). She has also exhibited extensively in group shows, including the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery (Dublin), Visual Centre for Contemporary Art (Carlow), Rua Red (Dublin), The Library Project (Dublin), Pallas Projects/Studios (Dublion), Solstice Art Centre (Navan), the Ulster Museum (Belfast), and the FiLiA Feminist Conference (London and Manchaster).
Her work has been featured in photography journals and art publications and is included in public art collections by the OPW State Collection, 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. She performs to the lens and produces photographic and video self-portraits, using the form of the series.
In 2021 Vera completed an MA in Art Research and Collaboration at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire. In 2015 she graduated from the same Institute with a BA (Hons) in Photography. Originally from the Czech Republic, Vera moved to Ireland in 2007 and is proud to consider herself an Irish artist.