Biography

• 1935 Born February 3 in Čáslav (Czech Republic)
• 1952-1958 Academy of Fine Arts Prague
• 1990-2006 Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague
• Rezidence in Prague. Studio in Středokluky near Prague.

Grants

• 1995 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Chicago, IL, USA
• 1993 Arts Link Fellowship at The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• 1986 International Sculpture Center Fellowship, Washington D.C., USA

Awards

• 1994 The Chicago Prize, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA
• 1969 The Mathias Braun Award for the sculpture Kaddish at the Sculpture and City exhibition, Liberec, Czech Republic
• 1965 Critics Award for the sculpture Chair Usurper, 4eme Biennale de Paris

Works in Public Collections

The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Uffizi Gallery, Firenze, Italy; Sculpture Collection - Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea; Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, California, USA; Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, Germany; Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France; Museum of Central Pomerania, Slupsk, Poland; Národní galerie, Praha, Czech Republic; Galerie hlavního města Prahy, Czech Republic; Muzeum hlavního města Prahy, Czech Republic; Židovské Muzeum, Praha, Czech Republic; České museum výtvarných umění, Praha, Czech Republic; Museum Kampa, Praha, Czech Republic; Galerie Zlatá Husa, Praha, Czech Republic; Moravská galerie, Brno, Czech Republic

Czech regional gallery collections: Hradec Králové, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Cheb, Klatovy-Klenová, Liberec, Louny, Olomouc, Ostrava, Pardubice, Roudnice nad Labem, Ostrov nad Ohří, Terezín, Plzeň

Private collections: USA, Canada, Japan, Israel, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Austria, Czech Republic

Public Space Sculptures

• 1998-2001 Chamber of Light, Europos Parkas, Vilnius (Lithuania), iron, steel and boulders, 777 x 430 x 430 cm
• 1999 Messenger, Sculpture Park, Wijk aan Zee (the Netherlands), steel and boulders, 530 x 376 x 609 cm
• 1996 Memento, sculpture from 1968 permanently located in Vernay City (the Netherlands), stainless steel, h. 450 cm
• 1995 Magen David, Jewish Memorial in Terezín (Czech Republic), stainless steel, bronzed railway tracks, boulders, h. 560 cm
• 1994 Doublebench, Faret Tachikawa, Tokyo, stainless steel, diorite, 240 x 240 x 70 cm
• 1988 Testimony, sculpture from 1968, permanently located in the Olympic Park in Seoul, stainless steel, h. 280 cm
• 1980 That One, welded sculpture in stainless steel in front of the Ed. Spranger School, Hamm (Germany), h. 12 m
• 1979 Iron Report, town park, Bochum (Germany), complex of three iron sculptures, I. 750 x 900 x 220 cm, II. 330 x 360 x 180 cm, III. 280 x 220 x 110 cm)
• 1973 Trumpet from Jericho, Nové Sedlo nearby Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), stainless steel, 210 x 390 x 230 cm
• 1967-68 Kaddish, (originally in Ostrava) since 1971 located in the outdoor studio of the artist (Czech Republic), h. 710 cm
• 1963 Indeterminace kruhu a přímky/Indetermination of Circle and Straight Line, Roma, ČSA, via Bissolati (was destroyed by the permission of the Czech Embassy in 1994)

Solo Exhibitions

• 2009 Aleš Veselý in the Spaces of Josef Pleskot, Litomyšl Town, Czech Republic

• 2008 Aleš Veselý – Closeness of Distance, Gallery V Kapli, Bruntál, Czech Republic
• 2007 Aleš Veselý, Východočeská galerie, Pardubice, Czech Republic
• 2007 Aleš Veselý, Galerie Klatovy/Klenová, Klenová, Czech Republic

• 2007 New Projects and Older Objects, Západočeská galerie, Plzeň, Czech Republic

• 2006 Aleš Veselý, Galerie Zlatá husa, Praha, Czech Republic

• 2005/06 Selected works from years 1959-2005, Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic
• 2005 Three Gates, Židovské muzeum Praha, Czech Republic
• 2003 Kresby z let 1962 – 1998, Galerie výtvarného umění, Cheb, Czech Republic
• 2003 Infinite Point, Carosso Fine Art, New York, USA
• 2003 Mountain of Mountains, Židovské muzeum, Praha, Czech Republic
• 2000 Big Mirror – Exhibition of a Landscape-Sculpture Project, Oda Park, Venray, the Netherlands
• 2000 Utopie und Reflexion, Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany
• 2000 Kresby a projekty, Galerie výtvarného umění, Litoměřice, Czech Republic
• 1999 Obsese – realita – utopie, Státní galerie výtvarného umění, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• 1999 Obsese – realita – utopie, Galerie u bílého jednorožce, Klatovy, Czech Republic
• 1998 Obsese – realita – utopie, Státní galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu, Cheb, Czech Republic
• 1998 Obsese - realita – utopie, Galerie moderního umění, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
• 1995 The Czech Center, New York City, USA
• 1995 Instituto Culturale Italiano, Praha, Czech Republic
• 1995 Messengers, International Currents Gallery – J. D. Mooney Foundation, Chicago, IL., USA
• 1994 Centrum kultury a vzdělávání, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• 1994 Chicago International Art Exhibition, Chicago, IL., USA
• 1994 Artforum, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
• 1993 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA., USA
• 1993 Deutsch-deutsches Museum, Mödlareuth, Germany
• 1993 Galerie Christoph Dürr, Munchen, Germany
• 1992 Středoevropská galerie a nakladatelství, Praha, Czechoslovakia
• 1992 Point of Limit, Míčovna, Pražský hrad, Praha, Czechoslovakia
• 1990 Galerie výtvarného umění, Kladno, Czechoslovakia
• 1990 Nová síň, Praha, Czechoslovakia
• 1990 Kulturní středisko Opatov, Praha, Czechoslovakia
• 1988 Batuz Foundation, Schloss Schaumburg, W. Germany
• 1987 Galerie 55, Kladno, Czechoslovakia
• 1985 Bilderzeichnungen, Galerie Christoph Dürr, Munchen, W. Germany
• 1985 Kresby malbou, Ústav makromolekulární chemie ČSAV, Praha, Czechoslovakia
• 1984 Palác U melouna, Praha, Czechoslovakia
• 1980 Gustav-Lübcke-museum, Hamm, W. Germany
• 1979 Činoherní klub, Praha, Czechoslovakia
• 1970 Státní židovské museum, Praha,  Czechoslovakia
• 1969 Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
• 1965 Oblastní galerie, Liberec, Czechoslovakia
• 1963 Stigmatické objekty, Alšova síň, Praha, Czechoslovakia