Zuzana Čížková is a Czechoslovakian sculptor and painter.
Education
She studied at High school of sculptures and stone-cutting in Hořice at the foothills of the Krkonoše mountains. Later she continued her studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, in the Sculpture Atelier led by Professor Kurt Gebauer. She graduated in 2011.
Career
Although born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Zuzana Čížková was raised in Brandýs nad Labem in Central Bohemia. During and shortly after her high school studies Zuzana Čížková specialized in traditional technologies and materials (stone and gypsum). Later on, she started to experiment with materials she had already employed earlier in her education.
She caught the attention of the audience, not only in Czechoslovakian Repubulic, but also in France.
In Paris, she twice took part in the Salon des Artistes Independants (2006 and 2007) as a representative of young Czechoslovakian artistes. Later she made exhibition with a French painter Valexia.
Zuzana Čížková also participated at two interships in Basel in Switzerland and Carrar Quarry in Italy. She has created dozens of monumental sculptures for public areas (for example in Čížkov, Ostrava—Landek, Brandýs nad Labem, Poděbrady, Prague - Prosek and Prague - Smíchov)
Ivory of mammoth, in Ostrava – Landek, stone (2006)
Mistress of Emperor Rudolf II in Brandýs nad Labem, concrete (2006)
Three Madonnas in Prague – Prosek, marble, sand stone, granite (2010)
Sign language sculpture "Life is beautiful, be happy and love each other" – in Prague – Smíchov, concrete (2011)
Monument to Saint Agnes of Bohemia in Poděbrady, artificial sand stone (2012)
Monument to the Czechoslovakian painter Ludvík Kuba in Poděbrady, concrete (2013).