Bara Jichova Tyson is a Czech-American artist and filmmaker born in the Czech Republic. She is currently directing and co-producing her second feature hybrid documentary film, Playtopia, in a coproduction between the Czech Republic, Romania, France, and the United States.
Her first feature hybrid documentary film, Talking About Adultery, premiered as an official selection at the 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK and was nominated for the 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest New Talent Award; the Czech premiere was at Ji. Hlava IDFF was part of the Czech Joy section and was nominated for best Czech documentary; the North American premiere was at DOC NYC. As a complement to the film, Jichova Tyson created a body of collage works combined with audio interviews sharing the same theme as her film: What does it mean to be in a committed relationship?
Jichova Tyson's feature film, Organ Player, which she co-wrote and edited (directed by Narcissister), was selected for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Before, she edited the feature documentary Instructions on Parting (directed by Amy Jenkins), which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 2018 Doc Fortnight.
Her short documentary film, The Hatch House, won best short experimental documentary at the 2016 Fine Arts Film Festival (FAFF) in Venice, California, and was an official selection of the 2016 Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York City and Los Angeles, and the 2016 American Documentary Film Festival (AmDocs) in Palm Springs. In 2013, she co-produced and edited Built on Narrow Land, a feature documentary by Malachi Connolly about Bauhaus architecture on Cape Cod. In 2009, she edited a feature documentary film, Paradise, directed by Michael Almereyda, nominated for The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.
Jichova Tyson has exhibited her 2D work and photography in solo and group shows, including the Greene Naftali Gallery, Salon Ciel, BBLA, and Pocket Utopia-all in New York. She was art director of Now, Forager, a feature film by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin, which was part of the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival organized jointly by MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The film was a nominee for the Gotham Independent Film Awards and had a worldwide release.
Jichova Tyson studied fine art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and received her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. She is a 2016 recipient of The MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Jichova Tyson is represented by Municipal Bonds.