Ladislava Gažiová (1981) graduated from the painting studio at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice, also from the painting studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Prague, and at the studio of conceptual and intermedia art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
In 2008, she won the Czech Critics' Award and is a laureate of The Sovereign European Art Prize awarded in London. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Czechia and abroad. Her works are represented in the collections of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno, the Wannieck Gallery in Brno, and the Zdeněk Marek Collection. In 2025, she had a solo exhibition at the Kampa Museum, and a year earlier she became the second winner of the Meda Mládková Prize. In 2018, she founded the Josef Serinek Library, which collects European literary works by Romani authors, and later moved it from Prague's Vinohrady district to Chanov u Mostu in northern Bohemia.
For the KHER publishing house, she created the portrait of Philomena Franz and designed the cover of her memoir Life Without Bitterness: The Story of a German Sinti Who Survived the Holocaust.
Photo: the author's private archive
