Born in Moravia of Czechoslovakia in 1962, Kamil Vojnar studied at School of Graphic Arts in Prague (1976-1981) and left in 85 to study at Philadelphia Art Institute. Vojnar moved to New York City in 1989 where he worked for different image studios and then as a freelancer, majoring in producing images for books and CD covers, while filling photo stock agencies with more personal images. Vojnar later moved to Paris and subsequently to St. Remy de Provence in France, where he is now living and working.
Driven by pressures within, Kamil's work explores often hidden corners of the soul, where human emotions reside. He works with images to deliver his particular vision, his reaction to the contradictory world which surrounds him. To the world filled with so much beauty and so much suffering, often happening at the very same moments, within only minutes, hours, inches or miles apart. These feelings are honestly reflected in Kamil's images in intensely personal and enigmatic ways.
Angel standing all wet in the bath tub, falling man with wide-spread arms and girl lying on the grass facing the sky. Perhaps we can trace some sources from the artist's words, "we all start our lives in pure whiteness and innocence, but during the course we are being torn and crashed again and again, in small or big ways". A kind of escapism has long been embedded in Kamil Vojnar's images - and truly, beautiful as they are, the images tend to end up on the darker side of things.
"What drives my work is the contradictory world surrounding us. So much beauty and so much suffering meet and go hand in hand. But also it is the world of "elsewhere". The world from where inspiration and intuition, leading my hand, arrives.
From that space between the earth, the sky and our minds and hearts, where things happen, we don't fully understand, but without which the world would be much grayer place. I am trying to explore corners of our souls, where emotions reside. Emotions as reactions to the world outside and conflicting emotions of our most private worlds within. Because don't we cry from immense sadness, but from happiness as well? My working methods are pretty much "flying blind", because as a photographer and painter am basically self taught. Mostly oblivious to proper techniques and processes, I mix elements the way we reconstruct our last night dreams. From bits and pieces. I let intuition and materials, I am working with, to lead me to conclusions, I never really see as fully finished and I revisit my images over and over again to place them in different logic and contexts. My pictures are mostly images, digitally layered from many different photographs and textures, printed after in small editions, as a ink-jet prints on fine art paper. Or they are layered images, printed on semitransparent Thai and Japanese papers, mounted to canvas, varnished with oil and wax, sometimes painted on further with oil paints. I don't know where I am going, but I will get there." - Kamil Vojnar
Driven by pressures within, Kamil's work explores often hidden corners of the soul, where human emotions reside. He works with images to deliver his particular vision, his reaction to the contradictory world which surrounds him. To the world filled with so much beauty and so much suffering, often happening at the very same moments, within only minutes, hours, inches or miles apart. These feelings are honestly reflected in Kamil's images in intensely personal and enigmatic ways. 
"What drives my work is the contradictory world surrounding us. So much beauty and so much suffering meet and go hand in hand. But also it is the world of "elsewhere". The world from where inspiration and intuition, leading my hand, arrives. 
From that space between the earth, the sky and our minds and hearts, where things happen, we don't fully understand, but without which the world would be much grayer place. I am trying to explore corners of our souls, where emotions reside. Emotions as reactions to the world outside and conflicting emotions of our most private worlds within. Because don't we cry from immense sadness, but from happiness as well? My working methods are pretty much "flying blind", because as a photographer and painter am basically self taught. Mostly oblivious to proper techniques and processes, I mix elements the way we reconstruct our last night dreams. From bits and pieces. I let intuition and materials, I am working with, to lead me to conclusions, I never really see as fully finished and I revisit my images over and over again to place them in different logic and contexts. My pictures are mostly images, digitally layered from many different photographs and textures, printed after in small editions, as a ink-jet prints on fine art paper. Or they are layered images, printed on semitransparent Thai and Japanese papers, mounted to canvas, varnished with oil and wax, sometimes painted on further with oil paints. I don't know where I am going, but I will get there." - Kamil Vojnar
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