Bára Jíchová Tyson is a Czech-American artist and filmmaker whose work blends documentary inquiry with visual art, often in close collaboration with other artists. She is currently directing and co-producing her second feature hybrid documentary, Playtopia, a Czech-Romanian-U.S. co-production (Cinepoint, deFilm, Incomplete Pictures) that turns a vast white studio into a playground for children’s imaginative design.

Her debut feature, Talking About Adultery (2019), premiered in the Official Selection of Sheffield Doc/Fest—where it was nominated for the New Talent Award—screened in Ji.hlava IDFF’s Czech Joy section (Best Czech Documentary nominee), and had its North American premiere at DOC NYC. The film was accompanied by a series of collage and audio works probing the complexities of committed relationships.

Jíchová Tyson co-wrote and edited Organ Player (dir. Narcissister, Sundance 2018) and edited Instructions on Parting (dir. Amy Jenkins, MoMA Doc Fortnight 2018), Built on Narrow Land (dir. Malachi Connolly, 2013), and Paradise (dir. Michael Almereyda, 2009; Gotham Award nominee). She wrote and directed the short documentary The Hatch House (Best Short Experimental Documentary, Fine Arts Film Festival 2016; Architecture & Design FF; AmDocs).

Her two-dimensional works and photographs have been shown at Greene Naftali Gallery, Salon Ciel, BBLA, and Pocket Utopia (all New York). She served as art director for Now, Forager (New Directors/New Films 2012; Gotham nominee).

Jíchová Tyson studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. A MacDowell Fellow (2016), she is represented by Municipal Bonds gallery, San Francisco, and is an artist-in-residence at Yaddo in 2025.