Jasia Reichardt was born on Janina Chaykin; 13 November 1933 and is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art.
14 Facts About Jasia Reichardt
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Jasia Reichardt is generally known for her work on experimental art.
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Jasia Reichardt was assistant director of the ICA, director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and tutor at the AA.
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Jasia Reichardt has written books on art, computers, robots and the future.
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Jasia Reichardt was born to Maryla Weinles and Seweryn Chaykin in Warsaw, Poland, in 1933.
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Jasia Reichardt's mother was an illustrator and pianist and her father an architect and engineer.
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Jasia Reichardt was hidden under an assumed identity by a series of Poles, spending time in a convent, until she was able to join her mother's sister, Franciszka Themerson, and her husband, Stefan Themerson, in London in 1946.
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Jasia Reichardt attended Dartington Hall School and then went to study directing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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From 1974 to 1976 Jasia Reichardt was director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
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Jasia Reichardt collaborated with artists and continued to focus on the intersection of the arts and science on which she wrote a monthly column in the New Scientist.
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Jasia Reichardt has taught at the Architectural Association and other colleges.
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Jasia Reichardt served on numerous committees; belonged to a number of professional organisations, gave lectures at conferences, and received several distinctions.
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In 2024 Jasia Reichardt was honoured with an honorary doctorate from the Australian National University's School of Cybernetics.
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Jasia Reichardt was married first to Tony Richards, art dealer and collector, and secondly to art historian and artist Nick Wadley.