Milan Kohout

Milan Kohout (born 1955) is a Czech-American performance artist, writer, and university lecturer. He was a signatory of the Charter 77 human rights declaration against the communist government of Czechoslovakia. In 1986 he was exiled from Czechoslovakia by the secret police,

In the United States He was granted political asylum in the United States, He has taught performance art as political action at Tufts School and at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and video production at the New England Institute of Art. During his years in Boston he created was engaged in experimental performance art, focused mainly on politics, human rights, and criticism of religious organizations and ideologies.

Between 1992 and 2003 he worked as a camera operator, video technician, and producer for news and public affairs cable TV channel C-SPAN. He has written a series of interviews for the Czech magazine Xantypa with subjects such as Noam Chomsky and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. After a four-month trial he was found not guilty. He also appeared in the documentary film Radical Jesters, about political performance artists in the United States. In 2015 he appeared on the Czech TV show You Have the Word, arguing in favour of the Czech Republic accepting large numbers of refugees. though in the event he did not start campaigning and was not a candidate in the election.

Solo exhibitions in the Czech Republic 2009: A retrospective solo exhibition in NOD-Roxy Gallery in Prague. 2011: A retrospective solo exhibition at the Brno House of Arts (Gallery G99). 2012: Participation on the exhibition "Middle East Europe" at DOX in Prague. 2012: "Performance Art as Rebellious Art", Olomouc Museum of Art (April–May). 2013: Exhibition at the Art e FACTA Gallery Plzeň. 2013: Exhibition "Where Is My Home?", DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic. 2015: Exhibition from a cycle "Test Exposure", Wrocław Art Center in Poland.

Publications , Petr Štengl Publishing, November 2010, Spatial Relations Speak the Language of Social Hierarchy, Performance as the Eternal Performer, University of Ostrava, 2014 , JT’s Publishing, 2018,

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