Martin Pavlis studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University (Mgr. 2015). He completed his studies with a thesis entitled Against the Flow of Time: František Hudeček through the Prism of His Late Work.
Since 2015, he has been working at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences as a specialist in the Department of the Photographic Library – Photographic Studio. His responsibilities include coordinating photographic documentation both in the field and in the studio, managing and cataloguing photographic materials in electronic databases, and overseeing copyright matters related to the reproduction of images for scholarly publications and exhibition projects, both in the Czech Republic and internationally. In addition, he manages the operations of the institute's Window Gallery and is the image editor of the scientific journal Umění (Art).
Photographic Conditions of Art History and the Current Photographic Studio at the Institute of Art History, CAS, Window Gallery, Praha, 12. 12 2024 – 27. 4. 2025 (co-author of the exhibition and exhibition catalogue with Katarína Mašterová).
Martin Pavlis, Emil Filla, Bohumil Kafka, Karel Lidický, Otto Rothmayer, Bedřich Stefan, Světozor, in: Hana Buddeus (edd.), Sudek a sochy, Praha 2020.
http://www.sudekproject.cz – Co-author of the specialized public database Public Database of the Josef Sudek Photography Collection at the Photo Library of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (RIV entry, co-authored with Markéta Janotová and František Hlaváč).
Sudek: Obrazy a odrazy, Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Praha, 28. 6.–31. 8. 2019 (author of the exhibition).
