b. 1955 A Polish painter, draftsman, teacher. A Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. A co-founder of Gruppa (Marek Sobczyk, Paweł Kowalewski, Ryszard Grzyb, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Ryszard Woźniak), the most important artistic group in Polish art of the 80s. A winner of the award at 1st Biennale Droga i Prawda in Wrocław (1985), Jan Cybis Award (2004) and Kazimierz Ostrowski Award (2014).

Works in collections: National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznań, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Leon Wyczółkowski Museum in Bydgoszcz, CSW Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.

Selected exhibitions: Documenta, Kassel (1987); Kunst, Europa, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (1992); Gruppa 1982-1992, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (1992); Atelier 340, Brussels (2001); Warsaw-Moscow / Moscow-Warsaw 1900-2000, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (2005); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2008); Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2011); Zderzak Gallery, Krakow (2014).