b. 1957 A Polish painter of Belarusian descent, whose works bordered on painting and installation. A Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Decorated with the Knight?s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011) and the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis. A winner of Jan Cybis Award (1998), the Nowosielski Foundation Award (1999), the Great Cultural Foundation Award (2007).

Works in collections: National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznań, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, The Moderna Musset in Stockholm

Selected exhibitions: Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (1986); Edward Thorp Gallery, New York (1987); Biennale in Săo Paulo (1987); Musuem of Modern Art, Oxford (1988); Venice Biennale (1988, 2001); Polish art of the twentieth century, National Museum, Warsaw (1988); Malmo Konsthal, Malmo (1992); retrospective exhibition, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (1999); CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2003); Galerie Springer, Berlin (2001); Galeria Rubin, Mediolan (2008); Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2013).