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Andrzej Zujewicz

Andrzej Zujewicz was born in Zabrze in 1971. In 1991 he successfully graduated from State Lyceum of Arts in Katowice. Between 1991 and 1997 Zujewicz was studying at Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He got his painting diploma with distinction at the workshop of prof. Włodzimierz Kunz in 1997. After his studies he moved to Suwałki Land, to the village of Żubrówka. He started his work as an instructor and a therapist in Activity Workshop for Disabled People in Suwałki. Since 2000 he has been working at the Regional Culture and Arts Centre in Suwałki, where he organizes exhibitions the modern arts gallery Chłodna 20 and PAcamera.

He is occupied by painting, drawing, graphic arts and artistic photography. Andrzej Zujewicz has received numerous awards, for instance: in 1998 he received a scholarship which had been founded by Polish Ministry of Arts and Culture, the first prize in the competition "Portrait" which had been organized by Foto and Polfoto trade fair - 1995, an honourable mention in photography competition "Images of Europe - Europe Crossing Borders" in Holland in 1996, in 1999 Zujewicz received an honourable mention in art competition entitled "Autumn in Bielsk". He is also a double finalist of an art competition "The painting of the year" 2002 and 2003, organized by Art & Business. In 2005 he received a scholarship founded by the mayor of Suwałki. He has taken part in a great number of collective exhibitions in Poland and other countries: "Promotions 97" and "Satyrykon 2001" in Legnica, "Animalactions" in "Łaźnia" - Centre of Contemporary Arts in Gdańsk 2002, "Border existence" - exhibition of polish and lithuanien artists from Suwałki and Alytus 2007, "Biurowiec Sztuki" - Suwałki 2009, "Auction of the Young Artists" - Desa Modern 2008, 2009, 2010 and "Art Zone 14" - Białystok 2010. The individual exhibitions: Kraków (1996), Suwałki (1999, 2001, 2004, 2006), Wigry (2001), Ełk (2000, 2006), Wierzba (2008), Wilkasy (2008) and last in Waren (Müritz) in Germany (2008). The artist is coorganizer of International Painting Plain-Air Workshop "At the Source", Saloon of Suwałki Plastic Arts 2001 together with The Triennials of Suwałki Plastic Arts 2004. He is organised International Photo Plain-Air Workshop "Photoinspirations" in 2007 and 2008.