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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. Wlodzimierz Kunz in 1997. After his studies he
moved to Suwalki Land, to the village of Zubrówka. Since 2000 he
has been working at the Regional Culture and Arts Centre in Suwalki,
where he organizes exhibitions the modern arts gallery Chlodna 20 and
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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 (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 Suwalki. 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
"Laznia" - Centre of Contemporary Arts in Gdansk (2002), "Border
existence" and “International Exhibition of Art in Alytus”-
exhibitions of polish and lithuanien artists from Suwalki and Alytus
(2007 and 2010), “Biurowiec Sztuki” Suwalki (2009 and
2010), "Auction of the Young Artists" - Desa Modern (2008, 2009, 2010,
2011) and Polswiss Art (2011). |