Waldemar Swierzy

Born in Katowice in 1931. Graduated from the Cracow Academy of Fine Art Graphic Art Department in Katowice in 1952. Freelance graphic and poster designer. Author of more than a thousand posters. The most important awards: 1959 - Toulouse - Lautrec Grand Prix 1962 - Third Toulouse - Lautrec Award 1970 - First Prize "Prix X Biennale di Sao Paulo" 1972 - Silver Medal in the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw 1976 - Gold Medal in the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw 1977 - First Prize in the Poster Biennale in Lahti 1972 - First Prize in the Annual Film Poster Competition of "Hollywood Reporter" in Los Angeles 1985 - Gold and Bronze Medals in the International Jazz Poster Exhibition in Bydgoszcz 1985 - First Prize in the Annual Film Poster Competition of "Hollywood Reporter” in Los Angeles The most important exhibitions: 1960 - Vienna, Galerie in der Biberstrasse 1964 - Documenta Kassel 1965 - Moscow 1969 - X Biennale di Sao Paulo 1970 - Caracas 1976 - Stockholm 1973 - Warsaw, Poster Museum Wilanów 1980 - Mexico City, Poliforum Sigueros 1980 - Copenhagen, Galerie Oxe 1984 - Goslar, Museum in Zwinger 1984 - Jacksonville 1985 - Pecs 1985 - Prague 1986 - Poznań, Łodź, Szczecin 1987 - Aosta 1989 - Lahti, Taidemuseo 1990 - Kassel, GHK 1991 - Tokyo, Creation Gallery G8 1993 - Chaumont, Festival de Affiche - 1997 - Warsaw, Poster Museum Wilanów 1998 - Dansk Plakat Museum, Aarhus 2000 - Plakat Kunst Hof, Essen 2001 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran 2002 - Muzeum Miasta Wrocławia, Wrocław Since 1965 profesor in the Academy of Fine Art in Poznań and since 1994 profesor in Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw. Member of Alliance Graphigue Internationale.