Adam Myjak is one of the major contemporary Polish sculptors. He studied at the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1965. He obtained his diploma with distinction in 1971. A year later he began teaching at his Alma Mater. He became professor in 1990. He runs the atelier of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is also a Chair holder of the Sculpture Department at the Faculty of Arts of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Myjak was elected three times for the rector’s office at The Art Academy.

As of the beginning of his career, the artist was very active in the art milieu. In the ’70s he was the artistic editor of the monthly’ Nowy Wyraz.’
In 1979-1981, he was on a scholarship from Wilhelm Lehmbruck Foundation in Germany. In the mid-1980s, he started the cycle of walking, elongated, open-air “Figures”. He received numerous awards in Polish and international competitions. In addition to sculpture and medals, to which he devoted himself at the beginning of his creative career, he started to create monumental projects and realizations, often undertaken with prof. Antoni Janusz Pastwa (quadriga at the Grand Theater, unveiled on May 3, 2002). He is the author of the Homo Homini monument in Kielce dedicated to the assassination attempt on the World Trade Center buildings in New York, unveiled in 2006.

He had over 100 individual exhibitions, in Poland and abroad. He showed his works at individual exhibitions, including at the Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw (twice: in 1993 and 2005), the Museum Wilhelm Lehmbruck in Duisburg (1981), Museum in Bochum (1989), Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (1993, 2007, 2015), District Museum in Sandomierz (2016), Jan Pinsl Museum The Lviv National Art Gallery B.G. Woźnicki (2017), State Art Gallery in Sopot (2017/2018).

In September 2005 he received the highest award for his services to culture – the Gold Medal Gloria Artis. In 2009 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. For several years he was a representative of the Program Council of the Sculpture Center in Orońsko, including its chairman five times. Chairman of the international jury in the competition for the Smolensk Disaster monument.

In 2013, the European Music Center of Krzysztof Penderecki inaugurated a permanent Sculpture Gallery of Adam Myjak. 2014 the Sculpture Gallery was established at the Theater Practices Center in Gardzienice. Among Myjak`s works there is the bust of Krzysztof Penderecki (2013), Prime Minister Solidarity movement leader Tadeusz Mazowiecki (2014). The artist was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Międzyzdroje (2013), Mragowo (2014), and Sandomierz (2016).
In April 2017, he received the main prize in the WAWRZYN OLYMPIJSKI 2016 competition for the sculpture Rider; in September 2019, the special prize Work of Life, for lifetime achievement, awarded by the Mazowieckie Voivodship Government.

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Adam Myjak began to achieve his first artistic successes during his studies. At that time, he won the first prize for “The best work of 1967 by students of Warsaw” – sculpture. In 1968, he received awards for sculpture and drawing in a national military-themed competition. In 1970 he was honoured with the 3rd prize in a national competition for a work of art on Copernican themes. In 1971, he received the second prize in the national competition “Man, work, environment” and the second prize for the sculpture “Old Actor”. In 1972, he won the 1st and 2nd prizes in the competition for the Copernicus medal, the 1st prize and distinction in the nationwide medal competition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the LWP, and the bronze medal at the 3rd Festival of Fine Arts. In 1973 he was awarded a silver medal at the 4th Festival of Fine Arts. In 1979, the artist was awarded the prize of the Spanish Sailing Federation for the sculpture “Sail” at the 7th International Biennale “Sport in Fine Arts” in Barcelona. In 1983, Myjak’s design won a distinction in a national competition for a monument to the Warsaw Uprising. In 1987, the author was awarded the honorary prize of the 10th International Art of the Baltic Countries (Rostock). In 1990, he received the 1989 Project Award. Witold Hulewicz. In 1997 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 2005 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. In 2020, he received the Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for organizational achievements.

Works by prof. Adam Myjak are in the collections of: the National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznań, Wrocław, Szczecin, the Silesian Museum in Katowice, the Museum in Bochum, the Lehmburck Museum in Duisburg, the BWA gallery, and private domestic and foreign collections.

Nowa figuracja w twórczości Adama Myjaka to znakomity przyczynek na otwarcie kolejnego sezonu wystaw w Galerii Opera. Wewnętrzny świat emocji i kwestia istoty człowieczeństwa, tak jak w Peterze Grimesie czy Marii de Buenos Aires – premierach 2022/2023 na scenach Opery Narodowej, zderzane są w niej z próbą znalezienia języka do opowiedzenia rzeczywistości. Prawdziwej, niepokrytej pudrem czy lukrem. W sposób przedstawiający, ale ze względu na niematerialność naszych procesów psychicznych nie do końca rzeczywisty. Pytany o to, czy we współczesnej sztuce piękno się już skończyło artysta odpowiada, że bez względu na czasy, w takiej czy innej formie jest ono obecne w twórczości, a jego poszukiwanie to jeden z jej głównych filarów. Jak rozumiemy je dzisiaj? We współczesności, której często zarzuca się kwestionowanie piękna, to raczej próba jego znalezienia w dramaturgii przeżyć zamiast w urokliwym landszafciku. To odkrywanie go w zachowanej godności osoby cierpiącej czy ludzkiej szlachetności w kontakcie z tragedią. Podskórne lęki i obawy – powody, dla których de facto szukamy kontaktu ze sztuką, to tematy odzwierciedlane przez Adama Myjaka w twarzach i całych ludzkich figurach, które obecne są w jego twórczości od samego początku. Ich deformacja, daleka jednak od abstrakcyjności i przerysowana ekspresyjność, to opowiadanie ludzkiej natury w jej złożoności, z całym wewnętrznym bagażem. Od dramatu wynikającego z samego faktu istnienia aż do blasku, jaki zdarza nam się odczuwać w chwilach ekstazy i uniesienia.

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