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.