Prof. Karol Gąsienica Szostak

State University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz, Poland

Karol Gąsienica Szostak is an artist creating in the fields of sculpture, painting, drawing, and artistic action. In 1988 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture, and in 2008 earned a doctoral degree there as well. In 2014 he completed his postdoctoral habilitation degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 2009 he has been first a lecturer, and then an associate professor at the State University for Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz. A three-time recipient of the Scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, his artworks have been presented in Poland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxemburg, and USA, including at 49 individual exhibitions. Szostak’s artworks are featured in a number of private and public collections, including those of the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxemburg, the Stutfene Foundation in the Netherlands, the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, and the District Museum in Bielsko-Biała.