Artur Zmijewski is an artist who often refers to the problem of the corporality and physicality of the human being, perceived from the perspective of our basic biological functions.

Born on May 26, 1966 in Warsaw, Artur Zmijewski studied from1990-1995 in the famous studio of Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski at the sculpture department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. In 1999, Zmijewski studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He lives and works in Warsaw, where he collaborates with the Foksal Gallery Foundation. In 2000 he was awarded first prize at the exhibition Guarene Arte in Italy for his video work An Eye for an Eye. In 2004 he had his first two US shows: a major solo exhibition at MIT, curated by Jane Farver, and The Game of Tag, shown at the White Box Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea, curated by Norman Kleeblatt. Zmijewski represented Poland at the 2005 Venice Biennale.