Zbigniew Maciej Dowgiałło
Painter. Film director using 3D animation. A film producer. Producer of multimedia programs and games. Film screenwriter. Stage designer.
Lecturer of computer animation in Usa.
Designer of futuristic architecture.
HD and 3D computer technology expert. Graphic designer, 2D and 3D animator.
Art theorist. Curator of art exhibitions.
Education
1981-1986
Master
Faculty of painting Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
1989
Diploma in painting in the studio of Professor Stefan Gierowski
Scholarship from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Faculty of Arts.
2001
Los Angeles
2009
Cartoon Media
Munich
2D computer animation course
Courses for film animation producers
Academic lecturer
2001-2002: lecturer animation and computer art at the US Rocky Mountain College of art and design in Denver, Colorado.
2010-2011: lecturer in the art of computer animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Selected individual exhibitions
2023 Victory Beautiful painting exhibition at the museum. Bolesław Biegas in Warsaw
2023 "Apotheosis of Triumph" painting exhibition at the Stare Kino culture center in Milanówek
2023 "Victory of Beautiful Women over Evil" painting exhibition Galeria SWS Warszawa
2017 "Venus in Kefalonia", an exhibition of paintings by the SWS Gallery in Warsaw
2014 "Revelation" - art exhibition, BWA Zamek Książ
2013 "Two seconds from the beginning of the Universe", painting, Center for Contemporary Art, Suwałki.
2012 "Smolensk" - exhibition of the painting in the Post-Camaldolese Church in Warsaw
2010 Digital graphics, HSBC Bank exhibition, Warsaw
2009 GAGA gallery, "Not only blonds", Warsaw
2007 "Slaughter of the Crow", Free Word Gallery, Warsaw
2006 GAGA gallery, "Painting", Warsaw
2001 ASIFA show at RMCAD in Denver USA
2000 Bank PBK and National Museum exhibition in PBK "Time and space bend", Warsaw
2000 National Museum in Warsaw, show "Apocalypse"
2000 Museum of Art, Zielona Góra
1998 Abakus Gallery, Warsaw
1997 Exhibition at INFOSYSTEM '97. Poznań
1995 Abakus Gallery, Warsaw
1991 Young Gallery, Warsaw
1988 Evolution Architecture - SARP Gallery, Warsaw
1988 Sosnowski Gallery, Warsaw
1987 The Great Gallery, Poznań
1987 First Exhibition of the First Evolutionary Academy of Global Art - Promotion Gallery, Warsaw
1986 BWA Sopot Gallery
1986 SARP Gallery, Warsaw
1985 Stodola Gallery, Warsaw
1984 Remont Gallery, Warsaw
1984 Gallery BWA Lublin
1983 Brama Gallery, Warsaw
1982 Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Painting, Warsaw
1979 GUT Gallery, Gdansk
Selected collective exhibitions
2024 "New Expression" The largest-ever exhibition of New Expression. Center for Contemporary Art in Toruń, Poland
2023 The Landscape of Polish Painting, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2022 Uncensored. Polish independent art of the 1980s Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw,
2021 Exhibition of the Werner Jerke Painting Collection at the State Art Gallery in Sopot
2017 Kunst der Freiheit, The Art of Freedom, Kűl House Gallery, Berlin
2013 Englische Wilde Malerei der 80 years and 90 years. Glasbau, Germany
2012 “Polish National Art”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
"Generation 80 - Independent creativity of young people 1980-89", District Museum in Rzeszów.
2011 "GUCIO ENCHANTED" Pamenkalio Gallery in Vilnius
2010 "Generation 80, young art exhibition", National Museum in Krakow
2010 "Apogee of New Expression 1987", CSW, Toruń
2010 "The 80's", GAGA gallery. Warsaw
2009 "Banana Republic - Expression of the 80's", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania.
Museum of Modern Art, Debrecen, Hungary.
Kaunas in Art: Contexts, Meno parkas Galerija, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 New Expression, Olsztyn BWA, Wilson Gallery Katowice.
2008 "Banana Republic - Expression of the 80's", Książ Castle, BWA Wałbrzych, National Museum in Szczecin, Carriage Gallery in Toruń, Arsenał City Gallery in Poznań, Łaźnia CSW in Gdańsk.
2005 "EUROPE in ART." National Museum in Warsaw, Królikarnia
2004 "DUTY AND REBEL" ASP in Warsaw, Zachęta, Warsaw
2003 International Print Triennial, Kraków
2002 Viena Art Center, Vienna
2002 Katowice, Biennale of Polish Graphics
2001 RMCAD, Denver, USA
2000 Polish Landscapes, National Museum in Warsaw
2000 Gallery Meduna. Vienna Austria
2000 International Triennial of Graphics, Krakow
2000 Animago, Animation Festival, Munich, Germany, nomination in 2 categories
2000 The 5th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan
1999 Norwegian International Print Triennial,
Center of Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway
1999 Exhibition DPI (Digital Printing & Imaging Association), Reno, Nevada.
first Andre Schelenberg Award in Fine Arts category,
1999 International Triennial - Rio de Janeiro,
Museum de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998 Prix Ars Electronica 98, Cyberarts, (in Computer Animation/Visual Effects),
Linz, Austria
1998 International Triennial Cracow-Nürnberg, fair Centre, Nuernberg, Germany
1997 Polish Graphics, Katowice
1997 Mini Triennial - continents, Art Gallery BWA, Jelenia Góra, Poland
1997 International Triennial of Graphics, Krakow
1998 Prix Ars Electronica 98, Cyberarts, (in Computer Animation/Visual Effects),
Linz, Austria
1992 Polish Art, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw
1992 Architectural contest for build the center of Warsaw, SARP Warsaw
1991 Kunst, Europe 1991, Art of Europe 1991, Germany, Bonn
1991 Szyk Polski, Polish Shick, Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw
1990 Raj Utracony, Lost Paradise Center of Polish, Contemporary Arts in Warsaw,
1990-1992 Art from Poland, : Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA
Museum of Art, New York
Polish Museum, Chicago
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1988 Bruno Schultz, Gallery SARP, Warsaw
1987/1988 Radical Realism. Concrete abstraction, Radical realism, Concrete abstraction National Museum in Warsaw
1987 Gallery El, Elblag, Norblin, Warsaw
1987 What's Up?, Whats News, Gallery Norblin, Warsaw
1986 Expression of the 80s, Expression of the 80s, Gallery BWA Sopot
1986 Four from Poland, Galerie Alles 12 vor 24 volt, Rotterdam
1986 Galleries Nouvelles Images, The Hague
1986 Kunstation Kleinsassen, West Germany
1985 I Biennial Road and Truth, Wrocław, award
1985 Gallery BWA Zielona Gora
1984 Gallery KUL, Lublin
Curriculum vitae
Zbigniew Dowgiałło was born in Gdańsk in 1961. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts
in Warsaw under the direction of outstanding artists; prof. Stefan Gierowski,
prof. Jan Tarasin, prof. Ryszard Winiarski. He made his debut as a painter before his studies in 1979. In the 1980s he was a precursor and a leading representative of New Expressionism. His paintings were presented at the most important exhibitions of that period, including: the exhibition "What's Happening"
in the Norblin factory and "Radical Realism - Concrete Abstraction" at the National Museum in Warsaw.
At the end of the 1980s, Z. Dowgiałło went to New York, where he continued his creative work, exhibited and developed a new direction - futuro baroque, using the latest achievements of computer graphics. In 1989 he received a scholarship from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, at the Faculty of Arts.
After returning to Poland, he presented large-format paintings devoted to the vision of the world of the future, at the world's largest exhibition of contemporary European art, Kunst, Europa in Bonn, and at the Polish chic exhibition at Zachęta in Warsaw in 1991.
He soon became a pioneer of computer graphics and three-dimensional animation. He won the Grand Prix at the world exhibition of large format computer graphics in Reno USA named after Andre Schelenberg (1998).
As a producer and director, he created The Great Multimedia Atlas of the World (1998). For the needs of Atlas, he traveled around the world, during which he made 30 nature films, 30 3D animations, and thousands of photos.
His achievements have been recognized internationally, e.g. publications in the press, Computer Arts No. 4/2000.
Then Dowgiałło created a 3D animated film entitled "Apocalypse Part 9 and 16", which premiered at the National Museum in Warsaw. This film was shown at many festivals around the world, including many times in the USA, and won the Grand Prix at the Rome Film Festival in 2003. The weekly Wprost and the weekly Newsweek named Zbigniew Dowgiałło the Hieronim Bosch of the 21st century and one of the main creators of the Polish school of computer animation.
An outstanding art critic, curator of the National Museum in Warsaw, currently deputy director of the National Museum in Wrocław - dr. Dorota Monkiewicz, in 2000, wrote about Zbigniew Dowgiałło: "Today, his art co-creates the image of the beauty of the third millennium on a par with such works as The Fifth Element Luc Besson."
In 2001-2002 (5 semesters) Z. Dowgiałło taught computer animation in the USA, ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN in Denver, Colorado.
While teaching, he received the highest marks, both from students and academic staff, and was offered many years of work.
In the following years Z. M. Dowgiałło continued to work as a producer, director, screenwriter and painter.
His film "Pankosmodios" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
In 2006, Z. Dowgiałło was appointed expert of the Polish Film Institute by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
Since 2007, Z. Dowgiałło has participated in the most important review exhibitions of New Expressionism in Europe and in Poland.
In 2010, he paints the picture "Smolensk".
In 2012/13 he creates a huge - groundbreaking picture "Crucifixion" showing the Crucifixion in modern times in Warsaw in Krakowskie Przedmieście.
Currently he creates 3D animations for the film "Smolensk".
