Peter Grzybowski


Peter Grzybowski was a Polish multimedia and performance artist and a painter. He studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, graduating in 1982. He first performed in 1981. He was a figure in :pl:Historia polskiego performance|the Polish performance art movement of the 1980s, performing individually and with Awacs Group and KONGER. From 1985 he lived in the USA.
Until 1996 he had exhibited painting works.
His paintings imitate objects such as photographs, boards, marble and metal plates. They are included in collections such as: John Hechinger Collection, Norton Center for the Arts, Bob Rotchild Collection, Michael Rakosi Collection, Raymond and Arlene Zimmerman Collection, Exchange Gallery and many other collections in USA, Canada, France, Germany and Poland.
He created multimedia performances and installations, in which he used computers, digital video, sound, UV lighting.
He has been a participant of many international festivals and performance events.
He was a member of Fort Sztuki Association and International Association of Performance Art Organizers, an organizer of "Kesher" performance events and festivals in USA and Poland. With Małgorzata Kaźmierczak he is also a co-founder of the Foundation for the Promotion of Performance Art "Kesher" in Kraków.