Ryszard Grzyb

Ryszard Henryk Grzyb is a Polish artist who was born on July 17, 1956, in Sosnowiec. He is a painter, poet, and graphic designer, who graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1981, where he studied under Rajmund Ziemski. Grzyb is known for his use of jovial colors and broad lines painted around the edges of various objects, and his work is characterized by his shift from tempera to oil on canvas.

Grzyb was a co-founder of the artist group "Gruppa" in 1982, along with Paweł Kowalewski, Jarosław Modzelewski, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Marek Sobczyk, and Ryszard Woźniak, and also served as the editor of Gruppa's magazine Oj dobrze już (All Right, Then). During his time in Warsaw, he was also involved in poetry, and his poems were published in various magazines.

His paintings can be found in collections in many major museums in Poland, including the National Museums in Warsaw, Wrocław, Cracow, and Poznań, as well as in the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and District Museums in Katowice, Bytom, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, and Olsztyn, and in private collections both in Poland and abroad.

In 2004, he started a multimedia project called Zdania napowietrzne (Air-borne sentences), which features a collection of short poetic sentences, which the artist calls "ludicrous haiku." He puts these sentences in a variety of contexts, such as billboards, postcards, pencils, neon signs, and information plates, creating a sense of suspense and enhancing the poems' message in the process.

In recognition of his achievements, Grzyb was awarded the Jan Cybis Award in 2010.