Rafał Olbinski, Disguised Commentary II, 2010.

inking, paper, 60 x 40 cm; work numbered in the author's catalog: 5114; handwritten signature and dry stamp of the author

Rafal Olbinski was born and studied in Poland, where he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology.
Warsaw University of Technology. In 1981, he immigrated to the United States and soon became an acclaimed
painter, illustrator and designer. He has received more than 150 awards for his work, including gold and
silver medals awarded by the Art Directors Club of New York and gold and
silver medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles.
From 1983 to 1988 he was a lecturer at Temple University in Philadelphia and from 1987 to 2001 he
he taught at the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York.
In 1994, he won the international Oscar for the Most Significant Poster of the Year, the Prix Savignac in Paris. That same year, he won Creative Review magazine's award in London for Best British Illustration.
In 1995, his poster won the "New York City Capital of the World" competition selected by a jury chaired by the city's mayor Rudolf Guliani. A year later, he received the Stephan Dohanos Award given by members of the Society of New York Illustrators for the best work of the year.
In 1996, the American News Agency commissioned Rafal Olbinski to design a poster
commemorating the 25th anniversary of Earth Day, and in 2000 the authorities of New York approached the
proposal to create a poster for the 30th anniversary of Earth Day.
In 2002, the city of Fondi in Italy awarded him the "Premio Divina Guilia" prize for his outstanding contribution to contemporary art.
Olbinski's works are in the collections of such prestigious institutions as, among others: the National Arts
Club in New York, the Smithsonian Institute and Library of Congres in Washington, D.C., the Suntory
Museum in Osaka, and in many private and corporate collections in the US, Japan and Europe.
In 2002, selected paintings by Rafał Olbinski were included in a program of projections at Grand
Central Station in New York, in the Great Art pantheon as one of the attractions in honor of the celebrated
Earth Day. Other artists whose works were also featured are: Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein,
Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
In the same year, his scenoraphy debut for the opera "Don Giovani" in Philadelphia was highly praised by critics of the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rafal Olbinski's work has been devoted to many articles in international magazines, such as.
New York Times, Der Spiegel, etc.
Five books on Olbinski's art have been published in the United States so far, with the latest one
"Olbinski's women" published by Hudson Hills Press in 2007.
In 2006, the President of the Republic of Poland awarded the artist the Gloria Artis gold medal, and in 2012, the Cross of the
Officer's Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland.
In the Teraz Polska competition in 2013, Rafal Olbinski was awarded the distinction of Outstanding Pole.
In recent years, Rafal Olbinski's work has been widely exhibited around the world. In the year
2019 at the Polish Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland. In Munich. The British Parliament
A presentation of the book Ars Picturae took place. In 2018 There was an exhibition at the Palace of Art in
Krakow presenting one hundred paintings. In recent years, there have also been many solo
Rafal Olbinski exhibitions in the United States: in 2017 in New York at the Kosciuszko
Foundation, in 2016 at Gallery 444 in San Francisco, in 2014 at Gallery Studio Vendome in New York, and in 2013 at Suzzallo Library University of Washington, Seattle. In 2015, he presented his
works at the EXPO in Milan, and earlier in 2014 in China at the International Art Exhibition in Harbin
and in 2013 Museu da Musica in Lisbon. As the only artist from Poland, he was invited to participate
to participate in the 9th Art Biennale at the National Museum in Beijing, in 2022.