Adam Myjak – an outstanding Polish sculptor and teacher, professor of fine arts. He made his debut with the creators of Nowa Figuracja. In the years 1971–79 he was the artistic director of the periodical “Nowy Wyraz. Literary Monthly of the Young ”.

Co-author of the “Katyn Monument” in Warsaw (with Janusz Pastwa). He is the creator of, among others busts of Krzysztof Penderecki (2013), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (2014) and the medal of Jan Ekier, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

His works are in the collections of many major museums and private collections. He is a multiple winner of international and national competitions. Since 2009, he has been an active member of the Polish Academy of Learning. For several years he was a member of the Program Council of the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, including its chairman five times. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2005).

In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts, and was also awarded the Cyprian Kamil Norwid – “The Work of Life”.

Together with Waldemar Dąbrowski, director of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, he runs the Opera Gallery. There are two of his own galleries – in the European Music Center Krzysztof Penderecki in Lusławice and the Center for Theater Practices in Gardzienice.

He runs a diploma studio at the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is also the head of the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He was elected rector of the parent Academy three times for two terms (1990–96, 1999–2005, 2012–20).