1. In 1966, following a period of extensive international travel, Wojciech Fangor relocated to the United States where he achieved a level of commercial success, critical reception, and direct exposure to American post-war visual culture largely inaccessible to most contemporary artists from the Eastern Bloc.
Wojciech Fangor returned to Poland in 1999 where he remained active until his death in 2015, although his international recognition had by then diminished.
Wojciech Fangor's works are included in the permanent collections of museums in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Wojciech Bonawentura Fangor was born on 15 November 1922 in Warsaw to an affluent family.
Wojciech Fangor's father, Konrad Fangor, an engineer, has been described as a "wealthy prewar entrepreneur", and a founder of Technical Society for Trade and Industry in Warsaw, while his mother, Wanda nee Chachlowska, was a trained pianist.
Wojciech Fangor obtained his diploma in 1946 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
In 1953, Wojciech Fangor was employed as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, a position he held until 1961.
Wojciech Fangor's installation, shown to the public six years prior to Robert Morris's breakthrough Minimalist exhibition at New York's Green Gallery, would become one of the earliest studies of phenomenological properties of abstract art in post-war Europe.
Wojciech Fangor began focusing on the circle, a geometric form that would become the most recognizable motif in his paintings and constitute the compositional basis for over four hundred works on canvas completed between 1958 and 1978.
Wojciech Fangor had visited Poland in 1959 with hopes of finding new Eastern European artists to include in the Gres roster and taken a great interest in Fangor's idiosyncratic abstract idiom.
Between 1960 and 1962, Wojciech Fangor was commissioned to decorate train platforms of the newly re-constructed Warszawa Srodmiescie PKP railway station in Warsaw.
Wojciech Fangor designed a series of abstract wall and ceiling mosaics that recalled the artist's investigations into the immersive properties of color in painting and its impact on the spectator.
In 1961, Wojciech Fangor left his teaching position at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and moved to Vienna.
Later that year, upon completion of the ICA Fellowship, Wojciech Fangor moved to Paris.
Wojciech Fangor lived in Berlin for one year before leaving for London, where he stayed for six months.
Wojciech Fangor eventually settled permanently in the United States in 1966 where he was offered a teaching job at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
In 1999, Wojciech Fangor returned to Poland where he continued to exhibit his work.
Two years later, a major retrospective exhibition of Wojciech Fangor's oeuvre was held at the Center for Contemporary Art at Ujazdow Castle in Warsaw.
In 2007, Wojciech Fangor was asked to design decorative wall murals for seven underground stations of the new line of the Warsaw Metro.
Wojciech Fangor died in 2015 aged 92 and was survived by his wife, Magdalena Shummer-Fangor, and two children.