Adam Myjak from 1965 studied at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where in 1971 he obtained a diploma with honors. A year later he started teaching at the home department, and since 1990 he has been a professor and conducts a sculpture studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is also the head of the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Arts of UMCS in Lublin. Together with the director of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera, Waldemar Dąbrowski runs the "Opera" Gallery at the Grand Theater. For a dozen or so years he was a member of the Program Council of the Sculpture Center in Orońsko, including its president five times. Three times elected for the rector's double terms (1990-1996, 1999-2005, 2012-2020). He had a decisive influence on the image of the Academy in the 90s and the beginning of the 21st century, taking care of the farm as much as the tradition and prestige of the University in difficult times of change. He made his debut with the generation of the so-called A new figuration of the '70s in Polish art. He co-created the "For improvement" movement. In the 1970s, he was the artistic editor of the "Nowy Wyraz" monthly, thanks to which his compositions constitute an exhaustive album of the art of this decade. The early period of his work was marked by a great series of heads with a soft, though hazy texture and dreamy features, monumental regardless of their physical dimensions. The motif of the head, as a field of symbolic treatments, remains valid in his work, passing along with equally classical themes - like the bust and Figure - subsequent formal and stylistic phases. Among them is distinguished by a period of more decisive and synthetic surface formation and contrasting matte and polished parts or joining different materials - like stone and bronze, which took place at the turn of the 70s and 80s. The artist spent the years 1979-1981 on scholarship for them. Wilhelm Lehmbruck in Germany. In the mid-1980s, a new cycle in his work became the rolling, elongated, openwork "Figures". The subsequent shapes and forms enriched the repertoire of creativity successively, contributing to its present wealth. He has won numerous awards in national and international competitions. In addition to sculpture, medallion, which he devoted especially to the beginning of his creative path, he has in his output monumental projects and realizations, often taken with Antoni Janusz Pastwa (most recently - a quadre on Teatr Wielki, unveiled on 3 May 2002). He is the author of the monument Homo Homini in Kielce devoted to the assassination of the World Trade Center buildings in New York (unveiled in 2006). Chairman of the international jury in the competition for the monument to the Smolensk catastrophe. It has over 100 individual exhibitions, both at home and abroad. In 2006, a large individual exhibition took place in Warsaw (Zachęta), in June-August 2007 at the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. In January 2012, a retrospective exhibition of sculptures commemorating the 40th anniversary of creative work was held at the State Art Gallery in Sopot.
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Gallery Jatki in Nowy Targ and the Museum Dwory Karwacjanów and Gładyszów in Gorlice.