Paweł Wojtasik

Biography

Paweł Wojtasik was born in Łódź, Poland, and lived in Tunisia before coming to the United States as a refugee in 1972. He received an MFA from Yale University in 1996 and spent time at the Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery in the Catskill mountains. His internationally recognized films and video installations explore themes of environment, culture, and the human condition, as seen in works like "The Aquarium" and "Below Sea Level".