A graphic artist (posters, press drawings, layout, book illustrations), painter and theatrical set designer. He has been awarded twenty Polish and foreign art prizes. He attended the Fine Arts Secondary School in Poznań, and is a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology’s Architecture Department. He studied the history of philosophy at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw in 1979-1980. His graphic works have been published in such magazines as Literatura, Szpilki, Radar, ITD, Forum, Harakiri (France) and Pardon (Germany). He settled in New York in 1981, and since that time his works have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Graphis, Print, Business Week, Harper’s Magazine, Psychology Today, Polityka and Gazeta Wyborcza. An album of his graphic works, Almost Everybody, was published in February 1984 by William Morrow & Company.
In 1985, The Limited Edition Club published an exclusive edition of Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive Mind with illustrations by Kapusta. He has had many one-man shows and has taken part in group exhibitions in Europe and the United States. His works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, IBM, The Limited Edition Club as well as private collections including that of Vice President Al Gore. He discovered an 11-face solid in 1985, which he called a K-DRON. He obtained a patent for it in 1987 and established a corporation. He was co-publisher and artistic manager of the illustrated magazine Okay America in 1991-1993. In 1995, he designed the stage set and costumes for the famous opera by Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William Burroughs, The Black Rider, directed by Lech Majewski at the Heilbronn Theatre (Germany).
An album called Janusz Kapusta in the New York Times was published in May 1995 by Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe and Ars Polona. His book on his invention, K-dron - Patented Infinity, was published in September of the same year by Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. In 1995 he prepared for the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw the stage design for Bizet’s Carmen directed by Lech Majewski.
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