Selected Doctorates and Honors
First Honors Doctor Degree, Royal College of Art, 1974 |
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| 1974 | Received honoris causa doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, England |
| 1992 | Received honoris causa doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| 1998 | Received honoris causa doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland |
| 2000 | Received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Pratt Institute, New York |
| 2001 | Received honoris causa doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, U.S.A. |
| 2002 | Received honoris causa doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
| 2002 | Received honoris causa doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland |
| 1994 | Elected honorary member of the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin |
| 1996 | Elected honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, N.Y., U.S.A. |
| 1998 | Elected honorary member of the Sachsische Akademie der Kunste, Dresden, Germany |
| 2000 | Orden Pour le merite fur Wissenschaften und Kunste, Berlin, Germany |
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Selected Awards and Prizes |
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| 1965 | Grand Prix of Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
| 1979 | Gottfried von Herder Prize, Vienna, Austria |
| 1982 | Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, New York |
| 1993 | Award for Distinction in Sculpture, granted by the Sculpture Center, New York |
| 1997 | Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Mexico |
| 1998 | Commander Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta |
| 1999 | Officier de L' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France |
| 2000 | Cavaliere nell Ordine Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana |
| 2000 | Visionaries! Award granted by American Craft Museum |
| 2005 | Award for the entire Creative Activity granted by the Polish Minister of Culture Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the International Sculpture Center in New York |
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