Janusz Skowron was born in Kolbuszowa, Poland (1958). He studied fine arts in the University Marie Curie Sklodowska in Lublin (1977–1981) where he received a Master’s Degree in Lithography. In the years 1981-1989 he worked in Starachowice, Poland as an art teacher. Since 1989, he has lived and worked in New York City. As an artist he has participated in over three hundred solo and group exhibitions in France, Germany, Denmark, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, China, South Korea, the United States, and Poland. For many years, he has promoted Polish Arts in the New York Area. As an artist he creates many forms of art including painting, graphics, illustration, drawing, and photography.

He co-founded the “KONT Gallery” (Lublin 1978) and the “Shtooka Gallery” (New York 2006). Between the years 2007 and 2017, he has created and organized 125 exhibitions in Starbucks Art Gallery (New York). In 2013, he founded A.R Gallery (Brooklyn, New York) in which for six years he organized 55 exhibitions. Since 1999 he has exhibited his art together with the international multimedia Emotionalist Artists Group, founded in 1994 by Lubomir Tomaszewski. He is a member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and the Council of the Pisudski Institute in New York.

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