Selected Points From Career
1975 Oscar de la Peinture award and the special prize of the President of France, 7th International Painting Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
1986 NY Times Book of the Year for "A Book of Fiction," Clarkson and Potter, New York
1989 First large-scale concert set (10 stories in height, for the Grateful Dead 25th Anniversary Tour) 1989.
1994 "The Eyes" multi-media spectacle fully conceived and executed by Jan Sawka is produced by famed theatre director Tadashi Suzuki at Mito Art Tower Center, Japan.
1994 Japanese Cultural Agency Award, Tokyo.
1996 International OSAKA Award nominee in the fields of architecture and design.
1996 Presentation to the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. of the Tower of Light Cultural Complex design.
1999 Design and rendering of large-scale projections for Houston SKYPOWER 40th Anniversary of NASA celebration spectacle.
2003 Premio di Lorenzo Il Magnifico Gold Medal in Multimedia, 4th International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy. This award was given for the pilot of "The Voyage" multi-media spectacle. "The Voyage" is now in pre-production as a joint production of Toho Studios, Japan and Helge Joost Productions, Germany for worldwide distribution.
2004 Exhibition entitled "Into the Open: From Studio Works to Monumental Projects, and Beyond…" at landmark New York art gallery ACA Galleries, New York (on the NY Time's list of top ten most important galleries of New York City) 2004 – Development of the Tower of Light Cultural Complex, including 9 museums and 4 major cultural institutions for the city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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