Gary Sczerbaniewicz was born in Upstate NY. He earned a BFA in Sculpture from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and an MFA in Sculpture from the University at Buffalo in 2013. Sczerbaniewicz was recently awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant to attend a residency at the historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. He is a 2023 recipient of a Summerfair Cincinnati AIA Award, 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Architecture/ Environmental Structures/ Design, and a 2022 recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for his exhibition ‘Folie a Deux’ at the Ely Center of Contemporary Arts in New Haven, CT. Sczerbaniewicz’ works are included in the permanent collections of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY, and the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has completed artist residencies at Yaddo, I-Park, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Space, the Sanford Underground Research Facility, and AIR Byrdcliffe. Sczerbaniewicz served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Notre Dame from 2017-2020 and is currently Assistant Professor of Spatial Arts - Sculpture at Northern Kentucky University.