1930      Born in Falenty, Poland

1950/54 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

1954/60 Paints a series of large gouaches on paper and canvas

1960s    Creates monumental three-dimensional forms called Abakans, made out of materials woven by herself in her own technique

1970s    Changes scale and material. Creates huge cycles of figurative and non-figurative sculptures made out of burlap and resins, called Alterations.

1980s    Creates series of monumental sculptures using bronze, stone, wood and iron. Installs permanent outdoor "spaces to experience" in Italy, Israel, S.Korea, Germany and America.

1990/91 Upon the invitation of the Paris authorities concerning the enlargement of the Great Axis of Paris, she designs Arboreal Architecture, her concept of a modern, ecological city, in which buildings organic in shape, are vertical gardens. Creates "Bronze Crowd", group of 36 figures.

1992/93 Continues to work on "War Games" - huge tree trunks armed with steel. Begins the cycle of "Hand-like Trees" - vertical bronze forms.

1994/97 Designs and choreographs dances deriving from her sculptures, performed by "Asbestos", the Japanese Butoh dance group. Creates "Hurma", 150 children figures and "Backward Standing", 60 figures of adults. Creates cycles of monumental metaphoric bronze heads, animals and birds follows.

1998/99 Creates huge oval forms out of concrete -"The Space of Unknown Growth"- in Europe Parkas, Lithuania. Creates first groups of "walking figures" out of burlap, then also out of bronze.

2000    Creates a Crowd of 95 Figures standing and walking bronze

2001    Creates two big groups of walking figures. Installs compositions of six birds out of aluminum

Magdalena Abakanowicz has been Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, 1965/90, and Visiting Professor at the U.C.L.A. (1984). She lives and works in Warsaw.