Urszula Broll-Urbanowicz is a Polish painter, animator of independent culture, co-founder of the ST-53 Group, Buddhist and member of the first Buddhist group in Poland. In 1955, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (then a branch of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw). The art studio, which she founded in 1960 with her husband, became the center of her artistic life. Marian Bogusz and Julian Przyboś, among others, frequented her atelier. In 1967 she co-founded the Oneiron group. In the 1970s, she began to intensively explore her interest in Buddhism. Her work can be divided into several stages, from post-impressionism, through inspiration with cubism, to abstraction, informel and tasseism. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries in Poland and around the world in both group and solo exhibitions. In 2014 she was awarded the honorary badge of "Merit to Polish Culture".
