| Selected Doctorates and Honors |
| 1974 |
Received honoris causa doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, England |
| 1992 |
Received honoris causa doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| 1998 |
Received honoris causa doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland |
| 2000 |
Received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Pratt Institute, New York |
| 2001 |
Received honoris causa doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, U.S.A. |
| 2002 |
Received honoris causa doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
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| 2002 |
Received honoris causa doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland
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| 1994 |
Elected honorary member of the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin |
| 1996 |
Elected honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, N.Y., U.S.A. |
| 1998 |
Elected honorary member of the Sachsische Akademie der Kunste, Dresden, Germany |
| 2000 |
Orden Pour le merite fur Wissenschaften und Kunste, Berlin, Germany |
Selected Awards and Prizes |
| 1965 |
Grand Prix of Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
| 1979 |
Gottfried von Herder Prize, Vienna, Austria |
| 1982 |
Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, New York |
| 1993 |
Award for Distinction in Sculpture, granted by the Sculpture Center, New York |
| 1997 |
Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Mexico |
| 1998 |
Commander Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta |
| 1999 |
Officier de L' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France |
| 2000 |
Cavaliere nell Ordine Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana |
| 2000 |
Visionaries! Award granted by American Craft Museum |
| 2005 |
Award for the entire Creative Activity granted by the Polish Minister of Culture
Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the International Sculpture Center in New York |
