Tomasz Kawełczyk was born in Łódź in 1980. He studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In 2006, he obtained a master’s degree with honours in the Woodcut Studio run by Prof. Andrzej Bartczak and the Sculpture Studio run by Prof. Aleksander Hałat. In 2009, he was employed as an assistant of Prof. Lesław Miśkiewicz in the Basics of Composition 2 Studio at his alma mater. In 2017 he defended his doctoral thesis. Since 2020, he has held the position of Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.

Kawełczyk’s artwork is mainly associated with the woodcut technique and sculpture. In 2012 he went on an artistic residency to Japan where he studied the traditional Japanese technique of Mokuhanga colour woodcut. Since then, he has been actively sharing his knowledge, conducting workshops, organizing lectures and shows. The most important workshops include those accompanying the exhibition of Japanese woodcuts “The Road to Edo” held in the National Museum in Warsaw or those held in “A Japanese Puzzle” exhibition.

In 2014, 2015, he conducted research on the method of creating colour woodcut prints using the Japanese water ink printing method. In his work of 2019, Kawełczyk’s research focused on combining his original woodcuts and the Byobu system of Japanese screens into spatial graphic objects. Tomasz Kawełczyk’s graphics are in private and museum collections in Poland, Japan, Canada, Brussels, and the United Kingdom.