


Zofia Kostyrko is a classically trained artist, designer, and conceptual thinker. Born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, she followed her creative dreams across the world to the celluloid Oz of sunny California.
Zofia was an illustrator, art director and senior conceptual designer at Disney’s WDI for a lucky 13 years, creating and building Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. She has conceived ideas for Cirque du Soleil; made props for the kids' TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse; created sets and theatrical costumes for stage; and designed, illustrated, and produced children books and zoo and museum exhibits all over the world.
Zofia is highly accomplished in using both the traditional techniques (oil, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, and paper sculpture) and a wide range of digital drawing, painting, and modelling tools.
A conservationist at heart and in practice, Kostyrko lives in an old California bungalow surrounded by a wild native garden in Altadena with her family.
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