Józek Nowak was born in 1962 in Jordanów.
In 1991 he graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.
He is a member of: the European organization Sculpture Network, the Association of German Artists of the Bavarian District (BBK Bayern) and the Cracow District of the Association of Polish Artists.
Since 1994, he has lived and worked in Germany, in Pöcking, Bavaria, on Lake Starnberger, and in Krakow.
The artist's work includes figural and abstract sculpture and multimedia art.
Józek Nowak's works include the monument to Pope John Paul II in Hamburg, the sculpture “Olga” for the Schanghai Sculpture Park in China, altar sculptures for the new church in Niepołomice, the monument to Frederic Chopin in Żelazowa Wola – this monument is a wood sculpture whose bronze casting is in Munich's Poets Park, and the monument to Empress Sisi in Possenhofen.
The artist has exhibited his works in Poland and abroad, including in Krakow, Warsaw and Orońsko, Darmstadt, Munich and Hanover in Germany.