Gniech served as Curator for the galleries of The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago from 2002-2013 and acted as the Collections Curator for the Institute’s Corporate Fine Art Collection. Gniech holds a Master of Fine Art degree with an emphasis in painting and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in illustration, both from Northern Illinois University. While teaching, curating, and consulting, he continues to paint and exhibits at the national level. His work has been included into numerous gallery and museum exhibitions—repeatedly included at both The Rockford Art Museum and The Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Gniech’s paintings have been acquired for multiple public and private collections, with a large canvas included in the Permanent Collection of The Fort Wayne Museum of Art.