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Pia Fries - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Pia Fries in her studio, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2024.
Photo by Hans Brändli.

Pia Fries (b. 1955, Beromünster, Switzerland) studied at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland, and at the Academy of the Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany, where she studied under Gerhard Richter. From 2014 to 2023, she held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.

Over the course of her career, Fries has exhibited internationally at numerous institutions and galleries. In 1999, her work was included in the 48th Venice Biennale, dAPERTutto, curated by Harald Szeemann. Notable solo exhibitions have been held at Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France; Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany; and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Her work is held in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France; Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany; Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany; and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, among others.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Foundation for Graphic Art in Switzerland Prize, Zürich, Switzerland; the Gerhard Altenbourg Award, Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany; the Art and Culture Award of the City of Lucerne, Switzerland; the Fred-Thieler Prize, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany; and the Nordmann Prize, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Fries lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany and Lucerne, Switzerland.

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