Pia Fries

Pia Fries (born 6 October 1955) is a Swiss painter.
Biography
Fries was born in Beromünster, Switzerland and studied sculpture in Lucerne in 1980, and painting under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Munich.
Museum collections
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland.
Binding Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland.
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany.
Niedersächsische Kulturstiftung, Hannover, Germany.
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, Texas
Selected exhibitions
1992 Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
1997 Pia Fries, Kunstverein Freiburg i.Br.; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
1999 La Biennale di Venezia: 48. esposizione internazionale d’arte: dapertutto
1999 Pia Fries: parsen und module, Kunstverein Göppingen, (Kat.)
2000 Pia Fries: en détail & en gros, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
2001 Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, The Fourth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe
2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 Pia Fries: Malerei 1990-2007, Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop
2008 Pia Fries: la partie élévatrice, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
2009 Pia Fries: merian’s surinam, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
2010 Pia Fries: zirkumpolar, Galería Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid
2010 Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2010 Pia Fries: ambigu, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
2011 Pia Fries: krapprhizom luisenkupfer, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
2011 Pia Fries: Ausstellung der Kunstpreisträgerin, Villa Wessel, Iserlohn
2012 Pia Fries: randmeer, CRG Gallery, NY
2013 Pia Fries: wetter fahnen fächer, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
2014 Pia Fries, paysages maritimes, Christopher Grimes Gallery L.A.
2015 Pia Fries: windhand laufbein, Akku-Emmen, Emmenbrücke, Lucerne
2015 Pia Fries: fernleib manual, MAI 36 Galerie, Zurich
2015 Pia Fries: tabula coloribus, Kunstparterre, Munich
2015 Pia Fries: volume & light
2016 Ortswechsel, Werke aus dem Kunstmuseum Bonn, Schauwerk Sindelfingen
2016 Pia Fries: oxyponto, Galerie Thomas, Munich
2016 Drama Queens - Die inszenierte Ausstellung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2016 Tiefe nach Außen, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2016 Die Erfindung der Abstraktion, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf
2016 Pia Fries: Weisswirt & Maserzug, Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung, Düsseldorf,
2016 Pia Fries: seascapes, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
2017 THINK-PAINT, Unix-Gallery, New York
2017 Künstlerporträts Düsseldorf 1800 bis heute, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf
2017 20. Kunstausstellung Trubschachen 2017, Trubschachen, Schweiz
2017 Pia Fries: nasen und nauen, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
2017 Pia Fries, Moss Art Center, Virginia, U.S.A.
2017 Hendrick Goltzius + Pia Fries: proteus und polymorphia, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2017 Pia Fries: Vier Winde, Gerhard-Altenbourg Preis, Lindenau-Museum Altenburg
2018 Pia Fries: parsen und module, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 9.3.-20.5.2018
Resources
External links
1955 births
Living people
20th-century Swiss painters
21st-century Swiss painters
20th-century Swiss women artists
21st-century Swiss women artists
Swiss women painters
Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Swiss contemporary artists