Pia Fries  (Swiss, 1955) 

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Pia Fries Biography
1955   Born in Beromunster, Switzerland
1980   Studied at the Lucerne School of Art, Sculpture Department
1986   Studied painting with Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie
  Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
  Selected Collections:
  Aagauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
  Binding Stiftung, Basel, CH
  Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH
  Kunstmuseum Winterthur, CH
  Neues Musuem, Nuremberg, DE
  Niedersuchsische Kulturestiftung, Hannover, DE
  Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, DE
Selected Exhibitions
2007   Kunstmuseum Winterthur
2006   Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
2005   Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
2005   Galerie Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
2005   Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid (solo)
2005   Newport Beach, CA, USA
2004   25th Anniversary, The L.A. Years, Part II, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2004   Landscape Confection, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Contemporary Arts Museum, Huston, TX; The Orange County Museum of Art
2004   Mur Gang, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2004   Ormithology, Districto Cuarto, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2003   Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2003   Works on Paper, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003   Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003   Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
2003   Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2003   Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2002   CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2002   Galerie Philip Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
2002   Schiwege, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monic, CA, USA (solo)
2002   Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2001   Museum Moderner Kunst, Ottendorf, Germany (solo)
2001   The Box Associati, Torino, Italy (solo)
2001   Beau Monde, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA . L.A. Int’l, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2001   Surface and Paint, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000   Neu Manege Moskau, Moscow, Russia
2000   Kunstmuseum, Winterthur
2000   Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany (solo)
2000   Galerie Rolf Ricke, Koln, Germany (solo)
1999   Galerie Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
1999   Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1999   Kunsthalle Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany (solo)
1999   LUDWIG FORUM fur international Kunst, Aachen, Germany (solo)
1999   La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig, Italy
1999   Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany
1999   The Box Associati, Turin, Italy
1998   Pia Fries and Brigit Jensen, Kunsverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany, Pia Fries, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Perry Roberts, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998   Kunstverin Gottingen, Gottengen, Germany (solo)
1998   Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (solo)
1998   Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
1997   Kunstverein Friburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (solo)
1997   Aagauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland (solo)
1997   Kunstverein, Amsberg, Germany (solo)
1997   Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (solo)
1997   Abstract, Sfeir-Semmier Galerie, Kiel, Germany
1997   Galerie Monika Reiz, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996   Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1996   Nahe& Feme, 19 Positionen (Near and Far, 19 Positions), Goethe Institute, Stadtgalerie Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
1995   Gemeindegalerie Benzeholz, Meggen, Switzerland (solo)
1992   Kunstmusuem Luceme, Lucerne, Switzerland (solo)