Pia Fries
1955 Born in Beromünster (Switzerland)
Lives and works in Düsseldorf and Munich
1977 – 1980 Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, specialist class for sculpting with Anton Egloff
1980 – 1986 Academy of the Arts, Düsseldorf, studies painting with Gerhard Richter, master scholar
1984 – 1998 Lecturer in painting at the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts
1998 – 2000 Lectureship in painting at the Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf
2000 – 2001 Visiting professorship at the Academy of Arts, Karlsruhe / Freiburg i. Br.
2007 – 2009 Visiting professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts
2009 – 2014 Professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts
Since 2014 Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Scholarships and Awards
1985 Jury Prize of the six central Swiss cantons
1986 Graduate scholarship from the State of North-Rhine Westphalia
1989 Work grant of the Canton and City of Lucerne, Fine Art
Swiss government art scholarship
1991 Swiss government art scholarship
1992 Nordmann-Prize, Canton of Lucerne
Swiss government art scholarship
1994 Bonn Art Foundation
1996 Art Prize Münsterland
2000 Studio residency in London from the Zug Cultural Foundation, Landis & Gyr
2009 Fred-Thieler Award, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2011 Iserlohner art scholarship, Villa Wessel Iserlohn
2014 Art- and culture award of the city of Lucern, Switzerland
2017 Gerhard Altenbourg-Award, Lindenau-Museum Altenburg
Works in Public Collections
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Detroit Institute of Art, MI, USA
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, F
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, D
Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
Kunstmuseum Bern, Stiftung Kunst Heute, CH
Kunstmuseum Bonn, D
Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, CH
Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, D
Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, F
Museum Folkwang, Essen, D
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, D
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, D
Museum of Contemporary Art, MCASD, San Diego, CA, USA
Neues Museum – Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, D
Sammlung Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hannover, D
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, D
Studio A, Otterndorf, D
Universitätsspital, Zürich, CH