{{short description|Swiss painter (born 1955)}} {{Expand German|topic=culture|date=March 2010|Pia Fries}} {{Infobox person | name = Pia Fries | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|10|06}} | birth_place = Beromünster, Switzerland | occupation = Painter }} '''Pia Fries''' (born 6 October 1955) is a Swiss painter.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E5DC103EF930A15751C0A9619C8B63|title=Art in Review; Pia Fries|last=SCHWENDENER|first=MARTHA|date=23 February 2007|work=The New York Times|accessdate=6 June 2011}}</ref>
== 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<ref name="MFAH">{{cite web |title=Pia Fries Engravings – Schwarze Blumen A2 |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/142241/engravings--schwarze-blumen-a2?ctx=03d42c4e69feba449e83bced0978657618d97239&idx=1261 |website=mfah.org}}</ref>
==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'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://crggallery.com/artists/pia-fries/ |title=PIA FRIES | CRG Gallery |access-date=2016-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513144310/http://www.crggallery.com/artists/pia-fries/ |archive-date=2007-05-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> CRG Gallery, NY * 2013 ''Pia Fries: wetter fahnen fächer'', Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris * 2014 ''Pia Fries, paysages maritimes'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cgrimes.com/artists/fries-pia/exhibitions/ |title=Pia Fries | Artists | Christopher Grimes Gallery |website=www.cgrimes.com |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202133/http://www.cgrimes.com/artists/fries-pia/exhibitions/ |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{SIKART|4021179|Fries, Pia|Autor=Barbara Wucherer}}
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