Pipilotti Rist

(Swiss, born 1962)

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Pipilotti Rist

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Biography

Timeline

1962
Born in Grabs, Switzerland
1982
Studied commerical art, illustration and photography at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria
1986 - 1988
Studied audio visual communication (video) at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland
1997
Received the Kwangiu Biennale Award for "Sip my Ocean"
1999
Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Preis, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
2002
Visiting professor at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Awarded the Joan Miro Prize, Fundacio Caixa Girona, Spain
Lives and works in Zurich, in the mountains of Switzerland, and in Los Angeles

Exhibitions

2011
"Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage," Hayward Gallery, London, UK (solo)
"Pipilotti Rist: I Packed the Postcard in My Suitcase," Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, South Victoria, Australia (solo)
"The 54th International Art Exhibition: ILLUMInations," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Modern Women: Single Channel," at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
2010
"My Favourites -- Index of a Certain Collection: Selections from the MoMAK Collection," National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
"Black Box: Pipilotti Rist," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
"Heroes of Birth," Luhring Augustine, New York, NY (solo)
"Pipilotti Rist -- Lobe of the Lung," SAPS Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
"Extremitaten (weich, weich)," Pinakothek der Moderne, (cur. Inka Graeve Ingelmann), Munich, Germany (solo)
"elles@centrepompidou -- artistes femmes dans les collections du Musee national d'art moderne," Centres Georges Pompidou, Paris, France