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Biography

Tobias Pils (b. 1971, Linz, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna from 1990 to 1994.

Pils was the subject of a career survey titled Shh at mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2025).

Other select solo exhibitions include Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2025); Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2025); Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2024); David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York (2020); Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2019); Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (2017); Chinati Foundation, Marfa (2016); Secession, Vienna (2013); and Landesgalerie des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Linz (2003).

Select institutional group exhibitions include The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso, Málaga (2023); ON STAGE – Kunst als Bühne, mumok, Vienna (2023); Enjoy. Die mumok Sammlung im Wandel, mumok, Vienna (2021); Au rendez-vous des amis, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2020); Picasso et la bande dessinée and Picasso Poète, Musée Picasso, Paris (2020); Jay DeFeo – The Ripple Effect, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2018); Fotografie. Skulptur. Malerei (with Bernhard Fuchs and Justin Matherly), Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop (2017); Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, Vienna (2017); and the 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2010).

Pils was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize in 1994 and the Anton Faistauer Prize for Painting in 2011. He received an ISCP Scholarship in New York (2014) and was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa (2016).

Public collections include Museum Stift Admont, Admont; The George Economou Collection, Athens; Kunstmuseum Bonn (Stiftung KiCo), Bonn; Sammlung Scharpff-Striebich, Bonn; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop; Sammlung Reiner Speck, Cologne; The Warehouse, Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Le Consortium, Dijon; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Lentos, Linz; Goetz Collection, Munich; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Österreichischer Skulpturenpark, Unterpremstätten; Albertina, Vienna; Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna; and mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna.

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