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 has presented his work in exhibitions at major international institutions, including Shh, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2025); 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); Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, Vienna (2017); and the 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2010).
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); Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, DE (2017); Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (2017); Chinati Foundation, Marfa (2016); Secession, Vienna (2013); and Landesgalerie des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Linz (2003).
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 Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris; Albertina, Vienna; mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Kunstmuseum Bonn (Stiftung KiCo), Bonn; The George Economou Collection, Athens; The Warehouse, Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Reiner Speck Collection, Cologne Goetz Collection, Munich; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop; Lentos, Linz; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Sammlung Reiner Speck, Cologne; Le Consortium, Dijon; Österreichischer Skulpturenpark, Unterpremstätten; Museum Stift Admont, Admont; Sammlung Scharpff-Striebich, Bonn; Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna.
