PIA FRIES. Born in 1955 in Beromünster, Switzerland Lives and works in Dusseldorf and Berlin. Education

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1 PIA FRIES Born in 1955 in Beromünster, Switzerland Lives and works in Dusseldorf and Berlin Education College of Art and Design, Lucerne, technical sculpture class at Anton Egloff Art Academy Dusseldorf, painting with Gerhard Richter, a master student Solo Exhibitions 2017 Pia Fries: vier winde, Gerhard Altenbourg Award, Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany (forthcoming) Hendrick Goltzius and Pia Fries: proteus and polymorphia, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany (forthcoming) Pia Fries, Moss Art Center, Blacksburg, VA (forthcoming) Pia Fries: nasen und nauen, Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (forthcoming) 2016 Pia Fries: seascapes, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Pia Fries: weisswirt und maserzug, Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) Pia Fries: oxiponton, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany 2015 Pia Fries: volume and light, Neiman Molenaar & Mai 36 Galerie, Hong Kong, China Pia Fries: tabula coloribus, Kunstparterre, Munich, Germany Pia Fries: windhand laufbein, Kunstplattform AKKU, Emmenbrücke, Lucerne, Switzerland Pia Fries: fernleib manual, Galerie Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland 2014 Pia Fries: paisages maritimes, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2013 Pia Fries: Painting / Installation: Vera Lossau, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany Pia Fries: Painting, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France 2012 Pia Fries: color data, Studio Michael Royen, Vettelschoss, Germany Pia Fries: marginal sea, CRG Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Iserlohn Art Prize, Villa Wessel Iserlohn, Iserlohn, Germany 2010 Pia Fries: Krapprhizom Luis copper, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Pia Fries: Circumpolar, Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2009 Fred Thieler Award 2009, Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany Pia Fries. Chip space, Baloise Art Forum, Basel, Switzerland

2 Pia Fries: Merian's Surinam, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France 2008 Pia Fries. gutzgauch élévateur, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Pia Fries. la partie élévatrice, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 Pia Fries: loschaug, CRG Gallery, New York, NY Pia Fries: Painting , Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany Pia Fries. Painted Tongues, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England 2006 Pia Fries: black wild, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England Pia Fries: plumbago, Galería Distrito CU4TRO, Madrid, Spain 2005 Pia Fries: lukilux, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Pia Fries: hollerith, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal Pia Fries: Black flowers - monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA Pia Fries: Dover Publications, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France 2004 Pia Fries: Ornithology, Galería Distrito CU4TRO, Madrid, Spain Pia Fries: debris flow, CRG Gallery, New York. NY 2003 Pia Fries: Les aquarelles de léningrad, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland 2002 Pia Fries, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels Pia Fries: New Paintings, CRG Gallery, New York Pia Fries, Galerie Nelson, Paris Pia Fries: ski trails, Paintings and Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica 2001 Pia Fries, Studio A, Museum gegenstandsfreier art district of Cuxhaven, Otter Village Pia Fries: Works on Paper, Herder space for art, Cologne, Germanay Pia Fries, The Box, Turin, Italy 2000 Pia Fries, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck Pia Fries, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne 1999 Pia Fries: Peinture, Galerie Nelson, Paris Pia Fries, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Pia Fries: Nieuw work, Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem Pia Fries: parse and modules, Kunsthalle Göppingen 1998 Pia Fries, Kunstverein Göttingen Pia Fries: Painting, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany

3 1997 Art Prize Munsterland 1996: Pia Fries, Aurelia Mihai, Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, savings Coesfeld Pia Fries, Kunstverein Freiburg, Pia Fries, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau Pia Fries, Museum Kurhaus Kleve Pia Fries: painting, Kunstverein Ulm 1996 Pia Fries, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich 1995 Pia Fries, gallery Benzeholz, Meggen 1994 Pia Fries, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich 1993 Pia Fries, Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld 1992 Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Luzern Pia Fries, Bonner Kunstverein 1988 Pia Fries, Galerie Rüdiger Schoettle, Munich Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Works from the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung collection, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany Künstlerporträts Düsseldorf 1800 bis heute, Akademie-Galerie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany THINK-PAINT, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY Schweizer Kunst von F. Hodler und G. Giacometti bis heute, Kunstausstellung Trubschachen, Switzerland 2016 Drama Queens Die inszenierte Sammlung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany The Invention of Abstraction, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Depth to the Outside, Galerie der Künstler, München, Germany I ll Not Be In Your Damm Ledger: Steven Bindernagel, Tomory Dodge, Pia Fries Sam Reveles, Steve Roden, CRG Gallery, New York, NY Ortswechsel: Works from the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany 2015 CH-Variationen-Neuere Schweizer-Zeichnungen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland 20 Jahre Grafische Sammlung, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany Ich kann auch anders..., Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany 2014 freshly painted, Brother Klaus Museum, Sachseln, Switzerland paperfile #10, galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany

4 2013 My Kind of Disneyland, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany Yes, No, Maybe, Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Double image, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland 2012 salon of the present, Hamburg, Germany Beautiful sadness, Gallery E105, Berlin, Germany new paintings from the collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland it's only painting but I like it: Jo Dickreiter, Tatjana Doll, Pia Fries, Steffen Lenk, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Richard Allen Morris, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Stéfane Zaech, Kunstverein Offenburg, Offenburg, Germany la lingne passée, Gallery Bernard Ceysson, Koerich, Luxembourg 2011 risk + reward, The Foster Gallery, Eau Claire,WI the language of the flowers, CRG Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Ambigu. Contemporary painting from abstraction and narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland Do not Look Now. The Collection of Contemporary Art, Part 1, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland FUSION. Goya Contemporary Baltimore, MD Inaugural show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Drawing of the World - World of Drawing, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Korea show. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander. Soundtrack by Hans Brändli, Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany Christoph Bucher / vs. / Pia Fries. Gallery Kamchatka, Paris, France Irreversible. Double Meaning of the Sanchez Ubirìa's Collection, Paco da Cultura de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain 2008 Lust. The Presence of Absence, group exhibition for the opening of the Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig, Germany Plasticismes. Pràctiques abstractes avui, Centre de Cultura "SA NOSTRA", Palma, Spain Exhibition handle. Participating artists of the symposium put together with students and teachers at the Muthesius Academy of, Muthesius Academy Kiel, Kiel, Germnay 2 x [(2 x 20) + (2 2)] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world, Part I, May 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland th Anniversary, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France Group Show, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England Rolf Ricke Collection a contemporary document, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; and Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main Top of Central Switzerland. Contemporary Art from Central Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland Certainly art. The art collection of the provincial insurance, Museum Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany 2006 From judges to Scheibnitz: German works on paper since 1960 from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

5 Option 3: Daylight: provincial involvement in the Rhineland of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Helga de Alvear: Concepts for a Collection, Exhibition Center of the Centro Cultural de Belém Clear Cuts Collection "Clear": The Private Collection of Michael Stankiewicz, castle Raab, Raab an der Thaya, Austria 100 artists Watercolors, Jeannie Course Fine Art, New York, NY VIP III: Arena of abstraction, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany 2005 Karin Sander show. Audio Tour Through the Collection of Helga de Alvear, Soundtrack by Hans Brändli, 2005, No. 18 Landscape Confection, Wexner Center Galleries at The Belmont Building, Columbus, / Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, / Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach Sweet Temptations: Rolf Ricke Collection, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Art Unlimited. Art Basel 36 Miradas conceptos y en la colección Helga de Alvear, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz Painting's Edge, Parks Exhibition Center on the Idyllwild Arts Campus, Idyllwild, CA, Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Balance in two acts: Collection of Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation, Part 2, Kunstverein Hannover Looping, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand Step into Liquid, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles XS, Galería Distrito CU4TRO, Madrid th Anniversary: The LA Years, Part I, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles VIP 2: The New, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen Arte sobre papel, Galería Distrito CU4TRO, Madrid Angela de la Cruz, Paul Doran, Pia Fries, Dennis Hollingsworth, Jürgen Meyer, Adrian Schiess, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem Le Syndrome de Babylone, Centre d'art Contemporain de la Villa du Parc, Annemasse 2003 La Langue dans la boue, Musée du Tapis et des Arts Textiles, Clermont-Ferrand New Abstract Painting - Abstract Painting Now, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen Torn Between Two Lovers, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Painting?, Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel, Colorado, Gallery Klinkhammer and Metzner, Dusseldorf Perpetuum Mobile: 40 years Galerie Rolf Ricke Gallery Rolf Ricke, Cologne Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe 2002 Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galleria No Code, Bologna Group Exhibition: Sculpture Painting Photography, Beautiful Forest Fine Arts, Xanten Simply Art: Rolf Ricke Collection, New Museum State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg Sight Mapping, Konsthalle Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland; Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain 2001 LA International, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica Delicious, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, / Gallery Rolf Ricke, Cologne Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism - The Fourth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe Julius Baer type in the helmet house guest, Helmet House Zurich

6 Un siècle de défis: L'art du XXe siècle dans les collections du Musée des Beaux-Arts d'aarau Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau, Musée Rath, Geneva 2000 Surface and Paint, CRG Gallery, New York Paintings, Maximilian Krips Gallery, Cologne Flowerpower, Klinik Im Schachen, Aarau From Edgar Degas to Gerhard Richter. Works on paper from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Prague National Gallery, Palais Kinsky, Prague; Rupertinum, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Salzburg; Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster; New Museum, State Museum of Arts and Design, Nuremberg The memory of the painting, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau 2356 KM art from Dusseldorf to Moscow, New Manege, Moscow Campi di Oscillazione, Convento dei Cappuccini, Caraglio Juxtaposition III: Painting Today - Overseas and Here, Renate Schroeder Gallery, Cologne 1999 special offer, Kassel Kunstverein La Biennale di Venezia: 48 Esposizione internazionale d'arte: Dapertutto '99 '59 Respectively: consideration on 40 years of art in Switzerland, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau Super-Abstr-Action, The Box, Turin / gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris 1998 Abstract: Paintings by Pia Fries, René J. Goffin, Birgit Jensen, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel Color 1, gallery Monika Reitz, Frankfurt am Main Arts Switzerland, Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 3.1. Booth 351, / Townhouse Olten 1997 Pia Fries, Birgit Jensen, Kunstverein Arnsberg Image spaces, Regional Cultural Centre, Salzau Position Abstract / Specifically, gallery Beautiful forest and Beuse, Krefeld Pia Fries, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Perry Roberts, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf Not yet and / or infrequently Shown from the collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur 1996 near & far: 19 positions. Artists from Germany, City Gallery in Sofia Last infusion: 50 Artist / inside of Dusseldorf, sauna department of the former wave pool, Green Street, Dusseldorf En Helvetes förvandling-eng-90 talskonst från North Rhine-Westphalia, Kulturhuset Stockholm Our time-our Time, Gallery Beautiful forest and Beuse, Krefeld positions to painting: Pia Fries, Gerhard Martini, Paul Moran, Cora Hölzl Gallery, Dusseldorf Untitled: The collection of contemporary Swiss art the Foundation for Art Today, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau Drawing: Inner Switzerland II, Valley Museum Engelberg 1994 Miniature: Painting and Sculpture, Gallery Beautiful forest and Beuse, Krefeld Visiting... Atroper 26, Duisburg-Rheinhaus From the art collection of the city of Lucerne, Lucerne Kornschütte at City Hall 1993 Hans Brändli, Pia Fries, Karin Kneffel, Galerie Rüdiger Schoettle, Munich

7 Fellows of the Federal Art Scholarship in 1992, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / Ernemann new, Dresden Troy Brown cloth, Pia Fries, Thomas Ruff, Adrian Schiess, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Stephanien Straße 16: An address - An exhibition Stephanien Straße 16, Dusseldorf 1992 Fellows of the Federal Art Scholarship in 1991, the Kunstmuseum Solothurn The carpet of life: Katharina Fritsch, Pia Fries, Hans Brändli, Michael van Ofen, Stefan Sehler, Municipal Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve : The 29 Exhibition, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne 1991 Lucerne transit? Part I: Andreas Snappy, Max Bühlmann, Pia Fries, Jörg Niderberger, Franz Wanner, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne 1990 Scene Switzerland, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim 1989 Presentation of juried works. Work grants from the canton and the town of Lucerne, competition Fine Arts in 1989, cultural panorama at the Lion Square, Lucerne 1988 Helmut Dorner, Pia Fries, Axel Kasseböhmer, Jürgen Meyer, Galerie Nelson, Lyon 1986 Greenhouse 4, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf 1985 Pour parer les coups, Instant Upload, Kriens 1984 Collection Helmut clinker: painting, sculpture, objects and graphics, Kunstmuseum Bochum 1982 Hans Brändli Bogomír Ecker, Pia Fries, André Gelpke, Arno Jansen, Astrid Klein, Bernd Minnich, Augustina von Nagel, Peter Telljohann, gallery Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf Awards 1985 Prize of the Jury of the six central Swiss cantons 1986 Graduate scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia 1989 Work contribution of the canton and the town of Lucerne, Visual Arts Federal Art Scholarship 1991 Federal Art Scholarship 1992 Nordmann Award Canton of Lucerne Federal Art Scholarship 1994 Bonn Art Fund 1996 Art Prize Munsterland 2000 Atelier Zuger Cultural Foundation Landis & Gyr in London 2009 Fred Thieler Prize, Berlin Gallery, Berlin 2011 Iserlohn Art Prize, Villa Wessel Iserlohn 2014 Art and Culture Award of the City of Lucerne, Switzerland 2017 Gerhard Altenbourg Award, Lindenau Museum, Altenburg

8 Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland Auvergne FRAC, Clermont-Ferrand, France Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Studio A, Otter Village Bibliography 2016 Pia Fries: Weisswirt & Maserzug. Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Stiftung, Dusseldorf, Verlag Kettler. Texts by Martina Dobbe, Robert Fleck, Susanne Schouba. Exhibition catalog. Hickey, Dave. "Pia Fries: The Remains of Today," in 25 Women: Essays on Their Art. (42-46) Knight, Christopher. "Pia Fries at Christopher Grimes Gallery," Los Angeles Times, October 10, Pia Fries. Spanraum, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, June 10 October 30, 2009 (brochure). Ihler-Meyer, Sarah Pia Fries. Merian s Surinam, Parisart, Art/Reviews, October 6, Anonymous, Die Bildhauerin der Farbe, Badische Zeitung, September 1, Wildermann, Patrick Schmetterlingsraupen er blühen und verglühen, Der Tagesspiegel, March 25, Hinrichsen, Jens Metamorphose der Farben, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, March 25, Braun, Lena Im Sumpf der Farben, Berliner Morgenpost, March 19, Fred Thieler Preis 2009, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2009, March 18 May 11, 2009 (cat.) Carega, Paola Renommierter Preis fürs Malen mit Messer und Säge, swissinfo.ch, March 18, Interview mit Radio Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), March 17, Anon., Pia Fries mit Fred-Thieler-Preis ausge zeichnet, monopol,magazin für Kunst und Leben, Feburary 26, Anon., Fred Thieler Preis für Malerei 2009 an Pia Fries, art-in-berlin, February 24, 2009 Anonymous, Pia Fries erhält Fred Thieler Preis, Frankfurter Rundschau, online-ausgabe, February 19, 2009.

9 2007 Loskill, Hans-Jörg Freches Mädchen der Malerei. Das Bottroper Quadrat hat die Schweizer Künstlerin Pia Fries für sich entdeckt, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 6, Anonymous, Der Pinsel spielt keine Rolle mehr. Quadrat stellt Arbeiten von Pia Fries aus, Stadtspiegel Bottrop, September 5, Schmidt, Niels Holger Wildheit und Strenge. Neue Ausstellung moderner Malerei von Pia Fries im Quadrat, mittendrin!, September 2, Jäger, Bettina Farblich ist die Hölle los. Ausstellung: Die umwerfende Malerei von Pia Fries inbottrop, Ruhr Nachrichten, August 25, Anonymous, Das kleine freche Mädchen. Malerei von Pia Fries in der Modernen Galerie, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, August 25, von Burg Dominique, Pia Fries im Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunst-Bulletin no. 6, June 1, 2007, p. 83. Weiland, Florian Farbinseln in 3D. Kunstmuseum Winterthur zeigt Malerei der Richter-Schülerin Pia Fries, Südkurier, no. 107, May 10, 2007, p. 22. Mathonnet, Philippe Pia Fries fait danser les couleurs, Le Temps,Geneva, May 8, 2007, p. 40. Anon., Nichts als Farbe formt das Bild, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, May 8, 2007, p. 39. Schindler, Feli Farbmassen mit Rokoko-Touch, Zürcher Tagesanzeiger, May 5, Wüst, Karl Farbenspiel und luftige Lösungen, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, May 3, 2007, p. 12. Mack, Gerhard Die Farbe soll auf ihre Kosten kommen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, April 29, 2007, p. 70. Winter Agi, Kunstmuseum Winterthur: Pia Fries, Malerei 1990 bis 2007, Der Töszthaler, April 28, 2007, p. 5. Wüst, Karl Farben als Konstruktionsmaterial, Zürcher Oberländer, April 27, 2007, p. 28. Meier, Philipp Barocke Tafelfreuden. Pia Fries in einer Retrospektive im Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 25, 2007, p. 53. Pia Fries Malerei , Pia Fries im Kunstmuseum Winterthur, DRS2aktuell, April 21, Wüst, Karl Lustvolles Spiel mit der Farbe. Pia Fries imkunstmuseum Winterthur,Switzerland, Depeschenagentur, April 20, Schwendener Martha, Pia Fries, The New York Times, February 23, 2007, p. E35. Pia Fries: loschaug,crg Gallery,New York, February 2 March 3, 2007 (brochure). Frankel, David Pia Fries, CRG Gallery, Artforum International, April 2007, p Anon., Gebirge aus Farbe, Zurichtipp no. 13, March 27 April 2, 2008, p. 37. Reust, Hans Rudolf Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Artforum International, January 2007, p Mayer, Mariano Pia Fries, NEQ2, September de la Villa, Rocío Pia Fries, sentido y sensibilidad, El Cultural, October 12-18, Anonymous, Pia Fries: Plumbago, Artnotes, no. 11, Zarza, Víctor Un espectáculo suculento, ABC Cultural, September 20, Mooney, Christopher Pia Fries:DoverPublications, Modern Painters, February Vieira, Sandra Pia Fries, Artey parte, no. 56, Myers, Terry Coming Up Roses, Art Review, no. 56, June Johnson, Ken Pia Fries MurGang, The New York Times, May 28, de la Vega, Carlos García Madrid: Distrito Cu4tro, Contemporary, no. 63, Anonymous, Ornithology, de Pia Fries, El nuevo lunes, February 23-29, Nomblot, Javier Rubio Óleo para modelar, Blanco y Negro Cultural, March 13, 2004 Loría, Vivianne Pia Fries, Lapiz, vol. 23, no. 202, April 2004.

10 2003 Zwez, Annelise Pia Fries in der Galerie Mai 36, Kunst-Bulletin, December Meier, Philipp Joghurt und Konfitüre: Pia Fries in der Galerie Mai 36, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, no. 293, December 17, Reust, Hans Rudolf Zurich: Pia Fries, Galerie Mai 36, Artforum, vol. 43, September Frank, Peter Pia Fries, Rene Norman, LA Weekly, January 10-16, Douglas, Sarah Pia Fries: Christopher Grimes GallerySanta Monica, The Art Newspaper, no. 132, January Pagel, David A quiet riot, in a hothouse setting, Los Angeles Times, December 20, Smith, Roberta Pia Fries, The New Yorker, April 22-29, Goddard, Donald Pia Fries: New Paintings, New YorkArt World, March 21, Matteu, Daniela Fries: pittura come gesso, Arte, no. 337, September Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "Taking a Critic at His Word," Los Angeles Times, July 8, jk, Hell, klar und heiter: Papierarbeiten von Pia Fries, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, no. 136, June 15, Kruse, Hans-Henning Eine wahre Farbexplosion, Niederelbe Zeitung, March 27, ur, Kraftvolle Malerei mit starken Farben, Niederelbe Zeitung, March 23, Kaiserkern, Babette Rätselhaft und farbensatt, Foyer, March 15 May 15, Koerver, Jens Peter Varianten der Farbe, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, no. 292, December 16-17, Holm, Eter Wenn die Farbe in den Raum greift, Kieler Nachrichten, no. 130, June 6, Adamek, Jürgen Üppig verführerische, fröhliche Farblandschaften, Lübecker Nachrichten, March 6, Müller, Helmut H. Hier wird das Bild zum Farbraum, Eßlinger Zeitung, November 9, Vogel, Matthias Farbe: ein Ereignis an sich, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, no. 260, November 8,1999. Anonymous, Parsen und Module, Neue Württembergische Zeitung, Göppingen, October 22, Anonymous, Pia Fries: parsen, GEPPO Der Stadtbote, October 20, Mack, Gerhard Raumgreifende Dialoge, Cash, no. 41, October 15, Sundkvist, John Vämjelse insmugen i målerisk skönhet, Svenska Dagbladet, April 24, Otto, Julia Gewichtige Farben und federleichte Schleier, Göttinger Tagblatt, February 26, Otto, Julia Die Kraft soll im Bild zu sehen sein, Göttinger Tagblatt, February 14,1998. Otto, Julia Gespalten, zerpflügt und zerplatzt, Charakter: Göttingens Citymagazin, no. 12, Bubenzer, Nicole Thema ist die Farbe, Kunst Aktuell, no. 3, Year 12, Kollros, Petra Pink stört sich an Grasgrün nicht, Südwestpresse, December 13,1997. Heese, Ralf Pia Fries läßt Ölfarbe wirbeln, Neue Ulmer Zeitung, no. 285, December 11, rh, Pia Fries benutzt Ölfarbe als plastischen Werkstoff, Schwäbische Zeitung, no. 284, December 9,1997. Grass, Matthias Vegetation aus Farbe und Form, Rheinische Post, November 4, Mönig, Roland Polyphonie der Farben und Formen, artefact, no. 10, October15, Grass, Matthias Greller Gletscher aus gelber Farbe, Neue Ruhr Zeitung Neue Rhein Zeitung, October 18, Suter, Heinrich Pia Fries stellt in Aarau aus, An zeiger für das Michelsamt, 3. Bl. zu no. 15, October 4,1997.

11 Gürtler, Carole Kunsthaus Aarau: Renée Levi, Kiki Lamers, Pia Fries: Die Farbe, die verbindet und die trennt, Basler Zeitung, no. 116, May 22,1997. Baumann, Hans Die Präzision der Dokumentation, Der Bund, May13, frg, Wesenskern, Raumwerte und Lebensgerüst: Kiki Lamers, Renée Levi und Pia Fries stellen im Aargauer Kunsthaus aus, Zofinger Tagblatt, April 23,1997. Oberholzer, Niklaus Kunsthaus Aarau: Pia Fries, Kiki Lamers, Renée Levi: Drei Künstlerinnen und ihr Gang aufs weite Feld der Malerei, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, no. 92, April 22,1997. Zwez, Annelies Endlich wieder eine junge zeitgenössische Ausstellung mit Kunsthallencharakter!, Aargauer Zeitung, April 22,1997. Ruhl, Felix Farben in voller Bergund Talfahrt, Badische Zeitung, February 12,1997. Blankenburg, Viola Pia Fries im Freiburger Kunstverein, Südwestfunk: Freiburg i.br., S2, Kultur Regional, February 3,1997. Beil, Ralph Das urmein -Experiment.Oderdie farbmateriale Lust der Pia Fries, Kunst-Bulletin, no. 4, AlterHofHerding, Sparkasse Coesfeld, January 19 March 2,1997 (cat.) 1996 Kunstpreis Münsterland 1996: Pia Fries, Aurelia Mihai, Ernsting Stiftung Mack, Gerhard Pia Fries inzurich, Cash, no. 51/52, December 20, Anon., Pia Fries stellt inzurichaus, Wynentaler Blatt, no. 94, November 26,1996. Suter, Heinrich Pia Fries stellt in Düsseldorf aus, Anzeiger für das Michelsamt, no. 45, November 7, Vogel, Maria Die Grenzen des Beschreibens der Malerei, Luzerner Zeitung, no. 246, October 24, Roelli, Eva Alles, was die Farbe hergibt, Luzerne Neueste Nachrichten, no. 244, October 21, Suter, Heinrich Pia Fries stellt in Meggen aus, Anzeiger für das Michelsamt, 4. Blatt zu no. 42, October 19, Wiedemann, Christoph, Höhlenmenschen und Mondgesichter, Süddeutsche Zeitung, no. 231, October 6,1988. Meixner, Christiane, Sog der Farbmixturen, Bonner Rundschau, June 9,1992. Rojk, Winny Frage nach der Farbe, Generalanzeiger, May 25,1992. Ammann, Jean-Christophe, A Lucerne, Construire, April 15,1992. Vogel, Maria Die dichtfarbigen Bilder von Pia Fries, Die Heimat, March 12,1992. sda, Luzern: Zwei neue Ausstellungen, Badener Tagblatt, no. 46, February 25,1992. Oberholzer, Niklaus Die Malerin Pia Fries und Franz Erhard Walther, Luzerner Zeitung, no. 44, February 22,1992. Beck, Kurt Ölberge, mit dem Pinsel auf die Leinwand getürmt, Luzerner Neuste Nachrichten, no. 44, February 22,1992. Oberholzer, Niklaus Malerei wie eine Reise ohne Fahrplan, Wochenend Journal (supplement of Luzerner Zeitung, no. 44), no. 9, February 22,1992. H. A. N., Was die Palette hergibt, Rheinische Post, February 20,1993. Traub, Ulrich Pfade durch Farbschluchten, Westdeutsche Zeitung, February 10, 1993.