The Artist
Adrian Schiess was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1959 and currently lives in the village of Mouans-Sartoux in southern France. He represented Switzerland at the 1990 Venice Biennale, participated in Documenta IX, Kassel, and more recently has exhibited work at the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Neues Museum, Nuremberg; Museu Serralves, Porto; ZKM, Karlsruhe; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.