Pipilotti Rist SWISS, b. 1962

Pipilotti Rist produces single- and multi-channel videos and audio-visual installations that immerse viewers in saturated colors, kaleidoscopic projections, and psychedelic animations. Employing the sensuous vocabulary of music videos and advertising (she worked as a set designer and played in a band before shifting to visual art), Rist blurs the line between fine art and pop culture. Major themes include gender, sexuality, and the human body. Rist first gained renown for _Ever Is Over All_ (1997), an eight-minute video in which a woman smashes car windows with a red flower. The piece won the Premio 2000 award for emerging artists at that year’s Venice Biennale and, many years after the work was made, Beyoncé appropriated the concept for her “Hold Up” music video. Rist has since enjoyed solo exhibitions at the New Museum, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Hayward Gallery, and Kunsthalle Zürich, among other institutions. Her work has sold for up to six figures at auction.