Tobias Madison belongs to a generation of young artists who frequently open up the isolated process of artistic creation through the adoption of cooperative or collective strategies, assuming the role of the curator, client and originator in the process. The roles that Madison adopts are as wide-ranging as the media in which he works: these include sculpture, video, projection, computer-generated and assisted painting, audio pieces, texts, photographs and scans. His works, which are processual in nature, are full of references and descriptions of found symbols and break through the boundaries and categorizations of the art system with playful ease.
Tobias Madison, born 1985, is a Swiss artist based in Basel and Zurich. Selected solo exhibitions includeDeficency Depletion at Freedman Fitzpatrick (2014), Life & the Invitation& Vapour in Debri& at The Modern Institute in Glasgow (2014),NO; NO; Hat Kunsthalle Zürich (2013), Drip Event (Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti & Stefan Tcherepnin) at The Power Station in Dallas (2013), TCCA NEW THEATER 2012-2013 APN Research あぷん autoslides #1–3 shindisi home videos the deleted scene a fanzine as a museum / a museum as a fanzine cut-out bin / apnegative sci-fi sounds from the alienated kitchen OOO &&& LLL hc r 1 at Kunsthalle Bern(2012),
Solo Presentation at Frame, Frieze Art Fair in London (2010), Hydrate + Perform / Yes I Can!, The Movie: A Preview at Swiss Institute in New York (2010) and DO IT TO DO IT at Kunstverein Munich (2010). Selected group shows include The November Issue, at Mathew Gallery in Berlin (2013), Speculations on Anonymous Materials at Fridericianum in Kassel (2013),CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL at Carnegie Muesum of Art in Pittsburgh (2013), Liquid Autist at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in Berlin (2013), Deftig Barock at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (2013), Hotel Abisso at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, Deftig Barock at Kunsthaus Zürich (2012), Dressing the Monument at Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee (2011), Glee at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles(2011)and The Village Cry at Kunsthalle Basel (2010).
In 2012 he received The Most Beautiful Swiss Books Award from the Swiss Graphic Society for Tobias Madison, Drawings. He is also a co-founder of the artist-run Basel space New Jerseyy and of Used Future publications
assuming the role of the curator, client and originator