Alexander Pilis

Biography - Alexander Pilis

Alexander Pilis is an architectural investigator, artist, curator and teacher working under the aegis of “Architecture Parallax.”

He presented his work in Toronto (Power Plant), São Paulo (Museu de Arte Contemporanea de São Paulo and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo), Barcelona (Tàpies Foundation), London (The Modern Tate), Stuttgart (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen _IFA), Mexico (Museo del Chopo), Winnipeg (Winnipeg Art Gallery), Vancouver (Western Front Gallery) and participated in the 1987, 2002 and 2004 São Paulo Bienal.

Most recently, Pilis initiated the São Paulo Global Art, Urban and Architecture program for Daniels Faculty of Architecture and University of Toronto, in association with Escola da Cidade and Centro Cultural São Paulo from 2012 to 2014, which overlays science, art, architecture and urban interventions in a metropolitan condition without a collective agreement. He is currently professor part time at Concordia University.

Exhibitions at the gallery

May 14 – June 20, 2015