Tobias Madison is a Swiss artist, known for his multidisciplinary conceptual art, moving image work, and performance art. His work frequently uses video, photography, text and installation to probe the economy of interpersonal relations in mediated realities. Madison currently lives and works in New York City.
Tobias Madison was born in 1985 in Basel, Switzerland. In 2011 he received a B.F.A. degree from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK).
Since 2015, he has taught in the graduate program (work.master) of the Geneva University of Art and Design (Haute école d'art et de design or HEAD).
Madison's work has had solo exhibitions at the Swiss Institute (2010) in New York City, Haus Konstruktiv (2010) in Zurich, Kunstverein Munich (2010), Kunsthalle Zürich (2013), the Power Station in Dallas (with Emanuel Rossetti and Stefan Tcherepnin, 2013), Kestnergesellschaft (2016) in Hanover, Germany, and MoMA PS1 in New York (with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, 2016).
His work is in many museum collections including the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.