Walter Pichler was born in 1936 in Deutschnofen, Italy and lived in Austria until he passed in 2012. Pichler was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck, Austria; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Generali Foundation, Vienna; Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy; Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna;Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; and Kunsthalle Tubingen, Germany, among others. He has also been included in group exhibitions at institutions including: MAK Study Collection Furniture, Vienna; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; The Generali Foundation, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; and the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. Pichler participated in Documenta 6 (1976) and Documenta 4 (1968) in Kassel, Germany.