Toby Ziegler

Born in 1972 in London, he lives and works in London.

Toby Ziegler brings together motifs derived from a wide range of sources (photos, paintings, mémoire), and uses the computer to generate new forms and pictorial spaces, manipulating layers of pattern. Erasing the distinction between figuration and abstraction, the artist revels in the slippages between the virtual and the actual, and furthermore in the very physical acts of decomposing and distorting the materials. Leaving a lingering effect, these building blocks become impossible to separate or fully perceive, and the artist let the viewer’s subjective and sensitive impression add a final layer of meaning.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international institutions including the Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Weidingen (2022 and 2017); The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (2018–2019); The Freud Museum, London (2017); The Hepworth Wakefield (2014); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2010, travelled to The New Art Gallery Walsall; and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2007); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2005). Toby Ziegler’s works are part of institutional collections of the Arts Council England, The British Council and the Tate, London; The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart.