Pipilotti Rist

{{Infobox artist

| name = Pipilotti Rist

| image = Portraitfoto Pipilotti Rist.jpg

| alt = Pipilotti Rist at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona

| caption = Portrait image of Pipilotti Rist

| birth_name = Elisabeth Rist

| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1962|6|21|df=y}}{{cite book |title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=338}}

| birth_place = Grabs, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland

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| nationality = Swiss

| field = Video art

| training = Institute of Applied Arts, Schule für Gestaltung

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| works = Pepperminta, I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much, Pickelporno, Ever is Over All, Pixelwald

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| awards = Joan Miró Prize (2009)

| website = {{url|pipilottirist.net}}

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Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist, birth name Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born 21 June 1962 in Grabs) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/pipilotti-rist|title=Pipilotti Rist - Biography - Guggenheim Museum|website=www.guggenheim.org|access-date=2018-04-14}} Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body.

Rist's work is known for its multi-sensory qualities, with overlapping projected imagery that is highly saturated with color, paired with sound components that are part of a larger environment with spaces for viewers to rest or lounge. Rist's work often transforms the architecture or environment of a white cube gallery into a more tactile, auditory and visual experience.{{Cite web|title=Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/pipilotti-rist-pixel-forest|access-date=2021-04-07|website=www.newmuseum.org|language=en}}

Early life and education

Pipilotti Rist was born in the Rhine Valley of Switzerland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/25/pipilotti-rist/biography/|title=Artists — Pipilotti Rist — Biography — Hauser & Wirth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209215709/https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/25/pipilotti-rist/biography/|archive-date=2018-02-09|access-date=2018-04-13}} Her father was a physician and her mother a teacher.{{citation |title = Feeling Good: The art of Pipilotti Rist |first = Peter |last = Schjeldahl |date = September 20, 2010 |magazine = The New Yorker |url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/27/feeling-good-schjeldahl |access-date = July 15, 2019}} She started going by "Pipilotti", a combination of her childhood nickname "Lotti" and her childhood hero, Astrid Lindgren's character Pippi Longstocking, in 1982.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/from-the-archives-pipilotti-rist-is-caught-on-tape |title=From the Archives: Pipilotti Rist is Caught on Tape |website=Vogue |date = December 1, 2010 |first = Dodie |last = Kazanjian |access-date= July 15, 2019}} Prior to studying art and film, Rist studied theoretical physics in Vienna for one semester.{{citation |url=https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-267-pipilotti-rist-mark-speltz/ |title = No. 267: Pipilotti Rist, Mark Speltz |access-date=2016-12-21 |date = December 15, 2016 |work = The Modern Art Notes Podcast |last = Green |first = Tyler (host) }}

From 1982 to 1986 Rist studied commercial art, illustration, and photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Vienna. She later studied video at the Basel School of Design, Switzerland. From 1988 through 1994, she was member of the music band and performance group Les Reines Prochaines.{{Cite journal|last=Bishop|first=Claire|title=Interview with Pipilotti Rist|journal=MAKE Magazine|volume=91|pages=13–16}} In 1997, her work was first featured in the Venice Biennial, where she was awarded the Premio 2000 Prize.{{cite magazine |last1=Tomkins |first1=Calvin |date=September 14, 2020 |title=The Colorful Worlds of Pipilotti Rist |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/pipilotti-rists-hedonistic-expansion-of-video-art |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-us |pages=43–51 |access-date=14 July 2022}} From 2002 to 2003, she was invited by Professor Paul McCarthy to teach at UCLA as a visiting faculty member. From summer 2012 through to summer 2013, Rist spent a sabbatical in Somerset.[http://www.hauserwirthsomerset.com/residencies/pipilotti-rist-20140312 Pipilotti Rist, September 2012 – August 2013] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707172750/http://www.hauserwirthsomerset.com/residencies/pipilotti-rist-20140312 |date=July 7, 2016 }} Hauser & Wirth, Somerset.

Artwork

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During her studies, Rist began making super 8 films. Her works generally last only a few minutes, borrowing from mass-media formats such as MTV and advertising,{{citation |first=Catherine M. |last=Grant |title=Rist, Pipilotti |work=Grove Art Online |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart |access-date=3 March 2018}} with alterations in their colors, speed, and sound.{{Cite book|title=A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art|last=Mondloch|first=Kate|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=2018|isbn=978-1-4529-5510-0|pages=43}} Her works generally treat issues related to gender, sexuality, and the human body.{{Cite journal|last=Mangini|first=Elizabeth|date=May 2001|title=Pipilotti's Pickle: Making Meaning from the Feminine Position|journal=PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art|volume=23|issue=2|pages=1–9|doi=10.2307/3246502|jstor=3246502|s2cid=144369026}}

Her colorful and musical works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity. Rist's work is regarded as feminist by some art critics. Her works are held by many important art collections worldwide.

In I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986){{cite web |title=Rist's "I'm not the girl who misses much" |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rist-im-not-the-girl-who-misses-much-t07972 |website=Tate.org.uk}} Rist dances in front of a camera in a black dress with uncovered breasts. The images are often monochromatic and fuzzy. Rists repeatedly sings "I'm not the girl who misses much", a reference to the first line of the song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles. As the video approaches its end, the image becomes increasingly blue and fuzzy and the sound stops.Holly, Rogers, Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music [Oxford University Press, 2013]

Rist achieved notoriety with Pickelporno (Pimple porno) (1992),{{cite web |title=Pipilotti Rist "Pickelporno" 1992 |url=https://zkm.de/en/artwork/pickelporno |publisher=ZKM |language=en}} a work about the female body and sexual excitation. The fisheye camera moves over the bodies of a couple. The images are charged by intense colors, and are simultaneously strange, sensual, and ambiguous.{{Cite journal |last=Castagnini |first=Laura |title=The 'Nature' of Sex: Parafeminist Parody in Pipilotti Rist's Pickelporno (1992)|journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art|volume=2|pages=164–181, 253}}

Sip my Ocean (1996){{Cite news |date=1996-01-01 |title=Sip My Ocean |work=Guggenheim |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5208 |access-date=14 July 2022}} is an audio-video installation projected as a mirrored reflection on two adjoining walls, duplicating the video as sort of Rorschach inkblots. Besides a television and tea-cups other domestic items can be seen sinking slowly under the ocean surface. The video is intercut with dreamlike frames of bodies swimming underwater and other melancholic images such as colourful overlays of roses across the heavens. Slightly abstract and layered the visuals invite the viewer to reveal its depth beneath the surface. Accompanying the video is Rist singing Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game". Her voice is starting of sweetly but becomes gradually out of synchronicity with the song, ending in the shrieking chorus of “No, I don’t wanna fall in love”. Rist breaks the illusion of synchronicity in the video with the asynchrony of the audio and captures the human longing for and impossibility of being totally in tune with somebody else.{{Cite book |first=W |last=Haslem |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1315668744 |title=Sip My Ocean: Immersion, Senses and Colour |date=2018-12-21 |publisher=Charles Sturt University |oclc=1315668744 |access-date=14 July 2022}}

Ever Is Over All (1997){{cite web |title=Pipilotti Rist. Ever Is Over All. 1997|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81191 |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}} shows in slow-motion a young woman walking along a city street, smashing the windows of parked cars with a large hammer in the shape of a tropical flower. At one point a police officer greets her.{{Cite journal|last=Varley-Winter|first=Rebecca|title=Colouring écriture féminine in Peter Manson's translations of Mallarmé|journal=Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry|volume=11}} The audio video installation has been purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Rist's nine video segments titled Open My Glade{{cite web |title=Times Square Arts: Open My Glade (Flatten) |url=http://arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts/projects/midnight-moment/open-my-glade-flatten/index.aspx |website=arts.timessquarenyc.org}} were played once every hour on a screen at Times Square in New York City, a project of the Messages to the Public program, which was founded in 1980.

“I want to see how you see – a portrait of Cornelia Providori”Pipilotti Rist: "I want to see how you see" Blick Production NY, 2003 (2003) is an audio-visual work spanning 5:16. The sound was created in collaboration with Andreas Guggisberg, with whom Rist often works with. The main subject is the dialectical tension between macro and micro and how the continents are mirrored on the human body. The technical components are two to four layers of edited images, intricately cut and stacked on top of each other.Ilene Kurtz-Kretschmar: "Point of view: an anthology of the moving image" Blick Production NY, 2004 (Nr. 10. Pipilotti Rist. I want to see how you see. An interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Pour Your Body Out{{cite web |title=Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/307 |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}} was a commissioned multimedia installation organized by Klaus Biesenbach and installed in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art in early 2009. In an interview with Phong Bui published in The Brooklyn Rail, Rist said she chose the atrium for the installation "because it reminds me of a church's interior where you’re constantly reminded that the spirit is good and the body is bad. This spirit goes up in space but the body remains on the ground. This piece is really about bringing those two differences together."{{cite journal|last=Bui|first=Phong|title=In Conversation: Pipilotti Rist with Phong Bui|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=January 2009|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2008/12/art/pipilotti-rist-with-phong-bui}}

Her first feature film, Pepperminta, had its world premiere at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009.{{Cite web|title=Pipilotti Rist's Pepperminta, the Barnes Foundation and The Art of the Steal, and other new art films.|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/darcy/pepperminta10-26-09.asp|access-date=2019-03-02|website=www.artnet.com}} She summarized the plot as "a young woman and her friends on a quest to find the right color combinations and with these colors they can free other people from fear and make life better.”{{Cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Randy|date=2009-11-11|title=The Uncomfortably Intimate Art of Pipilotti Rist|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/magazine/15rist-t.html|access-date=2019-03-02|issn=0362-4331}}

When interviewed by The Guardian for a preview of her 2011 exhibition at London's Hayward gallery, Rist described her feminism: "Politically," she says, "I am a feminist, but personally, I am not. For me, the image of a woman in my art does not stand just for women: she stands for all humans. I hope a young guy can take just as much from my art as any woman."{{Cite web|last=Barnett|first=Laura|date=2011-09-04|title=Pipilotti Rist: 'We all come from between our mother's legs'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/04/pipilotti-rist-exhibition-hayward-gallery|access-date=2018-04-14|website=the Guardian}}

Rist has likened her videos to that of women's handbags, hoping that they'd have “room in them for everything: painting, technology, language, music, lousy flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex, and friendliness."{{Cite magazine|date=2020-09-02|title=The Colorful Worlds of Pipilotti Rist|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/pipilotti-rists-hedonistic-expansion-of-video-art|access-date=2021-12-14|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}

Personal life

Rist lives and works in Zurich,{{Citation|title=Pipilotti Rist Interview: A Visit to the Studio| date=9 May 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJUHOArAdY0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/FJUHOArAdY0 |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-04-07}}{{cbignore}} Switzerland with her partner Balz Roth, an entrepreneur. The couple has a son, Himalaya.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/27/feeling-good-schjeldahl|title=Feeling Good|last=Schjeldahl|first=Peter|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2010-09-20|access-date=2019-03-02|issn=0028-792X}}

Collections

Rist's work is held in the permanent collections of museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art,{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/8297?locale=en|title=Pipilotti Rist {{!}} MoMA|website=MoMA|access-date=27 March 2018}} the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/pipilotti-rist|title=Pipilotti Rist {{!}} Guggenheim|website=Guggenheim.org|access-date=27 March 2018}} the San Francisco MoMA,{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Pipilotti_Rist|title=Pipilotti Rist {{!}} SFMOMA|website=SFMOMA|access-date=27 March 2018}} and the Utrecht Centraal Museum.{{Cite web|url=https://centraalmuseum.nl/en/visit/exhibitions/pipilotti-rist/|title=Pipilotti Rist: Expecting {{!}} Centraal Museum Utrecht|website=Centraal Museum|access-date=27 March 2018}} Her installation, TV-Lüster, is on permanent display at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.{{Cite web |last=Genova |first=Christina |date=2012-06-02 |title=Kunst - Pipilotti Rist: Blutrot ist die Farbe der Künstlerin |url=https://www.tagblatt.ch/kultur/buch-buehne-kunst/pipilotti-rist-blutrot-ist-die-farbe-der-kunstlerin-ld.1921382 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=St. Galler Tagblatt |language=de}}

Influence on other artists

Ever Is Over All was referenced in 2016 by Beyoncé in the film accompanying her album Lemonade in which the singer is seen walking down a city street smashing windows of parked cars with a baseball bat.{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/04/25/is_beyonce_s_car_destroying_stroll_in_lemonade_based_on_this_pipilotti_rist.html|title=Is Beyoncé's Windshield-Destroying Stroll in Lemonade Based on This '90s Art Film?|website=Slate.com|date=25 April 2016|publisher=Slate|access-date=6 May 2016}}

Works

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=Architectural Art and Public Art=

since 1995: Flying Room. Video projection on the ceiling of the UBS entrance hall, Buchs, St. Gallen{{Cite news |date=2004-03-10 |title=Buch Nr. 1 zur Sammlung |url=https://www.nzz.ch/article9G3EV-ld.293351 |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |language=de-CH |issn=0376-6829}}
2000 and 2017: Open my Glade. Video installation on Times Square, New York{{Cite web |title=Rist, Pipilotti {{!}} SIK-ISEA Recherche |url=https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/de/sik:person-4006655:exp/in/sikart/actor/list |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=recherche.sik-isea.ch |language=en}}
since 2001: Ein Blatt im Wind (A Leaf in the Wind). Swiss Embassy Berlin, Germany{{Cite news |title=Kultur: Pipilotti Rist: "Ich habe Angst die Leute zu nerven" |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/pipilotti-rist-ich-habe-angst-die-leute-zu-nerven-792457.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |language=de-DE |issn=1865-2263}}
since 2005: Stadtlounge (City lounge). Square and street design in St. Gallen, cooperation with Carlos Martinez{{Cite web |title=stadtlounge {{!}} Kunstbulletin |url=https://www.kunstbulletin.ch/de/art/stadtlounge |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=www.kunstbulletin.ch}}
since 2010: Ceiling installation in the restaurant Le Loft on 18th floor of the Sofitel Hotel (Nouvel Tower), Vienna{{Cite web |title=Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom in Wien |url=https://www.schoener-wohnen.de/architektur/31207-rtkl-sofitel-vienna-stephansdom-wien |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=schoener-wohnen.de |language=de}}
since 2014: Münsteranerin. Permanent video installation in the entrance area of the Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster, Germany{{Cite web |title=Pipilotti Rist, Münsteranerin |url=https://kunstlebt.org/galerie/pipilotti-rist/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=kunstlebt.org |publisher=Freunde des Museums für Kunst und Kultur Münster |language=de}}
since 2016: Monochrome Rose. Streetcar train in pink, Geneva{{Cite web |last=Früh |first=Monika |date=2016-11-28 |title=Genf: Ein rosa Tram von Pipilotti Rist |url=https://www.forum-elle.ch/de/2016/11/28/genf-ein-rosa-tram-von-pipilotti-rist/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=FORUM elle |language=de-DE}}
since 2020: Tastende Lichter (Inching lights). Permanent video installation on the façade of Kunsthaus Zürich{{Cite web |title=Tastende Lichter von Pipilotti Rist |url=https://zuercher-museen.ch/museen/kunsthaus-zuerich/tastende-lichter-digital |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=Zürcher Museen |language=de}}

=Audio and Video art=

1986: I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much
1988: Das Zimmer (1994/2000)(Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler
1992/1999: Eine Spitze in den Westen – ein Blick in den Osten (bzw. N-S) (A Peek Into The West – A Look Into The East)
1992: Pickelporno
1993: Blutraum (Blood room)
1993: Eindrücke verdauen (Digesting Impressions)
1993: Schminktischlein mit Feedback (Little Make-Up Table With Feedback)
1993: TV-Lüster
1994/99: Cintia
1994/2000/2007: Das Zimmer (The Room)
1994: Selbstlos im Lavabad
1994: Yoghurt On Skin – Velvet On TV
1995: Search Wolken / Suche Clouds (elektronischer Heiratsantrag) (Search Wolken / Such Clouds (Electronic Marriage Proposal))
1996: Sip My Ocean (Schlürfe meinen Ozean)
1997: Ever Is Over All{{cite web|access-date=2022-09-19|title=Ever is overall Pipiloti|website=YouTube |date=12 May 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gd06ukX-rU}}
1998: Blauer Leibesbrief (Blue Bodily Lettre)
1999/2001, 2007, 2009: Kleines Vorstadthirn (Small Suburb Brain)
1999: Himalaya Goldsteins Stube (Himalaya Goldstein’s Living Room)
2000: Öffne meine Lichtung (Open my Glade (Flatten)){{cite web|access-date=2022-09-19|language=de-DE|title=Pipilotti Rist - Be Nice To Me (Flatten 04)|website=YouTube |date=24 June 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDh_D1G0hU}}
2000: Himalaya’s Sister’s Living Room
2000: Peeping Freedom Shutters for Olga Shapir
2000/2001: Supersubjektiv (Super Subjective)
2001/2005: Wach auf (Despierta)
2001: Expecting
2002: Der Kuchen steht in Flammen (The Cake is in Flames)
2003: Apfelbaum unschuldig auf dem Diamantenhügel (Apple Tree Innocent On Diamond Hill) (Manzano inocente en la colina de diamantes)
2004: Herz aufwühlen Herz ausspülen (Stir Heart Rinse Heart)
2005: Eine Freiheitsstatue für Löndön (A Liberty Statue for Löndön)
2005: Homo Sapiens Sapiens
2006: Celle selbst zu zweit, by Gutararist aka Gudrun Gut & Pipilotti Rist
2007: Ginas Mobile (Gina’s Mobile)
2008: Erleuchte (und kläre) meinen Raum (Enlight My Space )
2011: Cape Cod Chandelier
2014: Worry Will Vanish Horizon
2015: Wir verwurzeln (Seelenfarben)
2016: Pixelwald
2016: 4th Floor To Mildness
2017: Caressing Dinner Circle (Tender Roundelay Family) 5er table
2018: Sparkling Pond, Bold-Coloured Groove & Tender Fire (Please Walk In And Let The Colors Caress You){{cite web|access-date=2023-12-17|language=en-US|title=Pipilotti Rist: Sparkling Pond, Bold-Coloured Groove & Tender Fire|url=https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/pipilotti-rist-sparkling-pond-bold-coloured-groove-tender-fire}}
2020: Fritzflasche (The Bottle of Fritz){{cite web|access-date=2023-12-17|language=en|title=Brilliant Brushes - Discover & Buy Art|url=https://www.brilliantbrushes.co.uk/}}
2023: Hand Me Your Trust

=Feature Film=

2009: Pepperminta

Recognition

1997 – Renta Preis of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg
1998 – Nomination for the Hugo Boss Prize
1999 – Wolfgang Hahn Prize{{cite web|title=Pipilotti Rist Archive|url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/archive/cvs/130.pdf|publisher=Brooklyn Museum}}
2003 – Honorary Professorship from Berlin University of the Arts{{cite web |url=https://www.vdl.udk-berlin.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfoPerson&publishSubDir=personal&keep=y&purge=y&personal.pid=764 |website=Berlin University of the Arts |title=Campusmanagement-Portal der Universität der Künste Berlin |trans-title=Campus management portal of the Berlin University of the Arts |language=de |access-date=2020-02-01}}
2006 – Guggenheim Museums Young Collector's Council Annual Artist's Ball honouring Pipilotti Rist
2007 – St. Galler Kulturpreis der St. Gallischen Kulturstiftung{{cite web|title=Large St.Galler Culture Award for Manon|url=http://www.sg.ch/news/1/2013/10/grosser-st-galler-kulturpreis-fuer-manon.html|publisher=Canton of St. Gallen|access-date=1 February 2014}}
2009 – Special Award, Seville European Film Festival{{cite web |url=http://festivalcinesevilla.eu/en/palmares |title=Prize Winners |website=Festival de Sevilla |access-date=2020-01-30}}
2009 – Joan Miró Prize, Barcelona{{cite web|url=http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org/premiedicions.php?idioma=2 |title=Joan Miró Prize: Pipilotti Rist (2009) |access-date=2010-02-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131234609/http://www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org/premiedicions.php?idioma=2 |archive-date=2010-01-31 }}
2009 – Best Exhibition Of Digital, Video, or Film: "Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)" at Museum of Modern Art, New York. 26th annual awards, The International Association of Art Critics (AICA){{cite web|title=U.S. Art Critics Association Announces Winners of 26th Annual Awards|url=http://artdaily.com/news/34891/U-S--Art-Critics-Association-Announces-Winners-of-26th-Annual-Awards-#.VIZHo6MgDa4|website=ArtDaily.org|access-date=9 December 2014}}
2010 – Cutting the Edge Award, Miami International Film Festival{{cite web |url=https://miamifilmfestival.com/archives-2010-winners/ |title=Archives - 2010 - Winners |website=Miami International Film Festival |access-date=2020-01-02}}
2011 – Best Architects '11 Award{{cite web |url=https://bestarchitects.de/en/2011/all/all/all/all/39-Carlos-Martinez-architekten-Pipilotti-Rist-Stadtlounge-St.-Gallen.html |title=carlos martinez architekten & pipilotti rist |website=Best Architects Awards |access-date=2020-01-30}}
2012 – Bazaar Art, International Artist of the Year, Hong Kong, China{{cite web |url=http://observer.com/2012/05/pipilotti-rist-wins-bazaar-art-2012s-international-aritst-of-the-year-award/ |title=Pipilotti Rist Wins BAZAAR Art 2012's International Artist of the Year Award |website=The New York Observer |date=28 May 2012 |access-date=2014-11-28}}
2013 – Zurich Festival Prize, Zürcher Festpiele{{cite web |url=http://festspielezuerich.ch/en/2013/festival-prize |title=Zürcher Festspielpreis |website= Festspiele Zürich |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519171852/https://festspiele-zuerich.ch/en/2013/festival-prize/ |archive-date=2016-05-19}}
2014 – Baukoma Awards for Marketing and Architecture, Best Site Development
2021 – Elected Honorary Royal Academician (HonRA) on 9 September 2021{{Cite web |title=Pipilotti Rist. Artist |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/pipilotti-rist-hon-ra |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219182002/https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/pipilotti-rist-hon-ra |archive-date=19 Feb 2023 |website=Royal Academy of Arts}}
2024 – Culture Prize of the Canton of Zürich{{cite web | url=https://www.zh.ch/de/news-uebersicht/medienmitteilungen/2024/02/pipilotti-rist-erhaelt-den-kulturpreis-des-kantons-zuerich.html | title=Pipilotti Rist erhält den Kulturpreis des Kantons Zürich }}