1980
Born in Raabs an der Thaya, Austria
Lives and works in Berlin and Vienna


Selected solo exhibitions

2012
Hold, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
SPOT, Zach Feuer, New York
Solo presentation of Florian Schmidt, Silverman Gallery and New Galerie at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles

2011
Synchron, New Galerie, Paris
Turn, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Solo presentation of Florian Schmidt, Galleria Suzy Shammah at abc - art berlin contemporary | about painting, Berlin
Haute (with Volker Eichelmann), Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
NEED, Zach Feuer, New York

2010
Proposal (with Volker Eichelmann), Ancient and Modern, London
Solo Presentation of Florian Schmidt, New Galerie de France at Indipendent Art Fair, New York
Solo Presentation of Florian Schmidt, New Galerie de France at Art Brussels, Brussels
Qualia, Oil & Water (with Agnieszka Szostek), Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin

2009
Voice, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Out(Blue), Kunstraum Eisengraberamt p.p., Gföhl, Austria

2008
Synonym, New Galerie de France, Paris
Forms, terms, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna

2007
Das Eine/Die Zwei (with Gilbert Bretterbauer), Michael Hall Contemporary, Vienna

2005
Sachlichkeit, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna


Selected Group Exhibitions

2012
Timed Up And Go Test, Souterrain, Berlin
Le Box - Fonds M-ARCO, Marseille
Painting...EXPANDED, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico

2011

Alex Olson/Tania Perez Cordova/Florian Schmidt, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Malerei: konkret.analytisch.radikal.oder so, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany

2010
Malerei: Prozess und Expansion, MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Brand New You're Retro, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Fahrenheit, Kunstraum Schattendorf, Schattendorf, Austria
Central Europe Revisited III, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt
Die Dritte Dimension, New Galerie, Paris
To Be Titled, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London

2009
Wiener Musterzimmer (with Gilbert Bretterbauer), Orangerie, Belvedere, Vienna
About premises and promises, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Collaboration (with Hanako Geierhos), Autocenter, Berlin
Halbajahresgaben, Tanzschule Projects, Munich

2008
Bar Malerei (with Hansjoerg Dobliar), Vienna
Paper, Scissors, Stone, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
La Petite Histoire (with Gernot Wieland), Kunstraum NOE, Vienna
Body Navigation (with Hanako Geierhos), St. Petersburg
Hommage an die Zeichnung, Parlament, Vienna
Fiktion, Narration, Struktur, Artnews Projects, Berlin

2007
Evasive Action, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Skene (Nachtrag) (with Gernot Wieland), Rathausgalerie, Munich
Virtuoso Interpretor, Cluster, Berlin
Reduzierte Aussagen, Kunsthaus Muerz, Muerz, Germany
Exportation, T293, Naples
Field Works (with Gilbert Bretterbauer), Galerie Remont, Belgrade
Trueber Kosmos, Kunstverein Weiden, Weiden, Germany
No)))2, Galerie Amer Abbas, Vienna

2006
Janus, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna
De Fabriek (with Hanako Geierhos, Aino Setalla, Mezli Vega), Rotterdam
Abstraktion und Uberleben, Die ewige Schuld der Moderne, Kunstbunker, Nurenberg, Germany
Real Presence (with Hanako Geierhos), House of Legacy, Belgrade
Patrick Hill / Eileen Quinlan / Florian Schmidt, Galerie Kosak Hall, Vienna

2005
Ways In / Ways Out (with Michael Part), Kunstverein Horn, Horn
Ritter der Tafelrunde, Künstlerhauspassage, Vienna
Lassie Come Home, SKAM, Hamburg 

2004
Projektraum LASSIE, Vienna


Studies

1999 - 2006 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2002 - 2003 University of Fine Arts, Hamburg


Selected Bibliography

2011
F. Melendez, Critics’ Picks, Artforum, Dec.
B.Brunner, Frieze, Issue 143, Nov. - Dec. 
K. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, p. E - 6, 4 Jun. 
K. Q. Smith, Art Practical, 29 Apr. - 4 Jun.  

2009
M. Tagliafierro, Flash Reviews, FlashArt n.278, Oct. - Nov.
B. Buchmaier, Critics' Picks’, Artforum, Oct.
G. Bria, Exibart.onpaper n.62, Dec. 2009 - Jan. 2010
Younger Than Jesus: The Artist Directory, New Museum, New York, exhibition catalogue, New Museum and Phaidon Press, p.442

2008
Synonym, text by C. Hamel, exhibition catalogue, New Galerie De France, Paris