Bernard Frize was born in 1949 in Saint Mandé, France. He lives and works between Paris and Berlin. His work is represented in public collections around the world, including: The Tate Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MUMOK, Vienna; NMAO the National Museum of Art Osaka, Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt the Kunstmuseum, Basel and the Kunstmuseum, Zurich.

He has exhibited extensively both in Europe and in the United States including solo exhibitions at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst Landkreis, Cuxhaven; Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Germany; Gemeente Museum, La Haye, and de Pont, Tilburg, Holland; S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; The Bakersfield Museum of Art and The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; and Kunsthalle Brandts, Odense, Denmark. He participated in the 2012 Bienal of Sao Paulo, curated by Luis Perez-Oromas.