Olivier Mosset was born in Bern, Switzerland and has lived and worked in Tucson since 1996. Much of his previous illustrious international career was spent in New York City and Paris. Since the 1960s, he has been a central figure in post-war art challenging authorship and originality. His ideas and artworks are a key influence to both his contemporaries and many younger artists and critics. A member of the BMPT and later the New York Radical Painting groups, his work reasserted social relevance for geometric abstraction. He represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennial in 1990. During the last decade, Mosset created stage designs for the Paris Opera Ballet and continued to exhibit around the globe, with a focus on his sculptural works including his many Toblerones, often in ice, and installations that include his vintage cars and motorcycles. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Le Centre Pompidou, Paris; Migros Museum, Zurich; the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; the Musée des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-De-Fonds, Switzerland; the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario.