Florian Maier-Aichen was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1973. His work has been exhibited and collected by such public art collections as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Denver Art Museum, Denver, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain. Maier-Aichen has also had solo exhibitions at 303 Gallery, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Maier-Aichen lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles.