Urs Fischer Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in Berlin, Los Angeles and Zurich Studied Photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich Visited ʻde ateliersʼ, Amsterdam Artist in Residence, Delfina Studios, London Solo Exhibitions 2011 54th International Art Exhibition Biennale, Venice 2010 Sadie Coles HQ, London Oscar the Grouch, Brant Foundation, Greenwich (CT), USA 2009 Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York “Dear _________! We _____ on ________, hysterically. It has to be _____ that _____. No? It is now ______ and the whole _______ has changed ______. all the _____, ______”, Kunstnernes Hus, OsloMarguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York (NY), USA Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany 2008 Blurry Renoir Debussy, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland "Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?" A show conceived by Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (NY), USA 2007 Large, dark & empty, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich Agnes Martin, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles You, Gavin Brownʼs Enterprise, NewYork Uh…. Sadie Coles HQ, London 52nd International Art Exhibition Biennale, Venice (with Ugo Rondinone) Cockatoo Island, Kaldor Art Projects and the Sydney Federation Trust, Sydney 2006 The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Gallerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich Mary Poppins, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston (TX) Paris 1919, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam Galerie Massimo de Carlo, Milan 2005 Hamburger Bahnhof, Flick Collection, Berlin “Mr Watson - come here, I want to see you”, Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece (cat.) Jet Set Lady, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Istituto dei Ciechi, Milan, Italy Camden Arts Centre, London Fig, Nut & Pear, Gavin Brownʼs Enterprise, New York 2004 Elton John?, Sadie Coles HQ, London Feigge, Nuss und Birne, Gruppe Oesterreichische Guggenheim, Wien, Austria Urs Fischer: Kir Royal, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (cat.) 315, Pompidou Centre, Paris (cat.) 2003 portrait of a single raindrop, Gavin Brownʼs Enterprise, New York Need no chair when walking, Sadie Coles HQ, London 2002 What should an owl do with a fork, Project Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (CA) Mystique Mistake, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Bing Crosby, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin 2001 Mastering the Complaint, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland 2000 Capillon – Urs just does it for the girls (with Amy Adler), Delfina Studios, London Tagessuppen/Soups of the Day and Domestic Pairs Project (with Keith Tyson), Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland The Membrane – Why I donʼt mind bad-mooded people, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam Without a Fist - Like a Bird, ICA, London 1999 Espressoqueen – Worries and other stuff you have to think about before you get ready for the big easy, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland 1998 Hammer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland 1997 Frs Uischer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland Group Exhibitions 2009 The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London We Are Sun-Kissed and Snow Blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France & Galerie Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland Precarious Form, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Remembering Henryʼs Show: Selected Works 1978-2008, Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich (CT), USA A Guest + A Host = A Ghost: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (MA), USA Nothingness and Being, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico 2008 Open Plan Living, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Archeology of the Mind, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden Château de Tokyo / Palais de Fontainebleau, Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France An Unruly History of the Readymade, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico Sammlung / Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich The Hamsterwheel, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden Bla sted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, SwitzerlandGod is Design, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil Countdown, CGS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Schweiz über alles, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico 2007 Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York Hamsterwheel, CASM Centre dʼArt Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Jubilee Exhibition, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, BrusselsThe Hamsterwheel, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture in the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Domestic Irony, Museion, Bolzano, Italy Traum and Trauma. Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy The Hamster Wheel, Tese della Novissima, Arsnale de Venezia, Venice, Italy Biennale dʼ art contemporain, Lyon, France The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (curated by Ugo Rondinone) Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, N. Ionia, Athens, Greece Church Ssan Stae (with Ugo Rondinone), 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Soufflé, eine Massenaustellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria 2006 Collection 1, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands The Studio, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin The François Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop Selection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Defamation of Character, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York Contrabando, Galleria Luisa Strina, São Paolo, Brazil Cinq milliards dʼannées, Palais de Tokyo, ParisInfinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Codroipo (Udine), Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto) The Vincent Award 2006, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam Strange Iʼve Seen That Face Before, Kunst, Design, Architektur im Kopf, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland Big Bang, Pompediou Centre, Paris The High Lane Museum, The Studio, Dublin 2005 Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Big Bang. Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Material Time / Work Time / Life Time, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Touristʼs Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (IL); Hayward Gallery, London; MART Rovereto, Italy Ma Non Al Sud, Gallerie Civica dʼArte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy (Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart: Works from the Hauser & Wirth Collection, CoBrA Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Amsterdam Closing Down, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York Put it in your mouth / Iʼll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York Modern Institute, Glasgow 2004 I Hate You – The Falckenberg Collection Meets Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens LʼAir du Temps – Collection Printemps Eté 2004, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA) Sculpture: Precarious Realism between Melancholie and the Comic, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Memorable Memory, Migros Museum Collection, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, Switzerland 2003 Outlook, Athens (cat.) 50. Esposizione Internazionale dʼArte della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.) Inaugural Show, GBE Modern, New York Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer's Dictatorship, Biennale di Venezia, Venice Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 2002 Exile on Main Street, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium The Object Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England My Head is on fire but my heart is full of Love, Chrlottenborg Exhibition Space, Copenhagen Lowland Lullaby (with Ugo Rondinone and John Giorno), Swiss Institute, New York The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, Switzerland PoT: The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art – The Independent, Liverpool, England (cat.) 2001 Squatters, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal Ziviler Ungehorsam, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany Enduring Love, Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York 2000 Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Manifesta 3, Ljubljiana Sammlung (1). The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 1999 Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland 999, Centro dʼArte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland Le Repubbliche dellʼArte, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy Holding Court, Entwistle Gallery, London 1998 ironisch/ironic, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland de ateliers,