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Urs Fischer
1973 born in Zurich
Studied 'Photography' at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zürich
Visited 'de ateliers', Amsterdam
Artist in residence, Delfina Studios, London
Lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Cockatoo Island, Kaldor Art Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Sydney
Church San Stae, Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale (with Ugo Rondinone)
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, large, dark & empty, Zurich
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2006
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Paris 1919, Rotterdam
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
blaffergallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Urs Fischer: Mary Poppins, Houston, Texas
The Modern Institute, Oh. Sad. I see., Glasgow
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
2005
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Fig, Nut & Pear, New York
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Jet Set Lady, Milan
Camden Arts Center, London
Hamburger Bahnhof, Flick Collection, Berlin
Hydra Workshops, Mr. Watson --- Come Here --- I Want to See You, Hydra, Greece
2004
Sadie Coles, HQ, Elton John?, London
Centre Pompidou, 315, Paris
Kunsthaus Zürich, Kir Royal, Zürich
Gruppe Oesterreichische Guggenheim, Feige, Nuss und Birne, Wien
2003
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, portrait of a single raindrop, New York
HQ Sadie Coles, need no chair when walking, London*
2002
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Project Room, What should an Owl do with a Fork,
Santa Monica
The Modern Institute, Mystique Mistake, Glasgow
Contemporary Fine Arts, Bing Crosby, Berlin
2001
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Mastering the Complaint, Zurich
2000
Delfina, Capillon – Urs just does it for the girls, (with Amy Adler), London
Kunsthaus Glarus, Tagessuppen/Soups of the Days and Domestic Pairs Project, (with
Keith Tyson), Glarus
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, The Membrane –Why I don't mind bad-mooded People,
Amsterdam
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Without a Fist - Like a Bird, London
1999
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Espressoqueen – Worries and other stuff you
have to to think aboutbefore you get ready for the big easy, Zurich
1997
Galerie Walcheturm, Hammer, Zurich
1996
Galerie Walcheturm, Urs Fischer, Zurich
Group Exhibitions
2008
Galpão Fortes Vilaça, God is Design, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
House Eva Presenhuber VNA, Jubilee Exhibition, Engiandina Bassa, Switzerland
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Disorder in the House, Brussels
Museion, Domestic Irony, Bozen
Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection, Sequence 1, Venice
Tese della Novissima, Arsenale di Venezia, The Hamster Wheel, Venice
MUMOK und Kunsthalle, Traum and Trauma. Works from The Dakis Joannou
Collection, Athens, Vienna
Biennale de Lyon
Palais de Tokyo, The Third Mind, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Paris
Festival Printemps De Septembre, The Hamster Wheel, Toulouse
Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Fractured Figure, N. Ionia, Athens
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Modelers & Makers: Works in Ceramic, New York
The New Museum, Unmonumental: The Art Object in the 21st Century, New York
2006
The Hugh Lane Museum, The Studio, Dublin
P.S.1 MoMA, Defamation of Character, New York, Long Island City
Galleria Luisa Strina, Contrabando, Sao Paulo
Stedelijk Museum, The Vincent 2006, Amsterdam
Palais de Tokyo, Cinq milliards d' années, Paris
Museum Abteiberg, Strange I've Seen That Face Before, Mönchengladbach
The Palazzo Grassi, Where are we going?, selection from the François Pinault
Collection, Venice
Villa Manin Centre of Contemporary Art, Infinite Painting – Contemporary Painting and
Global Realism,
Passariano, Codroipo (Udine)
Whitney Biennial 2006, Day for Night, New York
Centre Pompidou, Big Bang, Paris
2005
Gallerie Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Ma Non Al Sud, Siracusa
Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen (Amsterdam)
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, (Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart, St. Gallen
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Rivington Arms, Put It In Your Mouth / I'll see you on the dark side of the prune, New
York
Bortolami Dayan Gallery, Closing Down, New York
Galleria Civica d'arte contemporanea Montevergini, Ma non al sud, Siracusa
Museum of Contemporary Art, Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye,
Chicago
Modern Institute Glasgow, Urs Fischer, Glasgow
2004
Kunsthalle Wien, Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Realismus,
Vienna
Deste Foundation, Monument to Now, Athen
Regen Projects, Group Show, Los Angeles
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, L'Air du Temps – Collection Printemps/Été 2004,
Zürich
2003
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, silver convention, Berlin
Galerie Grimm & Rosenfeld, Munich
Biennale di Venezia, Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer's Dictatorship, Venice
Kunsthalle Bremen, Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse, Bremen
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Zürich
Kunsthalle Zürich, Durchzug-Draft, Zürich
2002
NICC, Exile on Main Street, Antwerpen
The Henry Moore Institute, The Object Sculpture, Leeds
Charlottenborg exhibition space, My head is on fire but my heart is full of Love,
Copenhagen
Swiss Institute, Lowland Lullaby (with Ugo Rondinone John Giorno), New York
2001
Museo Serralves, Squatters, Porto
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Ziviler Ungehorsam, Hannover
Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Enduring Love, New York
2000
Sommer Contemporary Art, Drawings, Tel Aviv
European Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta 3, Ljubljana
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, Sammlung (1). The Oldest
Possible Memory, St.
Gallen
1999
Kunsthalle Zürich, Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst, Zurich
Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, 999, Bellinzona
Palazzo delle Pappesse, Le repubbliche dell'arte, Siena
Entwistle Gallery, Holding Court, London
1998
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ironisch/ironic, Zurich
De Ateliers, de ateliers, Amsterdam
1997
Hotel, Dokumentation, Zurich
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Torino
Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, été 97, Geneva
1995/96
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Calypso (with Antonietta Peeters and Avery Preesman),
Amsterdam
1995
Binz 39, Assistent (with Maurus Gmür), Zurich
South London Gallery, Karaoke 444&222 too, London
Kunsthaus Glarus, Bundesstipendianten, Glarus
Awards and grants
1999
Providentia-Preis, YoungArt
Bundeamt für Kultur, Eidgenössisches Stipendium für freie Kunst, Zurich
1997
Kiefer-Hablitzel Stipendium
1995
Bundesamt für Kultur, Eidgenössisches Stipendium für freie Kunst, Zurich
