18 Facts About Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer was born on May 2,1973 and is a Swiss-born contemporary visual artist living in New York City and Los Angeles.

Urs Fischer has a studio in the Frogtown neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Urs Fischer moved to Amsterdam in 1993, at the age of nineteen, and had his first solo show at a gallery in Zurich in 1996.

Urs Fischer later lived in London, Los Angeles, and Berlin before moving to New York.

Since Urs Fischer began showing his work in Europe in the mid-1990s, he has produced an enormous number of objects, drawings, collages, and room-size installations.

In late 2022, Urs Fischer launched his clothing line, UF, at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York City.

In 1996, Urs Fischer had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich.

In 2002, Urs Fischer had his first institutional show in the US at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, which included an early wax sculpture, What Should an Owl Do with a Fork.

In 2012, Urs Fischer launched his own publishing imprint, Kiito-San, whose books are distributed by DAP and Buchhandlung Walther Konig.

In 2019, Urs Fischer exhibited "SIRENS" at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, a series of new paintings that built upon the aesthetic of his earlier Problem Paintings, using classic Hollywood stills as a foundation to explore form, shape, and color.

In Untitled, Urs Fischer constructed a Swiss style chalet out of loaves of bread.

Urs Fischer began making wax sculptures in the early 2000s, resulting in anonymous and crudely cut female forms.

In 2012, the Palazzo Grassi exhibited a retrospective of Urs Fischer's work, conceived by the artist and curator Caroline Bourgeois.

Urs Fischer was the first living artist to receive a monographic exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.

Coverage in the Los Angeles times was more critical, commenting that Urs Fischer's work was largely derivative of artists that came before, such as Robert Gober, Marcel Duchamp and Bruce Nauman; and that the art world satire felt hollow considering that the vast majority of works were loaned from private galleries and collections.

Since the early 2000s, Urs Fischer has been living in a 1920s home in the Solano Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Urs Fischer was in a relationship with Cassandra MacLeod; in 2009, their daughter Charlotte was born.

In June 2016, it was reported that Subkoff and Urs Fischer had filed for divorce.