Urs Fischer (Swiss, b. 1973) is a contemporary artist known for large-scale sculptures, installations, and paintings that explore impermanence, decay, and the distortion of everyday objects.,Born in Zurich,he studied photography at the Schule für Gestaltungand began his career at Gavin Brown's enterprise gallery in New Yorkbefore going on to exhibit with galleries including Gagosian.
Fischer's practice spans sculpture, painting, photography, and installation, often transforming everyday objects such as chairs, tables, and bread into disorienting, whimsical forms.His career was launched at Gavin Brown's enterprise gallery in New York, alongside artists such as Peter Doig.At Gavin Brown's Enterprise booth at Art Basel in 2006, he showed Nach Jugendstiel kam Roccoko, a pack of cigarettes dragged in a circle across the floor by a motor suspended from the ceiling.In 2016, together with Laura Owens and Sam Falls, he created wall coverings for the pediatric inpatient rooms at Cedars-Sinai hospital as part of the RxArt program.In 2023 and 2024, he curated “John Chamberlain: THE TIGHTER THEY'RE WOUND, THE HARDER THEY UNRAVEL” at the Aspen Art Museum, a six-decade survey of the sculptor John Chamberlain's work,and wrote the accompanying book “John Chamberlain Against the World”.
In April 2021, Fischer made his NFT debut with CHAOS, a collection of 501 unique digital sculptures, each combining two 3D-scanned objects. The first work in the series, CHAOS #1 Human, was estimated at around $1,000 but sold at auction for approximately $100,000.In 2024, Fischer collaborated with the digital art platform 1OF1 to let owners of two or more original CHAOS NFTs combine them into new tokens through a smart contract,each yielding a new digital sculpture fused from the originals.
His Chumbox paintings, part of the 2025 show “Easy Solutions & Problems”, imitate the thumbnails of internet spam pages in oil, pairing saturated images with clickbait-style text.At Gagosian's Burlington Arcade space in London, Fischer showed new paintings of ornate domestic scenes based on drawings made on a digital tablet, alongside an AI-generated video of older men eating bananas,in a show that ran until January 2026.
