Yves Scherer — installation view 1

Artist

Yves Scherer

1987, Switzerland

Biography

Yves Scherer portrait

Yves Scherer, born 1987 in Solothurn (CH), is a visual artist based in NewYork City. Working in media spanning from figurative sculpture to oil paintingand lenticular prints, he creates immersive environments that combinepersonal narratives with fan fiction and celebrity culture to offer the viewer anoften romantic lens or perspective on the self, relationships and the everyday.His work has been shown extensively in galleries and institutions across theworld, including the Swiss Institute in New York, Kunsthalle Basel und the ICALondon and is part of the collection of The Portland Art Museum, TheFarnsworth Museum, Kunstmuseum Olten and Kunsthaus Grenchen amongothers. He’s the recipient of a Förderpreis Bildende Kunst des KantonSolothurn 2012, a Swiss Art Award in 2015 and was listed on Forbes 30 under30 “Art & Design” in the class of 2016.

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Selected works

Breast

2025

Unfired clay

43/4×43/4×23/4in · 12 × 12 × 7 cm

Daylight

2024

White Onyx

51 1/8 x 13 x 8 5/8 in · 130 x 33 x 22 cm

Goodnight Moon

2024

White Onyx

47 1/4 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in · 120 x 20 x 18 cm

Sunshine

2023

Inkjet Print, Lenticular Lens, Acrylic Glass and KT-board in artist frame with glass

47 1/4 x 63 in · 120 x 160 cm

Eternity

2023

Oil on canvas

53 1/8 x 47 3/8 x 1 1/8 in · 135 x 120.2 x 3 cm

Daylight

2023

Oil on canvas

19 7/8 x 16 x 1 5/8 in · 50.5 x 40.5 x 4 cm

Day and Night

2023

Oil on canvas

30 1/8 x 24 x 1 1/8 in · 76.5 x 61 x 3 cm

Broad Daylight

2023

Oil on canvas

19 7/8 x 16 x 1 5/8 in · 50.5 x 40.5 x 4 cm

Day and Night

2023

oil on linen

84 1/4 x 69 3/4 x 1 3/8 in · 214 x 177 x 3.5 cm

Eternity

2023

Oil on canvas

30 1/8 x 24 x 1 1/8 in · 76.5 x 61 x 3 cm

Goodnight Moon

2023

Archival print, acrylic glass, lenticular lens and KT board in walnut frame with glass

64.4 x 48.6 in · 163.5 x 123.5 cm

Day and Night

2023

Painted bronze

70 7/8 x 38 3/8 x 33 1/8 in · 180 x 97.5 x 84 cm

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Exhibitions

Looking Through the Other Eye - Left is Right and Right is Left: Drawings by Sculptors

Looking Through the Other Eye - Left is Right and Right is Left: Drawings by Sculptors

03/07/2025 - 07/09/2025

It Never Entered My Mind

It Never Entered My Mind

20/07/2024-06/09/2024

Eternity

21/09/2023-4/11/2023

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