Yves Scherer (b. 1987, Solothurn, Switzerland) is a Swiss-born, New York–based artist whose practice spans sculpture, painting and lenticular photography. Through immersive installations and carefully constructed visual narratives, he combines personal experience with elements of fan fiction and celebrity culture, exploring the blurred boundaries between intimacy, projection and mediated identity. His work often adopts a romantic perspective on the self, relationships and everyday life, examining how contemporary identities are shaped through desire, memory and representation.

Scherer studied Cultural Sciences at the University of Lucerne before completing an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2014. Frequently associated with Post-Internet art and a contemporary interpretation of Arte Povera, he first gained attention for works that translated celebrity imagery into sculptural form. Among these is an ongoing body of work centred on actress Emma Watson, often incorporating tatami mats, found materials and digitally sourced imagery. His first institutional solo exhibition, Honey Moon, was presented at the Swiss Institute in New York in 2015.

Recent solo exhibitions include Summer Pastoral at Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad (2025), and Imagine at Kunstraum Heilig Geist am UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein, Essen (2025). Other notable solo presentations have taken place at Peres Projects, Seoul (2024); Galería Mascota, Mexico City; M. LeBlanc, Chicago; The Journal Gallery, New York; and Galleri Golsa, Oslo (all 2023); Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York (2022); Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, and Cassina Projects, New York (2021); Kunsthaus Grenchen (2020); and Kunstverein Wiesen, Kura, Milan, and Basement Roma (2019).

His work has also featured in numerous institutional group exhibitions, including presentations at Kunstmuseum Solothurn (2023) and Kunstmuseum Olten (2019), New Swiss Performance Now at Kunsthalle Basel (2018), and New Contemporaries at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (2013). In 2021, he participated in the Belgrade Biennale, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin.

Scherer’s work is held in several public collections, including the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, the Portland Museum of Art, Kunstmuseum Olten and Kunsthaus Grenchen. He is the recipient of the Visual Arts Promotion Prize of the Canton of Solothurn (2012) and a Swiss Art Award (2015), and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Art & Design in 2016.