| Joel Fisher, American (1947 - )
Joel Fisher (b. 1947, Salem, OH) studied Kenyon College. He has exhibited in Berlin, London, Paris and Amsterdam. His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern art New York.
He has taught at RISD, Bath Academy of Art in England, the Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Currently he is engaged in a huge international stone research project. Fisher lives and works Vermont, but spends large periods of time Paris, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2007 |
“Joel Fisher: Recent Paintings” Art Affairs Gallery, Amesterdam, Netherlands |
| 2003 |
“Joel Fisher: Isography” Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 1998 |
Punctuated Memory, Galerie Hubert Winter. Berlin-Mitte.Kontorhaus. |
| 1997 |
Six Sculptures, Stux Gallery, New York. |
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Mosaic Evolution, Art Affairs/ Antoinette de Stigter, Amsterdam. |
| 1996 |
Les Incunables: Chapitre 1 - Premières sculptures, Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris |
| 1995 |
Fingere, Galerie Rochefort, Montreal. |
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The Red Mill Gallery, VSC Johnson, Vermont. |
| 1994 |
Art Affairs/ Antoinette De Stigter, Amsterdam. |
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Light, Lawrence Markey, New York. |
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Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien. |
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Circle, Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris. |
| 1993 |
Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Holland |
| 1991 |
“Joel Fisher”, Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany |
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“Small Sculptures and Works on Paper”, Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1989 |
“Circumstances”, Diane Brown Gallery, NY |
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“Joel Fisher”, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
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“Joel Fisher”, Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Spain |
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Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 |
“Subtle Delusions”, Diane Brown Gallery, NY |
| 1987 |
Diane Brown Gallery, NY |
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Farideh Cadot Gallery, NY |
| 1986 |
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
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Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden |
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Farideh Cadot Gallery, Paris, France |
| 1985 |
Galerij S‑65, Aalst, Belgium |
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Diane Brown Gallery, NY |
| 1984 |
Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland |
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Diane Brown Gallery, NY |
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Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern, Switzerland |
| 1983 |
Farideh Cadot Gallery, Paris, France |
| 1982 |
“Joel Fisher Paperworks, 1970‑1982”, Riverside Studios, London |
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Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
| 1981 |
Galerie Michele Lachowsky, Brussels, Belgium |
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Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden |
| 1980 |
Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern, Switzerland |
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New 57 Gallery, Edinbugh, Scotland |
| 1979 |
Galerie Michele Lachowsky, Brussels, Belgium |
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Graeme Murray Galelry, Edinburgh |
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Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
| 1978 |
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland |
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Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
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Galleria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland |
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Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy |
| 1977 |
Max Protetch Gallery, NY |
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Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
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Cultural Information Centrum, Ghent, Belgium |
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Oliver Dowling, Dublin, Ireland |
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Gallery Kiki Maier‑Hahn, Dusseldorf, Germany |
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Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
| 1976 |
Max Protetch Gallery, NY |
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Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy |
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Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy |
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Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
| 1975 |
Staditsches Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany |
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Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Gallery Ernst, Hanover, Germany |
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Gallery Folker Skulima, Berlin, Germany |
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Galleria Forma, Genoa, Italy |
| 1974 |
Gallery, Foker Skulima, Berlin, Germany |
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Gallerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France |
| 1973 |
The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
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Gallery Stampa. Basel, Switzerland |
| 1972 |
Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France |
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Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy |
| 1971 |
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England |
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Nigel Greenwood Gallery, LOndon, England |
| 1970 |
Whitney Art Resources Center, NY |
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Mansfield Arts Center, Mansfield, OH |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2005 |
“Situation” Bleibtreu Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 |
“Dianna Cohen – Plastci bag/ +small is beautiful” Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2000 |
“Stock From the Last Century” (2) Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 1998 |
“Acts of Faith,” kuratiert von Willoughby Sharp, Lubelski Gallery, New York |
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“Not Nothing,” Todd Gallery, London |
| 1997 |
kuratiert von Willoughby Sharp, Satellite, Long Island City, New York |
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Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris. |
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VIII Biennale of Prints & Drawings, Taipeh. |
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“Odeurs…une odyssée” Passage de Retz, Paris |
| 1996 |
Sammlung Toni Gerber im Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern. |
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“Graphit auf Papier,” Galerie Thomas von Lintel, München |
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“Figure to Object,” Karsten Schubert & Frith Street Gallery, London. |
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“Jahrtausend(w)ende,” Dominikanerkirche, Krems. |
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“Schwere Los, OÖ Landesgalerie,” Linz. |
| 1995 |
Galerie Serpa, Lissabon. |
| 1994 |
Kunstmuseum, Bern |
| 1993 |
Galerie Gmurzynska, Colonge, Germany |
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“Parceling Perception,” Four Walls, New York. |
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“Hyper Cathexis.” Stux Gallery, New York. |
| 1992 |
“A/D at the Peter Joseph Gallery”, Peter Joseph Gallery, NY |
| 1991 |
“Prints By Sculptors”, Crown Point Press, NY |
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“Homage to Wood”, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA |
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“Prints and Concepts”, Stella R Graphics, Paris, France |
| 1989 |
“MicroSculpture”, Fine Arts Center, University of |
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Rhode Island |
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“Image Realities by Joel Fisher, Markus Raetz, George |
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Rousse and David Tremlett, Galerie Farideh Cadot, NY |
| 1988‑1989 |
“Four Americans”, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1988 |
“Diane Brown at Graeme Murray”, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD |
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Massimo Audiello |
| 1987 |
“Joel Fisher, Mel Kendrick, Robert Lobe: Recent Sculpture”, Blum Helman Gallery, NY |
| 1986 |
“Admired Objects”, John Weber Gallery, NY |
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“Archaic Echoes”, Muhlenberg College/Center for |
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the Arts, Allentown, PA |
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“Drawings by Sculptors”, Nohra Haime Gallery, NY |
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“Biennale des Fiedens”, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany |
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“Chamber Sculptures”, Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy |
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“Group Show”, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
| 1985 |
“Kis 85”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Kunsan University, Korea |
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“Abstract Drawings and Sculpture”, Gallery Shimada, Yamaguchi, Japan |
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“Smart Art”, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge,MA |
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“Papier Japonaise”, Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland |
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“Sculptures: Premier Approch Pour un Parc”, Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Jouy‑en‑Josas, France |
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“Sculptors Drawings”, Diane Brown Gallery, NY |
| 1984 |
“Id”, Bette Stoler Gallery, NY |
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“An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture”, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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“The British Art Show”, Traveled throughout England |
| 1983 |
“Edges and Shadows”, Hayward Gallery, London, England |
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“Between”, John Weber Gallery, NY |
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“Doucer de L’Avant Garde”, Rennes, France |
| 1982 |
“Representing Reality: Fragments from the Image Field”, Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA |
| 1981 |
“Substance and Accident”, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England |
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“Das Papier”, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany |
| 1979 |
“Pittura‑Ambiente”, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy |
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“Drawings”, Museum of Art, University of Norht Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 1978 |
“The International Drawing Triennale”, Wroklaw, Poland |
| 1977 |
“American Art in Belgian Collections”, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1976 |
“Approaching Painting”, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY |
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“Handmade Paper: Prints and Unique Works”, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
| 1975 |
“American Drawings”, Leverskusen Museum, Germany |
| 1974 |
“Separation”, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany |
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“Drawings and Other Works”, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY |
| 1973 |
“Seven”, Penthouse Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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“8e Biennale de Paris”, Paris, France |
| 1972 |
“New York 1972”, Paula Cooper Gallery Exhibition, Greenwich, CT |
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“420 West Broadway at the Spoleto Festival”, Spoleto, Italy |
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“Documenta V”, Kassel, Germany |
| 1971 |
Paula Cooper Gallery, NY |
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112 Greene Street, NY |
Public Collections
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
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Tate Gallery, London, England |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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Stadisches Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany |
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Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Oh |
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Municipal Art Gallery, Leeds, England |
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Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium |
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Museum Sztukiw Iodzi, Lodz, Poland |
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Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art,Iran |
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Coburn Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH |
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
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Moderna Museet, Malmo, Sweden |
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Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England |
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Groninger Museum, Groninger, Holland |
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Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany |
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Australian National Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
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Kunstmuseum Bern, Switerland |
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Cincinnati Art Museum, OH |
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Musee d’art, Toulon, France |
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New York Stock Exchange NY |
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Chase Manhattan Bank, NY |
Artist's Gallery
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