Barbara Fisher

Barbara Fisher was born in New York City, educated in Colorado and California, and lived for many years on the West coast before settling in Asheville, North Carolina in 1998. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows throughout the country, including the de Saisset Museum (CA), Bank of America World Headquarters (CA), The National Institutes of Health (MD) and The Washington Cancer Center (DC) as well as in many galleries. Her paintings have hung in group shows at the Asheville Art Museum (NC), the Alexandria Museum of Art (LA), the Sun City Museum of Art (AZ), the Chicago Cultural Center (IL), Highlands Museum of the Arts (FL), Hickory Museum of Art (NC), and the Mobile Museum of Art (AL).

Fisher has received numerous grants and residencies including the Mortimer Fleishhacker Foundation Grant (CA), Asheville Arts Council Project Grant (NC), the Ucross Foundation (WY), and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work can be found in the collections of Capital One (VA), Western NC University Art Museum (NC), the Asheville Art Museum (NC), First Charter Bank (NC), Bank of America (CA), National Institutes of Health (MD), University of NC Hospitals (NC), Mission Hospital (NC), the Coweta County Public Library (GA), the Electrolux Corpor...

BFA Painting, University of Colorado Boulder
MFA program, Painting, San Francisco State University

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2014 Gallery Seventeen, Greenville SC
Abstractions, Artetude Gallery, Asheville NC
2013 Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory NC
Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta GA
2012 Mind Over Matter, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon NC
2010 Inside Out, Wynn Bone Gallery, Annapolis MD
2008 Clinical Center Gallery, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
Washington Cancer Institute, Washington DC
2007 Precarious Promise, Wynn Bone Gallery, Annapolis MD
2006 Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville NC
Moments in Time, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
2004 Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville NC
Balance, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
2002 Exploring Perception, Wynn Bone Gallery, St Augustine FL
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill NC
2001 Wynn Bone Gallery, St Augustine FL
2000 The Seaside Institute, Seaside FL
1995 Sylvia White Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1993 Thick and Thin, Sports LA Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Third Street Studio, San Francisco CA
1991 Process and Paradox, Kennedy Art Center, Holy Names College, Oakland CA
1989 Shaklee Plaza, San Francisco CA
1987 De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara CA
Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco CA
1986 Memorial Union Gallery, Un...