Vernon Fisher
Illustration — Fish by Fisher, 2002, oil on blackboard slating Vernon Fisher (1943–2023) was an multimedia artist born in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned a BA in English literature from Hardin–Simmons University in 1967 and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1969. He taught at Austin College and later at University of North Texas.
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Vernon Fisher
- Born
- 1943 · Fort Worth.
- Died
- 2023
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · photographer · conceptual artist · installation artist
- Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Fisher was best known for his paintings that resemble chalk on a school blackboard, often with incongruous elements added. Fish, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is an example these "blackboard paintings". The Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Phoenix Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Fisher.
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Vernon Fisher, recorded as an assemblage artist, conceptual artist, installation artist, painter, photographer and sculptor, was born in 1943 in Fort Worth. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Vernon Fisher studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Work by Vernon Fisher is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
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1943
Vernon Fisher born at Fort Worth.
2023
Vernon Fisher died.
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Vernon Fisher received Guggenheim Fellowship. Recorded as painter, printmaker, photographer, conceptual artist and installation artist.
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Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Dallas Museum of Art
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