Career
A one time collaborator with Jon Rubin, Fletcher became known for making projects in collaboration with strangers and non-artists. He went on to found the Social Practice program in the Art department of Portland State University, where he is still on faculty. Fletcher"s work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the De Young Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The SculptureCenter, The Wrong Gallery, Apex Art, and Smackmellon in New York City, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, Texas, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec and the Matisse Museum in France, The Tate Modern in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum, SFMOMA, The Hammer Museum, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The De Young Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. Fletcher is represented New York City by Christine Burgin Gallery and the Laura Bartlett Gallery in London.
With artist Miranda July, Fletcher founded the online arts project called Learning to Love You More (2002–2009). The project"s website offered assignments to artists whose submissions became part of "an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world".
In addition to its internet presentations, Learning to Love You More has been compiled for exhibitions for the Whitney Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and other hosts.
A book version of the project"s online art was released in 2007. The project is now part of the SFMOMA Collection.
