Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles Harvard University; University of Southern California.
University of California, Los Los Angeles Harvard University; University of Southern California.
Since the 1990s, Fisher has also been producing paintings and installation works. His work has been included in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions, 1985, 2004 and 2014. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.
Fisher"s work has been noted for its relationship to the Southern California landscape and its architecture during a time when the region was staking an aesthetic and intellectual claim in the larger art world.
Curator and critic Stuart Comer writes, "Windshields, billboards, movie screens, ocean views, economics-o-box apartment buildings and long expanses of asphalt and concrete form a unique Angeleno vocabulary of monochrome surfaces on which the symbolic configuration called California is played out. This seemingly limitless expanse of flat planes is the arena in which Fisher has staked his challenge to existing regimes of representation and narrative."
Fisher majored in Art History at Harvard University (1960–1964) before moving to the West Coast.
He attended University of Southern California from 1964 to 1965, and worked toward an Master of Fine Arts in the Motion Picture Division at University of California, Los Angeles the following year.