EDUCATION:
M.F.A., Yale University, May 1981, Printmaking
B.F.A. with high honors, Virginia Commonwealth University, December 1976,
Painting and Printmaking
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Professor of Art, (Emeritus), Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 1990 - 2025
Visiting Artist, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 1987 - 1989
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 1986 - 1987
Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 1984 - 1986
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, VA 1983 - 1984
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
2008: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Fritz Eichenberg Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking
2004: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Fritz Eichenberg Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking
1999: Blanche E. Colman Award
1998: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Fritz Eichenberg Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking
1994: New England Foundation for the Arts, Regional Fellowship in the Visual Arts
1993: Mary Tucker Thorp Award of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rhode Island College
1992: American Artist Achievement Award, Graphic Media
1980: Ford Foundation Summer Study Grant, Yale University
1979 - 1980: Virginia Museum Graduate Fellowship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023: Cryptic Clutter, (with Crickett Fisher), Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2008: Drawings and Prints, Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
2003: Baroque Noir, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2000: Chimeras, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1999: Recent Drawings & Prints, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
1994: Recent Work, Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1994: Impressions Along the Way, Corridor Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1994: Heavy Time, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
1993: Vice Versa, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
1993: 20th Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
1992: Recent Drawings, Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1992: House of Lies, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1989: Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1988: A Kind of Fascination, Ezra and Cecile Zilhka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1987: Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
1986: Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
1984: The Print Club Selects, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1978: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
2025: Growing the Network, Waterier Center, Providence, RI
2025: 6 Members Exhibitions, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2024: Look Harder See More, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2024: 6 Members Exhibitions, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2023: 2D Faculty Exhibition, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2023: 7 Members Exhibitions, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2022: 6 Members Exhibitions, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2021: 2019: 2D Faculty Exhibition, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RL
2020: The Director’s Choice: Our Jurors and Curators, RI Center for the Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2019: Nature Themed Exhibition, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
2018: 8 Visions: Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
2016: Scratching the Surface, 4 Printmakers from Rhode Island College, Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Providence, RI
2014: Passionate Collectors, The Washington Print Club at 50, Katzen Center, American University, Washington, DC
2014: Chiaroscuro, The Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL
2013: 19 on Paper @ 25 Years, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2010: Sabbatical Exhibition: Doug Bosch and Stephen Fisher, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2008: Recent Work, Stephen Fisher, Sam Duket, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
2008: Printmaking Now, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2007: Paper/New England, New England Now, Hartford, CT
2006: Worlds of Wonder, Stephen Fisher, Richard C. Whitten, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
2006: Drawings, Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
2006: The University of Dallas 19th National Print Invitational, Irving, TX
2005: The Corcoran Print Portfolio: Drawn to Representation, The Cocoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2005: Black + White, Paessagio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2004: Works on Paper, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2003: Recent Work: Stephen Fisher, Katheryn Myers, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
2003: American Botanical Prints of Two Centuries, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2001: The Gifts of Winter, Hunt Institute for Botanical Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2001: Realism in Contemporary Still Life, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2001: New on View: Recent DAC Acquisitions, Davison Art Center Gallery, Middletown, CT
2000: The Virginia Landscape, The Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
2000: Work Now (18 VCU Painting and Printmaking Alumni), The Artists’ Museum, Washington, DC
2000: Contemporary Art in New England: Recent Acquisitions, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1999: Illusions: Mia Brownell, Stephen Fisher, David Schirm, Fawick Art Gallery, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
1998: Drawings: Stephen Fisher, Andrew Raftery, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
1997: Great Gifts: Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1996: New Directions, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
1995: New England Today, NEFA Fellowship Winners, Chinese Culture Institute, Boston, MA
1995: 3 Printmakers, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
1995: Nature Morte, 100 Pearl Gallery, Hartford, CT
1994: Contemporary American Drawings, Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1992: National Print Invitational, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI
1991: Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
1990: American Drawings, Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1989: Black and White, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1988: A Winter Garden, Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1988: 6th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1987: Art in Embassies, United States Mission, West Berlin, Germany
1987: Contemporary American Drawings, Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1986: The Peterdi Years, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1986: Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985: Prints and Pots, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1985: The Tonal Range, Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985: The San Diego Print Club, San Diego, CA
1984: Small Works, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1984: Made in Virginia, Randolph Macon College, Ashland, VA
1983: American Realists, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY
1982: 11/11 Printmakers, 1708 East Main, Richmond, VA
1981: M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
JURIED EXHIBITIONS: (selected) (* denotes award)
2009: 60th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2009: Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Exhibition 20, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008: 8th Annual American LandscapesExhibiton, Maryland Fereration of Art, Annapolis, MD (*honorable mention)
2008: The 6th Minnesota Print Biennial, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2008: Harnett Biennial of American Prints, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
2008: Sixty Square Inches, 16th Biennial North American Small Print Competition, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN (*purchase award)
2007: Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Exhibition 19, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2007: Global Matrix II, An International Print Exhibition, Purdue University Galleries, West LaFayette, IN
2006: National Printmaking 2006, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2006: 2006 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, Hilo, HI2005: The Maryland Federation of Art Print Show, MFA City Gallery, Baltimore, MD (*First Place award)
2005: The Boston Printmakers, North American Print Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (*Art New England Material Award)
2004: The 4th Minnesota National Print Biennial 04, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
(*2004 Print and Drawing Council, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Purchase Award)
2003: The Boston Printmakers, 2003 North American Print Biennial, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
2003: The South Coast New England Printmaking Exhibition, University of Massachusetts - North Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
2003: 24th National Print Exhibition 2003, Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT
2003: 16th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI (*purchase award)
2002: Art of the Northeast: 53rd Annual Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT *(Silvermine Tavern Drawing Award)
2001: Sixty Square Inches National Small Print Exhibition, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN *(Merit Award and Purchase Award)
2000: 23rd National Print Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1999: Halpert Biennial, Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC *(Purchase Award)
1999: Positive/Negative 14, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN *(Purchase Award)
1999: Art of the Northeast: 50th Annual Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1999: Los Angeles Printmaking Society 15th National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA *(Crown Point Press Award for Outstanding Achievement)
1998: Art of the Northeast: 49th Annual Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT *(Silvermine Tavern Drawing Award)
1998: The Print Club of Albany, 20th National Juried Exhibition, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY *(Gene Kloss Memorial Purchase Award)
1998: American Drawing Biennial 6, Muscarelle Museum, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1997: Juried Exhibition 1997, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA *(Marc Printmaking Award)
1997: The Eighth Annual Dwight Merrimon Davidson National Print Exhibition at Elon College, Elon College, NC *(purchase award)
1997: National Printmaking 1997, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ *(purchase award)
1997: Printmaker’s Renaissance Exhibition 3, Rolling Stone Press, Atlanta, GA *(intaglio award & relief award)
1996: Rutgers National ‘96 Works on Paper, Stedman Arts Center, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
1995: Peninsula Fine Arts Center Juried Exhibition, Newport News, VA *(drawing award)
1995: Ottawa National Print Exhibition, Ottawa Gallery, Sylvania, OH *(exhibition award)
1994: 69th Annual Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1994: International Print Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT *(purchase award)
1992: 5th National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD *(purchase award)
1992: Prints International 1992, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT *(purchase award)
1992: Pacific States National Biennial Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI *(juror’s purchase award)
1991: Realism ‘91, The Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV *(purchase award)
1991: 42nd Art of the Northeast USA Competition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT *(Silvermine Tavern Award for Works Under Glass)
1991: 72nd National Juried Exhibition, The Springfield Art League, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA *(juror’s merit award)
1990: American Drawing Biennial II, Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA *(second prize)
1987: 2nd International Exhibition of Prints in Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan & Seoul, Korea
1986: 9th Eastern United States Print and Drawing Exhibition, North Carolina Print and Drawing Society, Charlotte, NC *(purchase award)
1986: Ninth National Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA
1985: 20th Bradley National Print and Drawing Competition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL *(purchase award)
1985: 60th International Print Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA *(A,N,W award)
1983: Rockford International Biennale ‘83, Rockford College, Rockford, IL *(purchase award)
1983: 59th International Print Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA *(Print Club Selection Award, Graphic Chemical and Ink Company Purchase Award)
1982: 58th International Print Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA *(Quaker Chemical Foundation Purchase Award)
1977: Virginia Printmakers 1977, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA *(certificate of distinction)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: (selected)
Frye Art Museum, Seattle,WA
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art
Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
United States Embassy, West Berlin, Germany
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
University of Dallas
Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT
American Medical Association, Chicago, IL
Fidelity Investments
General Motors, Detroit, MI
Philip Morris Inc., Richmond, VA
Nordstroms, Providence, RI and Columbia, MD
(as part of the Corcoran 2005 Print Portfolio)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery, Washington, DC
The Achenbach Foundation of the California Legion of Honor of the San Francisco Art Museums,
San Francisco, CA
The Davis Collection of Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
CATALOGS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES: (selected)
2008: Drawing on the natural world for inspiration, Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, March 13, 2008
2008: Drawing the line at realism, Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, February 1, 2008
2006: Everyday magic: Drawing takes flight at the Pepper Gallery, Christopher Millis, The Phoenix, February 15, 2006, review of exhibition at Pepper Gallery
2003: Go west, art lovers, Bill Van Siclen, Live/Providence Journal, March 6-9, 2003 review of Baroque Noir at the Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2000: Chimeras, Exhibition Catalog, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
2000: The Virginia Landscape, exhibition catalog, The Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
1999: Don’t miss Stephen Fisher’s stunning drawings, Channing Gray, Live/Providence Journal, December 9-12, 1999, review of exhibition at Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
1999: The Best of Sketching and Drawing, Terry Sullivan, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1999
1996: Stephen Fisher in New Directions Group Exhibition, Christopher Millis, artsMEDIA, October 1996, review of exhibition at the Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 1995: Works are any thing but still, Patricia Rosoff, Hartford Advocate, June 15, 1995, review of exhibition at 100 Pearl, Hartford, CT
1993: Allusive Illusions, Linda McGreevy, Portfolio Magazine, December 21, 1993, review of exhibition at the Peninsula Art Center, Newport News, VA
1993: Hint of Mystery Underlies Realism, Shari Bledsoe, The Virginia Gazette, January 27, 1993, review of exhibition at The 20th Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
1992: Fisher’s style fascinates and plays with our minds, Robert Merritt, Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 11, 1992, review of exhibition at the Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1992: Announcing the Winners of the First Annual American Artist Achievement Awards, American Artist Magazine, June 1992
1989: Spirit of Place, Contemporary Landscape Painting and the American Tradition John Arthur, Published by Bullfinch Press, 1989
1988: Works of industry, nature need careful viewing, Jude Schwendenwien, The Hartford Courant, November 27, 1988, review of exhibition at the M.S. Gallery, Hartford, CT
1987: Simplicity belies accomplishment, Robert Merritt, Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 12, 1987, review of exhibition at the Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
1987: Artist Stephen Fisher is still into trees, but ..., Roy Proctor, Richmond News Leader, January 24, review of exhibition at the Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
1987: Artist takes this and that, mixes it up, and hits puree, Barbara Green, Richmond News Leader, January 15, 1987, interview in conjunction with Reynolds/Minor Gallery exhibition, Richmond,VA
1986: A Sense of Place and Mystery, Stephen Fisher’s Etchings of Forest Landscapes, Peter Eichner-Dixon, American Artist Magazine, November 1986