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Vernon Fisher (American, 1943)
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Vernon Fisher
O Valdez 2008
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Vernon Fisher
Post-Freudian View 2003
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Vernon Fisher
Sprite 2006
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Vernon Fisher
The Basic Slate 2008
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Vernon Fisher
The Universal Pie 2008
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Biography |
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1943 |
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Born in Fort Worth, TX |
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1967 |
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BA, Hardin-Simmons University Abilene, TX |
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1967 - 1968 |
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University Fellow in Art, University of Illinois |
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1968 - 1969 |
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University Fellow in Art, University of Illinois |
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1969 |
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MFA, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, IL |
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1974 - 1975 |
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NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship |
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1969 - 1978 |
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Associate Professor of Art, Austin College, Sherman, TX |
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1980 - 1981 |
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NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship |
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1981 - 1982 |
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NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship |
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1984 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant |
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1988 |
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Awards in Visual Arts Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art |
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1992 |
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Distinguished Teaching of Art Award College Art Association |
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1995 |
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John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship |
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Currently lives and works in Fort Worth, TX |
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Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Castellani Art Museum, Niagra University, NY
Center for Createive Photography, Tucson, AZ
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, TX
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Hunter Museum, Chattangooga, TN
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KA
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Lannan Foundation, Sante Fe, NM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Tyler, TX
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art |
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1978 - present |
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Regents Professor of Art, Univ. of North Texas Denton, TX |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Trouble in Paradise at the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
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2009 |
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Seomi & Tuus Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo) |
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2008 |
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Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2007 |
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Vernon Fisher: Two Decades of Prints and Drawings, Landfall Press Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo) |
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2006 |
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Misleading Trails, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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2006 |
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North American Birds, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo) |
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2005 |
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American Tragedy, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY * |
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2005 |
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A Summer Group, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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2005 |
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Masters of Illusion: 150 years of Trompe L'Oeil in America, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI |
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2005 |
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Artist Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee |
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2005 |
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Notes For a New Novel, The University of Alabama Sarah Moody Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama -solo |
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2004 |
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Brainiac, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX -solo
Vernon Fisher 1977-82, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -solo |
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2004 |
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Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China: travels to:NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; University Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD |
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2004 |
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Vernon Fisher 1977-82, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. |
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2004 |
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Waterworld, Southbend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN. |
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2004 |
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There, there, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2004 |
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A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer’s 40 Year Journey, Evanston Art Center, IL |
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2003 |
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Arthouse, Austin, TX. Beyond the Academy: Encouraging New Talent from Texas. |
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2003 |
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The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX. Pairings: artists’ |
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2003 |
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Selections from the Dallas Museum of Art Collection. |
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2003 |
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Brainiac, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
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2003 |
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David Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX -solo
Vernon Fisher: Brainiac, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX -solo |
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2002 |
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Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -solo
Vernon Fisher: New Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY -solo |
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2002 |
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Scottsdale Museum of Comtemporary Art, AZ. The Cultural Desert: Inside Contemporary Sculpture |
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2002 |
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Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas at Austin, TX.Time/Frame. |
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2002 |
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Hiram Butler Devin Borden Gallery, Houston. Labyrinth. |
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2000 - 2002 |
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Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, traveling internationally |
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2000 |
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Zulu, Dunn and Brown Contemporary Dallas, TX -solo
Natural Deceits, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX -solo
Vernon Fisher's File OO, The Glassell School of Art, the Mus. of Fine Arts Houston, TX -solo
Reconstructions: The Imprint of Nature/ The Impact of Science, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College New York, NY
2000 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY |
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1999 |
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Vernon Fisher, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX -solo
Altered States, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX
Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX |
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1998 |
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MAP 1998 (installation), Miami Art Museum -solo
Hills Like White Elephants, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY -solo
Zombies, Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA-solo
Vernon Fisher: Recent Work, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL -solo
Works on Paper: A to Z, 1960-1998, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA |
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1997 |
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Vernon Fisher, Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX -solo
Vernon Fisher Blackboard Paintings and Others, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO -solo
Four Ways to Enter a Story, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Fort Worth, TX -solo
Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
Zombies, Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX
Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego |
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1996 |
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"New Talent - New Ideas", Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
"Summer Show", Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
Black and White, Gallery Seomi Seoul, Korea
Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery Dallas, TX
Devin Borden/ Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX
Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA |
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1995 |
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Gallery Seomi Seoul, Korea
Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX
"Heart of Darkness", Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA
Milagros San Antonio, TX
"Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture", List Art Center Brown University, Providence, RI |
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1994 |
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"Altered Egos", Santa Monica Museum of Art Santa Monica, CA
"Fictions", Center for Creative Photography Tucson, AZ
"Mapping", The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX
"Out of This World", Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
"Swimming Lesions", Blue Star Art Space San Antonio, TX
Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, IL
Gallery Seomi Seoul, Korea
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA
Zolla Lieberman Gallery Chicago, IL |
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1993 |
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Landfall Press Chicago, IL
Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX
Modernism San Francisco, CA
"Darkness + Light, Twentieth-Century Works from Texas Collections", Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery University of Houston, TX
"Reading Print", Museum of Modern Art NYC |
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1992 |
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"Beyond Just Words: I", Modernism San Francisco, CA
"Out of Bounds: Contemporary Sculpture Takes Shape", Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
The Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL |
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1991 |
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Yellowstone Art Center Billings, MT
Fred Hoffman Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, CA
"Little Things (Slice It Down to Size) Mean A Lot", Momentary Modern Amsterdam, Netherlands
"The Perfect World", San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio, TX |
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1990 |
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Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
"1990 Triennial", Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, AZ |
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1989 |
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La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, CA
Interim Art London, England
Fred Hoffman Gallery Santa Monica, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY
"A Brave New World", Karsten Schubert, Ltd. London, England
Unstable Universe, Asher-Faure Gallery Los Angeles, CA
"Painting Beyond the Death of Painting", Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall Moscow, Russia |
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1988 |
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"Awards in the Visual Arts 7", Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
"Looking South: A Different Dixie", Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham, AL
"New York, New York", Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS & traveling
Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
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1987 |
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Barbara Gladstone Gallery New York, NY
Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX
"Avant-Garde in the Eighties", Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
"Past Imperfect: Eric Fischl/Vernon Fisher/Laurie Simmons", Walker Art Center Minmeapolis, MN & traveling
"Comic Iconoclasm", Institute of Contemporary Arts London, England & traveling |
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1986 |
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Asher-Faure Gallery Los Angeles, CA
"Seventy-Fifth American Exhibition", Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
"Wallworks", , John Weber Gallery New York, NY
"Memento Mori", Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City, Mexico
"Text and Image, The Wording of American Art", Holly Solomon Gallery NYC |
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1985 |
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Butler Gallery Houston, TX |
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1984 |
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Barbara Gladstone Gallery New York, NY
"Words Pictures", Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx, NY
"Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
"Narrative Forms", Museo Rufino Tamayo Mexico City, Mexico |
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1983 |
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"1984", Ronald Feldman Gallery New York, NY
"The 38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting", Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
"The Comic Art Show", , Whitney Museum of Amer. Art at Fed. Reserve Plaza Mew York, NY
"Language, Drama, Source and Vision", , The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY
Madison Art Center Madison, WI |
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1982 |
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Galerie T'Venster Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Fifth India Triennial", Fifth India Triennial New Delhi, India
"The Americans: The Collage", Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
"Mediums of Language", Hayden Gallery MIT, Cambridge, MA |
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1981 |
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"19 Artists--Emergent Americans: 1981 Exxon National Exhibition", The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY
"1981 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
"Directions 1981", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Barbara Gladstone Gallery New York, NY |
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1980 |
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Denise Rene/Hans Mayer Gallery Dusseldorf, Germany
"Investigations: Probe-Structure-Analysis", The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY |
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1977 |
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"American Narrative/ Story Art 1967-1977", Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX & traveling |
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Literature |
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2004 |
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Frank, Peter. “Vernon Fisher.” L.A. Weekly, March 3-9. |
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2004 |
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Anthony, Elise. “Top 10 Dallas-Fort Worth Artists,” Dallas Home Design, June: 42. |
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2004 |
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Hurt, Cindy. “Vernon Fisher: Brainiac,” Artl!ies, Winter: 75. |
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2003 |
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Kutner, Janet. “Fisher’s stream of consciousness...”, Dallas Morning News, Nov. 5, 2003. |
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2002 |
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Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Tight ‘Time/Frame’ Clocks in with a Winner,” Austin-American-Statesman, May 23. |
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2002 |
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Duganne, Erina. “Layering Time,” The Austin Chronicle, Jan. 25. |
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2002 |
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Frank, Peter. “Vernon Fisher,” LA Weekly, May 3-9. |
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2002 |
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Parnass, Larry. “Momentary losses of cerebral coordination,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 21. |
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2000 |
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Colpitt, Frances. “Vernon fisher at the Glassell School of Art.” Art in America, June: 131-132. |
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2000 |
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Kutner, Janet. “Riddles,” The Dallas Morning News, Ap. 29. |
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2000 |
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Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Opening Up His Files,” Houston Press, March 2, 2000. |
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2000 |
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Rees, Christina. “Biting Back,” Dallas Observer, Feb. 10. |
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2000 |
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“Feeling the Slow Surrender of Your Mind,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 21. |
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2000 |
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Johnson, Patricia. “Exhibit Makes a Visual Connection,” Houston Chronicle, Feb. 23. |
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