Born 1943, Fort Worth Texas
Lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas
Education
1967 B.A., Hardin-Simmons University
1969 M.F.A., University of Illinois
Teaching
1978 Regents Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
1969-1978 Associate Professor of Art, Austin College, Sherman, TX
Grants and Awards
1995 Guggenheim Foundation grant
1988 Awards in the Visual Arts, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art
1984 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1981-1982 Individual Artist's Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1980-1981 Individual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1974-1975 Individual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1968-1969 University Fellow in Art, University of Illinois
1967-1968 University Fellow in Art, University of Illinois
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 "Notes for a New Novel", The University of Alabama Sarah Moody Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
2004 "Vernon Fisher 1977-1982", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Sanded Text Pieces 1976-1982", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 "Brainiac", Dunn and Brown Comtemporary, Dallas, TX
2002 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Charles Cowles Gallery, Angel Face, New York, NY
Herter Art Gallery, Vernon Fisher, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst MA.
Bentley Gallery, Vernon Fisher, Scottsdale, Arizona
2000 Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Zulu, Dallas, TX
The Glassell School of Art, Vernon Fisher's File 00, Houston, Texas,
1999 Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1998 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Charles Cowles Gallery, Hills Like White Elephants, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, MAP 1998, (installation), Miami, FL
Mark Moore Gallery, Zombies, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Gerald Peters Gallery, Zombies, Dallas, Texas
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1997 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Four Ways to Enter a Story, TX
1996 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Barry Whistler Gallery, Vernon Fisher-works on paper 1977-1995,
Dallas, TX
Mark Moore Gallery, Recent Works on Paper, Santa Monica, CA
Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1995 Mark Moore Gallery, Heart of Darkness, Santa Monica, CA
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Gallery Seomi, Seoul, South Korea
Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX
1994 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gallery Seomi, Seoul, South Korea
University of Illinois, Champaign, traveling to, Krannert Art Museum,
Vernon Fisher, Chicago, IL
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Blue Star Art Space, Swimming Lesions, San Antonio, TX,
1993 Landfall Press, Vernon Fisher at Landfall Press 1983-1993, Chicago, IL,
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Modernism, Framing Water, San Francisco, CA
Quartet Editions, Graphic Work 1983-1993, New York, NY
1992 Hiram Butler Gallery, Drawings, Houston, TX
The Center for Creative Photography, Moonrise, Hernandez, New
Mexico, 1951, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in the Armory: Occupied Territory
Chicago, IL
1991 Yellowstone Art Center, Blank Slate Sky, Billings, MT
Barry Whistler Gallery, Hills Like White Elephants, Dallas, TX
Travelling to: Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA *
1990 Museum of Modern Art, Movements Among the Dead (installation), New York, NY
University of Texas at Arlington, Center for Research in Contemporary
Art, Arlington, TX
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Smith College Museum of Art, Dead Reckoning (installation)
Northampton, MA
1990 Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1989 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Vernon Fisher La Jolla, CA;
Traveling to: Albright Knox art gallery, Buffalo, NY, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Interim Art, Vernon Fisher London, England
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Niagra: Welcome to US, Buffalo, NY
Res Nova Gallery, Alpha, New Orleans, Louisiana
Landfall Press, Vernon Fisher Prints New York, NY
1988 Dallas Museum of Art, Lost for Words (Installation), Dallas, TX
Barry Whistler Gallery, Screaming (installation), Dallas, TX
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Works: parallel lines
(installation) Washington, D.C.
Diverse Works, Lecture on Photography, Houston, TX
1987 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Hiram Butler Gallery, Complementary Pairs (installation), Houston, TX Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Lannan Museum, Perdido en el Mar (installtion), Lake Worth, FL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walking on Air: The Coriolis Effect,
Los Angeles, CA
1986 Asher-Faure Gallery, The Knight's Move, (installation), Los Angeles,
CA
1985 Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1984 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Madison Art Center, Bridge, (installation), Madison, WI
1982 Delahunty Gallery, Vernon Fisher: New Work Dallas, TX
Galerie T'venster, Rotterdam, Holland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, The Cultural Desert:
Inside Contemporary Sculpture, AZ
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas at Austin,
Time/Frame, TX
Hiram Butler Devon Bordon Gallery, Labyrinth, Houston, TX
Colorado Springs Art Museum, Lateral Thinking, Art of the 90s, CO.
2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000 Biennial Exhibition New York,
NY
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Natural Deceits, Fort Worth, TX
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Reconstructions: The Imprint of Nature / The
Impact Of Science, Baruch College, NY
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
Error! Contact not defined. Gallery, Paint, American Style, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Kidd Gallery, Dealer's Choice New York, Birmingham, MI
Hiram Butlar / Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LI
Tacoma Art Museum, Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and
Contemporary Art, Tacoma. Traveling to: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
P.S 1 Center for Contemporary Art NY, Fundacio LaCaixa, Barcelona
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
1999 Charles Cowles Gallery, Altered States, New York, NY
Mark Moore Gallery, Drawing, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Miami Art Museum, New work: Words & Images/ Janet Cardiff,
Tom Downs, Vernon Fisher, Miami, FL
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Connections and Contradictions: Modern
and Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections Emory
University, Atlanta, GA
1997 The Museum of Modern Art, A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall
Press New York, NY
Meyerson & Nowinski, Drawings, an annual bicoastal invitational
Seattle, WA
Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Dis/functional
Contemporary arts Museum, Finders Keepers, Houston, TX
Miami Art Museum, Continuity & Contraction, Miami, FL
Gerald Peters Gallery, Link, Dallas, TX
Charles a. Watson Museum of Fine Arts, In the Beginning Was the
Word Racine, WI
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1996 Irvine fine arts center, Maps, Charts and Routes, Irvine, CA
Sarah Moody gallery of art, Under Glass, University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa, AL
Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft artwalk 12; print exhibition Redmond,
WA
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fay Gold Gallery, Up North, Down South, Back East & Out West,
Atlanta, GA
Charles Cowles Gallery, New talent, new ideas, New York, NY
Bentley Gallery, Jennifer Bartlett, Vernon Fisher, Martin Mull,
Scottsdale, AZ
Milwaukee art museum, Milwaukee, WI
Landfall Press: twenty-five years of printmaking
American Academy of arts and letters, 48th annual purchase
exhibition, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Recent acquisitions, Atlanta, GA
1995 Charles Cowles Gallery, Under Glass, New York, NY
Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, In The Black, California State University,
Los Angeles
Barry Whistler Gallery, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition Dallas, TX
Charles Cowles Gallery, Previews, New York, NY
1994 The University of Texas at San Antonio, Mapping, San Antonio, TX
Traveling to: University of North Texas, Denton Art museum,
University of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Contemporary
Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
California Contemporary arts museum, Out of this World, Houston, TX
Mark Moore Gallery, Year 1: a survey, Santa Monica, CA
Barry Whistler Gallery, Uncommon Objects Dallas, TX
Mark Moore Gallery, TRANSTEXTUALISM, Santa Monica, CA
Barry Whistler gallery, The Big Picture, Dallas, TX
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Altered Egos, Santa Monica, CA
Irvine Fine Art Center, In the Black, Irvine, CA
1993 Blaffer Gallery, darkness + light: twentieth-century works from
Texas collections, University of Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, Reading Print, New York, NY
Landfall Press, Landscapes: Left to Right Chicago, IL
University Art Museum, idols and icons, Arizona State University
Museum of Fine Arts, Texas Contemporary: Acquisitions of the 90s,
Houston, TX
Hiram Butler Gallery, Sculptors & Paper, Houston, TX
Barry Whistler Gallery, Small Wonders, Dallas, TX
1992 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 100th Anniversary Exhibition;
Master Works from Fort Worth Collections, TX
Barry Whistler Gallery, Painting/Sculpture/Drawing: Vernon Fisher,
Joseph Hval, Douglas, Macwithey Dallas, TX
Kimball Museum of Art, The Artist's Eye, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Out of Bounds: Contemporary Sculpture Takes
Shape, Houston, TX
Modernism, Beyond Just Words, I, San Francisco, CA
Galveston Art Center, Island Inspired, Galveston, TX
Rena Bransten Gallery, Paint/Print, San Francisco,
Barry Whistler Gallery, Thirty Prints, Dallas, TX
Jan Weiner Gallery, Summer Invitational '92, Kansas City, MO
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Printmaking in Texas: The 1980s, Austin,
TX
Hiram Butler Gallery, Art and Nature, Houston, TX
1991 Asher-Faure Gallery, Not on Canvas, Los Angeles, CA
Jan Weiner Gallery, The Eyes of Texas, Kansas City, MO
Momentary Modern, Little Things (slice it down to size) Mean a Lo
Amsterdam, Holland
Dallas Museum of Art, The State I'm In: Texas art at DMA, Dallas, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Perfect World, San Antonio, TX
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Sculpture in the Collection
of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1990 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forty Texas Printmakers, Fort
Worth, TX
Glassell School of Art, Direct References: Drawings by Texas Artists
Houston, TX
Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, The Common Wealth: Twentieth
Century American Masterpieces from Virginia Collections
Roanoke, VA
Phoenix Art Museum, 1990 Triennial, Phoenix, AZ
Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Crossing the Line: Word and
Image in Art, 1960-1990, Claremont, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990
Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Fine Arts, Tradition & Innovation: A museum Collection of
Texas Art, Houston, TX
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Northwest x Southwest: Painted Fictions
Palm Springs, CA
1989 Karsten Schubert ltd. A Brave New World, London, England
Asher-Faure Gallery, Unstable Universe, Los Angeles, CA
Pensacola Museum of Art, Modern Myths & Narratives, Pensacola, FL
Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, A Century of
Sculpture In Texas, 1889-1989 Austin, TX
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Recent Acquisitions 1986-88 Washington, D.C.
The Museum of Fine Arts, The New American Landscape, Houston, TX
Madison Art Center, Coming of Age: Twenty-One Years of Collecting by
the Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Pointing Beyond the Death of Painting,
Moscow, USSR
Hiram Butler Gallery, Water, Houston, TX
1988 Richmond Hall, Texas Art, the Menil collection, Houston, TX
Diverse Works, Not for the Living Room "Lecture on Photography"
Houston, TX (Installation)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Awards in the Visual Arts 7,
Los Angeles, CA Traveling to: Carnegie Mellon University Art
Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,
VA, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, New Work, Lawrence, Kansas, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Looking South: a Different Dixie,
Birmingham
Landfall Press, Words in Print, Chicago, IL/New York
Althea Viafora Gallery, Traveling, New York, NY
1987 Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Barry Whistler Gallery, Works on Paper Dallas, TX
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Avant-Garde in the Eighties
Los Angeles, CA
Walker Art Center, Past Imperfect: Eric Fischl/Vernon Fisher/ Laurie
Simmons, Minneapolis, MN Traveling to: Knight Gallery/Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Comic Iconoclasm, London, England,
Traveling to: Douglas Hyde gallery, Dublin, Cornerhouse gallery,
Manchester Circulo des belles artes, Madrid Kunstmuseum;
berne
New York State Museum, Diamonds are Forever; Artists and Writers on
Baseball Albany, NY
University of Illinois, School of Art & Design, At Conception: Small
Drawings for Big Ideas Champaign, IL
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Works on Paper, Buffalo, NY
1986 Brooklyn Museum, Public and Private: American Prints Today, the
24thNational Print Exhibition Brooklyn, NY
New Orleans Museum, New Orleans Triennial, the Centennial Exhibition
New Orleans, LA
Art Institute of Chicago, Seventy-fifth American Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Tilden Foley Gallery, Texas, New Orleans, LA
Mcintosh-Drysdale Gallery, Five Texas Artists, Washington, D.C.
Lorence Monk Gallery, Contemporary Prints, New York, NY
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Texas Landscape, 1906-1986
Houston, TX
John Weber Gallery, Wallworks, New York, NY
Mcad Gallery, A Sense of Place: Contemporary Southern Art
Minneapolis, MN
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Memento Mori, Mexico City,
Mexico
Holly Solomon Gallery, Text and Image: the Wording of American Art
New York, NY
1985 Crescent Gallery, Crescent Collection, Dallas, TX
Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia, Psychodramas, PA
Barry Whistler Gallery, Comic Relief Dallas, TX
Barbara Toll Gallery, Drawings, New York, NY Traveling to:
Knight Gallery/Spirit Square Center, Charlotte, NC
1984 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Words Pictures, Bronx, NY
Archer M. Huntington art gallery, New American Painting University of
Austin
Independent curators inc., Verbally Charged Images
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and University Art gallery,
University of Massachusetts, The Shadow of the Bond, South
Hadley, MA
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Content: a contemporary
focus, 1974-1984, Washington D.C.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Narrative Forms, Mexico
San Antonio Art Institute, Word Images, San Antonio, TX
University Art Museum, University of Southwest Louisiana, Works on
Paper Lafayette, LA
1983 Ronald Feldman Gallery, 1984, New York, NY
Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Fact & Fiction: James Surls, Roy
Fridge, Vernon Fisher Aspen, CO
Archer M. Huntington art gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Images
of Texas Austin, TX
Gimpel Fils Gallery, Stroke, Line & Figure, London, England
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American
Paintings Washington, D.C.
Long Beach Museum of Art, Comment, Long Beach, CA
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, Perspectives of Landscape, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Art Museum, Southern Fictions, Houston, TX
Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown branch, The Comic Art
Show, New York, NY
The New Museum, Language, Drama, Source and Vision, New York, NY
Swen Parson Gallery, Northern IL University, The White Wall Papers
Dekalb, IL
Kathryn Markel Gallery, 3rd annual artists' books, New York, NY
Frumkin & Struve gallery, Contemporary Works on Paper, Chicago, IL
The New Britain Museum of American Art fragment/fragmentary
/fragmentation, New Britain, CN
1982 Fifth India Triennial, New Delhi, India
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Today: 1982
Indianapolis, IN
Windows on White, Post-romance: Artists' Valentines, New York, NY
Contemporary Art Museum, Texas on Paper, Houston, TX traveling to:
University of Colorado, Boulder, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX, Hallwalls, buffalo, NY, university of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Amarillo Art center, Amarillo, TX
Chrysler Museum, Still Modern after all These Years, Norfolk, VA
Contemporary Art Museum, The Americans: the collage, Houston, TX
Roger Litz Gallery, The Erotic Impulse, New York, NY
Hayden Gallery, M.I.T. mediums of language, Cambridge, MA
1981 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 19 artists, emergent Americans
/ Exxon national exhibition New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981 Biennial Exhibition New York,
NY
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Directions 1981, Washington,
D.C.
Bergman Gallery, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago,
Words as Images, Chicago, IL
Charles Cowles Gallery, A Texas group show 1981, New York, NY
Barbara Gladstone gallery, Summer Pleasures, New York, NY
The Fort Worth Art Museum, The Southern Voice: Terry Allen, Vernon
Fisher, Ed McGowan Fort Worth, TX
University Gallery, Selections from the Chase Manhattan
Bank art collection University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Jacksonville Art Museum, Currents: the new Mannerism, Jacksonville, FL
1980 Tyler Museum of Art, Response, Tyler, TX
D.W. Gallery, self-portrait, Dallas, TX
The New Museum, Investigations: Probe Structure-Analysis, New York,
NY
1979 Contemporary Art Museum, Fire, Houston, TX
The University Arts Museum, the University of Texas at Austin, Made in
Texas Austin, TX
Witte Museum, Paperworks: an Exhibition of Texas artists San Antonio,
TX
Marianne Deson Gallery, New York/New Media, Chicago, IL
1978 Warehouse living arts center, Corsicana Panorama, Corsicana, TX
Delahunty gallery, Chandelier Dallas, TX
Marianne Deson gallery, Texas in Chicago: Green, Fisher, Surls,
Wade Chicago, IL
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Art of Texas
1977 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Madison art center, Recent Works on Paper by ContemporaryAmerican
Artists, Madison, WI
Contemporary Art Museum, American Narrative / story art 1967-
1977Houston, TX Traveling to: Contemporary Art Center, NO
University Art Museum's, Santa Barbara, and Berkeley
1976 D.W. Gallery, Dallas, TX
1975 The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth TX/San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, Exchange DFW/SFO
1974 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1973 Smither gallery, Texas Drawing Exhibition Dallas, TX
1972 Art Museum of S. Texas, Exhibition of Ten Texas Painters, Corpus
Christi, TX
1971 Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, Ten Texas Painters, Houston, TX
Fort Worth Art Center, Tarrant County 34th Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
1970 Fort Worth Art Center, Project South-Southwest: Younger American
Artists Fort Worth, TX
Southern Illinois University, Siu Invitational Drawing Show,
Carbondale, IL
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Albright Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, New York
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX
Fort Worth Art Museum, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Lannan Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Castellani art museum, Niagara University, New York
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Krannert Art Museum; University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
El Paso Art Museum, el Paso, Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe