SunSet|SunRise: Work from Studio Nong
Memphis College of Art- Hyde Gallery
Januiary 8th - February 6th, 2016
Gallery Talk Saturday February 6th, 3pm
SunSet|SunRise: Work from Studio Nong
Memphis College of Art- Hyde Gallery
Januiary 8th - February 6th, 2016
Gallery Talk Saturday February 6th, 3pm
Jessie Fisher
Jessie Fisher
b 1971
Lives and works at Case|Edgerton Studios on the East Side of St Paul, MN
with the painter Scott Seebart @scottseenart
ladyjessiefisher@yahoo.com | @jessie.fisher.studio
caseedgertonstudios@gmail.com | @case.edgerton.studios | @ce.studios.artboard
Interviews:
2021 Jessie Fisher, Painting Perceptions, Visible Influence: Janet Niewald and Wilbur Niewald discuss Influence, Teaching and Practice
2020 Larry Groff, Painting Perceptions
2016 Christopher Lowrance, MW Capacity
2011 Sally Deskins, La Femme Folles
Linda Lay, FruitFlyLife, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Solo and Two-person Exhibitions:
2023 Jessie Fisher and Scott Seebart at Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2022 From a Flower to a Garden, Art@967 Payne Gallery, St Paul, MN
2019 Indirect Portraits on Panel, Contemporary Painting Galleries at the GuangXi Arts Institute, Nanning City, China
2015 Recent Allegories and Nudes, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
Natura Vita | Natura Morte Jules Maidoff Palazzo, SACI, Florence, Italy
Il Piccolo Lupo, ICA, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
2011 Hardcore Painting: Confessions and Premonitions
UNO Galleries at the University of Omaha, (A Retrospective), Omaha, NB
Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
2009 Idolatry, Hiestand Galleries at Miami University, Oxford, OH
2006 Aesthete; Reframing the Forlorn, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Aesthete, Marvin Cone Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
2004 Mr. Hoof, Oulous Repair Shop Contemporary, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Flora/Fauna, Lo River Arts, Beacon, NY
2003 Realities, Lo River Arts, Beacon, NY
Recent Work, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 2003, 2002, 2001
1997 The Divine Comedy Paintings, Sexton Studios, Minneapolis, MN
1996 BFA Exhibition, with Scott Seebart, Studio Arts Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 MATERIALIST, Reuben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, KS
2022 MATERIALIST, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS
En Plein Air, ArT@967 Payne Gallery, St Paul, MN
NOCTURNE, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
Beautiful Worlds(s), HR Block ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
2021 Run, Run, Quiet, Plug, Kansas City, MO
Summer Show, juried by Catherine Kehoe, Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC
STANDING ROOM ONLY, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
New York | New Space, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
Post-Invisible, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
Materialist II, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2019 Look Me in the Eye, Epsten Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Materialist, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
Lineage and Impact: KCAI Faculty Past and Present, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2016 Moving Boundary, Jigang Galleries, Sanmin Arts Village, Nanning, China
SunSet |SunRise: Work from Studio Nong, Wienberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
SunSet |SunRise: Work from Studio Nong, the Hyde Gallery at the Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
2015 SunSet |SunRise: Work from Studio Nong, Belger Crane Yard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Dialoghi dell’Arte: 2014-15 International Tour
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
Guilin Museum, Guilin, China | Works on Paper
Palazzo dei Cartelloni, SACI, Florence, Italy
Galleria Bocca al Lupo, ICA, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
2014 SunRise |SunSet: Work from Studio Nong, Exhibition | Rust Hall at the Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
PartyLines: A 3rd Year MFA Exhibition with Distinguished Alumni and Faculty, SmartClothes Gallery, NY, NY
TAPPED 4: Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Sunrise-Sunset: An International Collaboration in Sculptural Form, NiXing Pottery Museum, Qinzhou, China
Decadence and Luxuriant, a collaborative installation with Misty Gamble at:
Duane Reed Gallery St. Louis, MO
Echt Gallery, Chicago. Il
Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2012 Divergent Methodologies, Faculty exhibition at the Dodge Painting Galleries at the Kansas City Art Institute. Kansas City, MO
Dialoghi Dell’Arte, McMaster Gallery at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2011 Between Thee and Me: A response to the Van Ackerman Collection, the Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst Univ, Kansas City, MO
Narrow Margins, H&R Block ArtSpace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2010 2010+1 Young Painters: The Miami University 21st Century Painting Collection, Heistand Galleries at Miami Univ, Oxford, OH
2008 New, Three, H&R Block ArtSpace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace Gallery at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 2005,2008
2008 Miami University Young Painters Competition- Hiestand Galleries, Miami University- Oxford, OH
2007 KCAI Biennial, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute,Kansas City, MO
Beasts, Greenease Gallery at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
2006 Other Views, Faculty exhibition at the Dodge Painting Galleries at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2005 Iowa Artist’s Exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Finale: A 21st Century Salon, Lo River Arts, Beacon, NY
2004 Recent Work by Gallery Artists, Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY
MFA Exhibition, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
2003 Oulous Repair Shop, Factorial Debut, Chinatown-Los Angeles, CA
New American Paintings-The MFA Annual 2003, Juried Exhibition in Print,
Juror: Lawrence Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
2002 Iowa Artist’s Exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2001 Another Twist, Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona, MN
Minnesota with a Twist, Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Group Show, Gus Lucky's Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1998 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts-PAFA Gallery, Graduate Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts-PAFA Hallway Gallery, The Anonymous Exhibitions, Philadelphia , PA
1997 The Unbroken Line- The Fellowship Exhibition, The Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Anonymous Exhibitions, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts-PAFA Hallway Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1995 The Apprentice Show, The University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN and the Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, MN
Curatorial:
Dialoghi dell’Arte: 2014-15 International Tour
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, June 6th -July 6th, 2014
Guilin Museum of Art, Guilin, China | Works on Paper April 5th-10th, 2015
Palazzo dei Cartelloni, SACI, Florence, Italy, May 22nd- June 25th, 2015
Galleria Bocca al Lupo, ICA, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, July 4th, 2015
Site as Seen: KCAI in Florence, Italy | student work from the Studio Art Centers International
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, Fall 2013 | 2018
Disegno Exhibition Series: Contemporary Undergraduate Drawing | 2006-2019
Disegno 9: California College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art
Disegno 8: California College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art
Disegno 7: California College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art
Disegno 6: Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Memphis College of Art, Univ. of S. Carolina
Disegno 5: Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Univ. of S. Carolina
Disegno 4: Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Univ. of S. Carolina
Disegno 3: Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Univ. of S. Carolina
Disegno 2: California College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art
Disegno 1: Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Princeton University
Visiting Critic | Lectures | Gallery Talks | Panel Discussions | Juror | Writer:
2022 Juror | SOLIDARITY STREET GALLERY Advisory Board (2021, 2022)
2019 Visiting Artists Lecture | A Painter's Approach to Technical Narrative, GuangXi Arts Institute, Nanning, China
Outside writer for the Academy of Scholars | Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2018 Visiting Critic, Senior Thesis Exhibition, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2017 Charlotte Street Resident Mentor 2016-17 | Kathy Liao
2016 Panel Discussion | The Art History Department at the GuangXi Arts Institute Discusses Contemporary Motives in Making with Studio Nong,
Jigang Galleries, Sanmin Arts Village, Nanning City, China in conjunction with Moving Boundaries
Visiting Artist Lecture | Recent Painting, Drawings and Sculpture, Studio Nong at Sanmin Arts Village, Nanning City, China
Charlotte Street Resident Mentor 2015-16 | Melanie Johnson
Gallery talk, SunSet |SunRise: Work from Studio Nong, Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art
2015 Studio Nong | Master Sculptors from the GuangXi Arts Institute: Current Perspectives Lecture Series, KCAI
Visiting Artist Lecture | Recent Allegorical Paintings, Sculpture and Curatorial Projects, Teatro della Concordia, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
Visiting Critic | International Center for the Arts, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
2014 Gallery Talk | SunRise | SunSet: Work from Studio Nong, Rust Hall, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
2012 Visiting Artists Lecture | Senior Drawing Projects and Graduate Painting Critiques, McMaster School of Art- University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Visiting Critic | Charlotte Street/Urban Culture Project Residency Studios, Kansas City, MO
2011 Gallery Talk: Hardcore Painting- Materials and Methodology | UNO Galleries, Omaha, NB
Visiting Artists Lecture | Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Kerr Hall, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts- AIA Summer Residency Program
Gallery Talk | Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University, Hardcore Painting; Confessions and Premonitions
2010 Visiting Artist-in-residence | Visual Arts and Design Academy, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 Guest Critic | Summer Intensive PCAL Program, KCAI- Painting
2008 The Noon Thing | Gallery talk for New, Three exhibition | HR Block ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture | International School of Painting, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
SLIDESHOW | Visiting Artists Public Lecture Series | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2006 Juror | The Messiah Exhibition, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
Visiting Artist Lecture and Painting Critiques, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Panelist | KCAI International Painting Symposium: Hybridity in Contemporary Painting
Visiting Artist Lecture | St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
2005 Visiting Artist Lecture | Current Perspectives Lecture Series | Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO (2005, 2004)
2004 Visiting Critic, Mid-semester Sophomore painting critiques, the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
International Programs:
Cultivation of Talents for Oil Painting of Ethnic Minorities in GuangXi, GuangXi Arts Institute, Nanning, China | 2019-ongoing
An Exquisite Corpse: KCAI at SACI | Studio Art Centers International, Florence Italy | 2018, 2015, 2013, 2011
Studio Nong International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program | USA/CHINA | 2019, 2016, 2015, 2013
Teaching:
2023-present Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MPLS, MN
Metro State University, St Paul, MN
2005-22 Professor in Painting, Kansas City Art Institute
2019 Visiting Professor, Artists-in-Residence | Cultivation of Talents for Oil Painting of Ethnic Minorities in GuangXi
2007-19 KCAI Saturday Open Model Sessions
2011-12 Acting Chair in Painting
2009 Summer Intensive Educators Art Lab at the Kansas City Art Institute- Painting (2006, 2009)
2004-5 Assistant-Adjunct Professor, University of Iowa. Painting and Drawing
2002-4 Teaching Assistant, Teacher of Record, University of Iowa. Painting and Drawing
1998 Teaching Assistant, Temple University, Philadelphia. Drawing
Awards:
2020-21 KCAI Full-Year Sabbatical, Kansas City Art Institute
2007-21 KCAI Faculty Development Grants (yearly, 2007-21)
2020 AWAW Emergency Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
2017 Semi-Finalist, BP British Portrait Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, London UK
2015 LIAEP Grant for the 2015 Studio Nong Residency Program
2014 Full-Year Sabbatical, Kansas City Art Institute
William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award, 2008 Miami University Young Painters Competition- Juror Peter Plagens
2007 Nomination: Charlotte Street Award, Kansas City, MO
KCAI Faculty Development Grant: Ecorche at Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA
2002-4 Graduate Fellow: Mildred Pelzer-Lynch Fellowship, University of Iowa
2001-2 Graduate Fellow: Virgil M. Beall Fellowship, University of Iowa
Residencies:
2019 Studio Nong, Sanmin Arts Village, Nanning City, China (2019, 2016)
Artist-in-Residence | GuangXi Arts Institute, Nanning, China, Painting Department
2018 Artist in Residence | Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy (2018, 2015, 2013, 2011)
2015 Studio Nong at MCA and KCAI, Memphis TN and Kansas City, MO
2013 Studio Nong at the Qinzhou NiXing Pottery Factory, Qinzhou, China
2010 AIA Summer residency at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
Artist-in-residence | Visual Arts and Design Academy, Santa Barbara, CA
Bibliography:
2022 Art for Everyone, featured artist, textbook, 2nd Ed., p. 60, Chemeteka Press and Oxford University Press
2019 Catalog- Look Me in the Eye, Epsten Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2018 MEA 10, vol 10, Annual Exhibition Catalog, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2017 6-part television series, Beautiful South, Studio Nong 2016
2015 Surgery in Clay: A Visit to the Kansas City Art Institute, film editorial, August 18th, Kansas City Star
Studio Nong at the Kansas City Art Institute, film editorial, August 6th, Kansas City Star
Ferrell, Katie, Professors from China and Kansas City come together to Build Impressive Sculptures, August 2nd, Fox 4 News, Kansas City
Evans, Matt, Chinese Artists Visit KC to Create, Learn. Cross-cultural Program Run Through KCAI, Aug 2nd, KMBC 9 News, Kansas City
Evans, Matt, Studio Nong Arrives at the Memphis College of Art, July 24th, Memphis Flyer
Bear Review, Vol 1, Issue 2, pg 34, Madonna and Child/The Discovery of Yellow
Brophy, Carrie, KC Studio Magazine, Art Ambassadors- Featured Article/Cover, March/April Issue
Dialoghi dell'Arte 2014-15 International Tour, Exhibition Catalog
2014 The Daily Palette, University of Iowa School of Art and Art Hist, Intermedia & the Humanities, Disitnguished Alumni Updates, Sept 8th | Dec 10th
2013 Qinzhou 980: An Arts and Culture Magazine, Sunrise-Sunset: Sculpture Exhibition and Speeches at the Nixing Museum, Aug 9th
Exhibition Opening at the Qinzhou Nixing Museum: An International Collaboration with Four Artists from the United States
Post of China, Taiwan Travel, August 9th
Qinzhou Post, Beibuwan Post, Qinzhou Official Government Website, August 8th
Qinzhou Post, International Artist’s Residency at the Huayi Nixing Pottery Factory, August 6th
2012 Book Release. Les Femmes Folles: The Interviews, 2011. March 14th 2012
2011 Bembnister, Theresa, Between Thee and Me, Kansas City Star, Sept 7th, 2011.
Deskins, Sally, Hardcore Painting at UNOs Gallery Lives Up to its Title, The Reader, Omaha, NB, September 11th, 2011.
Self, Dana, Traditional Meet Modern, The Kansas City Star, March 3, 2011.
Packham, Chris, Get in the Van Gogh: Hardcore Painting at the Greenlease Gallery, The PITCH Weekly Reader, March 10th, 2011.
Kloeppel, Tara, Feminine Fancies: Farstad and Fisher, REVIEW, Kansas City, MO, Mar 26th.
2009 Catalogue: Kansas City Art Institute at 125, pp. 44,45, Kansas City Art Institute.
2008 Jones, Richard, Young Painters Competition Winner Moves from Imagination to Realism, Journal News, Cincinnati OH, Dec 19th
Pearce, Sara, Miami Displays Winning Work: Ohio Young Painter’s Prize, The Cincinnati Inquirer, Jan, 24th.
Kansas City Star- New, Three: A Review
2007 Self, Dana, Wild Things: The Greenlease Gallery's Beasts brings out the animal in all of us, The Pitch, Kansas City, MO. Feb 8th.
Lorance, Christopher, MW Capacity, Hanging Sheep on Wallpaper
2006 Sue Coe reviews Aesthete, a recent solo exhibition of work at Coe College for REVIEW Magazine, Kansas City, MO. December.
The Art of Food: Artists Speak on the Use of Food as Subject Matter, Relish Magazine, Des Moines, IA. December.
Crass Menagerie: Jessie Fisher and Sarah Vandersall at Paragraph, The Pitch, Kansas City, MO. October 19th-24th.
Exhibition Preview, Jessie Fisher and Sarah Vandersall in AESTHETE at Paragraph, REVIEW Magazine; October 2006, pp30-33.
Pleiades A Journal of New Writing, Pleiades Press: Central Missouri State University, May and December Covers.
New American Paintings, Volume 65- Midwestern Edition 2006.
Curated by Carl Belz, Director Emeritus of the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University. Catalogue
2005 Betancourt, Michael, Whatever Happened to Post-Modernism?, ArtScene, August 2005.
Duncan, Jim, Art Pimp-Young Guns, Citiview Magazine, June 9, 2005.
Duncan, Jim, Summer of the Dead Queens- Who is Jessie Fisher?, Citiview Magazine, June 2, 2005.
Duncan, Jim, Art Pimp- Aces High, Citiview Magazine, May 12, 2005.
Iowa Artists 2005, Des Moines Art Center, 2005. Catalogue
Pierre, Amanda: Wit and Imagination Fuel Art Exhibition, Des Moines Register, May 8, 2005.
Edwards, Nicole, Gallery Crams Space for Salon Exhibition, Poughkeepsie Journal, Feb 11, 2005.
Flora/Fauna to open at LoRiver Art, Putnam County News and Recorder, Cold Spring, NY, Sept 8, 2004.
2004 Maresca, Dean; A Nerve-acking Menagerie- Jessie Fisher‘s ‘Bunny on Bull’, Fran Magazine; April 2004.
The Daily Palette, University of Iowa School of Art and Art History | Intermedia | & the Humanities, Jessie Fisher, Summer 2004
2003 Spire, Todd; Jessie Fisher at Lo River Arts, New York North Arts-September 2003.
2002 Iowa Artists 2002, Des Moines Art Center, 2002. Catalogue
1997 The Unbroken Line-The Fellowship Centennial Exhibition 1887-1997, The Museum of American Art. Catalogue
Education:
May 2004 MFA | Painting/Drawing; Minor in Printmaking | University of Iowa
July 2002 Scoula Internzionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
Sept-April 2001 Associate Artist | Studio Balma | Minneapolis, MN
Sept 1997- May 1998 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
May 1993- May 1996 Apprenticeship | Studio Balma: The Frescoes of the University of St. Thomas | Minneapolis
Dec 1996 BFA | Painting | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis
Public Collections:
Studio Nong, SanMin Arts Village, Nanning, China
Jigang Studios, SanMin Arts Village, Nanning, China
Qinzhou NiXing Pottery Factory, Qinzhou, China
Teaching Collection at the GuangXi Arts Institute, Oil Painting Department, Nanning City, China
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Mind's I Project Archive
Private Collections:
Wendel P. Oulous Repair Shop Gallery Collection, Amsterdam
Oliphant-Barnhouse Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Crysler-White Collection, Iowa City, IA
Annie Zander Collection, Kansas City, MO
WeeQuah Canoe Club, Saint Paul, MN
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