ROB FISCHER
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Biography
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Pitch, 2016
screen print ink, acrylic paint, glass, steel, and silicone 73 x 54 in 185 x 137 cm |
Rob Fischer (b. 1968) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and Minnesota. Rob Fischer creates sculptures and installations using discarded and repurposed materials. Through the use of discarded bits of debris, Rob Fischer forms narratives signaling America’s industrial past.
Fischer graduated with a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1993 and has exhibited work at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, among numerous others. Rob Fischer’s work has also been exhibited internationally in Seoul, Korea, London, Mexico City, and Vienna, Austria. He has participated in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and has received many awards such as the Jerome Foundation Fellowship, the Bush Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, and he was the first recipient of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize. |
